I'm not sympathetic at all. Considering what kind of blood you to sweat to buy and ultimately lose a house.. I'm not sympathetic at all.
By the way if you take a vacation for a month and leave your property would you mine if I came over and claimed ownership?
I don't think you can, as I am actively paying money for my domicile and the organization I am paying the money to actively exists.
I'm not sympathetic at all. Considering what kind of blood you to sweat to buy and ultimately lose a house.. I'm not sympathetic at all.
By the way if you take a vacation for a month and leave your property would you mine if I came over and claimed ownership?
I think your missing out a bit on why this might be a good thing. Consider the chain of events.
Event #1 is that there was a legal Mortgage Holder who maintained the property, paid land taxes and was legally responsible for what happened on the property. Said Mortgage Holder decided "you know what screw this - I refuse to maintain this property, I refuse to pay the land taxes and I legally rescind any responsibility for what happens on this property". All rights and responsibilities then reverted to the mortgage company which was a corporation.
The Corporation for all intents and purposes said "screw that I'm declaring myself legally dead" I will no longer pay the land taxes, I will no longer maintain the property and I am no longer legally responsible for anything that might happen on that property.
So now we have an abandoned property which is actually bad news for everyone. Its a fire hazard, wild animals may move in or criminals might decide to set up a grow op or some such in it. Except that now we have a third person who has walked in and said - guess what guys - I'll take on all the responsibilities. I'll pay the land taxes, I'll maintain the property and I accept legal responsibility for what happens on this property. The neighbours may not be to impressed with what is going on - after all they have to pay mortgages and such but in reality he is doing them a favour - they where living beside a fire hazard after all and now they are not.
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So now we have an abandoned property which is actually bad news for everyone. Its a fire hazard, wild animals may move in or criminals might decide to set up a grow op or some such in it.
+1
Bandits and brigands.
I mean Jesus, Lazar, are you even playing the same game as the rest of us?
What was in the abandoned moathouse in Temple of Elemental Evil? Bandits.
What was in any abandoned property your party has even run across? That's right. Brigands.
Bandits are always looking for a headquarters, and this guy's just stopped them dead in their tracks. I applaud.
Squatter's Rights FTW! Back in the 80s through the late 90's, my dad almost got a nice chunk of land through the squatter's rights laws. The field across from our house was wild and overgrown and littered with trash, but dad cleaned it up and kept it mowed for almost 2 decades. But someone bought it only a year or two before it would have legally been his.
Interestingly, there are parts of Detroit where he could have bought a house for $16 with a lot less fuss.
I'd heard serious talk in 2009 that Detroit was dusting off its urban renewal plans. Eminent domain entire blocks of defunct property, knock down all the buildings, haul off the debris, tear out all the no-longer-needed utilities and roads, the works.
I wish they could do that for Baltimore. Outside of the Inner Harbor there are stretches of derelict row houses.
I've seen some from the back: end unit was smooshed by an old tree to the point that the front third was still standing and the rest was rubble. The one next to it was crumbling apart. The third one over (the place I was "re-securing") was technically habitable.
On the way out I'm waiting at the stoplit intersection, watching the flashing blue Big Brother cameras while gangbangers are getting ready for a field search. The row house directly across the way has a massive tree growing from the basement through all three floors, its leaves drinking sunlight from the long burned out roof.
Going up US 40 - yes, a U.S. route, complete with commercial truck traffic - there are a half-dozen blocks of row houses from one recognizably inhabited neighborhood to the next recognizably inhabited neighborhood. In those 6 blocks there is all of a dozen or so kept up and inhabited homes between both sides of the street. Out of 100 - 120 old school row houses. These aren't little dinky homes. Each is a basement and 3 full floors above that with a typical square footage of interior space at around 2400. Some I've seen as high as 3600 square feet. These are big and were built "old school". This pattern of blocks of "holes", a block or two of normal, blocks of "holes" is fairly prevelant throughout the older sections of the city as far as I saw spring 2009 - summer/ early fall 2010.
Sadly, it seems almost all of Baltimore city is "land rent" - you buy the house, not the land it sits on. Until that changes, Baltimore's screwed. I'm hoping Detriot doesn't have that particular "techincal difficulty". From what I heard, there are several cities attentatively awaiting Detroit's decisions to use as a blueprint...
This story really makes me laugh. I hope he gets to keep it.
You're a lying liar! The article says 16 dollars!
I went and scratched together 13 bucks in small change from under the sofa cushions and thought I could get myself another house. Now I'm three dollars short and my dreams are crushed! :P
Anyway, 16 bucks is a lot of money for a house. Especially compared to one red paperclip (link)
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Interestingly, there are parts of Detroit where he could have bought a house for $16 with a lot less fuss.I'd heard serious talk in 2009 that Detroit was dusting off its urban renewal plans. Eminent domain entire blocks of defunct property, knock down all the buildings, haul off the debris, tear out all the no-longer-needed utilities and roads, the works.
