INDIALANTIC, Fla. – More fines could be coming for the owner of a condemned house in Indialantic, even though the owner already owes more than $30,000 for code violations.
In an update this week from court, a judge is giving the homeowner (who hasn’t been seen on Atlantic Avenue since Brevard County sent her to treatment) one month to clean up her property, or be fined $100 a day.
Because the home is so full of junk, neighbors told your Indialantic Community Correspondent James Sparvero that she lived on her porch and would use a bucket for the bathroom, dumping it in her neighbors’ yards.
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“With all the rats and the feces, I thought this is how plagues started,” Susan Brennan told Sparvero in December.
On Friday, Sparvero found another neighborhood where neighbors like Dave Yearsley said he’s being impacted too.
Yearsley’s house is just south of the condemned property.
He said he’s killed 24 rats in the last month.
“The neighbor came, showed us videos of hundreds of rats going in and out of that house,” Yearsley said.
Normally, neighbors said they can only see the rats at night, but when they allowed Sparvero to take a peek over the fence in the backyard, he saw some rats, himself.
“It’s gotten really, really bad,” Diane Blakemore said.
She showed Sparvero the rat poison she puts in her yard.
“They come in and they eat it,” Blakemore said about her trap.
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Neighbors have credited News 6’s community correspondent with gradually helping find solutions, even as the house continues to stand.
“I would just wish they’d take care of the rats,” Yearsley said. “Just kill them.”
The county said it doesn’t have an extermination service.
Meanwhile, some other neighbors said they’d like to see the house get demolished.
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