All Forum Posts by: Lee Fahy

Just so we are clear, this was purchased in July 2016 and here's a short list of things:

- cat litter carpet

- cigarettes everywhere

- Graffiti everywhere

- burst pipes in the basement

- hole in the roof

- hole in the ceiling of room 2

- lower kitchen total loss

- furnace discovered to be unreliable at best.... in december

- vinyl siding eaten by the unattended dog

- bathroom (upstairs) subfloor totally shot

- laundry room discovered to be fully uninsulated but hey, who needs insulation in Minnesota winters and those supply pipes will probably be fine (discovered this in December)

Just an FYI we are actually finished with the upstairs:

(this is the kitchen in progress)

Stain was still a work in progress here:

We are getting WAY WAY ahead of ourselves here. 

@Steve K. I don't think they do or we would certainly have been notified. I also don't believe they actually shot somebody but I do KNOW they had people scattering out the windows because all of the frames were kicked out. 

@Account Closed LOL, strictly cosmetic work here.....

We rip the awful upstairs kitchen out because the cabinets (well made but not salvageable) had to go. The floor had about six layers of linoleum stacked on top of each other. The wall in between the living room and the kitchen had to go as well. 

The light fixtures had been painted with white supremacist symbols, my wife was so kind as to google search until she figured out that little nugget. "LEE, they must mean SOMETHING".  

I learned things like "carpet is a hazardous material" and cannot just be thrown in the trash but requires special city pickup. Cool, so I tear all of it out. It's so awful that I feel moist and filthy having just carried it to the curb, also I now have the unmistakable aura of cat pee and cigarette. THIS must be the feel of growing equity. 

The city rental inspector called to try to fish out who had purchased the property and if they were going to be a slum lord. We quickly discover that her daughter went to school with my wife, and then she proceeds to tell me how the basement had been some sort of sex trade / flop house. She isn't 100% sure but I run with it and start to sell the idea to my darling that we have purchased a Brothel (and I refer to it as THE BROTHEL) and that she should be on the lookout for prior clientele and workers. 

And the demo begins with removing the cat litter carpets. 

So the kindly neighbor comes over, announces shes the head of the local Neighborhood Watch and starts telling me about the RAID and also how the home was a Bordello of sorts. 

I start looking closer and realize all the frames in the upstairs doors have been shattered from the police "knock knock" tool. I mean every single one. Things are starting to add up here, I see mystery brownish stain on one wall in Room 1... I quickly point it out to my Roommate for Life and tell her "See kim....that's where they shot that guy!" (Eyes the size of saucers)....

There's two fairly large rooms in the basement, one is the aforementioned "artist quarters" and the other is what I call "the pink room"........its a crazy pink...room. 

@JD Martin; you are not the first person to say, "REALLY, five bedrooms in that house?" It's 2100 sqft and here's the layout of the upstairs:

@Jeff Gersbach you can sure shoot me an email, I'll do whatever I can to help!