Residents of a small Huntersville, North Carolina neighborhood don’t mind a person making a living by selling hearses for sale. But they are mad at the owner of a home who has made his property an eyesore with a number of dilapidated used hearses for sale.
In addition to being an eyesore, the yard that contains the hearses for sale in question is also breaking laws because it is not zoned for such a business. As a result, the owner is racking up fines in excess of $10,000. The town is also filing a lawsuit against the absentee owner in an effort to collect on the fines. As the town planner stated, the fine isn’t to generate income for the town. Instead, the fines are used as a method to make homeowners comply with local laws and ordinances. In this case, no more than two unregistered vehicles can be parked at a home.
The hearses for sale have been parked all over the Pine Knoll neighborhood property, both on the lawn and in the driveway. These funeral cars are in clear view of passing traffic, but attempts to contact the homeowner have gone unanswered. And the only way the town officials can actually remove the hearses for sale from the yard is to foreclose on the home and become the owner. That’s a last resort, according to one official.