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Father-to-Be Feels 'Hopeless' After Hundreds of Tires Are Illegally Dumped at His 'Dream' Home
Homeowner Khanh Tran said he didn't know "the disaster" that was going to come with buying his new house

A father-to-be has said he feels “hopeless” after his recently purchased property was littered with hundreds of illegally dumped tires.

Khanh Tran said it had always been his “dream” to own a farm with a large amount of land and jumped at the chance to purchase a 1.2-acre property in Portland, Oregon.

The sale went through in April, and he agreed with the previous owner in February that he would remove the 40 tires that had been left on the property. However, that number kept growing month after month after an unknown person continued to dump tires on his land.

Now, Tran has hundreds of rubber tires on his property, and he reached out to local news channel KATU 2 News, because he felt “hopeless.”


"The reason I wanted to buy this property, I think it's in a beautiful location," he told the outlet. "I didn't know the disaster that was going to come with it."

Tran suspects that someone is collecting used tires from businesses with the understanding that they would be recycled, but people are instead dumping them onto his property.

His neighbor, Heather Harmon, also believes this theory, telling the outlet, “I don't know if they're doing it overnight or while I'm at work, I never see anybody over there. I'm worried about something catching on fire and it spreading across into my yard and my property.”

KATU 2 reported that most of the house was inaccessible because of the walls of tires six feet or higher that surround it. The publication also reported there was at least one person living on the grounds without permission.

Tran said after buying the home, he returned on June 6, ready to begin restoration work, when he found the seemingly endless stacks of rubber.

When asked why he was so intent on restoring the house, he said, “Because [it's] like my dream man. I wanted a farm forever. I wanted to live on the farm, and now I've found something that I think is worth every penny that I've put in there, you know? [You're] in the city and you have 1.2 acres, where can you get that?”

The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) is investigating potential trespassing and "offensive littering,” according to the outlet. Metro and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality are also looking into the incident.

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MCSO said that the accumulation of tires “presents a fire hazard and could violate Oregon's waste tire regulations.”

A spokesperson also told KATU 2 that crews from Metro's trash removal service, the RID Patrol, have picked up more than 14,000 tires from public property in greater Portland in the last year alone. 

Metro told the outlet that the RID Patrol cannot remove trash from private property.

Metro, the MCSO and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality have been contacted for comment by PEOPLE, but did not immediately respond.