Tracking Down The OTHER Crappy Properties Of Mahmood Khan, Apparent Owner Of 2222 4th St. N., Where A Woman's Body Was Found

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An intrepid comment poster tracked down some information on Mahmood Khan and submitted it via a comment thread...

He did it by finding Khan's phone number on a city document, then searching the number on Craigslist under rental properties. That turned up a Craig's List ad:

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/apa/948032029.html

Links to ads on "CL" go dead in a month or so, therefore I'm going to extract the info and make it available on this blog:

$950 / 3 br-- 34xx Emerson, 17xx Oliver and a few single homes (32xx Bryant, and 20xx Russel)

Ad was posted on December 6, 2008, 8:09 CST. It reads as follows.

In North Minneapolis. Single Family Homes and Duplexes. 3, 4 and 5 bedrooms. AVAILABLE NOW!!! Rents range from $950 to $1250. Some with FULL basements and attics and also some include single and double car garages, WALK IN CLOSETS.

16xx 22nd Ave., 16xx 27th Ave., 32xx Bryant, 34xx Emerson, 17xx Oliver, 20xx Russel, 20xx 21st Ave. and 16xx Sheridan. Utilities to be paid by the tenant that is water, gas and electric. Please call.

651-636-7080

(Here, Khan, let me proofread this for you, free of charge. There should be a hyphen in "walk-in." Two L's in "Russell." That mistake happened twice, so it was not just a typo. That sentence which begins with "Utilities to be paid..." is just bad, mangled English)

OK, LISTEN UP JOHNNY NORTHSIDE READERS. And keep in mind this is my own little private predator drone mission, here, and not something officially-sponsored by anybody.

I want the addresses of Khan's properties. I want to dig up info about the situation with all these other properties because, good lord, I've seen how he keeps 2222 4th St. N., and it's an indignity to our neighborhood.

Anybody got an idea how to get a quick handle on getting those other addresses, other than a burdensome process of trial and error with the city's property information website? Because, oh gee, I can't search the website by name of owner to find the properties of a notorious slumlord where a body turned up. The city doesn't TRUST US to use that information wisely, though city officials reportedly have access to the information themselves. I want to turn up the addresses, but I don't want to check, for example, every possible address on the 3400 block of Russell.

Also, and I will reiterate this: I'm open to hearing Khan's side of the story. Khan can contact me, if he likes. Also, when the owner of 2222 4th St. N. discovered the body (presumably it was indeed Khan, if one makes the dangerous assumption the city's records are up-to-date) he did the right thing by calling 911.

Clearly, some cynical individuals would have thought, "Oh, good lord, a body in my garage! This is nothing but trouble for a slumlord such as I! Gotta think, gotta think...OK, I've got it. Plastic tarp. One of my houses with a bathtub. Lots and lots of battery acid...."

The owner of 2222 4th St. N. DIDN'T DO THAT.

He called the police, as per his civic duty. And though I might be inclined to be harshly critical of the condition of his property, my criticisms will only go so far before I have to throw in a caveat: when he called the police, the owner of 2222 4th St. N. did the right thing, and there were indeed other options.