Comments on: 24 Andem St http://www.forgottenprovidence.com/24-andem-street/ down and out with the city's vacants Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:27:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Faust http://www.forgottenprovidence.com/24-andem-street/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Faust Thu, 28 May 2009 17:57:28 +0000 http://www.forgottenprovidence.com/?p=903#comment-178 Immigrants frequently have TV dishes, it enables them to watch TV from there home countries. It is one of the criteria people use to determine an immigrant neighborhood. Immigrants frequently have TV dishes, it enables them to watch TV from there home countries. It is one of the criteria people use to determine an immigrant neighborhood.

]]> By: jamie http://www.forgottenprovidence.com/24-andem-street/comment-page-1/#comment-176 jamie Wed, 27 May 2009 23:15:11 +0000 http://www.forgottenprovidence.com/?p=903#comment-176 Am i an imagining things, or does just about every single one of these homes have a DirectTV dish on them? Even this one i think has one hiding on the right hand side. It's like a game of 'where's waldo'. hahaha I don't know a single person who has directv (maybe i should get out more), but it seems like something that doesn't add up. Isn't cox cheaper then DirecTV? DirecTV is a publically traded company, and it makes me wonder how they stay in business if i keep seeing their dishes on foreclosed homes? Maybe it's because it's because people pay the TV bill until the bitter end cuz they need to be "entertained". Clearly these dishes aren't worth anything otherwise they'd have been pinched already? You'd think some enterprising person would have found a way to recycle something from them for profit. maybe it's just me, maybe it's just a weird coincidence, maybe the direcTV sales guy in providence did a kickass job. i just thought it's weird to see them in just about every pic. Am i an imagining things, or does just about every single one of these homes have a DirectTV dish on them? Even this one i think has one hiding on the right hand side. It’s like a game of ‘where’s waldo’. hahaha

I don’t know a single person who has directv (maybe i should get out more), but it seems like something that doesn’t add up. Isn’t cox cheaper then DirecTV?

DirecTV is a publically traded company, and it makes me wonder how they stay in business if i keep seeing their dishes on foreclosed homes? Maybe it’s because it’s because people pay the TV bill until the bitter end cuz they need to be “entertained”.

Clearly these dishes aren’t worth anything otherwise they’d have been pinched already? You’d think some enterprising person would have found a way to recycle something from them for profit.

maybe it’s just me, maybe it’s just a weird coincidence, maybe the direcTV sales guy in providence did a kickass job. i just thought it’s weird to see them in just about every pic.

]]> By: Faust http://www.forgottenprovidence.com/24-andem-street/comment-page-1/#comment-174 Faust Tue, 26 May 2009 01:38:53 +0000 http://www.forgottenprovidence.com/?p=903#comment-174 A factoid from Wikipedia on "three deckers", I wonder if this applied in Providence. Actually it probably did, it is the way that sewer charges for installation are still figured. They are threatening to put it in front of my house, because of a peculiarity of lot shape the cost makes me shudder. The cost is $185 a foot (cities, and other governments, are required to pay union wages to non-union workers, this is called the "prevailing wage" law and prevents competition by non-union workers)theoretically this includes "design". If I could have it done privately, which I cannot, it would be $45.00 a foot. Anyway, this is why the narrow ends face the street, as compared to the "row houses" in other industrial cities. "In Worcester, Massachusetts sewer connection charges were based on street frontage, so builders favored houses with as little frontage as possible, This is one reason why three-deckers are often situated on narrow lots and are in rectangular shape, with the smaller sides at the front and the rear.[3]" A factoid from Wikipedia on “three deckers”, I wonder if this applied in Providence. Actually it probably did, it is the way that sewer charges for installation are still figured. They are threatening to put it in front of my house, because of a peculiarity of lot shape the cost makes me shudder. The cost is $185 a foot (cities, and other governments, are required to pay union wages to non-union workers, this is called the “prevailing wage” law and prevents competition by non-union workers)theoretically this includes “design”. If I could have it done privately, which I cannot, it would be $45.00 a foot. Anyway, this is why the narrow ends face the street, as compared to the “row houses” in other industrial cities.

“In Worcester, Massachusetts sewer connection charges were based on street frontage, so builders favored houses with as little frontage as possible, This is one reason why three-deckers are often situated on narrow lots and are in rectangular shape, with the smaller sides at the front and the rear.[3]“

]]> By: Faust http://www.forgottenprovidence.com/24-andem-street/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Faust Mon, 25 May 2009 22:33:06 +0000 http://www.forgottenprovidence.com/?p=903#comment-173 If anyone is interested in property like this, I suggest making a friend at the Buiding Dept, Inspectional Services, Fire Dept, or similar. Somewhere, someone can do that one little thing that will make the property too much of a burden and break the camel's back. Can you imagine how much time someone at the top of JP Morgan is going to waste on a $25,000 problem? If anyone is interested in property like this, I suggest making a friend at the Buiding Dept, Inspectional Services, Fire Dept, or similar. Somewhere, someone can do that one little thing that will make the property too much of a burden and break the camel’s back. Can you imagine how much time someone at the top of JP Morgan is going to waste on a $25,000 problem?

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