Nancy wrote --

And half the repairs from the questionaire have never been done

or half way done.

Apparently he started out with good intentions, if with overly
optimistic expectations

I think he did, but found he had bitten off more than he could chew.
Instead of coming on like gangbusters and doing all sorts of new
things, some of the old ones should have been done first and move more
slowly with new projects.

in 1906 so over time things would need to be replaced.

But of course.... nothing lasts for ever, although those older

buildings were built well enough to last a good long time... :)

This place is like a rock.
The building is brick, outer walls are a foot thick, inner walls a half
foot and between rooms six inches. And is as solid now as when first put
up.

There were fewer problems in that building but the one he ripped

out walls willy-nilly, remodeled, etc.

Short-sighted.... Did he get answers to his questionnare that that sort
of construction would be a good thing... or was that just his own take
on things....

A question that's been asked by the yenta and myself. We wonder if he
did some sort of structure damage to the other building knocking out
walls, putting up flimsy ones that are used today, etc. Moving around
pipes and such since two bathrooms/two kitchens were remodeled into one,
etc.
But one good thing in his favour, he installed a couple of washers and dryers, long needed. No more long trips to a laundermat.
He also has other property around town but know nothing about them.
Just that they are regular houses.
Joe
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Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 12-14-18 05:23 <=-

And half the repairs from the questionaire have never been done
or half way done.

Apparently he started out with good intentions, if with overly
optimistic expectations

I think he did, but found he had bitten off more than he could
chew. Instead of coming on like gangbusters and doing all sorts of
new things, some of the old ones should have been done first and move
more slowly with new projects.

Right... and then possibly more might have been accomplished over the
years....

in 1906 so over time things would need to be replaced.

But of course.... nothing lasts for ever, although those older
buildings were built well enough to last a good long time... :)

This place is like a rock.
The building is brick, outer walls are a foot thick, inner walls a
half foot and between rooms six inches. And is as solid now as when
first put up.

So it's just the interior and things like the roof that need fixing from
time to time... :)

There were fewer problems in that building but the one he ripped
out walls willy-nilly, remodeled, etc.

Short-sighted.... Did he get answers to his questionnare that that sort
of construction would be a good thing... or was that just his own take
on things....

A question that's been asked by the yenta and myself. We wonder if
he did some sort of structure damage to the other building knocking out walls, putting up flimsy ones that are used today, etc. Moving around pipes and such since two bathrooms/two kitchens were remodeled into
one, etc.

Yeah... quite possible....

But one good thing in his favour, he installed a couple of washers
and dryers, long needed. No more long trips to a laundermat.

Yup, that's useful... :) Especially for you, trying to lug the laundry
and supplies on your bike... ;)

He also has other property around town but know nothing about them.
Just that they are regular houses.

At least he isn't an absentee slumlord.... We have way too many of them
around here.... A building that was owned by one of them, a brick
apartment building, burned about a week ago, and was immediately torn
down... apparently one of the firemen fell through the floor... a couple
days later, as they were removing the rubble, they were still hosing it
down to keep the fire from restarting.... My friend who was with me as
we saw the building being taken down said that a string of houses on the
street she lives on (a major city street) were owned by the same
slumlord until the city took them away for too many violations....

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Nancy wrote --

The building is brick, outer walls are a foot thick, inner walls a
half foot and between rooms six inches. And is as solid now as

when first put up.

So it's just the interior and things like the roof that need fixing

from time to time... :)

Yeah, things that just wear out over time.

At least he isn't an absentee slumlord.... We have way too many of them around here.... A building that was owned by one of them, a brick
apartment building, burned about a week ago, and was immediately torn
down

With all the various taxes some landlords would rather the building be
gone rather than pay the taxes, since empty land is generally cheaper
than with something on it and might be more easily sold.

street she lives on (a major city street) were owned by the same
slumlord until the city took them away for too many violations....

We have absentee landlords here as well.
I've had one or two of them myself, not here, in other places.
My first landlord here was great, probably one of the top five I've
ever had. He was in the building six days a week, if nothing else than a
walk through. Tell him about a problem in the morning and generally when
I got home from work it was either taken care of, being worked on or told
when it would be done.
He sold it over 25 years ago when he got up in years.
Joe
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Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 12-20-18 06:57 <=-

The building is brick, outer walls are a foot thick, inner walls a
half foot and between rooms six inches. And is as solid now as
when first put up.

So it's just the interior and things like the roof that need fixing
from time to time... :)

Yeah, things that just wear out over time.

And those are things that need to be taken care promptly while the
fixing is fairly easy.... :)

At least he isn't an absentee slumlord.... We have way too many of them around here.... A building that was owned by one of them, a brick
apartment building, burned about a week ago, and was immediately torn
down

With all the various taxes some landlords would rather the building
be gone rather than pay the taxes, since empty land is generally
cheaper than with something on it and might be more easily sold.

And possibly get the insurance money on them, as long as no one can
prove arson.... ;0

street she lives on (a major city street) were owned by the same
slumlord until the city took them away for too many violations....

We have absentee landlords here as well.
I've had one or two of them myself, not here, in other places.

