mansion ruined by teenagers

[angel607]

www.mcall.com/videogallery/80105342/2000-Teens-Attend-MansionParty-Cause-70K-in-Damage I think this is almost one of the strangest stories I have read. but the mother I guess told her son he could throw the party and the kid posted it publicly on social media sites like craigslist and a few others. $70,000.00 the damage came up to total. the home was being built for seven years for a family now forget it. the home looks destroyed. kids had to jump out the windows to exit it was so overcrowded. I don't know if charges will be brought up yet but I would be shocked if it didn't.

[Phil]

If that kid's mother was aware of the problem then her home owners insurance should pay the damage. That will probably result in her insurance company dropping her and it will not be easy to get insurance again after that.

More likely she rents and has no home owners in that case they should garnishee from her pay and that kid's pay wherever they work until the damage is repaid. That's the only restitution possible.

[Classicblast]

I read the story and read Phil's answer I think Phil might not realize that the mother who ok'd the party was the homeowner.

She according to the story got warning from the police that the kid had posted the party on all of his social media.

His mother either ignored it or didn't believe it or one other possibility..

That is since the house has been under construction for seven years, and my family builds houses, so I know something about this. I'm not just a failed baseball player. hahahaha

I am guessing that since its seven years under construction and not finished, that they've been building it in bites and when the family runs out of money construction stops. My family has built thousands of houses and it has never taken seven years to complete one. It took about two and a half years to complete a shopping mall and that included additional highway had to be constructed.

So my guess is this lady ok'd the party because she has insurance and the damage will probably be covered or she knows she's never going to be able to finish it and she decided to let the kid enjoy the house once before she probably just sells it as is and someone completes it.


Suppose you're looking at a house in excess of a million dollars, well the walls are up, the foundation is in, the lot is cleared, it has plumbing and electricity. All it needs is completion and repair. It would still be cheaper for a buyer to go about it that way than to start from scratch and when its finished it is a new build.

My thought is that this house has been built in bites for financial reasons because it doesn't take seven years to build it. And that was the plan all along to let the kid have his one time house party. And while I don't think the mother knew the house was going to be trashed this badly she kind of knows they're never going to be moving in to that house anyway.


I am not saying that Phil and Angel607 are wrong in saying that this lacks respect and character because it certainly does but that would be my probe on the situation.

[Kimm]

I never thought of it the way Classic explained it but thats a good thought that if theyve been working on it for seven years and not completed it probably was a budget thing and this is a partial scrap the idea act of carelessness more than anything.

If the kid is 18 now there's not a long future in building a home with him. when he was 11 when they started the project they figured it would be ready in a year or maybe a bit more and hit middle school and high school years would be spent living there. They didnt get it ready by then as Classic said probably ran out of money to do so and this was how the reacted.