ME versus YOU !!!
the first part of this post is about crack head attacks and squatter legal crap
i'm stuck in nawlins for a few more days trying to fix my house to the point were it will pass city inspection and not get bullddozed.. this crack head named dan tore down one of my front doors while i was gone... my cd player and my stuffed animals and my step ladder covered in underwear laundry were all untouched. I've tangled with dan before... pre-flood and a few years ago he was renting half my house for storage of a whole lot of cement contractor equipment... then the owner died and he kept using the place... for the last year hes been coming by and yelling at me cuz all his stuff is destroyed. well i sat him down and explained to him that there had been a flood...
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anyways, i'm gonna talk about dan for a second cuz he ripped down my front door and now my neighbours are mad at me cuz i wasn't here and my house was more of a blight than usual with no front door. the nrigbours are cool with my weird white squatter punk ass in the neighbourhood cuz me being here puts the number of inhabited houses on out street at 2.5 its nice to have neigbours ... people on their stoops keeps the crack heads away... houses with lights in the windows make living on the edge of the ghetto a lil less worrisome... so the neighbours are mad at me fo not being a presence. they've told me that if i am going to be a guest of the street then i better actually be arround making a presence, and for fucks sake, clean up some of the blight all over the yard.
i think they're a lil hard on me considering that EVERY OTHER HOUSE ON THE STREET IS JUST AN EMPTY SHELL... but i wanna be a good neighbour..
anyways.. one time a few months ago i was sleeping off the previous evening, lieing in bed at 10 am.. and then some large cracked out man with a pickaxe.... MY PICKAXE... comes stomping in to my room yelling "whoa !!!! whoa!!!!"
i was too sleepy and hungover to be scared... i just kinna sat there in panties and a t-shirt and was like "what the fuck !!!! can i help you !!!??!?!"
and he hollers "WHERE'S MY BRICKSAW ?!?!?!"
and i'm like, oh... its the downstairs guy....
so i tell him to give me my pick axe back and he does... and then we go down in the store room and i point out that everything he has in storage is in a big gross moldy pile... in a year since the flood he hasnt dug out his fucking pile... your mutherfucking bricksaw is under a ton of wet moldy rubbish... LOOK UNDER THE WET MOLDY RUBBISH BEFORE YOU BREAK IN TO MY HOUSE TO COME IN MY ROOM AND YELL JIBBERISH WHILE I'M SLEEPING !!!!!
so then i started to help him shovel through the pile to look for whatever the fuck a brick saw is.. but he got bored and took a hammer we found and then he left.
so anyways.. i think he probably moved out now thet he ripped the front door off the house.. so i shovelled about 40 wheelbarrow loads of trash out of his space and cleaned it and tore out the walls... took 30 house so far... and i put anything that looked usefull in a lil organised room... and now im going home to hang up a new door...
termite and vine now has a lovely 25x50 foot empty room... i'd open my own performance space but people can never find my house so never mind.. maybe i'll build parade floats in there.
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SO I HAVE TO GET MY PLACE IN GOOD ENUFF SHAPE TO LEAVE TO GO UP NORTH FOR 3 WEEKS then i should be able to get out of town on wed-thurs, which is supposed to be rainy.
CLEANING OUT DANS SPACE MEANS I FINALLY am in the clear for the deadline for cleaning and gutting your property... if i'd gotten caught with dans space un cleaned out any time after AUG29th the city could have put my house on the demolition list.
my neighbours have been talking about putting me on the demolition list but LEGALLY YOU CANT APPLY TO HAVE SOMEONE ELSES HOUSE DEMOLISHED. so unless my neighbour wants to pay for it himself, prolly a few G, then i should be allright for now. i check the city demo list online every week just in case.
I've also started REAL ADVERSE POSSESSION of termite, which is a 3 year mix of legal crap and renovations that will allow me to buy my house for not much. i cant even really think about owning my house anytime soon but if i get a notarised package then i have almost all the legal rights of an actual home owner. it might not be enuff to appeal a demolition if the city comes after me, but it would mean that the inspector couldnt come in to my house without a warrant and i cant be charged with tresspassing and if any other party tried to take my house from me they'd have to re-emberse me for all work i have done on the property.... i think that should come to about $400 in parts and 400 hours in laybour... i'd need to ask my lawyer what that would get me...
i'm out of here wednessday
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