Yahoo News – by Stephen Singer
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Newtown has taken possession of the Colonial-style home where school shooter Adam Lanza lived with his mother in a deal with a bank that prepared the house by removing and incinerating all personal effects.
The Newtown Legislative Council voted unanimously Wednesday night to accept the house at no cost. The appraised value of the 3,162-square-foot home was $523,620.
Llodra told The News-Times that the process of acquiring the property began about six months ago with a call from a real estate agent hired by Hudson City Savings Bank.
Details of the negotiations and terms of the transfer were not available, but she said the bank demonstrated an extreme degree of “compassion and generosity.”
Llodra told the council that the acquisition began with a call from a real estate agent who specializes in properties linked to tragic events. She said he was hired by the bank to help negotiate a possible acquisition.
She met with bank officials before presenting the offer for a closed-door discussion with the Board of Selectmen last month.
Adam Lanza’s parents, Nancy and Peter Lanza, moved from southern New Hampshire and bought the new house in 1998.
Bill LaCalamito, senior vice president at Hudson City Savings Bank, said Thursday that by deeding the house to Newtown, it was trying to help the community just as others donated money, time and labor immediately after the massacre.
“We wanted to do what was right for the community,” he said. “We told the town, ‘You’ve been through enough. Tell us what you want us to do.”
Because of its notoriety, the house had little or no value. “Obviously no one wanted the property,” LaCalamito said.
LaCalamito would not disclose the cost to the bank for the remaining mortgage and work done on the house. For example, the bank had the house stripped of rugs, furniture, lighting fixtures and other effects and incinerated the belongings, he said. The bank also paid for new locks, repaired or replaced doors that were “compromised” by police who entered the house in the immediate aftermath of the Dec. 14, 2012, shootings, installed a security system and hired a landscaper to maintain the property.
Randall Bell, founder of Real Estate Damage Economics, a Laguna Beach, California, company that specializes in property damage, said he proposed nine or 10 choices to the bank on what it could do with the Lanza house. Among the options were selling it in foreclosure, selling it conventionally or bulldozing it.
“The agenda was very simple: Lay out all the options,” he said. “The bank was very concerned about being very sensitive to the town. My job was not to steer them in any particular direction.”
The future use of the house and property will be decided later. Several residents said the home should be demolished and the property restored to woodlands. One resident said putting the house on the market might have drawn the merely curious and even conspiracy theorists.
Real estate experts say properties known for crimes or violence are usually tough to sell and state law requires disclosure of homicides and similar events.
The 20-year-old Lanza fatally shot his mother at the house before killing 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012. He killed himself at the school as emergency responders approached the school.
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Nope, not buying it..and it looked like no one else did either
“bank that prepared the house by removing and incinerating all personal effects.”
“One resident said putting the house on the market might have drawn the merely curious and even conspiracy theorists.”
removing the evidence that doesn’t exist
You got it! Burn the shit that doesn’t exist cause then it really doesn’t exist.
Did they condemn and destroy the apartment the “joker”(colorado shooting) perpetrator lived in?
Seems odd. Lots of houses in this country still stand after people have been murdered in them.
I propose the street where the boston bombings happened be destroyed and returned to woodlands! The state police barracks in PA too. World trade centers??? foolish to the point of nonsense.
nor did they demolish Virginia Tech, Columbine etc etc.
Awful big house for those two. I was just wondering, has anyone ever seen a picture of Adam’s mother? I don’t remember ever seeing one. Maybe because she didn’t exist. I think I saw a picture of Adam in a picture frame in a store once.
The 20-year-old Lanza fatally shot his mother at the house before killing 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012. He killed himself at the school as emergency responders approached the school.
If he actually did that then I’m Zeus, god of thunder, and I shoot lightning bolts out my ass.
Repeating the lie until it becomes truth will not work with Americans anymore. Those Saul Alinsky rules for radicals only works when the people are asleep, but have an opposite affect on those that are wide awake. It will only deepen our resolve.
Sandy Hoax
Confirmed in so many ways including the FBI (stating it was entirely a drill – no deaths!)
merely another ploy to further the agenda of a tyrannical Gov
You know as the years go on in this town I bet there are plans within plans to make sure “extreme degree’s of compassion and generosity” are constantly being given out. But unfortunately, Kremlin Socialist Politburo leaders usually have different definitions of “compassion and generosity”. They tend to make all sorts of things disappear and “restored to woodlands”……including people who know to much.
“Llodra told the council that the acquisition began with a call from a real estate agent who specializes in properties linked to tragic events.”
How perfectly ghoulish.
Count me in as NOT believing these “official stories” (not a complete list): Sandy Hook, Boston Marathon, 911, Team 6/Bin Laden, Oklahoma City, and yes the “Holocaust”.