So, I haven't been here in a long time .....

Well, I haven't been here for a long time, my husband is using my car, so I have no transportation. Kids are out of school, and well I am dormant for the time being. However, word came to me that our very own Chair Peter Teachout, is looking for a new home and not in HAWTHORNE. I understand that his family is growing, but the question is How can he claim that he cleaned up Hawthorne, and we still have drug dealers and prostitutes all over, and down the street, a Double Homicide.
This is just hear say, so if it is true, I hope the best for Peter and his family. I know that his family is growing and growing. Also in my prayers is the family of the 15 year old girl and unborn child that past in our backyard. God Bless....

2206 4th St N and 3020 4th St.

^Here is a house that I have blogged about in the past. Only a few days ago. But, either the owner of this house or problem properties or 311 is not interested in this problem. This house is vacant and the door is kicked in. The front windows are busted out. I have also seen people come in and out of this house. The sides are boarded up just nothing else. 311 informed me that the house was due to be boarded up on December 12, well that day has came and went. SO please call 311, problem properties and call. The case number is below in a previous posting. Thanks.



This house will officially be on the rental/section 8 market next week. I talked to the contractors that were working on the house and they told me that the house was broken into last Saturday. I let them know that I did call the police because of some suspicious activity going on over there. There was a gentleman peeking in the windows and going around the house, but yes the house was broken into.

In also talking to them I was made aware that the owners are United Way Corporation. They supposedly have a very strict rental policy, and told me that if there are any problems to call them. I will have the number tomorrow, and will provide it for any person interested.

Body Found on the 2200 Block of 4th St N

This is the front portion of the house, where they found the womyn's body last night. The owner of the property has said to been "Desperately" not to have his house demolished. I wonder if said owner has to disclose there was a dead body found in the garage of property?
This is the garage that the landlord found the deceased womyn. Mike K said that him and another individual heard shots fired from what they thought was this direction. He also stated that they called the police. News are saying that it is a suspicious death.

Mystery Still a Mystery, But it was a body.....Via, Star Tribune

Body in Minneapolis garage investigated as suspicious death

http://www.startribune.com/local/36205119.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUr

Minneapolis police are investigating the death of a woman found in a garage on the city's North Side.

Officers responded to call about the home on the 2200 block of 4th Street N. around 4 p.m. Monday. The owner, who does not live there, had gone to the house to check the property when he found the body in an unattached garage, said Minneapolis police spokesman Sgt. Jesse Garcia. The home, a few blocks from bustling West Broadway, is in an area with other vacant houses.

On Monday night, police tape blocked off the home and the entrance to the alley behind.

The woman's age and name have not been released. Garcia would not say whether there were any obvious signs of trauma on the woman's body, but said the death is being investigated as suspicious.

The Hennepin County medical examiner will determine the woman's cause of death.

LORA PABST<<>

^She wrote this

Now Talk about SCARY. This is 5 houses down from where I live, I drive past that same garage 2x's a day, in that same alley. It just goes to show you that you DoNOT know what is inside these vacant houses and garages. I am glad that landlord checked on his property, but when was the last time he was there? What is inside these other vacant houses? Garages? We will see what the continued news coverage says about this body.

Mystery on the 2200 Block

I am sorry I can not upload photos, at this time. Police taped off five houses down. The open lot and the boarded up house. I attempted to snap a photo, but was asked not to at current time. I will take a picture tomorrow.

Later in the afternoon, we heard the sirens come down the street. I observed police fish tailing in and out of the alley ways. After returning with my children, police were in the alley between 23rd and 22nd, as the evening approached, my husband said that detectives were in the alley with flash lights. I am not sure what time we finally came outside, but I see the police the taping off on the other side of Karens' property (the house after the open lot) So, I am going to watch the news and see what happened.

It is almost scary not know what is going on so close to home. To find out our neighbors have been burgerlized and now this mystery.

This is our homes...for some our livelihood. Our children are here, our family is here. Our community is outside these doors that we want to feel safe in. Before, I moved here, I am well aware of the problems that the fellow neighbors endured. These vacant houses and garages are becoming more of a problem then an eyesore, even with the understanding that my house once was that atrocity that embittered majority of the neighbors.

It is alarming to see that so many things that have continued for so long is almost as if it isn't there any longer, we become accustom to the riff raff that surrounds us. Yes, we call the police, we call 311 we complain at the neighborhood meetings. We write letters to property owners, we blog; complain to our neighbors, for what? What is the ultimate goal that we wish to accomplish, to live in a Utopian Society?

I don't know if any one else, but I, fight to make sure my children don't become mischief and mayhem in our neighborhood. I try to teach my children humility and passion, and it isn't easy. I am not sure at this point if I even accomplished anything with them. What I would like to see is that we all band together, take back these streets, Get rid of these vacant properties but, not to more problems but to better our streets.

