OTTUMWA, Iowa (KYOU) - Several homes in Ottumwa sit with growing weeds and city notices.

For neighbors that are just across the street like Daywoe Nimely. It’s often hard to look at.

“It’s every time I see it it’s like a nightmare you know It’s deja vu it just comes back to it like it’s the same thing,” said Nimely.

One home caught on fire last October and currently sits between two homes.

With one of them now vacant due to damaging effects of the fire. Nimely said it’s hard to see empty homes walking out his front door.

“You know to see almost like an abandoned property cause the property next to it nobody is in it too. You know an abandoned property it brings the property values down.”

Nimely said the vacant property causes concern for him because kids play on this street.

“They h

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