Cleaning Up Van Nuys
Any rental property owner who knows what they are doing will tell you that in order to be succesful, a property must have "curb appeal." Its probably the most important thing in real estate along with "location, location location."It doesn't take much. Simple attention to cleaning up trash, keeping things fixed, painting a little bit, etc. will go a long way.
Some property owners in LA get that, even in low income areas. Many do not and become slumlords, content to accept the cash they can pull out without investing in their asset.
Here In Van Nuys, a blog with a way too leftist bent for this old dead Republican Mayor, has been doing a great job chasing after at least one shitty property in the Valley. In June, they displayed photos of a poor job of management at one Van Nuys apartment building and then this week, follow it up with a report on the local manager who oversees the property and others for the management company.
Lets hope that we can shed some light on this problem. Owners who do not maintain their properties drag things down for everyone else around. Is a government solution needed? Not hardly, the City of LA has failed with their inspection program, but hopefully smart owners will get the message that keeping properties in good shape is excellent business. It is YOUR asset!(Photos by Here In Van Nuys)
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 8/17/2005 05:47:00 PM
61 Comments:
slow newsday. this is not news, it happens everywhere.
she's hot!
I agree. She's a MILF. Who is she?
What is a MLF?
Mom I'd Like to Fuck
The L.A. City Councilmember on fighting graffiti, listening to...
L.A. City Councilmember Eric Garcetti is a fourth-generation Angeleno. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley, is a professor at USC, and recently ran unopposed for reelection for the City Council's 13th ...
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I wish you'd clean up the blog, and get rid of that lying piece of trash (Parker), who tried to cover up Villaraigosa's lies about starting 80 neighborhood watches in CD14 in one year.
11:10 p.m., well at least the roving spammers are getting more creative. Even starting the spam with a piece of scrap city site text.
Every damn thread, the 80 neighborhood watches comes up.
I don't care either way, Chief Parker, whether AV did or didn't create them (although the number does seem pretty far fetched for a district as politically inert as CD14).
But if you did collect the information, it would seem much easier to just post in and shut the naysayers up.
If you did?
Its hard to buy the "have to keep them secret" claim. I live in a fairly high crime area, and the neighborhood watch near here hangs a banner out in front of the meeting hall saying "meets here, on (date)" with what looks like the organizers home phone number listed for contacts.
Investing in your own property is nothing lost, only gained. Slumlords have psychological problems. However, your tenant must also have the same focus of being clean to have a clean property.
Your MILF is Doreen Alajov, owner of Dare Property Management.
I don't think it so much a psychological problem as an I don't care attitude.
In my experience, you only have two kinds of tenants - those who care and those who don't. I gone into places where dead roaches have been stuck to the same wall for months and the residents did nothing to clean up after themselves. Why put in a $300 garbage disposal when you have people who can't keep forks and knives out of it. A $100 disposal will breakdown in the same amount of time.
Slum lords become this way because they stop caring. I my opinion, they are just lazy businesses who should be shutdown. It makes all the other folks who care about their investments have to work that much harder to not be seen the same way.
Properties are expensive, just received this information.
"Fifty-three metropolitan areas representing 31% of the total U.S. housing market are considered extremely overvalued and confront a high risk of future price corrections, a study conducted by National City Corp. says. The study determines a market extremely overvalued if prices are 30% above where the study estimates they should be based on historic price data, area income, mortgage rates and population density."
Metro areas that are extremely overvalued and vulnerable to price correction:
Rank Metro area Q1 valuation
1 Santa Barbara, Calif. 69%
2 Salinas, Calif. 67%
3 Naples, Fla. 62%
4 Riverside, Calif. 60%
5 Merced, Calif. 59%
6 Stockton, Calif. 58%
7 Port St. Lucie, Fla. 58%
8 Madera, Calif. 57%
9 Napa, Calif. 57%
10 Medford, Ore. 55%
11 Sacramento, Calif. 54%
12 Modesto, Calif. 53%
13 San Diego, Calif. 53%
14 Santa Rosa, Calif. 52%
15.........and so on....
