Rented: Updated modest home with slight baggage
STOCKTON - Aside from the controversy hanging in the air inside the midtown home, the refurbished wooden floors first grab your attention as you step inside.
The new owners tore up the old carpet and tossed it.
In the kitchen, sparkling granite counters, appliances and the cabinets are all new. White crown moulding adorns the two-bedroom, two-bathroom house throughout in contrast to the beige paint.
Those new owners - the Stockton Police Officers' Association - fixed a lot of things on the property, once an eyesore to neighbors who filed through earlier this week to look around during a catered open house.
They were impressed.
"You don't know what it looked like before," admired neighbor Katherine Lind, a 63-year-old schoolteacher. "It was horrible."
A less-attractive side of the house is the story that comes with it. Yes, even houses have baggage.
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