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August 31, 2006 by Matt Heckman.
The citizens of Reading, Pennsylvania may get a chance to vote on an ordinance requiring a codes inspection before the sale of real estate.
Now most of you know where I stand on this. I believe that the codes need to be enforced. Most of these single homes in Reading are subdivided into poor excuses for apartments that have less room them bathroom stalls to shit in. Most of these subdivided buildings are not even up to code either. A vast majority of the city’s criminal element live in these bathroom stall type apartments. One of the biggest problems is that the codes are never enforced. This is one of the vital steps that need to be taken to rid Reading of its criminal element.
As I was once considering investing into some Real Estate on the side and looking at some possible investment properties in the city I was shocked to see how these were subdivided into apartments since my initial research stated it was a single family home. The Real Estate agent from Century 21 who will stay unnamed told me that about 85% of the houses are like this, and you can make a killing, because The Mayor, City Council, etc. have no interest in enforcing the laws. That’s where I have come to notice how much of a grip the slumlords and Real Estate Pimps have on the city.
My view is if I’m buying a single family house then by god it will be a single family house. Some of the places that were in better shape and not subdivided impressed me of the early craftsmanship of the wood work among other things. To be honest with you new construction bores me, because it’s the same damn cookie cutting crap where back in those days there was some originality in the designs. Plus I would never rent a property to a person that I would not be willing to live in myself.
Hopefully in the end the residents will fight off these slumlords and defeat them.
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