Description

519 45th Avenue North, St. Petersburg : This house is a neighborhood nuisance. It’s been a place for drug deals and drug abusers – two recent overdoses, 10/26/19 fatality, and 10/29/19 homeowner’s girlfriend/roommate was revived.

It was deemed “unfit for human habitation” on 10/24/19. It’s not secured or boarded up so people are still going in there at all times of day/night. Police are there daily, sometimes multiple times in day/night for people being in the house, back porch, and garage.
• Plastic on and hanging from roof of house and garage
• Plastic in rain gutters full of leaves
• Fascia & soffit rotted and hanging – vent hanging, making attic accessible to pests
• Junk, trash, and miscellaneous storage in yard, behind garage/alley, and porches (old carpet, dirty diaper, couch at garage door, couch in west side backyard, door laying on couch, shopping cart, car tire, etc.)
• 2 Broken Windows with torn plastic hanging on 1 - west side of house
• Boarded window with white wood and tire in window on west side of garage
• Paint peeling/chipped on house and garage
• Bees on east side of house
• Foul smells, especially front screen porch which has piles of trash – where the unfit for habitation sign is posted
• Screen porch door missing screen, with sheet hanging over it
• Wooden boards in tree - northwest corner of backyard
• People in garage - bed in garage and bucket for bathroom with bedside commode and toilet paper in garage
• Garage door facing alley not sealed, hanging, cracked open
• Broken gate in alley – giving access to people and dog
• Overgrown grass/tree behind fence in alley
• Grass not cut out front, along with overgrown bushes/trees
• Ladder on back screened porch roof and laying in front yard
• Bicycle parts left in yard and in neighborhood from people living at the house
• Dog abandoned 11/3/19 and left in open house/yard, and running through neighborhood
• Rats/rodents seen in yard and porch

We’ve spoken with two Code Enforcement Investigators in-person and left a voicemail on 11/1/2019, but have not received any return calls. Neighbors have also called, saying their calls aren’t returned either.