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$2.6 Million Worth of Animal Poop
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by Jordan Yerman | August 29, 2007 at 09:46 am
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Such is the value of a walk-through...
A nightclub investor who bought his neighbor's swank New Jersey mansion out of foreclosure for $2.6 million - not knowing that inside it was destroyed by feces from more than 100 cats and dogs - is suing.
Michael Acciardi got access this week to the Saddle River home he'd purchased sight unseen from Merrill Lynch stockbroker Philip Tamis, 66, and his wife, Cynthia Stewart, 49.
Acciardi opened the door, with a crew from TV's "Inside Edition," Thursday and promptly threw up. Rescue workers in biohazard suits removed more than 100 dogs and cats and 24 animal corpses over two days.
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at 12:08 on August 29th, 2007
I actually saw this report and the gentleman who bought the house was actually physically ill when he came out... can't blame him. The house is apparently going to have to be gutted and/or torn down. The idea behind a foreclosure sale is that you don't get to do an inspection, and it was the first viewing of the home by anyone save the health inspectors... but if the new owner had walked up to the new house, he would have smelled it and seen the red paper posted to the front door stating that the house was a health hazard and condemned. Buyer beware, for sure.
If you go to the Inside Edition web site, they have information about adopting some of the animals that were rescued from the house.
at 12:09 on August 29th, 2007
Good stuff. It's likely this little warning will help with the flood of houses in foreclosure coming up on the market...