DES MOINES, Wash. — A sudden move before Thanksgiving was not what Lacie Sawyer had planned for her and her family.

“We’re like, what do we pack? And what do we not,” she said while boxing up belongings. “We’re here till tomorrow, so I’m like, shove everything in a box at this point.”

Sawyer’s young children, including a baby, helped pack as the family prepared to move before Tuesday.

“We’re packing up our bedroom. We are ready to get out of here,” Sawyer said.

The notice of condemnation, issued by the City of Des Moines Code Enforcement Division, cites a “significant amount of unpermitted work” inside the home, including electrical and plumbing alterations and the creation of new sleeping rooms and a new dwelling unit.

According to the document, provided to KING 5 by the Sawyer famil

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