Vacant House Boarding Times Have Become Super Fast!

Photos By John Hoff

So a few days ago I was talking about this house, and how it was open to trespass right across from a day care center, and how I was going to be TIMING IT after calling the problem in to 311.

Well, by my rough calculations...

This house at 712 24th Ave. N. got boarded within in a couple days of my call, probably no more than three but possibly within 48 hours. In fact, it has probably taken me longer to blog about it than it took to actually board it.

Great...now if we could just get the house fixed up and occupied.

As a special blog bonus, here's a Stupid North MInneapolis Home Repair tossed in. Check out what's holding up that porch pillar! Quick, somebody, get me something more solid like...a phone book!

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Stupid North Minneapolis Home Repairs--Slumlords Rack Up Huge Lead?

It just me, or do most of the "Stupid North Minneapolis Home Repairs" tend to be RENTAL properties? Somehow, it just seems like people take a lot more care with their own homes. But it's not like I've formally gathered data. In the photo above, taken on Lyndale Ave. N...

...somebody didn't bother to cover up the glass of the electrical meter before slapping paint on the exterior of the house, allowing paint to drip on the glass. Something like that could almost be forgiven, but they didn't even bother to wipe the paint off before it dried. Stupidity can be casually forgiven as a human foible, but sloth is one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

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