[post_page_title]Neglected[/post_page_title]
Since the mansion stood abandoned, and the Tophams did not only stay in their home, but paid for no security for the huge house, it became a magnet to squatters are drug dealers, and within four years, became dilapidated and in near ruins, leaving it not only unsightly, but also seriously dangerous to the would-be-neighbors of the Tophams, since the mansion was inhabited with criminals, and a 12-foot fence did not help keep them away – perhaps the opposite.
