Women buys home at Auction only to find out City of Houston has already demolished it

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On Feb. 7, Nagaraj went to the monthly Harris County Tax Sale auction and bid $57,000 for a home on Wiggins Street in the Pleasantville area in northeast Houston. She had already been to see the house once, she said. She was aware it needed repairs from the outside, but she says it was work she was willing to do. "Before bidding on a property, we have to do research on the property," Nagaraj told Eyewitness News. The day Nagaraj won, she paid $57,000 with a cashier's check and went to see her property the next day.

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The paperwork finally came on March 11, and on March 12, she went to her house with a locksmith to change the locks, but her home was gone. "There is no house. Nothing is there," Nagaraj said. "And no one is telling me who is accountable. No one informed me of anything. That's all I know. Now I have a deed. I have a lot. But the home just disappeared." The City of Houston sent ABC13 a statement confirming that city crews demolished the house on Feb. 22, just over two weeks after Nagaraj bought the house.

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