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Forced to live alongside squatter in my Detroit house, woman says. (Peoples Republic of Detroit)
My Fox Detroit ^ | 10-10-12 | Taryn Asher

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.


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Weelcome to the Workers Paradise where ownership means nothing and the rule of law does not exist.
1 posted on 10/10/2012 5:24:56 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
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To: Mikey_1962

City people.


2 posted on 10/10/2012 5:27:15 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: Springman; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; madison10; ...
Sounds like the work of the OWS crowd to me.

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3 posted on 10/10/2012 5:31:54 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Past Your Eyes
Boston Edidson used to be beautiful.

In the first two decades of the last decade Detroit went from 13th largest city to fourth due to tha auto industry.

The development of the Boston-Edison neighborhood paralleled that of the new industry. The rapid phase of growth in the industry began in 1903 with the establishment of the Ford Motor Company and accelerated phenomenally after the advent of the Model T in 1908 and even more so after the introduction of the moving assembly line in 1913/14. Thereafter, growth and profits became astronomical. The Voigt Park Subdivision was already in place to share in the burgeoning automobile-based economy, and significant Detroit residents began moving into Boston-Edison.

Truman Newberry and Henry Joy, major figures in the Packard Motor Car Company, initiated development of the Boston Boulevard and Joy Farms Subdivision, respectively. Boston-Edison became an enclave of automobile pioneers. When Henry Ford elected in 1908 to build his new home on Edison Avenue, other automobile pioneers followed. Mr. Ford's early partner, James Couzens, built a splendid Tudor mansion on Longfellow (1910). James Couzens served as Mayor of Detroit from 1919 to 1922 when he was appointed U.S. Senator; his son Frank, also a resident of the neighborhood, served as Mayor from 1933 to 1937. Four of the Fisher Brothers moved to Boston-Edison as did Charles Lambert (1911) of Regal Motor Car Co., John W. Drake (1911), president of Hupp Motor Car Co., and W. O. Briggs of Briggs Manufacturing Co.

Simultaneously, the Boston-Edison area was also finding favor with prominent members of the increasingly successful mercantile segment of the city's economy. Sebastian Kresge, founder of the S.S. Kresge Company, built a handsome house on extensive grounds in 1914. Subsequently, six other Kresge employees moved to the Boston-Edison area. J.L. Webber, nephew of J.L. Hudson and co-manger of Hudson's Department Store, lived on Edison Avenue.

Now its just sad.

4 posted on 10/10/2012 5:34:30 AM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President.)
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To: Mikey_1962

My dad’s people, brothers and cousins, lived in this area and almost all worked for Ford. Some got out before the riots. All had moved away by 1970.


5 posted on 10/10/2012 5:37:06 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (In the game of life, there are no betting limits)
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“We’re told Peterson leased the house to tenants in 2010, including this alleged squatter, but had to evict everyone when it was found not fit to live in.”

So she rented to this lady, abandoned it, lady decided to keep the lease and do all this improvement, owner comes back and says HEY, nice job. Now give me my fixed up house.

That being said, it wasn’t squatter lady’s house to get a lien on, the lease has surely expired or was gone when it was deemed unfit.


6 posted on 10/10/2012 5:37:47 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: Mikey_1962
Read the article carefully. There's more to the story, but you have to get almost to the end.

The owner apparently leased the house to the person that is now the squatter, but had to evict everyone because the house was uninhabitable.

The squatter claims that she fixed the problem, and has a construction lien on the house. But, she also filed a claim with the city, saying the house was "abandoned".

I don't know how much of this is true. In typical form, the reporter didn't bother to check out any of these claims: asking for a copy of the lease, checking for a construction lien (that's public record), or doing basic legwork to determine who is telling the whole truth.

7 posted on 10/10/2012 5:38:08 AM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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New Orleans didn’t need a Katrina.From what I’ve seen of the city during my visits there combined with what I’ve read about it Detroit desperately *needs* a Katrina...without the deaths,of course.


8 posted on 10/10/2012 5:39:29 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Ambassador Stevens Is Dead And The Chevy Volt Is Alive)
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To: Past Your Eyes

Yup. Small rural towns are a whole different world where we don’t have the divisions that exist in the city.

