I've had enough': Shore Acres homeowners selling flooded homes 'as is' for investors

Old Tampa Bay homeowners impacted by hurricanes and flooding are now saying enough is enough and selling their homes as is, especially those in flood prone neighborhoods like Shore Acres in ST Pete. And if you look online at Zillow or Redfin, you'll find dozens of damaged homes now for sale. New tonight, abc action is anchored Nadine Giannis with why homeowners are now just walking away. Finding a house anywhere in the Tampa Bay area at $300,000 these days sounds too good to be true. But if you come to Shore Acres, you will find several houses listed for that price, some even lower as they are damaged homes now at a discounted rate. Homeowners trying to just get out this homeowner here telling me she's flooded out three times and she simply doesn't have the strength to rebuild again. I mean, we have chemicals and everything out from gutting everything out. L. 11 Ville's four bedroom to Bath Shore Acres home is down to the studs again. Unfortunately, this is the third flood in two years. I can't live in this, in this flood zone where you're constantly having to move out for six or seven months. She bought it three years ago at $575,000 now listed at 425,000 as is for investors after Hurricane Helene. I'm going to lose a lot, but I've gained a lot of friends and I've had great experiences here other than the flood. So I just have to cut my losses and move on. It's one of dozens of homes that just hit the market in the last week or so. Listing showing those flooded homes with words like as is cash only and for investors as homeowners are trying to simply move on. So this property was, this is like a three bedroom to bath. Realtor Ross Fangfish is selling for a husband and wife team who just flipped this short acres home themselves. They put it on the market after renovating it 60 days ago at $460,000. When we purchased this property, we were thinking, okay, well, what's the future hold? You don't think to yourself there's going to be four ft of water or three ft of water or whatever. Now I just dropped it down to 2 99. You know, you'll see the listings that are pending at, you know, 300,000 or 250,000 were originally at 450 or 500,000. So we, you know, you have to just kind of roll with the punches. But he says interest is there. In fact, investors are calling and already scooping up these homes. Yeah, lots of pending. I was actually surprised to see that it's a matter of now making the most for those homeowners who lost it all because at the end of the day, you're right, you're going to sell the house and maybe including with the insurance money, they're going to do okay like that. You know, they can walk away, maybe just unscarred and move on with life. That's possible in short acres. I'm abc action news anchor Nadine Giannis.