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Originally Posted by HereinPhila
I am just South of York Street. I don't want to post the street address on here since I live here. There is no CLIP program here. There is FNA and I did contact them for help. They responded by saying that they are having a neighborhood cleanup near my area but that means they are cleaning one big street with volunteers. FNA is more focused on the classier areas of Fishtown which are more centrally located. NKDC has been of no help whatsoever and they keep telling me to wait it out because one day things will get better. All the people that live near me bought their houses 30 years ago so they don't carry a mortgage like I do. I have stuck it out and really need to relocate now due to a lack of work here. If and when I do put my house up for sale I am going to have to ask about $30K less because the street looks so bad. I am the only one in the area who spends time cleaning everything up. I originally moved to this area because I wanted to be somewhere that was safe and clean, up and coming. Let me just say the only thing up and coming are the prices of condos.
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I know where you live...those houses were board ups since I moved here 5 years ago in August. At least now they have brick fronts. That block always sold for less and that's why you got your house for what you did. It's a dismal area.
You can't blame the FNA, a group of neighbors like yourself, or the NKCDC who is doing incredible loads for the neighborhood at large, that they aren't helping you with your particular block. I know you're frustrated but to decry them and all the good they do because you live on a bad block is just out of line.
I used to live on a bad corner and I was fortunate enough to go into real estate and get these places sold to people that I knew would renovate them and not sit on them. The developer who I sold the house next door to me sat on it for nearly 9 months and I was having a nervous breakdown. He tore the side off the house and my basement flooded, I got black mold in my house...and let it sit. It hasn't been all roses for me either but he did finally come around. Hopefully so will the developer.
In the meantime, it might be helpful to follow the above suggestions and see if that gets you anywhere.
07-18-2008, 06:52 PM