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/housing/2005-08-17-housing-valuations.htm?POE=click-refer
Nothing about Pachueco here?
Why do you bring it up? Have you seen the title of this thread moron.
Governor, Democrats negotiate as special election deadline looms
Talks have been ongoing for months but appeared to be headed nowhere because neither side seemed motivated to find common ground. Recent days have seen an infusion of energy, especially with the arrival of former Assembly speaker Bob Hertzberg as a mediator.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters is urging the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to postpone its funding of a Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) south runway relocation project.
REMEMBER I TOLD YOU GUYS VILLARAIGOSA HAD COMMUNIST IDEOLOGY PUSHERS GIVING OUT PAMPHLETS? LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED HERE? AV COMES FROM THE PEOPLES COLLEGE OF LAW - COMMUNIST EDUCATION.
Tens of thousands of Salvadoran immigrants and their children, friends and neighbors joined in the seventh annual “Salvadoran Day in Los Angeles” celebration Aug. 6-7 at Exposition Park here.
Alongside traditional folk attire were many T-shirts of Latino and North American music groups, as well as of Che Guevara and the left-progressive FMLN movement, which led the revolutionary struggle in El Salvador in the 1980s and ’90s. The FMLN remains the main opposition party in El Salvador today.
Newly inaugurated Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was warmly greeted by the crowd. His election as the city’s first Latino mayor in over a century provided added cause for celebration.
Supporters of the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo handed out copies of the paper, and while they were doing so this reporter interviewed a few participants about the situations facing Salvadorans today.
L.A. transportation head is 1st executive to resign under new mayor
In the first departure of a major City Hall executive since Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took office, Department of Transportation General Manager Wayne Tanda announced Wednesday he will resign his post.
This article is found at:
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/1777122.html
Hopefully the Daily News will pick up on these Van Nuys slumlord stories. They drag down the community for everyone. Good points Mayor Sam.
DWP contract evokes concern
It may set a precedent for other unions
http://www2.dailynews.com/news/ci_2950565
Skipping out on schools
THE MAYOR WILL NOT when he may. By refusing to support a bill that would effectively give him control of the schools, Antonio Villaraigosa has lost his best chance to have a major influence on the education of three-quarters of a million Los Angeles schoolchildren — and abdicated his promise to their parents.
"Romero urges mayor to tell position on bill" By Naush Boghossian, Staff Writer
http://www2.dailynews.com/news/ci_2947479
State Sen. Gloria Romero on Tuesday pressured Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to say whether he supports her bill that would allow him to appoint the superintendent and school board of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Alex Padilla is still fighting the West Nile today. Did he do anything else?
Council Candidates to Attend Forum Tonight
Nick Pacheco and Jose Huizar
The forum takes place at 5:30 p.m. at Roosevelt High School.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-briefs18.4aug18,1,5263564.story?coll=la-headlines-california
KILLINGS CHALLENGE LOCAL AUTHORITIES
May 24— Jeremiah Gurule, 17, and Jose Antonio Huizar, 15, were arrested in the shooting death of Darline Pacheco
Let's hear it for Nick Pachueco!
Cowboys and Indians
Gene Autry vs. Southwest Museum: Piracy or preservation?
by ROBERT GREENE
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/39/news-greene.php
"...“I join [City Councilman] Ed Reyes in saying that this is cultural piracy!” Huizar added.
His chief rival, Nick Pacheco, was no less adamant, noting that back when he was on the City Council, he authored two motions to protect the museum. How is it, he asked, that, in the two years since he left the council, nothing further has been done?
“The one who swings the biggest bat on this issue is the mayor,” Pacheco said, invoking the name of Mount Washington resident Antonio Villaraigosa — and pressing the mayor to take the lead..."
Is parke skelton & ace smith attending debate today?
Old News, but this is who Villaraigosa choooses to have partnerships with.
