By Ruth Williams
Summer Forty-Niner
Cal State Long Beach civil engineering
Professor Elena Zagustin’s home is up for auction once again.
The home is expected to go on the auction
block June 17 at 10 a.m., said Lt. Gary Tackett, division commander of
the West Orange County Marshal’s office. “It’s scheduled, but could
be postponed,” Tackett said.
The starting bid for the one-story, three-bedroom
home, on the 16800 block of Morse Circle, is $270,000. Zagustin managed
to postpone the previous auction in April.
Zagustin was convicted of 69 fire, housing
and municipal code violations in November.
The charges are in regard to the horrible
conditions in which Zagustin lived. Her home, in the exclusive neighborhood
of Huntington Harbor, was surrounded by piles of debris, lacked running
water and had exposed electrical wires.
Neighbors accused Zagustin of lowering
the property value of the posh community. Monies received from the
auction will be used for payment of legal claims filed against her by neighbors.
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