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Good News for Tenth Street

Monday, January 26, 2009 5:34:04 PM

This is a simple real estate listing, showing 1258 Tenth Street (NW) for sale.

(OK: It says no photo. The editor will remedy that shortly in an update here.)

This house and its inhabitants have been a problem almost as long as the editor has lived here, which is about 30 years. Over the years, many, many good, competent people have tried to remedy the problems caused by the people living there.

Mark Bjorge and his crew have finally succeeded. Thank you Mark. And Abby, too. And thank you Mayor Fenty for putting them on the front line.

Update

Here's the picture.

As the editor was taking pictures of 1258, someone walked by and asked if the editor wanted a Nikon digital camera. Cheap. The editor declined, pointing out that he was using a Nikon. A bit later, when he got in front of the house, that man came out of the house, again offering a discount on a Nikon, and went back up north on Tenth Street.

Sort of explains why 1258 has been a PITA (a Wikipediua reference makes it an OK word. No?), and more, lo these many years.

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Comments

Anonymous Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:34:46 AM

Anonymous writes: Dear BaancBlog, I am one of the people that tried to solve the 1258 problem for many years, however, I failed, I didn't get it solved and as you stated I moved on. I gave up on trying to solve the problem and ran away to save myself. Nevertheless, the problem has remained with me over the years and will live with me forever. I guess one would consider me a success story, as I have made a good life for myself and there are few others that have passed through 1258 on their journey in life. The others, like me, are law abiding, hard working members of the community. You see the old mother and grandmother opened her home to a lot of people than need a place to live and food to eat. She tried to help a lot of people that took advantage of her as she was getting older and sicker. Yet she still loved and tried to care for them. Your statement “These situations, often with a very old mother or grandmother, and wayward (notice the understatement) progeny involve legal, regulatory, and police issues, each not quite rising to the level of actually throwing the people out of the house. Making sure that mother or grandmother, who may be incapacitated in some fashion, is not hurt while getting the kids out of the neighborhood is just complex.” Has hurt a lot of people, people that are still grieving the poor mother and grandmother. You see, Hal, there was only one(1) child of the poor incapacitated mother and grandmother lived in that house. There are a host of grandchildren, great grandchildren and two other children that are not involved with the situation at 1258 or guilty of anything other than not knowing how and what to do with a loved one that knew she was dying and wanted to spend her last days in a house that she lived in yes, in horrendous conditions. Many, many or her REAL children and friends tried to get her out of 1258 and also contacted the city for help. We all failed. She is gone now and so shall the problem. I’m sure you can find some other “Good News” for your readers. I pray that you can find it in your heart to let her and this issue go, let the people that loved her heal from the lost and go on with trying live the good memories and also the pain of “not being able to solve the 1258 problem”.

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