AFFTON, MO – A vacant house was trashed by partiers, right before the new homeowners were about to move in.
The Kaiser family couldn’t wait to move into their new St. Louis-area home, with four bedrooms, a pool, deck and a gazebo. But it’s ended up being a nightmare, that’s costing them tens of thousands of dollars. Just hours after the Kaisers closed and changed the locks, a raucous party left damage that seems never-ending.
“They urinated in cabinets,” Curtis Kaiser explained. “There’s cigarette burns all over all the floors, the carpets, the laminates, I mean there was alcohol spilled everywhere, there was vomit all over the place, and they broke the handrails up the stairs.”
The partiers also broke windows, and tossed retaining wall blocks into the swimming pool, he said.
“I guess a whole bunch of people got out there, and it caved in, and so we had to replace the flat part of the roof, too,” he added. “We’ve had to replace all the kitchen cabinets because the ones that were in here were custom-built, and we couldn’t match them.”
Kaiser said he has had to replace all the windows, rip out all the floors and repaint the walls, ceilings and doors.
“It’s been close to $30,000, probably, and that’s just materials and buying stuff, and that’s just with me doing all the work,” Kaiser lamented .
St. Louis County Police called this an active investigation and said they had several persons of interest. Police would not say who is responsible, but party photos and an invitation the Kaisers saw on Facebook indicated a former resident had something to do with it.
“Some girl showed up in our driveway wanting to get her beer pong table back from the party,” Kaiser said. “It really ticks me off. We’ve drained our savings; we’ve put a bunch of stuff on our credit cards, just to try to get the house livable.”
Whoever is ultimately responsible for this party could be charged with trespassing, and possibly burglary. But for the Kaisers to get any restitution for all the damage, they’d have to go through the civil courts.
Source: KTVI
