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3111 East Broad Street continues to be a blight on our neighborhood. I have complained numerous times about this property but the city seems powerless to do anything about it. There are many code violations on this property.

The deck in the front has no decking and the structural members are hanging on by a very small amount of material. The brick foundations for the deck is just a pile of bricks with no mortar holding them together.

Under the deck is an opening to the crawl space that I am sure is being used by animals to get into this house.

There is very little paint on any of the woodwork.

The back yard is starting to be overgrown now that spring is arriving.

The city posted a notice of violations just after January 1, 2015 and the owner has seen it since he removed it from the front door. I am not sure why the city is taking so long to do anything about this deadbeat owner as I checked with the city and also found that this property is $3800 behind for real estate property taxes. I asked what was being done about this and was told that it is with collections. How about it City of Richmond, it's time to put this property up for tax sale so that someone who will do something with this house will buy it.

An answer on this matter is requested.