Photos: Remodeling disaster

Surrounded by a chain-link fence, decried by the neighbors and gawked at by passersby, the skeletal remains of 2810 E. 1st St. in Long Beach’s Bluff Park neighborhood have been in that sorry state since December 2005, when a new owner took the structure down to its framing studs.

Debbie Malumed lives across the street from the home that has been stripped down to the framing.   (Cheryl A. Guerrero / Los Angeles Times)