Posted on 01/19/2009 4:40:15 PM PST by decimon
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"I drove up and down the street three times — where is my house?" Roslonski said.
His lawyer, Jeffrey Dworin, said the house was taken off a demolition list, then apparently reinstated without Roslonski's knowledge.
"It happens," Dworin said.
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Don’t you hate when that happens?
Now the city can build him a nice new one. ;-)
Reminds me of the opening scenes in The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy where Arthure Dent gets his house demolished to make room for a freeway.
emminent domain. nothing to see here.
Sh%t happens!
Saved himself a lot of work and provided a job for a poor starving lawyer. Ain’t America great?
“”Man says city of Detroit razed his fixer-upper”
They probably couldn’t tell it from a normal Detroit shacks that they have to tear down everyday.
The guy probably thought he was on Candid Camera or something.
"It happens."
You hire a lawyer for redress and what do you hear from him? "It happens."
He just didn’t pay off the right bureaucrat. No matter. He can find more fixer-uppers.
House in Detroit Sells for $1
http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/economy/house-sells-dollar/
I'm not sure what they do in terms or residential structures, but having become an aficionado of Urban Exploration sites in the recent past - I have to say that, without visiting there, my impression is the Detroit could use a TARP sized federal grant to demolish a lot of long abandoned industrial sites. Perhaps some Motor City native could enlighten me if I am incorrect in this impression - but once the decrepit industrial and residential structures were removed - the city would have to have about the lowest population density of major metropolitan areas in the U.S. If they could only find some reason to re-start their economy, that space, with proper planning , could be used to transform the city from the hellhole reputation it now seems to deserve.
One industrial site documented on an urban exploration website I visited showed the Packard plant (stopped producing cars in 1956, disappeared as a business in 1957) that has been abandoned. Covering a substantial acreage - in any city with a growing economy - that area would have been re-purposed by now. While the date of the photos on the site was not clear - at least as of 3 years ago the abandoned factory sat there with no unbroken windows (surprise) and significant trees growing on the roof.
Yeah, Detroit. I was gonna say the city should have to reimburse him for the entire $14 value of the house!
Nice work if you can get it, huh?
CA....
Mark
If he hadn’t wanted it to be torn down, he should have started selling crack out of it. ;’)
His defense could be, "It happens."
A lawyer who says that should not be kept, except as defense counsel.
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