Sunrise: What can be done?

The city of Havre has few options for dealing with the outside company that has been acquiring properties in Havre and neglecting them.

For the last three days, a series of articles have focused on a company, Sunrise Financial Group LLC, that buys properties all around Montana through tax liens. The company owns many properties in Hill County and holds even more liens.

Sunrise's Havre properties are abandoned and run down, causing additional blight in a town short on available housing.

The abandoned structures are covered in a veneer of dirt, widows are cracked or boarded over and cracks run a...