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[–] jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago

And the company will promptly dissolve and disappear without facing consequences

[–] HumbleFlamingo@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

Home owners insurance is going to pay out and sue the ever-loving crap out of everyone to recoup.

[–] liminalDeluge@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

The headline is misleading. A vacant secondary property that is maintained but boarded up is not the same as a family's primary residence, which "family home" implies. No one has become unhoused due to the demolition.

Doesn't change anything about how messed up it is to demolish the wrong property, though.

[–] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Is it really a "family home" if it was boarded up for 15 years? Home implies that the family lives there

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago

🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles:

Click here to see the summaryA homeowner is mulling the next step after a company mistakenly demolished a home she owned in south-west Atlanta.

Susan Hodgson said in an interview Saturday with the Associated Press that she found a pile of rubble in place of what used to be her longtime family property when she returned from vacation last month.

When a person in charge at the site checked his permit, Hodgson said he admitted he was at the wrong address.

Hodgson said she’s filed a report with police and has talked with lawyers but that they remain in limbo so far.

To this day, she said the Atlanta-based company responsible, You Call It We Haul It, has yet to contact her.

In a statement to WAGA-TV, the company said it is investigating and working to resolve the mishap.


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