‘A menace to the neighborhood’: LA residents say ‘hell house’ drawing squatters after owners ‘hoarded themselves out of their home’ — leaving them in ‘limbo’ waiting months for city help

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The Los Angeles neighborhood of Westwood is “well maintained” with “surroundings [that] are quiet and clean” according to comments on the online real estate marketplace Trulia.

But now, one home that neighbors describe as a “hell house” — attracting squatters, drugs and criminal activity along with a growing pile of garbage — is making life miserable for residents…

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