Woman returns from vacation, finds Atlanta home demolished

ATLANTA — A home-owner is mulling the next move after an organization mistakenly demolished a home she owned in southwest Atlanta.

Susan Hodgson advised WAGA-TV on Friday that once she returned from holiday she discovered a pile of rubble instead of what was her longtime circle of relatives belongings.

“I’m just left with a big ole mess,” Hodgson mentioned.

She mentioned a neighbor referred to as her whilst she used to be away, and requested if any person have been employed to rip down the vacant area.

“I said ‘no’ and she said, ‘Well there’s someone over here who just demolished the whole house and tore the entire house down,’” Hodgson mentioned.

When the neighbor faced them, Hodgson mentioned, the employees were given nasty.

“He told her to shut up and mind her own business,” Hodgson mentioned.

So she despatched a circle of relatives member over to look what used to be occurring and who requested to look a allow. When an individual in rate on the web page checked his allow, Hodgson says he admitted he used to be on the flawed deal with.

“It’s been boarded up about 15 years, and we keep it boarded, covered, grass cut, and the yard is clean. The taxes are paid and everything is up on it,” she mentioned.

Hodgson mentioned she hasn’t heard anything else from the Atlanta-based corporate accountable, You Call It We Haul It.

“It’s just hard to believe someone thinks they have the right to just come and tear something up and walk away from it and didn’t come back and say ‘I’m sorry. What do I need to do to fix this. It was an accident.’ They didn’t give me nothing,” Hodgson mentioned.

“I think he owes us an apology, and he needs to fix the problem,” Hodgson mentioned.

The corporate didn’t straight away go back a phone message left Saturday by means of The Associated Press. In a observation to the tv station, the corporate mentioned it’s investigating and dealing to unravel the mishap.