2818 Colfax Ave. N., Where Five Children Died In Fire, Was Sold In 2009 For A Mere $10,500 To Slumlord Paul Bertelson...

 

Contributed photo, blog post by John Hoff

 

 Asking for anonymity, a reader who is familiar with the real estate biz send this blog some information about the sale of 2818 Colfax Ave. N. to Mission Inn Minnesota, a rental property empire controlled by Paul "Slumlord Doing Good For Jesus" Bertelson.  The rental property was the site of a fatal fire that claimed the lives of five children on Valentine's Day...

Child Protective Services Has Reportedly Placed Two Surviving Children From Valentine's Day Fire In Its Custody, And JNS Blog Compiles A List Of "Tough Questions" The Public Deserves To Have Answered By Mainstream Media...

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JNS blog has heard by email from a trustworthy person, and seen information posted persistently in a neighborhood Facebook forum, that the two surviving children of Troy Lewis have been placed in a status of "protected hold" by Child Protective Services. This information is unconfirmed. Five of Lewis' children perished in a Valentines Day fire at 2818 Colfax Ave. N., a duplex owned by slumlord Paul Bertelson's Mission Inn Minnesota.

If mass media such as KARE actually cared about digging into relevant facts instead of telling a thrilling, tragic soap opera version of these terrible events, then we might actually learn some of the following pertinent pieces of info...

Troy Lewis, Tragic Patriarch Who Lost Five Children In A Fire, Is One And The Same With Troy Lewis The Convicted Sex Offender From Chicago, Why These Ugly Facts Matter When Considered Against The Slumlord Practices Of People Like Paul Bertelson Who Prey Upon A Vulnerable Class Of Tenant...

Mug Shot, therefore public domain, blog post by John Hoff

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A Tragedy Of Biblical Proportions

Troy Lewis is a tragic figure like the Old Testament character of Job. Lewis lost five of his seven small children in a fire on Valentine's Day, and this after losing the mother of his children  Kim Davis (Kimberly Davis) to heart failure a few months back. The most cynical among us would not wish such a thing upon their worst enemies.

In light of everything being said about that second (and third) story apartment at 2818 Colfax Ave. N. and the situation with the heaters, if the ultimate report by the fire investigators lays any portion of blame upon the landlord then I hope Troy Lewis sues Paul "Slumlord Doing Good For Jesus" Bertelson until Bertelson doesn't have two nickels to toss into the church collection plate.

The fact Lewis was renting from Bertelson and the fact Lewis is indeed a convicted sex offender (smoking gun verification of THAT in the documents above, see previous article with troubling facts hinting at this situation) do not appear to be closely related facts, unless you know how slumlords habitually operate in our neighborhood where decades of bad city and county policy has allowed poverty to concentrate itself...