Four Homes Renovated by Cleveland Heights Go on The Market This Spring

Four homes renovated using federal funds will go on the market this spring.

“Over the course of the last couple of years, the City Council and the city staff have worked at addressing homes that have gone into decay and foreclosure. And we’ve actually received money from the federal government to help us with that,” said City Manager Robert Downey at Monday night’s City Council meeting.  

The city received $2 million through the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, which addresses the foreclosure crisis by granting money to local governments to buy abandoned, vacant and foreclosed homes, repair them and turn them around for sale. The money can also be used to tear down houses that cannot be saved.

“In some cases we’re able to rehab the home and put it back on the market for sale, but in other cases the house is so far gone that demolition is the way to go, and we have done both over the last year or so,” he explained.  

, one on Cleveland Heights Boulevard and, most recently, one on Brunswick Road.

The following homes will be listed soon:

• 1062 Allston Road, $129,900
• 3994 Delmore Road, $87,900
• 3199 Sycamore Road, $89,900
• 3979 Bluestone Road, $91,900

"We're very excited to get these on the market," Downey said. "It's a part of a bigger process that council has been involved in … trying to get this community back on its feet."

Once the homes are sold, the money goes back into the fund to continue to rebuild homes or demolish those that can't be saved. 

Council also addressed homes on Hillstone and Nelaview roads declared public nuisances because of their blighted conditions.

“It’s the other side of the coin from the report that our city manager has just given,” said Kenneth Montlack, council member. "It's a snapshot of part of our foreclosure crisis. Lenders have assumed posession of the property, and then done nothing and allowed the property to decay further and/or abandoned the property." 

Montlack said that the owners of the properties will be notified, and if they do not repair or take down the home, the city will repair or demolish them and place the cost as a lien on the property taxes. 

“Under this resolution, it is found and determined by the council that this premises we've identified is in a state of disrepair to the extent that it constitutes a health and safety hazard,” he said before both resolutions passed. 

The house at 1103 Hillstone Road, owned by Regions Bank, or Regions Bank: Union Planters, has not been maintained, according to the resolution, though the city has cited the the owner for the past six years. The house at 859 Nelaview Road, owned by Old Republic Default for Bank of America, has been cited for the past four years for code violations, but no progress has been made. 

"I certainly would thank the housing programs department for good work,” Montlack said. “It's just the beginning of our aggressive stance on this matter.”