Three of the six houses facing the wrecking ball were demolished by noon, and workers onsite from Den-Man Contractors said all six houses would be down by the week's end.

Walking by on his way to a Rotary meeting, Ann Arbor resident Don Faber stopped to literally applaud the crew doing the demolition work.

Three homeless people, at left, told the demolition workers at right about memories of squatting in the houses.

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Not everyone is happy to see the homes coming down, though. Three homeless people who watched from the sidewalk on Wednesday shared memories of squatting in the houses.

"I used to sleep in the one on the end. It was called the Dirty Squat," said a man who identified himself only as Pig Pen, a self-described train hopper and hitchhiker who's originally from Ypsilanti but has traveled all over.

He said they sleep out in the woods now, but at different points each of them stayed in the houses being demolished.

"That was the one I stayed in last year," said a man who goes by the name Pooh, pointing to another of the houses. "I met my fiancee and we stayed in that one for two weeks."

Pooh, who is originally from Denton, Texas, said he travels all over the country and he's been coming to Ann Arbor since 2003. He said he's sad to see the houses go.

"All of these houses are perfectly good houses," he said. "People could renovate them."

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SEFFNER --

The two houses on either side of the deadly Seffner sinkhole were demolished Wednesday.

A private demolition company started tearing down the homes with long reach excavator and a backhoe excavator just after 9 a.m. The homes were adjacent to the sinkhole that opened in February, killing Jeffrey Bush.

Hillsborough County officials say the homes on Faithway Drive were officially condemned on April 1 after the remediation cost to make repairs to the properties would exceed 50 percent of their value.

County officials said, after Bush's death, they did extensive testing because of the threat of sinkhole activity. The results concluded the soil is unstable, so the county decided to demolish the homes.

Neighbors watched as the homes crashed to the ground. LisaJaudon called one of them home for 21 years.

"Still very surreal, you just find it hard to believe that this is actually happening," she said.

Jaudonsaid she is trying to move on.

"Day by day getting through, through lots of prayer," she said. "You know, our life has drastically changed but we're little by little letting go."

She has already had to let go of some stuff, as when she had to move out, she was not given much time to grab personal items.

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