It's currently owned by this artist hippie who lives out of town, who is kind od an assh*le, and is itching to sell the place. She never maintains the place - it's the one I've mentioned before, whose tenants and owner were so lazy a few years back that people thought it was a derelict house and tried to break in while they were freaking home, and they were so high they didn't even notice until we knocked on the door and told them (after the police left, whose presence they also didn't notice).
Anyway, the current bunch who rents there now that the owner is elsewhere is pretty nice. They even mow the lawn and cut the trees, and they want to fix up the place inside. Problem is, there are some code violations that need to be addressed, and when one of the tenants brought it up to the owner, she first refused to fix it, and then after being asked again is now trying to evict that tenant (no, she still didn't do any repairs). Did I mention that the landlord is so shifty that they only have a cell phone number for her, no address, and they pay rent by leaving a check on the mantel and it myseriously disappears when they're not home?
All of these people are very low income, nontraditional students and the like who have limited options. It makes my robotic heart make a sound like a can crushing that some assh*le hippie is taking advantage of them, especially as she was one of them not ten whole years ago. Sooooo, we're considering just buying the damn place and making it safe, and leaving their rent as-is (not the mantel thing - they can just head right next door and give it to us in person).
Are we totally nuts? Of course we'd get a thorough assessment and inspection first, before making any big moves. But is this crazy?
