Family devastated by fire in Little Elm home rented from problem landlord

by TANYA EISERER

WFAA

Posted on August 22, 2014 at 8:22 PM

Updated yesterday at 12:42 AM

LITTLE ELM -- The gray brick home in Little Elm seemed perfect. Now, its become a nightmare for Leana Sanders and her husband.

The Navy veterans rented the house from Khosrow Sadeghian, the landlord featured in News 8 stories about the substandard, unsafe conditions at many of his properties.

The family had lived there for 21 days when a fire broke out. Electrical wiring was the likely cause of the fire, according to a Little Elm fire department report. The house is currently not habitable.

Something could have happened to my kids, Sanders said, sobbing. Something could have happened me and my husband. It makes me sick. And the thing is that he knows what kind of shape this was in.

Sanders tells a now-familiar story about Sadeghian. They found the house on Craigslist. It needed work, but it sat on a one-acre lot and they liked the location. Sadeghian promised repairs.

We kept coming over here and checking to make sure that everything was getting done, Sanders said. Nothing was getting done.

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Family devastated by fire in Little Elm home rented from problem landlord