Six months before Dustin Diamond passed away in February 2021, he was forced to put up for sale his old home in Port Washington, Wisconsin after a bank threatened foreclosure for unpaid dues.
More than two years later, on May 27, 2022, it was finally sold for $276,400 to a real estate developer with plans to tear the structure down and turn it into a commercial property of sorts, The Post can report.
As for the exact plans of the country, that remains unknown. The Post has reached out for comment.
Diamond was best known for his role as Screech Powers in “Saved By the Bell” and owed Wells Fargo $269,326, records show. He had initially made a $68,000 down payment on the house in 2003 when he bought the four-bedroom property for $340,000.
Before his death, Diamond revealed in an interview with TMZ that he didn’t understand how he owed such a huge amount and that a broken water pipe had flooded his basement and lost 30 years of memories.
“Foreclosure means nothing if a house is destroyed…with my stuff I lost,” Diamond said at the time. “It now feels like Wells Fargo is trying to kick me when I’m down.”
On February 1, 2021, Diamond lost his battle with stage four extensive colon cancer, just a month after his diagnosis. He was 44.
The house, which spans 3,000 square feet and sits on half an acre, has slid on and off the market since then until its recent sale. Only exterior photos of the house were included in the previous listing with the description, “great rehabilitation project.”
“The property has been vacant for over a year,” continues the listing description. “Great for investor or handyman.”
Now, for the first time since his death, two viral videos take viewers inside, which paint a very shocking picture of Diamond’s life.
Described as a collector’s lair, extensive clutter in the video is shown in the home’s office — and in one of the property’s bedrooms and bathrooms.
Clothes are scattered, several bottles collected, medicine and pill bottles are all over the bathroom sink and tub, and what looks like feces on the bathroom floor.
It’s unclear if the abandoned house has been vandalized or even dealt with squatters in the time since his death, or if this was the state in which Diamond left the house.
“Honestly, this is exactly how I expected Screech to live after high school,” one user joked.
‘That’s so sad, is it really his? Did he really live like that?” another user polled.
“He was our neighbor in Port Washington, but he rarely left his house,” another user claimed in the video’s commentary section.
According to Ashley – who gave a tour of the house – the video was recorded when the house was still for sale. Her real estate agent had taken her inside to view the property.