This screenshot shows 52-29 84th Street in Elmhurst. It doesn't look out of the ordinary until you look really closely.
Something just ain't right here. The windows are broken.
And then you check out the DOB website and find out that this 3-family home is vacant and abandoned. How strange... Property records indicate that the property is NOT in foreclosure. In fact, the last time this property changed hands was in 1974, and the mortgage was paid off in 2001.Such a mystery!
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Be careful when you pull out of that garage!
No mystery, just an absentee property owner who is failing to maintain. Similar to the Anglo-Japanese House in Kew Gardens.
But it's a 3-family house. Not maintaining it is one thing. Not renting it is another.
because if they do not rent they claim it as a loss on their taxes which I think is not right -- this is what many landlords do
not really a mystery.
Think harder.
I've seen houses like this here and there in Queens. There's one in Maspeth that my boyfriend and I call the Walking Dead House. I hope there's not any squatters trying to stay there. I've seen them with their signs here and there on Woodhaven Blvd and Myrtle Ave.
Houses get into this state when there is an indecisive owner who's too lazy to rent it or sell it, but smart enough to keep paying the taxes (and one hopes insurance as well) so as to not lose title, and they absorb the negative cash flow.
Another version of this is a house that's tied up with non-locatable heirs or feuding heirs.
Unfixed broken windows are like handing out invitations in the neighborhood to squatters and vandals.
They are just waiting for the brownstone movement to fall out of style and the Fedders era to commence. This one's vintage fedders.
Plenty similar houses in Broadway Flushing during petitions. Check age, over ninety, maybe dead.
Once tried to petition an abandoned house and freaked when we saw some local kids wrote "HELP" on the window.
Plenty similar houses in Broadway Flushing during petitions. Check age, over ninety, maybe dead.
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I agree, if it was purchased 40 years ago, maybe the owner is deceased or in a nursing home. The children are waiting for the owner to pass or the house is in probate, which can take years.
Click on the link to the DOB website. Please. The property is owned by a real estate company, not an old man.
Update: This property had copper pipe stolen out of it causing five feet of water flooding the basement. Kids are entering the premises and destroying it. On Sunday April 6th I personally ordered and removed a dozen kids destroying the property. I assume this address is in dromm's district and since no illegal aliens,homosexual or transplant hipsters are affected nothing will be done.
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