A single mother trying to sell her Florida home is scratching her head over a strange theft — after someone stole her concrete driveway out of the ground.
“I came home, and my driveway was gone,” Amanda Brochu told WFTV when she realized someone had ripped out the concrete driveway of her Orange County home last month, leaving a muddy patch of dirt in its place.
The mystery began shortly after she listed the house for sale, the distraught mother said.
Before long, strange contractors started showing up to measure driveways, Brochu told the store, with his son counting five such workers.
When he asked the crew what they were doing, they told him a Tampa-area man known only as “Andre” hired them to price replacements.
Thieves left a strip of muddy dirt where the driveway used to be. WFTV
The team also provided her text messages that purportedly showed Andre asking for an estimate and gave them Brochu’s address, WFTV said.
The suspicious customer, however, was out of town when the contractor asked for a personal meeting and cut off communication when asked for proof of ownership, the outlet said.
A week later, Brochu’s doorbell camera captured a bulldozer tearing up the concrete driveway and hauling it away.
The contractor shows Brochu a text message from a man named Andre. WFTV
Brochu told WFTV he was “not at all” prepared for the strange theft.
His real estate agent, Rocki Sanchez, recalled his “real shock” when he learned what had happened.
“I have never seen this before. I have never had this happen to myself or anyone in our office,” Sanchez said.
Sanchez posted about the missing driveway in a Facebook group for realtors and believed Brochu was the victim of a strange scam.
Amanda Brochu’s doorbell camera captured a bulldozer picking up concrete. Amanda Brochu
“I’ve had a lot of people come forward saying they’ve seen things like this happen — whether it’s the driveway, the roof, painting, even outside the exterior. So it happens more often than we actually see,” he explained.
Now, Brochu is under pressure to replace the driveway to sell the house in two weeks, or he will lose the property he is under contract to buy nearby.
He recently replaced the roof and made other investments, leaving him anxious to come up with $10,000 for the project, WFTV said.
Brochu is now struggling to sell his house without a driveway. WFTV
“No one is going to buy this. This brings the property down now, and it just messes it up for me and my family,” lamented Brochu.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office, which is investigating the driveway theft, did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
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