Vacant House w/ Bee Hive

[Granville L.]

Hello All

I have a house down in Dickinson Texas and am having an issue with the vacant home next to me.  The home contains a large bee hive.  The home has an owner but has been on the city demo list for several years.  The other home owners on the block have started leaning on the city code enforcer about the issue, without any resolve.  The city sent a bee keeper to the house and he said the hive has taken over the front living room, garage, one back bedroom, and is well over 1,000,000. bee's.  The renters I had in the home contacted me that they (dad and 7 year old son) had been stung and cannot mow the side of the their house because of the issue.  I called city hall and after getting the run around from 20 people I was directed to code enforcement.  After leaving several messages with no reply, I was able to contact a lady that did not give a crap.  She actually hung up on me the first phone call because I was not accepting her answer of "not their issue", and I needed to contact the owner.  Finally I told her that I was taking a ledger of all our conversations, to which she was more open to hearing about the situation.  I expressed to her that the bee's have started stinging parents and children on the block, but she was not concerned.  She said she would look into it and let me know.  When she called me back, she said that all she could do was bring the situation up to the owner by mail.  Because my rental home is in my company's name, she started asking me questions about my company.  I told her my company is not harboring bee's and is not to topic of conversation.  I have started a log of call time and who I talk to, so if someone does get hurt or killed, I have documentation that the city was aware of this issue.  Also, I cant rent a home out knowing the house next door posses a direct danger.  Does anyone have any advice on where I should take this situation?