A Portland man thought he was buying a fixer-upper with potential, but instead he says he inherited a mountain of rubber tires.
Soon-to-be-father Khanh Tran bought a 1.2-acre property in April, hoping to fix up the rundown site and build a future for his growing family.
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“The reason I wanted to buy this property, I think it’s in a beautiful location,” Tran told KATU. (1) “I didn’t know the disaster that was going to come with it.”
When Tran returned in early June to begin work, he said most of the property wasn’t even accessible because of walls of tires stacked across the property, some piled more than six feet high. Tran also discovered at least one unauthorized person living on the property and the scale of the dumping shocked even longtime neighbors…