Setting the place on fire might hand been kinder. A two-story, 3,00-square-foot house in Huntington Beach was gutted so badly that the repairs alone will cost $250,000. Among the destruction, according to the OC Register: Chemicals and cement were poured down drains, a Jacuzzi was left running for what may have been months (most walls in the house were splattered in mold), and a floor caved in from the weight of a huge pile of wet clothes and other junk. Most of the appliances, sinks and toilets were gone. "This is the worst intentional damage I've seen,'' says broker Tom Moon, who has the listing. There were no takers at a foreclosure auction, so the property went back to the bank. You have to wonder who would do stuff like that...
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