I've been fortunate not to have had... but then, I've only been in
rentals twice, we bought this house early in our marriage...

My first landlord here was great, probably one of the top five I've
ever had. He was in the building six days a week, if nothing else
than a walk through. Tell him about a problem in the morning and generally when I got home from work it was either taken care of, being worked on or told when it would be done.
He sold it over 25 years ago when he got up in years.

Understandable, but still a loss for you.... too bad the subsequent
ones didn't meet the same standard... :)

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Nancy wrote --

At least he isn't an absentee slumlord.... We have way too many of

them around here

I had one once.
I was in university and through friends, managed to get a nice little
three bedroom house, a block from campus. (Had to have roommates to
afford it).
Long story short, I had been warned by the woman I was roommates with
whom I "inherited" the place about this landlady and how she lied a lot.
I wanted to re-paint the place and she happened to be in town (she lived
in TX) and invited her over. I had a tape recorder hidden under her
chair and asked if I brought the paint could the rent for that month be
knocked off. (The cost of paint, etc would be equal to a months rent).
She agreed. I bought the paint and presented the bill to the rental
agency who said Mrs X would never agree to that. I played back the
recording and they gave in after a while. (The rental agent also wanted
to "borrow" the recording but I was too smart for that).
I was back in Morgantown a few years ago and that house is gone now.
Joe
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Joe,

I wanted to re-paint the place and she happened to be in town (she lived
in TX) and invited her over. I had a tape recorder hidden under her JM>chair and asked if I brought the paint could the rent for that month be JM>knocked off. (The cost of paint, etc would be equal to a months rent). JM>She agreed. I bought the paint and presented the bill to the rental JM>agency who said Mrs X would never agree to that. I played back the JM>recording and they gave in after a while. (The rental agent also wanted JM>to "borrow" the recording but I was too smart for that).

As the character on one of the episodes of "The Flintstones" noted
(voiced by "The Great Gildersleeve"...."Ooooo...Aren't We Sneaky??!!".


Daryl

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Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 12-26-18 07:59 <=-

At least he isn't an absentee slumlord.... We have way too many of
them around here

I had one once.
I was in university and through friends, managed to get a nice
little three bedroom house, a block from campus. (Had to have
roommates to afford it).

But you had plenty of room to share with roommates with three
bedrooms... ;)

Long story short, I had been warned by the woman I was roommates
with whom I "inherited" the place about this landlady and how she lied
a lot. I wanted to re-paint the place and she happened to be in town
(she lived in TX) and invited her over. I had a tape recorder hidden under her chair and asked if I brought the paint could the rent for
that month be knocked off. (The cost of paint, etc would be equal to a months rent). She agreed. I bought the paint and presented the bill
to the rental agency who said Mrs X would never agree to that.

They knew her... ;)

I played back the recording and they gave in after a while. (The
rental agent also wanted to "borrow" the recording but I was too smart
for that).

Yeah... had you let him borrow it, you'd never've seen it again... I
suppose you could have made a copy of it for him.... but you certainly
would have wanted to keep the original... ;)

I was back in Morgantown a few years ago and that house is gone now.

It probably didn't get the upkeep it needed... Was it a nice little
house otherwise...?

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Nancy wrote --

little three bedroom house, a block from campus. (Had to have
roommates to afford it).

But you had plenty of room to share with roommates with three
bedrooms... ;)

Yep, except for one you had to go through to get to the other one.

I was back in Morgantown a few years ago and that house is gone now.

It probably didn't get the upkeep it needed... Was it a nice little
house otherwise...?

Very nice and well maintained.
It was one of those houses that cling to the side of a hill.
(Everything in Morgantown is on a hillside). One side of the house was
right on a busy sidewalk, you could reach out and touch people passing
by. The other side was a sheer drop of several hundred feet. Picture
Malibu beach houses with one side on ground and the other on stilts, only without an ocean. :)
I later lived in a trailer that was on stilts as well. The bedroom end
was on solid ground, the kitchen on steel beam stilts and you parked
under the kitchen. There was also a access road there as well. Looking
out the kitchen window it was like one was flying. :)
Those were later removed, something about them not being safe. :)
Joe
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Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 01-02-19 06:43 <=-

little three bedroom house, a block from campus. (Had to have roommates to afford it).

But you had plenty of room to share with roommates with three
bedrooms... ;)

Yep, except for one you had to go through to get to the other one.

Just a little loss of privacy there... but not too bad if the
relationship was solid enough... ;)

I was back in Morgantown a few years ago and that house is gone now.

It probably didn't get the upkeep it needed... Was it a nice little
house otherwise...?