The Smoking Gun - In a bizarre public gaffe, California’s education commissioner told a child that her name, Isis, meant “stupid dirty girl.” Richard Riordan, the former Republican mayor of Los Angeles, made the comment during a publicity event last week at a Santa Barbara library where he read to schoolchildren (below you’ll find links to the video). When Isis D’Luciano, 6, asked Riordan if he knew her name meant “Egyptian goddess,” the 74-year-old politician replied, “It means stupid dirty girl.” While Riordan contends that he was just teasing the child, he apologized to D’Luciano, claiming that his joke was a “misunderstanding.” That explanation has apparently been accepted by Riordan’s boss, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who called the crack “unacceptable in any context,” but has not moved to can Riordan.
The derailing of a state-of-the-art mass-transit system did not begin or end with the 1985 explosion. Indeed, the methane eruption merely gave cover and impetus to a more subterranean drive to block the subway system Los Angeles so much needs. Blame for the failure to build such a network rests on the shoulders of some of the city’s most powerful politicians, past and present, and on inept institutions, from sloppy subway contractors and a bumbling Metropolitan Transit Authority to opportunist politicians pandering to racist Westside NIMBYism, to a tiny pressure group like the Bus Riders Union masquerading as a tribune of the poor, to former Mayor Richard Riordan, who capitulated to the BRU’s pressure, and to a recently departed Jim Hahn, who dozed at the wheel as L.A.’s hideous traffic continued to snarl.
FOUND THIS AT ANOTHER THREAD
"but I don't think he can fix LAUSD and their problems with dropouts."
I don't think the school board either. Aside from Lauritzen, who else is a teacher? The unions focus on their teachers pay and the other side focuses on 'test' scores & rigid guidelines. Nobody ever talks about PEDAGOGY in these discussions, of which, everybody and their mother has an opinion of how to fix a school.
Enough of the MPAs and aspiring politicos on the schoolboard.
Agreed, there is not much on the topic of teaching and I commend those teachers that enter this honorable profession. One of many problems is when the school administration have become political by contributions, statements, support, and recently banners at schools. Have you seen the Huizar signs (legally?) promoting his name in LARGE LETTERING, but immediately after his name information on the first day of school is so small you have to park and then read the sign. Driving by, his name is so large you do not have to stop. My point is that Huizar and other aspiring politicos that are in our school system do not help students, teachers and their futures. Their agenda is greed and only for themselves, the good future of teaching and their students are overshadowed.
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_9118.shtml
Because of the enormous size of the invasion, you cannot compare America's 'human tsunami' of illegal immigration with any other country in the world! The current number of illegal aliens is 18 - 20 million or more, and counting! The fact that our government has allowed these illegal aliens to overwhelm our country is so outrageous and egregious, that it boggles the mind! With nearly 90% of the illegals, Hispanics and Latinos, they WILL, by their sheer numbers, irrevocably alter our American community. They will divide our nation into two languages, two cultures, and two societies. (1- 8)
FULL ARTICLE AT WEB ADDRESS ABOVE...POINTS 1-...
Along with the Hispanic/Latino invasion, we Americans have been 'indoctrinated' and 'brainwashed' by the insidious, ongoing, social engineering 'group think' of 'diversity!' The insane devious 'educational' deception has been enforced through 'sensitivity training!' Through such programming, we are forced to accept and are expected to practice, the doctrine of diversity! For years, we have been coerced into applying and instituting the 'diversity doctrine' everywhere and everyplace.
Why would we be 'brainwashed' into doing such a thing, when one considers that diversity is a dogma that requires us to promote and celebrate an American culture of non-assimilation and non-acculturation. One that encourages people who are dissimilar, unalike, and different from one another, to remain that way. A Machiavellian veneration that is the direct opposite of our world famous 'American melting pot,' a dynamic process that represents the coming together of diverse peoples who willingly assimilate and integrate into our unique, blended American culture!