Some weeks I’m lucky to see $50 but I have a millionaire next door and we get along fine. He doesn’t owe me a thing and knows I’m not looking to take anything from him.


9 posted on 10/10/2012 5:40:01 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Mikey_1962

Right............
It is legal in most states to shoot home invaders. Just saying...............


10 posted on 10/10/2012 5:42:22 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: Mikey_1962

The Boston-Edison district is now going for $23,000? That is (or at least was) one of the few areas in Detroit outside downtown that wasn’t ghetto last I heard.


11 posted on 10/10/2012 5:42:33 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Holding my nose one more time to get rid of Eric Holder)
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To: Mikey_1962

Adventures of Heidi In Commiland
Right out of pages of a Rusky novel the Peterson girl has her hopes of the American dream dashed.She experiences in a blink of the eye of time ,three years after the Obamo line, the real Detroit and sadly learns the commies have taken over.


12 posted on 10/10/2012 5:48:01 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (The best way to punish a - country is let professors run it. Fredrick the Great para/p)
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To: justlurking
The squatter claims that she fixed the problem, and has a construction lien on the house. But, she also filed a claim with the city, saying the house was "abandoned".

Before buying a house about 10 years ago my lawyer called me one day and said there might be a problem.He said that the property's boundaries,as recorded with the county,may be off by a few feet and,as a result,the house next door may be occupying some land that should belong to me when I close.He said it was a problem because of what he called "adverse possession" which,he said,could result in the people next door being able to legally claim the land in question even though they didn't pay for it.

I wonder if the same thing might be in play here.

13 posted on 10/10/2012 5:49:15 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Ambassador Stevens Is Dead And The Chevy Volt Is Alive)
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To: justlurking

It’s a common scam to claim you have a lease or have paid rent, though.

It’s also common for con men to rent or lease a house they don’t own.

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/19751333/detroit-homeowner-finds-family-living-in-her-house-for-sale?obref=obinsite


14 posted on 10/10/2012 5:49:39 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: Darren McCarty

Looking at the google street view tells me that I wouldn’t want to live there but I’m a rural redneck with no love of even small cities.


15 posted on 10/10/2012 5:52:45 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Mikey_1962

Sorry to say it, but this could be said of just about every inner city area that was once white until invaded by blacks. If we are ever allowed to once again tell historical truths in this country, some enterprising author is going to write the full story of what blacks have done to our once -beautiful cities.

That’s not racist. It’s racial — but not racist.


16 posted on 10/10/2012 5:55:25 AM PDT by CaribCarter
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To: Gay State Conservative
New Orleans didn’t need a Katrina.From what I’ve seen of the city during my visits there combined with what I’ve read about it Detroit desperately *needs* a Katrina... . . .

You are corret about NOLA. We visited there years ago and got lost in the "bad part of town". We kept the doors locked for quite a while.

17 posted on 10/10/2012 5:59:08 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 ("It's better to vote for a Republican you don't know than wind up with a dim you don't like".)
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To: cripplecreek
Some weeks I’m lucky to see $50 but I have a millionaire next door and we get along fine.

You too?

But my neighboring millionaire goes to his home country for one month every year to maintain his foreign citizenship.

18 posted on 10/10/2012 5:59:21 AM PDT by LoveUSA (God employs Man's strength; Satan exploits Man's weakness.)
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To: cripplecreek
Some weeks I’m lucky to see $50 but I have a millionaire next door and we get along fine.

You too?

But my neighboring millionaire goes to his home country for one month every year to maintain his foreign citizenship.

19 posted on 10/10/2012 5:59:26 AM PDT by LoveUSA (God employs Man's strength; Satan exploits Man's weakness.)
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To: Mikey_1962
“I'm an advocate for affordable housing.”

This is what the squatter said. Affordable housing has always been another word for legalized theft. The want housing they do not have to pay for. If someone else pays for it then it is affordable to them.

This is what America is coming to. Anything you worked for, anything you earned can be stolen from you because that makes it “affordable” to someone else.

20 posted on 10/10/2012 5:59:47 AM PDT by detective
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