*tips and photos from Will

Former Tropical Market. Fire in mid-2009, subsequently locked up with note re:arson investigation on door.
windows boarded, but no construction underway

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*pix from toad

Another recent fire, this just one block south of 42 Arch (which, even after the fire investigation, still sits unsecure).

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A second property nested in the same lot as 141.

Another Deutsche Bank property.

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No juice. No foreclosure data either—likely missing owner then. Graffiti and boards appear new to 2009.

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Public records on 143 Hanover St:

- Boarded in 2001
- Foreclosed 2005
- Sold 2006 for $280K
- Foreclosed 2008

Was most likely owner occupied prior to house contents being dumped onto curb.

See that gem of a home to the right—a thoroughly modern update on the post-war craftsman [wink], coulda’ been yours in 2006 for only $205K. We used to build nice houses like that which have held up remarkably well considering the circumstances. What kind of odds you give it against its ancestors aging?

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Anyone involved in the $340K sale OUT OF FORECLOSURE of this home in October 2006 needs a public flogging.

It’s hard to tell, but since then, it looks to have changed bank hands several times and was occupied earlier this year. But that’s a bank boarding job, so we can say it’s been foreclosed on again.

Let’s recap. Prior to this boarded state, 24 Hanover St. was:

- sold in Nov. 2004 at $266K
- foreclosure Sept. 2006
- immediately sold in in Oct. 2006 for $340K

Obviously, that sale didn’t work out either.

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Corner of Belleuve and Bucklin.

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Again, good looking out from toad:

So the story on this place as far as I know- 42 Arch had families in it since 04- went vacant around December 08 or January of this year I think. I noticed kids going to the back in March, but thought they were just cutting through to Wilson St. Should have known better. Its still unmolested from the front, but the backside reveals what really has been going on…

Stump also cruised the backside and gave a peek in the open doorways—this house is done.

Revisit June 29th, 2009

Video from the ProJo:

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Multiple foreclosures possible here since 2006. Once or currently owned by the venerable Deutsche Bank.

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