Very nice and well maintained.
It was one of those houses that cling to the side of a hill.
(Everything in Morgantown is on a hillside). One side of the house
was right on a busy sidewalk, you could reach out and touch people
passing by. The other side was a sheer drop of several hundred feet. Picture Malibu beach houses with one side on ground and the other on stilts, only without an ocean. :)

I can picture that.... that could be just a bit scary on the sheer drop side.... not a viable fire escape out those windows.... <G>

I later lived in a trailer that was on stilts as well. The bedroom
end was on solid ground, the kitchen on steel beam stilts and you
parked under the kitchen. There was also a access road there as well. Looking out the kitchen window it was like one was flying. :)
Those were later removed, something about them not being safe. :)

The only thing I'l think might not be safe would be if the ground heaved
some, so that the stilts were unbalanced from the rest... My Daddy's
cousin and her husband had a trailer on the banks of the Susquehana (if
I'm remembering the river's name right... along Rt 11/15 coming down
into Harrisburg PA)... Since the river would flood regularly, they
raised the entire trailer up on stilts, and had some storage beneath
it... but it kept the trailer from being flooded... They are both long
gone now, but the trailer, still on stilts, was still there the last
time I drove by and was able to see down the access road into the
area... :) Some of their neighbors followed their example... :)

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Nancy wrote --

Yep, except for one you had to go through to get to the other one.

Just a little loss of privacy there... but not too bad if the
relationship was solid enough... ;)

I had the private room and just knocked first if the door were closed.

Picture Malibu beach houses with one side on ground and the other

on stilts, only without an ocean. :)

I can picture that.... that could be just a bit scary on the sheer drop side.... not a viable fire escape out those windows.... <G>

The house was oddly built, with the living room and kitchen being in
what would be the basement with the bedrooms/bath on street level.
There were three entrances.
I had a drive way (off street parking was an extreme luxury in that
town) and then down a few steps into the the living room. The kitchen
was off from that, with stairs to the second floor (street level)
bedrooms. Off the kitchen was another door and set of steps up to the
street. (That door was seldom used).
The street level door opened into a small entry way with one bedroom
to the left, the bath at the end of the entry, a bedroom door on the
right and through that room into mine, which had a window right on the sidewalk.
So many student apartments were rat traps but this place was well
taken care of.
The bedroom to the right (I had to pass though) had a fireplace. The
living room had one as well.
Joe
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Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 01-04-19 07:19 <=-

Yep, except for one you had to go through to get to the other one.

Just a little loss of privacy there... but not too bad if the
relationship was solid enough... ;)

I had the private room and just knocked first if the door were
closed.

That worked.... :)

Picture Malibu beach houses with one side on ground and the other
on stilts, only without an ocean. :)

I can picture that.... that could be just a bit scary on the sheer drop side.... not a viable fire escape out those windows.... <G>

The house was oddly built, with the living room and kitchen being in
what would be the basement with the bedrooms/bath on street level.

It was still the living rooms on the first floor, and the bedrooms on
the second floor, just the house was sunken one story.... :)

There were three entrances.
I had a drive way (off street parking was an extreme luxury in that
town) and then down a few steps into the the living room. The kitchen
was off from that, with stairs to the second floor (street level) bedrooms. Off the kitchen was another door and set of steps up to the street. (That door was seldom used).
The street level door opened into a small entry way with one
bedroom to the left, the bath at the end of the entry, a bedroom door
on the right and through that room into mine, which had a window right
on the sidewalk.

That would make for easy escape from the bedrooms, should there be a
fire.... ;) But also easy access into the bedrooms for a potential intruder....

So many student apartments were rat traps but this place was well
taken care of.
The bedroom to the right (I had to pass though) had a fireplace.
The living room had one as well.

The house had had a life before it was rented out for students,
obviously.... ;)

I wonder what happened to it after you moved away, that it wasn't there
any more when you visited later.....

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Nancy wrote --

I can picture that.... that could be just a bit scary on the sheer

drop side.... not a viable fire escape out those windows.... <G>

Yeah, just make sure of the view before you jumped. :)

what would be the basement with the bedrooms/bath on street level.

It was still the living rooms on the first floor, and the bedrooms on
the second floor, just the house was sunken one story.... :)

LOL

on the right and through that room into mine, which had a window

right on the sidewalk.

That would make for easy escape from the bedrooms, should there be a
fire.... ;) But also easy access into the bedrooms for a potential intruder....

We never had any problems with someone trying to break in.

I wonder what happened to it after you moved away, that it wasn't there
any more when you visited later.....

When I was back there a few years ago the house to the left it was
gone as well and a parking area. Where the house was was too steep a
drop off for anything.
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Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 01-09-19 07:46 <=-

I can picture that.... that could be just a bit scary on the sheer
drop side.... not a viable fire escape out those windows.... <G>

Yeah, just make sure of the view before you jumped. :)

Indeed...! :)

on the right and through that room into mine, which had a window
right on the sidewalk.

That would make for easy escape from the bedrooms, should there be a fire.... ;) But also easy access into the bedrooms for a potential intruder....

We never had any problems with someone trying to break in.

That was a good thing... :)

I wonder what happened to it after you moved away, that it wasn't there
any more when you visited later.....

When I was back there a few years ago the house to the left it was
gone as well and a parking area. Where the house was was too steep a
drop off for anything.

Maybe it lost some of its foundation and the whole house slid off into
the abyss.... or a subsequent owner didn't take care of it.... kind of
a shame, sounds like it was a pretty neat place....

ttyl neb

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