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.
This is not really a repair, but something related to it. I love when people fixing up homes dump construction materials, used appliances and other garbarge on their properties. People with nothing better to do are just waiting to dig through that stuff and make a huge mess.
ReplyDeleteJust the other day, my neighbor brought this huge 1970s TV outside of the house he is fixing up. He doesn't have any garbage pick up. It only took a few days for a person to smash the huge TV to pieces to get at the few pieces of copper wire inside the set. I came home to find hunders of small screws laying in the alley, waiting to puncture some poor unsuspecting person's tires.
Nice.