Residents of an Omaha neighborhood have been complaining about two particular run-down houses for almost 30 years. One man got tired of complaining and finally did something about it. He bought them to fix up.

They are littered throughout the city, run-down, abandoned homes with garbage strewn about, often havens for crime. Two such houses on 24th and Ogden have been empty and ignored for nearly three decades until Ray Bazer came along.

He lives down the street and decided to buy them. "For years we've come by here and seen these houses and usually it's a lot of brush piled up. It was kind of an eyesore. We want to clean it up and get the eyesore out of here. A lot of people are starting to fix up their places up around here and not letting them go."

Wilson Dunlap and his family live across the street from the two homes now on the mend. He’s glad to see the improvement finally come. "It makes the neighborhood a lot better with the environment. It keeps crime down and stuff like that."

"I used to think it was only one house ‘cause the bushes were so high,” says neighborhood resident Raheim Russ. “Now since they fixing it up, they gonna have a lot to do."

Bazer and his sons purchased the two homes at an auction and say it will take some time, but they will rehab the two homes and make the neighborhood look a lot better.