ben medena, star motel co-owner: its frustrating ben medina is the co-owner of the star motel on third street - and he's talking about the vacant property next door ben medina: there have been multiple occasions of fires, vandalism, and vagrance this fire was this afternoon. the time before that was in december and the one before that - july 2014. all on the same property. abby: have you bm: traumatically. no one wants to come to the property if the property next door is closed. they dont have a fence up. ocassionally there will be homeless people coming in and out of the property las vegas fire and rescue told fox five the property has a squatter problem gf: if the owner doesnt care enough to put a fence around the property to make sure people dont get in if the building is abandoned, then it just hurts the other businesses in the art district. "hey this is abby with fox5." we called the owner of the property to see if they had anything also told me the family has had some challenges that have kept them from keepign up wit hthe with the property owners son - he also told me the family

<<ben medena, star motel co-owner: its frustrating ben medina is the co-owner of the star motel on third street - and he's talking about the vacant property next door ben medina: there have been multiple occasions of fires, vandalism, and vagrance this fire was this afternoon. the time one before that - july 2014. all on the same property. abby: have you noticed a decline in business? bm: traumatically. no one wants to come to the property if the property next door is closed. they dont have a fence up. ocassionally there will be homeless people coming in and out of the property las vegas fire and rescue told fox five the property has a squatter problem gf: if the owner doesnt care enough to put a fence around the property to make sure people dont get in if the building is abandoned, then it just hurts the other businesses in the art district. "hey this is abby with fox5." we called the owner of the property to see if they had anything to say proprety owner's son: its not the best area and its just a continuing problem. property owner's son: we're trying to handle the problem, but its har