Beware the zombie (houses) still menacing Tampa Bay neighborhoods

Zombie houses.

Abandoned by their owners and stuck in the foreclosure process, they are a blight on neighborhoods rich and poor. Some have been vacant for years, so long that people like Lee Randall can’t even remember the last time they saw the normal signs of life.

Randall lives a few doors away from a zombie house on Nevada Avenue in northeast St. Petersburg. A large, fallen oak limb partially blocks the driveway. Jumbled piles of toys, furniture and dirty dishes can be seen through a grimy side window.

“It’s been like that for years,” Randall said. “They just packed up and hauled a–.”

via Beware the zombie (houses) still menacing Tampa Bay neighborhoods.