WARSAW —  One home has been saved from demolition while another home was sentenced to be demolished at a Warsaw hearing docket on Monday, Oct. 17.

Jeff Woken spoke on behalf of Altisource, a natural preservation company, about a home at 330 Ringneck Trail, Warsaw. Woken gave hearing officer Lawrence Clifford an update on what progress has been made with the building.

Kyle Babcock, who is the owner of the home, has had a long history of living in a home riddled with issues of flooding and code violations. Babcock had hired a contractor to build his home. He claims the contractor built the home poorly and he is now working to file a legal suit against the contractor.

Despite many structural flaws with the home, Clifford allowed the home to be spared from demolition, and while the end of construction is in sight for this home, some obstacles have added additional work to be done to the home before it is livable again.

Vandals broke into the home recently, causing the timetable for completion of construction to be pushed back.

During the last couple months, workers have dried out the basement, removed inoperable water heaters, dried basement walls and removed all the carpeting in the basement.

Woken estimated they had completed about 90 percent of the items on the list of code violations that needed to be fixed per an agreement made at a code hearing in July. Code enforcement specialist Dana Hewitt confirmed the estimate.

In addition to the items they had agreed were imperative to fix in the home, Hewitt stated that after going through the home with Woken, they had additional things that need to be fixed. Items that need to be fixed include: fixing another crack in the foundation, redoing electrical wiring, providing heat in the home, working on clean air quality and checking moisture content.

Clifford asked what the timetable was to complete the home. Woken stated, “To get it done properly, I would say 60 days.”

Clifford stated they would revisit the issue at the next hearing on Dec. 19.

Clifford called for an unoccupied home at 519 N. Park Avenue, Warsaw to be demolished.

“I will order the premise to be demolished,” said Clifford.

The owner of the home, Fabiola Duran, did not show up for the hearing and had not shown any evidence of a plan of action for the home or timetable for work.

It was discussed that the construction was estimated to cost around $30,000 to make the home up to code, while demolition would cost around $10,000.