I wish they could do that for Baltimore. Outside of the Inner Harbor there are stretches of derelict row houses.
I've seen some from the back: end unit was smooshed by an old tree to the point that the front third was still standing and the rest was rubble. The one next to it was crumbling apart. The third one over (the place I was "re-securing") was technically habitable.
On the way out I'm waiting at the stoplit intersection, watching the flashing blue Big Brother cameras while gangbangers are getting ready for a field search. The row house directly across the way has a massive tree growing from the basement through all three floors, its leaves drinking sunlight from the long burned out roof.
Going up US 40 - yes, a U.S. route, complete with commercial truck traffic - there are a half-dozen blocks of row houses from one recognizably inhabited neighborhood to the next recognizably inhabited neighborhood. In those 6 blocks there is all of a dozen or so kept up and inhabited homes between both sides of the street. Out of 100 - 120 old school row houses. These aren't little dinky homes. Each is a basement and 3 full floors above that with a typical square footage of interior space at around 2400. Some I've seen as high as 3600 square feet. These are big and were built "old school". This pattern of blocks of "holes", a block or two of normal, blocks of "holes" is fairly prevelant throughout the older sections of the city as far as I saw spring 2009 - summer/ early fall 2010.
Sadly, it seems almost all of Baltimore city is "land rent" - you buy the house, not the land it sits on. Until that changes, Baltimore's...
This post really makes me want to make a The Wire related joke...
Sheeeeeeeeeeet
Every time I see empty housing I get cranky.
When I see empty businesses and industrial sites I get frustrated at the sheer wasted potential. All that opportunity wasting away.
Drives me nuts.
...Interestingly, there are parts of Detroit where he could have bought a house for $16 with a lot less fuss.I'd heard serious talk in 2009 that Detroit was dusting off its urban renewal plans. Eminent domain entire blocks of defunct property, knock down all the buildings, haul off the debris, tear out all the no-longer-needed utilities and roads, the works.
I wish they could do that for Baltimore. Outside of the Inner Harbor there are stretches of derelict row houses.
I've seen some from the back: end unit was smooshed by an old tree to the point that the front third was still standing and the rest was rubble. The one next to it was crumbling apart. The third one over (the place I was "re-securing") was technically habitable.
On the way out I'm waiting at the stoplit intersection, watching the flashing blue Big Brother cameras while gangbangers are getting ready for a field search. The row house directly across the way has a massive tree growing from the basement through all three floors, its leaves drinking sunlight from the long burned out roof.
Going up US 40 - yes, a U.S. route, complete with commercial truck traffic - there are a half-dozen blocks of row houses from one recognizably inhabited neighborhood to the next recognizably inhabited neighborhood. In those 6 blocks there is all of a dozen or so kept up and inhabited homes between both sides of the street. Out of 100 - 120 old school row houses. These aren't little dinky homes. Each is a basement and 3 full floors above that with a typical square footage of interior space at around 2400. Some I've seen as high as 3600 square feet. These are big and were built "old school". This pattern of blocks of "holes", a block or two of normal, blocks of "holes" is fairly prevelant throughout the older sections of the city as far as I saw spring 2009 - summer/ early fall 2010.
Sadly, it seems almost all of Baltimore city is "land rent" - you buy the house, not the land it sits on. Until
*whistles "a hunting we will go."*
Sheeeeeet
Not Safe for Work? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit!
Unfortunate. But the only thing worse than the situation is some of the comments in the comments section. Some people are jerks.
Almost all people in the United States are related to squatters and thieves. The land we live in is not rightfully ours. Someone stole that land from the people that lived here before. ~shrugs~ Thus, I fail to see what the fuss is over something so minor.
Edit - Being a history buff can be not fun at times. You know about all the bad crap that has gone on over the years.
Almost all people in the United States are related to squatters and thieves. The land we live in is not rightfully ours. Someone stole that land from the people that lived here before. ~shrugs~ Thus, I fail to see what the fuss is over something so minor.
Edit - Being a history buff can be not fun at times. You know about all the bad crap that has gone on over the years.
Lots of things people would rather forget, as well as one sided stories.
Edit - Being a history buff can be not fun at times. You know about all the bad crap that has gone on over the years.
Scint refers to it as "majoring in past idiocy and dead people".
Edit - Being a history buff can be not fun at times. You know about all the bad crap that has gone on over the years.Scint refers to it as "majoring in past idiocy and dead people".
~laughter~
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Edit - Being a history buff can be not fun at times. You know about all the bad crap that has gone on over the years.Scint refers to it as "majoring in past idiocy and dead people".
You'd be surprised at how many people thought I meant mortuary science.
Unfortunate. But the only thing worse than the situation is some of the comments in the comments section. Some people are jerks.Friends don't let friends read comment sections.
This goes double on news sites, politics discussions, and YouTube.
You'd be surprised at how many people thought I meant mortuary science.Edit - Being a history buff can be not fun at times. You know about all the bad crap that has gone on over the years.Scint refers to it as "majoring in past idiocy and dead people".
HA!!!!!