Being the amazing, true-to-life adventures and (very likely) misadventures of a writer who seeks to take his education, activism and seemingly boundless energy to North Minneapolis, (NoMi) to help with a process of turning a rapidly revitalizing neighborhood into something approaching Urban Utopia. I am here to be near my child. From 02/08 to 06/15 this blog pushed free speech to the envelope, so others could take heart and speak unafraid. Email me at hoffjohnw@gmail.com
Thursday, April 17, 2008
City Boards Up A Crack House--Place Your Bets On How Long The Boards Will Stay Up THIS Time
Here is "420 31st" with a board on the front door, thank goodness. Early on the morning of April 16, as I walked around with the neighborhood organization and another Minn Post reporter, we found the Re/Max sign was finally removed.
Now if I want to say somebody is "remiss," I'll have to look up the owner.
Oh, trust me...it's in the works.
The board off to the left is the one I used to secure the front door of "3019." I think the crack heads were using the area behind the board as their toilet.
Well, not ALL THE TIME, though. Also, see the little screen window in the foundation? Two of those were pried off. The crack heads were obviously trying to figure out a way to access the house, but lacking decent tools to do the job.
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3 comments:
there is a fairly easy way to look up owner info online (and lots of other nifty city/tax info) check out:
http://apps.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/AddressApp/SearchByAddress.aspx?AppID=PIApp
as for "416 30th" it looks like the following is contact info:
Sunday & Oluyemisi Olateju
Po Box 28501 St Paul Mn 55128
--c
Thank you! I am quite familiar with that website as well as the county website, which also has useful information. You're just ahead of me on my own blog but, hey, that's very cool.
Really, if anybody wants to look up the properties on my street and just feed me the information, it will save me the trouble and leave me more time for putting up boards and painting over graffiti.
I'll start with "my block," the facing streets, the "corridor of safety" and then work into the surrounding blocks. Unfortunately, I'm off to class...believe it or not, I don't "board and blog" all day.
Name: Olateju, Oluyemisi
Credential Type: Real Estate
Salesperson (94)
Credential Number: 54703-94
Location: St Paul, MN
License Type: regular
Status credential license is current (active)
Eligible To Practice: YES
First Fee Received: 12/07/2006
License current through: 2008-12-14
Granted date: 2002-05-08
Multi-state: N/A
Orders: NONE
Specialties:
Other Names: Oluyemisi Olateju
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