Detroit is home to many, many buildings that should be demolished - but one man says that his house wasn't one of them. Unfortunately for him, the city authorities knocked it down anyway.
Eric Roslonski filed a lawsuit against the city on Monday, more than two years after the house he was restoring was suddenly destroyed.
He said he put more than $30,000 (over £21,000) into the property on the east side of Detroit, after buying it for $7,000 (£5,000).
But he says that one day in summer 2006, there suddenly wasn't a building at 13405 Flanders, when previously there had been.
'I drove up and down the street three times - where is my house?' Roslonski said.
His lawyer, Jeffrey Dworin, said the house was originally taken off a demolition list, but then apparently reinstated without Roslonski's knowledge.
'It happens,' Dworin said.
The city's law department has yet to comment on the lawsuit, as it was closed for a federal holiday on Monday.
Roslonski is suing Detroit for his losses under a federal civil rights law. He fixed another house on the same street and sold it for $85,000.
'I see all these boarded-up and burned-out houses. I'm trying to make the city a better place,' he said.
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