Get a job

LOL! Now we even have Internet trolls on SeeClickFix! Sounds like Trigg is the one who needs a job… Instead of trolling people who are trying to make the neighborhood we live in better. I probably should know better than to try to ask a rational question to an Internet troll, but Trigg , I wonder… Do you think the person who posted this is unreasonable in feeling that his/her tax dollars should not go to maintain properties of slumlords and unscrupulous builders who don’t care about the neighborhoods they own properties in?

The city do dont do anything for free

If this is the lot I think it is across from the apartments on 5th St S, it looks like the grass has been cut so not sure why someone thinks it’s overgrown. I walk by there everyday so maybe someone just doesn’t like this guy. Why would you call someone out by name on here? Seems mean spirited.

Trigg... Of course they don't do anything for free... But you can see how much it costs by looking under the table. By the way Trigg... It seems that you are here just to agitate others... Good luck with that, we are already agitated.

Boredhousewife , you and I are on the same “team“ so I’m not trying to get in an argument with you. However when you post anything on SeeClickFix St. Pete and you provide the address, which I know you have done just like the rest of us, all one has to do is go on the county website (PCPAO.org) and you can see who owns that. So by listing someone’s name on here you are not “outing them“! It’s all public knowledge.

As far as the city doing something for free… Let me explain to all of you how this actually works: when a landowner , such as the person who owns the lots across from the apartment buildings on fifth street south, refuses to maintain his property… So the city maintains it for him and sends him the bill. He of course doesn’t pay that bill because otherwise he would just maintain his property in the first place. Then he proceeds to build his houses on his property and he sells the houses. And more often than not the city will write off those liens they have against the property (for the maintenance that the previous owner did not do and did not pay). So in essence the city has done something for free. And the previous owner got his property maintained for free! ( And don’t think I’m the only one who knows this! )

Why would the city do this you ask? Because to take someone to court for several hundred dollars worth of mowing fees would cost the city more than the fees that were owed. And they write off those liens for the new owner because, a ) it’s not the new owners liens and, b) it’s in the city’s best interest to have new owners in place who are then going to maintain the property themselves.

And if you have a property owner who is going to refuse to maintain his vacant lots knowing the taxpayers will foot the bill, what kind of house do you think he’s going to build… Do you think those houses are going to add value to our neighborhood ?

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