ILLEGAL SALVADOREANS MUST BE SENT BACK. MANY ARE IN THE MS13 GANG!
EVERYONE BASHES THE MEXICANS, YOU ASLO HAVE EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, NICARAGUA, HONDURAS, ARGENTINA, SOUTH AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO ARE CRIMINALS. THE WHOLE BUNCH IS PATHETIC.
http://www.saukvalley.com/news/299671877821063.bsp
U.S., foreign enforcement coordinate against MS-13
Law enforcement officials from five countries said Wednesday they are struggling to deal with the street gang called MS-13 that is plaguing communities from the United States to Central America.
A meeting at FBI headquarters launched an unprecedented effort to make inroads against what officials called "a culture of violence."
MS-13, a Latino gang, ID'd as force in 5 countries
The FBI calls it 'a culture of violence,' which was started in L.A. by refugees from El Salvador.
Shorthand for Mara Salvatrucha, which loosely translates to guerrilla gang, MS-13 is a Latin American gang founded in Los Angeles by refugees from El Salvador. Members also come from Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=national&story_id=081805b1_fbi_gang
GANG VIOLENCE
That level of viciousness, and indeed the gang itself, has its roots in the civil wars of Central America. In the late '70s and throughout the '80s, hundreds of thousands of refugees fled to the U.S. from El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala. Many came to a Los Angeles neighborhood that's among the poorest and most crowded west of the Mississippi.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/latin_america/july-dec05/gangs_8-02.html
Federal gang sweep nabs 13 in Bay Area
Thirteen alleged gang members from the Bay Area, a majority of them from Mexico and Nicaragua, are facing deportation after being arrested as part of a recent nationwide anti-gang sweep by a federal immigration agency.
Members of the notorious Norteno and Sureno gangs in San Francisco and Sonoma County were among 582 arrested in the past two weeks in 27 states around the country in ``Operation Community Shield,'' an initiative by Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE).
``It's a fairly serious problem,'' said ICE special agent Dan Lane. ``We have a robust gang population.''
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/12278097.htm
Networked Tribes
Globally we see rapidly growing manufactured tribes like the Mara Salvatrucha (already over 700,000 strong) and al Qaeda in open war with states. The appeal of these tribes -- the sense of belonging they represent -- transcends borders. It is able to motivate young men in the UK and Honduras to undertake acts of extreme violence in the hope of gaining membership.
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2005/08/neotribalism.html
World Youth Festival concludes with music, fighting spirit
by Libero Della Piana, 08/18/05
CARACAS, Venezuela — More than 17,000 young people from around the world concluded the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students here Aug. 15 with a colorful ceremony of music, dance and fighting spirit. The festival slogan was “For peace and solidarity we struggle against war and imperialism.”
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TO MECHISTAS/COMMUNISTAS/MARXISTAS OF ALL SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES:
OK SO BRING YOUR CRIMINALS TO THE US AND YOU SPEAK OF ANIT IMPERIALISM. WHAT ABOUT GROUPS LIKE YOU THAT IMPOSE YOUR CRAP ON THE REST OF US.
Salvadoran Day celebrated in L.A.
LOS ANGELES — Tens of thousands of Salvadoran immigrants and their children, friends and neighbors joined in the seventh annual “Salvadoran Day in Los Angeles” celebration Aug. 6-7 at Exposition Park here.
Alongside traditional folk attire were many T-shirts of Latino and North American music groups, as well as of Che Guevara and the left-progressive FMLN movement, which led the revolutionary struggle in El Salvador in the 1980s and ’90s. The FMLN remains the main opposition party in El Salvador today.
Supporters of the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo handed out copies of the paper, and while they were doing so this reporter interviewed a few participants about the situations facing Salvadorans today.
Both groups have wreaked havoc in the U.S. and drawn the scrutiny of U.S. Homeland Security. Last week, federal officials announced the arrest of 582 alleged gang members, targeting some 80 violent groups, including the 18th Street and MS-13 gangs, which have been linked to violent street crimes across the country.
