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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
