If a picture is worth a thousand words, here's two thousand. I'll add some intrigue to the story. This building is on the east side of the street, in the 7100 block of Glenwood. This small store front renter once supported Jim Ginderske. He had high hopes for his guy. Not anymore. This material he used to make his anti-Moore slogan is the back of a old Ginderske campaign poster.
Cleaver huh? - And ironic.
I know you're asking, what's with the all too common boarded up windows above his store front? Well they are boarded up because of a fire that happened months ago. Sound familiar?
Keep those signs coming folks.
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You should be able to see that quite easily from the red line, just north of Morse.
Priceless!
Does anyone have photos of said slumlords, that can be used (with a photo of Lying Joe) as "NOT WANTED" posters?
Silly, if you don't get serious you will lose and we will win. One blog is yaking about the signs Moore has put up on various sites, about getting it done. Why waste your time on such stuff when you should be organizing in hopes of beating Joe Moore. Those of us who support the alderman think all this sign stuff is silly and reflects poorly on Gordon's support. He's been pegged as a guy who's not serious who doesn't finish things, you're not a great help to Don with this kind of thing. Nothing personal but come on already. Such joy from a crappy sign in a dingy window. Just another good reason to reelect Alderman Moore.
The sign is on Glenwood (7150 maybe) between Touhy and Estes and you can see it from the El when you look to the east.
A couple of weeks ago the sign read:
EVICTION SALE - EVERYTHING MUST GO
"let's let the bldg get run down so that tenants will leave voluntarily".
This was done at a formerly wonderful bldg I rented in until 2001, at 1528 W Fargo. We had a beautiful bldg with lovely, romantic old apts, very well-kept and comfortable and inexpensive; a wonderfully diverse group of tenants of every race, orientation, and persuasion except criminal-there were none of those!!- and a great ownership that had owned the bldg for 30 years.
The place changed hands in 2000, and the place suddenly started to fill with the kind of people you don't want in your building. Mamas with 6 kids at the age of 21, living in apts with 10 beds in the living room (who on earth were those beds all for?), guys talking on their cells in the hallway at 3 am, people throwing trash out the back window. The front gate was inexplicably removed. The trash was allowed to pile up and spill allover the alley. I called 311 many times to get it cleaned up.
Another long-term tenant researched it and found a condo permit had been issued, all though the new owners denied it. I did not wait for services to deteriorate or to get mugged by the boyfriends of the new women in the building. I bolted, as did everyone else. I would have preferred to stay, because the place had been lovely and very reasonable. But it was getting too dangerous.
A year or two later the place was DEhabbed into tasteless,"mod" tract-house-like condos I wouldn't have for half the price.
This happened in many other buildings around here, the very essence of a "stealth" conversion.
I believe we have seen the last of this sort of thing for a while, given the current condition of the housing market.
However, if you are in a situation like this, if your bldg has the telltales- change of ownership, sudden influx of undesirable people plus high vacancy- do not wait until you get the eviction notice. Just bolt as fast as you can.
If you need the 120 days notice and fight the landlord, I'm supportive. I absolutely believe in enforcing the laws as they stand AND in giving tenants longer notice, like 180 days, especially to tenants with kids, who have the biggest difficulty relocating. I also believe relocation assistance should be given to people who make less than $20K a year. I am supportive of anyone who fights for his rights as a tenant in this situation.
But don't cut off your nose to spite your face. If you have the wherewithal to clear out, do so quickly and spare yourself a lot of misery.
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