To make a long story short, Pat and Pauline Gibson, showed us the duplex on Bedford Street and while completely buried in trash and debris and overgrown with strangling weeds and vines, we decided that we had to have it. Century 21 was the realtor. The attorney sat with $17,000 in cash for months. In September 2002, we were finally able to close and start the clean-up effort.
As soon as we began work, the city inspector visited us. The neighbors were already telling us that the property was looking better than it had in years. The inspector had stopped to tell us to move an old chair from the sidewalk and then took a quick tour of the property. He had only good things to say because the county and city had been getting complaints about the trash for years.
