Vacant Homes Set on Fire in Harvard Yard, AR

People, take back you community. Get everyone together and clean up the trash yourselves. Mow those vacant house lots so the threat of fire is not there anymore. Get of you butts and do something about it. If you wait for county to do something, you will be waiting for a long long time. I live in Southern Oaks in Marion, and there has been an empty house one house down from me for two years. It is owned by Re-max. I have been mowing the yard every week for this makes the third summer. I do it, because I care about my neighborhood. No one else ever offers to help me either. But that is ok, at least my street don't look like Harvard Yard. You can do somethings to help if you would just try. Don't sit there and whine about it. Get up and clean up.

That is so true, people should take pride in their neighorhood

Don't wait on the government for this hand out, it's not coming. Get up and do it yourself. That is unless you just like all the negative attention to your little community

It really is pathetic to see Harvard Yard look the way it does. I remember when it was first developed, there were nice hard working families there. The houses were really cute then, and well taken care of. I guess that is what happens when the handout takers start moving in.

hey 2 cents?
is the house you're talking about on twin oaks or on white oak? we looked at a few houses in that neighborhood and really liked 1 of them....(so maybe your mowing days might be over)

Yes, the house is at 700 Twin Oak. It is a really nice house. Remax has been doing a lot of maintinance to it in the last few weeks and are putting a new roof on it as we speak. Our neighborhood is really quite and most of the people take care of their yards. The house used to belong to the Marion High School Football Coach. He moved away and took a job elsewhere, and could not sell the house because it was right when the bottom fell out of the housing market. It was, I believe foreclosed on. I think you should be able to get a really good deal on it too. The people who lived in the house next door at 702 both passed away 6 months apart about 2 years ago and that house sold for 168,000. You should be able to get this house a lot cheaper than that. The front yard is small, and it really doesn't take a lot of time to mow it, but I would appreciate someone moving in and taking the care of it off my hands. lol Hope to be meeting my new neighbors soon. I live at 704 Twin Oaks.

They should just raze Harvard Yard. It's a pathetic, pitiful looking pile of trash.