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Liberal_in_LA

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Mon Jul 7, 2014, 03:08 PM Jul 2014

Neighbor refuses to grant easement for powerline to new home next door. [View all]

Kent Fuller's new house has three bedrooms, a loft and a drive-through basement garage that is roomy enough for four cars.

What the recently completed Woodland Hills residence doesn't have is an electric line attached to it.

His next-door neighbor has refused to grant an easement so the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power can run a power line across his backyard and hook up Fuller's house.

"It's put us in kind of a pickle," said Fuller, who with his mother has invested about $750,000 in the lot and the turreted three-story house.

I thought the DWP would provide electricity like it has for every other house around here. - Kent Fuller

"They say that my only option is to pay for an underground line that would go beneath the Ventura Freeway and connect to power on the north side of it."

And before the DWP starts digging, it wants Fuller to pay the $28,000 trenching bill.

Fuller and his 72-year-old mother, Linden Logan, say they've sunk every penny they have into the house and can't even borrow on it because it lacks electricity.

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-power-problems-20140707-story.html

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I just looked at it online. I'd troll the shit out of anybody who built that lot dominating eyesore. LeftyMom Jul 2014 #1
How did you find that? I'd like to see that also. Thx! Owl Jul 2014 #17
The article says the corner it's on, so I looked on Google Maps. LeftyMom Jul 2014 #18
here is a link d_r Jul 2014 #33
More the builder's fault than the neighbor's. DirkGently Jul 2014 #2
I agree with on the CO. Something smelly here. Lochloosa Jul 2014 #3
I agree. The power company doesn't usually need permission to work in an easement. FSogol Jul 2014 #6
They do when it crosses the middle of the property. Xithras Jul 2014 #19
Wonder if that "temporary hookup" DirkGently Jul 2014 #11
I thought the same thing. cyberswede Jul 2014 #7
750K for a 3 bedroom home? yeoman6987 Jul 2014 #4
This comment... OUCH! Liberal_in_LA Jul 2014 #9
It's a lot of house, it's also takes up the entire lot. LeftyMom Jul 2014 #12
Tsk. Tsk. The price of "I've got mine" has gone up. Tierra_y_Libertad Jul 2014 #5
As has, apparently, "I want yours." WinkyDink Jul 2014 #10
Right on, Che! tabasco Jul 2014 #23
That isn't what Marx meant by 'property' leftstreet Jul 2014 #32
The term "due diligence" comes to mind. That, and ASSume. WinkyDink Jul 2014 #8
Dumb-ass first world nation problems all around. hunter Jul 2014 #13
.. Liberal_in_LA Jul 2014 #14
Sadly I scrolled on google maps to my home when I was in kindergarten... hunter Jul 2014 #16
I've looked at both houses in question in Google Street view Coventina Jul 2014 #15
Seriously? This is well past my Star Trek Captain Piccard facepalm zone. hunter Jul 2014 #25
Seriously. I'm sorry you have painful memories of this neighborhood. Coventina Jul 2014 #35
Revenge idea: a very loud flamingdem Jul 2014 #20
Wow! What a fugly house! NutmegYankee Jul 2014 #21
Does it look like this house? cerveza_gratis Jul 2014 #26
The edges are more refined. NutmegYankee Jul 2014 #27
But the resemblence is uncanny cerveza_gratis Jul 2014 #29
True. NutmegYankee Jul 2014 #30
Well, it's sort of in keeping with an ugly house across the street Warpy Jul 2014 #28
Interesting. flvegan Jul 2014 #22
The whole story stinks. Hassin Bin Sober Jul 2014 #38
Dig under the freeway and put in an underground line? Why not dig around the Autumn Jul 2014 #24
Gee...he thought..well guess what he should have confirmed.. Historic NY Jul 2014 #31
I wonder if he designs prisons in his day job... Princess Turandot Jul 2014 #34
Those windows look like they belong on the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center Hassin Bin Sober Jul 2014 #37
Before spending all that money, they actually failed to do a treestar Jul 2014 #36
I'm going to rent myself a house in the shade of the freeway.... rufus dog Jul 2014 #39
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