Frustrated in North; Stacy

Talk about Eye Sore.....

Well for the past two weeks I have driven past this house located on 4th street. The address is 3020 4th st N....I called 311 and reported it like I should. If I knew how to find out the owner of this house I would contact him/her my self.

People are walking in and out the door, windows are broken out, and yes I am aware that it isn't next door to me, however, it is net door to some one and some one else has had to complain RIGHT? Well, here is a picture so maybe you as well can contact 311, and we can get this house boarded up soon.... my 311 reference number is 221642. If you as well as me can call 311 and get this house closed up it would be very helpful to fellow neighbors. 311 told me that they had only my one phone call, no one else has called and they have until December 12, 2008 to fix the problem, mind you I called 2 weeks ago.

Enjoy the picture....

After some great advice

Hello there,
After some great advice, and some self control. I am going to continue to get this blog right. I have blogged in the past however it was never anything substantial as this. I am adding a pic....of my house. The after pic. When the job was done. I will be adding a photo of my self as soon as I can. I might as well start out being honest, or none of you would like to read my blog, and I feel that if I want to get to know my neighbors, HONESTY is the best policy... I shouldn't hide cause well I am here and that is all there is too it.
So with that, I will start by saying My name is Stacy. I have 4 children and a husband. I just bought a house (end of July) on 4th St North. After literally blood, sweat and tears and a diamond (which I believe in some where in the mud, after skim coating) this is our house....Some of the pictures are like crap...but it was taken by my cell phone, we lost the camera card with the good photos.
We hired a contractor and subcontractors and after 3 months our house was done. With any house that is yours the work is never really done is it? I am new to the Hawthorne Neighborhood and well to be honest have been scared of this area for a very long time. I pick up people via my church and didn't like coming thru here. However, my view has changed, when we were looking for the home we wanted to buy, we noticed all the houses that were boarded up and said " What could possibly go wrong there?" We didn't see the prositution like we had, or the drug dealers like it was, altho I know that they are still here mostly on 22nd and Lyndale we bought here.
Since we bought this place I have met one prostitute that was standing on the corner of 4th and 22nd, (while my kids were playing out side and johns were approaching) I walked up to her and told her like this, " It is bad enough that you are disrespecting yourself in this manner, but, your disrespecting me and mine too. If you do not get off my block and all this is mine, I will call the police and I will continue to call until you are gone, that goes for your pimp too!!!" Needless to say I haven't seen either of them since.

Also, so if any of you have been wondering...The house next to me is complete, and it will be a rental. They hope to have new tenants in there by Jan. 1, 2009. The owners "assure" me that they have very strict policies and if there is any trouble from any tenant, not to hesitate to call. They still haven't given me a business card as of yet. As soon as I know if there is some one in there I will let you all know.

Until our Paths meet again, Stacy

Ok so here it begins.....

So most of you don't know me, and I will be posting under an alias. I must. I have children, and well to be honest, I am not sure what kind of traffic I will be getting. My family and I recently purchased a house in North Minneapolis....We worked very hard on the place to make it everything we would dreamed it to be. We bought this house in an area, that I would have never had rented....and I MEAN EVER!!!!! We have in the past looked at properties over here while we was still renting. To be honest NO way!!! It was in the only way to put it the ZONE. For those who dont know what that is, that there is more drive by shootings......drug dealers....and fucked up landlords....who just don't give a damn about their properties, only about getting their rent money every month... But, I am here.....In the Hawthorn Neighborhood...and I LOVE IT, there is things that need to be fixed, and I hope that I am part of the solution and not part of the problem.
SO with that you know where I come from..... SO as I was going to pick up my kids from school nd there is this abandoned house on the corner of 31st and 4th that has windows broke out and the door kicked in.....I called 311 and got a reference number and they said that they had until December 12, 2008 to comply with the housing code...in other words...we are lazy and don't feel like doing it right now. Around the corner from me some vagrants had pulled a board off a boarded house and started staying there....the sad thing is that when I called the police they found a little boy in there...I feel bad for the family.....but....I feel worse for the problem properties?? I am a big baby..... Then there is another house.....2207 4th st that decided that they was going to throw a party.....> How do I know Let me just tell you that THEY SPRAYED PAINTED the advertisment on the front of the house..WHAT A EYE SORE!!!!!!! I hate driving by there and still seeing it...I contacted the city via problem properties, I contacted the police and 311 and the spray painting is still there.....the home owner is cool wit it I guess since he friggen did it......There is more info I believe on Johnny Northsides blog.........at least a lil more.....so With that I am going to go...I got to do somethings.....Stay safe in the snow.....3-6 inches tonight.....Til Then B

I will be posting as soon as possible....and just love to keep people in suspense!