Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson

A view this morning of a burned out and unoccupied home with graffiti at 1216 5th Street.

After a few years of looking at the graffiti-covered burned out shell of house at 1216 5th St. and telling multiple city officials about the mess, Evelyn Krause came to Monday night's Havre City Council meeting to see what was happening.

The house burned at least three years ago, Krause said, and has since merely gotten worse as the unoccupied building and its garage became a popular blank canvas for local vandals.

About two years ago, Krause recalled, she as...