Almost 2 years ago, my disabled son purchased a home as a rental [and to live in it when and if he is ever able. wIt as an extreme fixer-upper but we worked on it every week-end [commuting from Denver] I fell in love with pueblo. husband and I both have bad physical problems and he was forced to retire way earlly. moving to Pueblo, with the prices of houses made it easy to decide to move there. 

We bought a total of 3 fixer-uppers and we fixed them all up nice and rented 2 of them. one of them was a HUD home, which we would have to live in for at least a year which was fine. we wished to live there forever . When the neighbors all started coming over to see the "Gang House." We discvered that violent gang members had inhabited the house for well over a year. The police ha"d been called repeatedly but had been able to do nothing because the bank refused to press charges. The people who had been living next door had been coerced, out of fear, to allow the inhabitants to "share" their electricity until they moved out of fear. We were told that when the gang members had been forced to move [because the bank decided to put it on the market] that they had sworn that they would come back and reclaim

Last month, on a saturday, during the day, a group of people with guns came into our home. They kept threatening us and made us lie on the floor in the hall landing at the top of the stairs. They were not even wearing masks [no, I could not identify any of them] I thought they were going to kill us. I was also afraid that my son would have a meltdown, in which case they would surely kill us, and I was so afraid that even if they didn't that bobby would die anyway because he has heart failure. 

they stole everything. we lived. the cops never arrested anyone. my son was and is too terrified to live there and we are now staying in a travel trailer in a place we love but that is only for the summer.

we started receiving anonymous phone calls that this homeless lady that we had felt sorry for but eventually kicked out, had become friends with the former gang squatters and convinced tHEM to reclaim the house as they had vowed and that she knew exactly where the "valuables were." [which the robbers did know exactly where to look]

I do not know if we will ever move back there. it is looking doubtful. I think that if the police had been given permission to do something in the beginning [and this is colorado, not california] that the criminals would never have gotten into their heads that this was THEIR house. 

Please advise.