Just keep in mind if you sell the property you will have to reclaim that depreciation, so it's not just free money found on the sidewalk.

What does the city expect me to do, be there all day, or have a webcam on the sidewalk to run over there in case someone puts their recycling out too early? 

Space is 600 square feet, flooring at $2.00 per square feet, plus trim/boarders and installPaint rooms where writing is on the wall $250.00*2900.00 to paint the entire interior of home Hole patched and ceiling peeling fixed and painted in garage $200.00Pressure wash home side walk, driveway and front of home $350.00\All Exterior wood rot, replacement and properly paint using exterior based paint on home/chimney and including wood rot replace and paint shed out back. $1500.00. * This includes 9 2X4's, 14 12 ft planks of wood composites, paint, nails and labor.

As a wholesaler you don't have a ice cube's chance on a hot sidewalk of dealing at this level with commercial buyers who really don't need you or will need you ever again.In other words, you're elephant hunting with a BB gun. 

But it's also true that this had been open space provided to the community for the better part of a century and now it was fenced off with not even a path or sidewalks around most of the perimeter. 5.

They have called the police on guests (in the middle of the day, for parking over a sidewalk in the driveway, for noise when guests were playing dominoes by the pool and on and on)…one neighbor yelled obscenities at my guests (in front of children), saying, “We don’t want tourists!” 

If the house is placed such that the front steps end at the front sidewalk then there is enough room for a modest little back yard to enjoy.

They are only clearing sidewalks, not parking lots.At $50 an hour, that's five hours of shoveling.

She would fight with her boyfriend and customers on the sidewalk in front of my house.

The state has recently invested (wasted in my opinion) $12-15 million on connecting the Thomas Cole house and Olana by putting in a roundabout and soon to be parking lot with sidewalks to walk to Olana and the Thomas Cole House.