Vala wrote:Can't believe someone would demolish a perfectly good heritage home... Very sad esp because your neighborhood has so many nice houses now theres a big empty lot right next to yours.
Its absence is very bittersweet. I wish it would/could have been saved. I hate that the continuity of the block was damaged. Even in its sad state, it was so much more attractive than the aluminum covered house that's next door, now. But, I also think it created enough privacy that burglars felt comfortable kicking in my side door in broad daylight. I also no longer have to worry that squatters would move in, or that an arsonist would try to burn it down.
The problem is that this neighborhood's real-estate market (most of the city is this way, really) is still so weak that it helps kill these houses. That house probably needed $75k of work to bring it back. But, even after all of that work, the owner would be lucky to get $40k.
