"It’s almost like you’re getting married and giving up your first-born child, you have to go through so much stuff."
St. Petersburg resident Megan McGee loved her starter home, but by the start of 2021 she decided she and her two kids needed a bigger place. Selling the house was a breeze. It only took one day. But the pressure quickly mounted as McGee scrambled to find a new place in an extremely competitive real estate market.
When she closed on a spacious home in the Disston Heights neighborhood, “it felt like this was the end of our struggle,” she said.
That relief was short-lived though, as McGee went on to spend over a year and tens of thousands of dollars trying to resolve a code violation that was passed down to her from the previous owner.
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