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Bakersfield worse off when it comes to parties
| Friday, Mar 28 2008 6:56 PM
Last Updated: Friday, Mar 28 2008 6:56 PM
Bakersfield partyers appear to be ahead of the curve when it comes to finding places to throw an unsupervised bash.
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With the exception of Fresno, the phenomenon of young people breaking into a vacant home to stage a party seems to be limited to Kern County, according to several state and national real estate organizations.
“If it’s happening, it’s a fairly recent phenomenon,” said Mark Giberson, spokesman for the California Association of Realtors.
A representative of the National Association of Realtors agreed.
“It is not on our radar yet,” association spokesman Iverson Moore said.
Even state and national groups of mortgage brokers, who have a financial interest in staying on top of such trends, hadn’t heard of the parties.
Dustin Hobbs, a spokesman for the California Mortgage Bankers Association, said the idea of vacant-home parties was new to his group.
“They’ve heard of every other instance of one way or another the house gets trashed,” Hobbs said. But not a large party.