Posted on 10/10/2012 5:24:45 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
Edited on 10/10/2012 5:25:30 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
DETROIT -- Heidi Peterson always dreamed of living in a historical home. In May of 2010, she bought one in Detroit's Boston-Edison District for $23,000.
After being away for a year, she said she returned to her house last week and found a woman living there. Peterson learned from neighbors she had been living there for a few months.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxdetroit.com ...
What Detroit needs is a refinery and parts businesses to keep it running.
Have part of Keystone run there, let a refinery do some work and feed oil and gas to the midwest.
Plenty of beautiful black neighborhoods were ruined in the same timeframe. It wasn’t race invading the inner cities, but welfare and the Great Society that brought about the decline.
That's what the squatter claims, but the owner disputes that.
Surely the squatter would have a copy of the lease if true.
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts, but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere, and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, Sep. 23, 1800
While I commend her for her appreciation of those lovely old homes, I think she is very naive to believe she can live in safety as a single young gal in that area of the city. She's also going to have to spend a fortune to rejuvenate that old house, money which she does not appear to have......
“our once-beautiful cities”.
Well... I’ve never seen a city that I thought was beautiful but then, the eye of the beholder and all that.
Eggzackly. Just about all of mankind’s ills are caused by living too close together.
Don’t know if it applies to Detroit, but a lot of cities were destroyed by the “Urban Renewal” project that bulldozed a lot of viable black neighbourhoods and replaced them with government-run slums.
We're also told the alleged squatter filed papers with the city claiming the property was abandoned.
Seems the squatter made a false claim to the city.
Seems she's entitled to other accommodations: a room and 3 squares a day.
In today’s USA, you only think you own property. Ownership really means paying taxes and having liability for what happens. Because you dared to own property, you violated the major tenet of communism - all property must be in the hands of the collectivity. How dare you!
The neat part of anarchy is that it does not always work in favor of the anarchist. For example, if somebody squats in your home, and the law is too feeble to kick them out, then it is also likely too feeble that if you hire somebody to kick them out, to do anything about it.
That is, she should hire some brutes, with instructions that they are to purge the house of the squatters, destroy all their stuff, and if they resist, persuade them that it is unwise to return.
And that they have license to do this as they see fit.
When government does not protect the citizenry from criminals, or worse, when government takes the side of the criminals against the citizenry, vigilantism is the result. And while vigilantism just seeks the restoration of order and non-violence, if the authorities and the criminals resist this restoration of order, it is not the fault of the vigilantes when they must use force to reestablish order.
I some time watch a show about a pawnshop that shows the creeps that live in that city.These people are crazy.I would be scared to live in that city...
Yep, guess beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. I grew up in inner city Baltimore in the 1960s. Guess you had to be there to realize what a beautiful city it was. Now, it is largely unfit for human habitation (black or white).
And to the poster who said that black neighborhoods have been destroyed, too — blaming it on things instead of people — sorry, but I have to disagree. It was people who wrought the destruction. In the case of our cities, black people. Unless, of course, you’re saying that a bunch of nasty whites moved into black inner city areas and turned them into sewers. If so, show me the whites who destroyed Detroit.
Really? So where was she for a year? Not saying she shouldn't be able to throw the squatter out if she owns the home, but something about this story seems fishy to me.
Sounds like my situation. I'm using the Internet at
McDonald's to job hunt because I can't afford it at home
right now. Monday when I was here I had coffee with a friend
who owns one of the largest grain storage and transportation
companies in the country.
You say that like she thinks it's a bad thing.
I can quickly take you to a dozen large and small cities in CT with large beautiful houses. You wouldn’t stay the night in any of them. What the left has done to urban life is one of the largest crime ever.
Riding the Amtrak north out of Baltimore (whatever the station there is called), you can see “housing” that I wouldn’t put a dog into.
We don’t even lock our doors around here.
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