DETROIT - There are thousands of buildings that should be demolished in Detroit. Eric Roslonski says the city took the wrong one.Roslonski filed a lawsuit against the city Monday, more than two years after a house he was rehabbing suddenly was destroyed.

He said he put more than $30,000 into the property on the east side of Detroit after buying it for $7,000. One day in summer 2006, he couldn't find 13405 Flanders.

"I drove up and down the street three times -- where is my house?" Roslonski, 26, said.

The Rochester Hills man said he hasn't received any good explanations from the city, just finger-pointing between departments.

His lawyer, Jeffrey Dworin, said the house was taken off a demolition list, then apparently reinstated without Roslonski's knowledge.

"It happens," Dworin said. "I had a similar situation with someone in Pontiac."

A message seeking comment was left with the city's law department, which was closed for the King holiday.

Roslonski acquired the house in 2005 and took inventory of what needed to be done to get it into shape for a renter or new owner. "We did the roof, windows, kitchen, flooring, carpet, furnace, water heater -- every single thing you could imagine," he said.

Before the house was razed in June 2006, someone broke in and stole the carpet and kitchen cabinets.

Roslonski is suing Detroit for his losses under a federal civil rights law. He fixed another house on the same street and sold it for $85,000.

"I see all these boarded-up and burned-out houses. I'm trying to make the city a better place," he said.