Health and Safety Receivership Reforms a Neglected Home

After our initial inspection, C.R.G. deemed the house uninhabitable and we worked with a local social worker and family members to relocate the residents to an assisted living facility to receive the proper care that they needed. With the receivership remedy in place, C.R.G. was able to clean up and rebuild the property into a beautiful single-family home. The property was sold to an owner who proved that they were capable of maintaining the home and the remaining sale proceeds were given to the original owners for their ongoing care.

Receivership Property Survives California’s Deadliest Wildfire

In the 9 years prior to our appointment, local code enforcement tried to work with the owners of this motel to fix the 203 separate violations of state housing law onsite. There was a complete lack of maintenance of the property, demonstrated by the jet-black water in the swimming pool. The conditions at the motel were so severe that they actually sparked a fire. The fire caused considerable damage to a neighboring property, where it burned out and destroyed a business that had been operating at that location for over 35 years. This case is evidence of the significant danger that violations of municipal and state health and safety laws pose to the surrounding community.

Turning Around a Deadly Commercial Property

This liquor store received daily calls for police services to address shootings (one fatal), drug sales, and gang activity. Calls for police services stopped following our appointment due to our swift action to secure the property. Post-receivership the building is providing a much-needed function to the community.

A Neglected Home is Filled with So Many Items that Some Parts are Impossible to Enter

Originally built over a century ago, poor maintenance left this beautiful, Queen Anne style home in a state of extreme disrepair. After seven years of local code enforcement efforts to encourage the owners to act on fixing the hazardous issues onsite were unsuccessful, we were appointed as the Receiver by a Superior Court Judge. We found the property structurally unsound, with hoarding conditions inside the house, as well as a major rodent and insect infestation. Neighbors were plagued by foul odors emanating from the property and accumulated junk, as well as overgrown landscaping, littered the exterior of the property leaving an eyesore that partially blocked the public sidewalk. We determined that the best cause of action was to renovate this historic property and remove the dangerous conditions.

Property is Intentionally Burned to Increase Public Safety

This dilapidated motel was open to the public despite dangerous conditions, including guest rooms that lacked running water, significant structural deterioration, unsafe electrical wiring, and evidence of asbestos. We reached the decision in collaboration with court and city officials that the building was not salvageable and should be demolished. We collaborated with six different fire departments to burn the motel down safely in a controlled practice burn.

Receivership is Used to Tackle a Dangerous Junkyard Illegally Operated Across Multiple Residential Lots

A quiet neighborhood was plagued by a property owner who was operating an illegal junkyard across 12 residential lots. Shipping containers and other debris were used to fence around some of the properties, partially concealing numerous items including inoperable vehicles, shopping carts, tires, old appliances, and scrap metal. The majority of lots were vacant, but one lot had a single-family home in poor condition on it where debris was stacked up against it and junk strewn throughout the exterior. Another lot contained a burned-out structure that was not fit for human habitation, but which was occupied in some capacity. In addition to these hazardous conditions, occupants had trailed extension cords through windows to get electricity from one area of the property to another.

Court Appointed Receivership Proves to be a Solution to Tackling Lawless Mobile Home Park

A menace to the local community, this 52-unit mobile home park was left to rot by those who were legally responsible for it, including its owner and the lenders who financed it. Years passed where the park existed in anarchy, with no one in place to ensure it was operating in compliance with local and state health and safety laws. During this time the park subsisted under perilous conditions, which endangered the lives of residents and the surrounding community. The onsite violations of health and safety codes were so severe that the park lost its operating permit, yet occupants continued to live in unsafe, dangerous and unregistered units onsite, in violation of multiple laws.

Receivership is Used to Address Home with Unpermitted Construction

CRG was appointed to abate the nuisance conditions at this single-family home after multiple instances of unpermitted construction were discovered along with other dangerous conditions so severe that the municipality issued a red-tag for the property. Yet, the owner and their associates ignored the red-tag and continued to reside in the property, using a generator and unsafe electrical wiring to get power inside.

Historic Property in a Dangerous State of Disrepair Plagues its Surrounding Community

As a result of poor maintenance and unlawful home renovations, where a beautiful American Craftsman style home had stood for decades, we were appointed as the Receiver of this property as it had fallen into significant disrepair. Broken, littered with trash, and the exterior space housing illegal trailers, the home was a sore point within its quiet, charming neighborhood. Constructed in 1913, one of the first homes built in the town, the degradation of the property was especially apparent given its location next door to the city’s historical society.

From Neighborhood Cancer to Community Asset: Turning an Apartment Building Around

We took over this 14-unit apartment building after poor management rendered it unsafe for tenants to live in and it had become an attractive nuisance to local criminals. Municipal code enforcement found 84 violations of health and safety laws onsite, including broken stairs and doors, an exterior littered with graffiti and trash, inoperable plumbing, as well as apartments without working electricity. Despite the fact that vulnerable young children, as well as elderly tenants, lived inside the apartments, and even with multiple opportunities to fix the issues plaguing the property, the owner refused to cooperate. The lack of oversight of the apartment building did not go unnoticed; gang activity became prevalent, with heavy drug usage onsite.

Ramshackle Motel Becomes Days Inn by Wyndham Microtel

Fire Hazard, Relocation Assistance, Structural Issues, CrimeMark AdamsJanuary 14, 2020Hotel or Motel, Commercial Property

Fulfilling a 101-year-old Woman's Final Wish

Neighbors complained consistently about this dilapidated nuisance property to local authorities in the fifteen years preceding California Receivership Group’s appointment as receiver by a Superior Court Judge under the California Health and Safety Code. Indeed, when it was inspected by municipal code enforcement, they found it to be extremely dilapidated, structurally unsound, filled with debris, and unsanitary due to repeated trespassing and vandalism. In total, there were 120 ongoing and dangerous violations of state and local health and safety laws. Remodeling this property was not simple, as it was in such bad shape that we needed to restore nearly every part and system in the house. After the renovation, this home is almost unrecognizable from the degraded state it was in before.

Extreme Hoarding and Health and Safety Receivership

This single-family home suffered from extreme hoarding and associated health and safety issues as the owner and occupants struggled to maintain it with the huge surplus of items crowding the space. From the outside, items were visible throughout the front yard and on the front porch. The back yard was completely inaccessible due to the accumulation of scrap metal, junk, and an inoperable RV.

From Fire Hazard to Affordable Housing Through Receivership

This project involved a property with two separate single-family homes on a large parcel of land. At the time of our appointment, both structures suffered from numerous health and safety code violations. There was extreme hoarding on-site as well as severely unsafe electrical wiring, endangering not only this property and its occupants, but neighboring properties as well. Piles of items blocked doorways and walkways, sometimes reaching the ceiling. Nearly every room had ropes and electrical wires pulled across them, creating walking hazards as well as further illustrating the pervasive fire risk.

Remedying a Deadly Combination of Hoarding and Faulty Wiring

We were appointed to tackle the extreme amount of items stored inside this single family home. Hoarding is usually also associated with property degradation as the surplus of belongings make it difficult to clean the property or take care of any homeowner issues that arise with normal wear and tear. Combined with the fact that the large number of items themselves can damage a building, not properly maintaining it is a recipe for greater and greater deterioration that can culminate in significant structural damage. This property was no exception and, as the Court Appointed Health and Safety Receiver, we found structural deficiencies so severe that the building needed to be demolished.

Structural Issues, Relocation Assistance, Hoarding, Fire HazardMark AdamsJanuary 2, 2020Single-Family Home