Illegal House Hacking

[Barbara McArthur]

I am house hacking in a medium sized town in the Northeast.  My house was rented for about 15 years and was pretty close to wrecked.  I have fixed it up and will be ready to rent or sell it this year.  I talked to a Realtor to get an idea of what my house is worth.  She told me that the rental house next door is in such bad shape that it's hurting the value of my house.  The house next door would legally be considered uninhabitable because it has no heat.  The young man that is renting there is heating his room with a space heater.  This is fire waiting to happen.  If it burned it would probably damage my house since they're close together.  Normally I don't care what other people do with their rental properties, but I think this landlord is a dirtbag taking advantage of people AND the house is hurting my property value AND is a fire hazard to my house.  I'm considering reporting the situation to the local housing authority.  Is it really none of my business or is this a situation that should be reported?