Even nations whose armies lack a strong enlisted corps sent delegates to San Antonio so they could return as advisers on gangs, said Army South Command Sgt. Maj. Daniel R. Wood.
Since the only thing separating gangs from terrorism is the core motivation — gangs focus on profit, and terror cells have religious or political motives — terrorism is being discussed at the conference, Wood said.
The command invited most of the 30 countries in its area of responsibility, the ones with good U.S. relations, to the conference. Countries represented are Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad/Tobago and Uruguay.
Mexico and Venezuela were invited but did not participate.
Ecuadorian Sgt. Maj. José Matute said the conference would help his country guide "the professional development of our soldiers."
MEXICO AND VENEZUALA WOULD NOT ATTEND BCUZ THEY ARE FOR TERRORISM/COMMUNISM/MARXISM.
ANYTHING THAT WILL ROCK CAPITALISM.
USA Today
Mexican drug cartels' wars move closer to U.S. border
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico -- The kingpins of this hemisphere's illegal drug trade are no longer Colombians. -- In the largest shake-up since the 1980s, Mexican cartels have leveraged the profits from their delivery routes to wrest control from Colombian producers, senior U.S. drug officials say. The shift also is the result of the success...
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
38 found in Ontario drop house
Thirty-eight illegal immigrants recently smuggled into the country from Central America and Mexico were arrested on Aug. 10 at an Ontario "drop house" and placed into deportation proceedings, federal officials said Wednesday. -- Ontario Police responded to an afternoon call about suspicious subjects and possible trespassing...
It's 2005: Do you know where your tax dollars are?
On Saturday, Cobb County taxpayers are scheduled to pay to host an event that will provide free, routine, non-emergency health care to illegal aliens. Absurd you say? Sadly, it is not. -- In a partnership with the Mexican Consulate, "Dia de la Mujer Latina Inc." (Day of the Latin-American Woman) - an ethnically specific non-profit corporation...
People's Weekly World [Communist Drivel]
DeLay's remarks on invaders decried in communist rag
Houston -- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (D-Texas) told a group of his constituents this month that he thinks laws allowing "illegal immigrants" [criminals by definition] to be treated in area hospitals and laws permitting their children to attend public schools should be repealed.
Financial Times
Border tension rises between US and Mexico
Political tension over illegal immigration and crime along the US-Mexico border worsened this week, as Vicente Fox, Mexico's president, complained of a lack of co-operation from US officials after two US states declared emergencies along their borders with Mexico.
Michael Fumento -- Townhall.com
'Pathetic buffoon' Lopez falls from grace
Will inner-city blacks ever throw off the yoke of self-victimization imposed by "leaders" like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? Perhaps, judging by the brief fame of race-baiting HISPANIC demagogue Nativo Lopez, who went muy pronto from media darling to pathetic buffoon.
Associated Press
SUV carrying invaders, drugs crashes near San Diego
The driver of an SUV packed with illegal immigrants and nearly 700 pounds of marijuana sped from police with his headlights off the wrong way on Interstate 8 before crashing head on into a California Highway Patrol car, officials said. -- Wednesday night's pursuit was the latest in a series of incidents involving smugglers...
The Conservative Voice
Most U.S.-born Hispanics oppose licenses for invaders
A majority of Hispanics born in the U.S. don't think illegal Hispanic immigrants should be given drivers' licenses, according to a new poll. -- Most foreign-born Hispanics disagree, according to the polling for the Pew Hispanic Center. -- Six in 10 Hispanics born in this country approve of measures to prohibit illegal immigrants from getting drivers' licenses...
Mexico police arrested in kidnap ring case
ENSENADA, Mexico
Eight city police officers and a state policeman have been arrested on suspicion of operating a kidnap ring in this tourist town 75 kilometers south of the California border, state officials announced Monday.
The Baja California state government said the ring appeared to be linked to the Arellano Felix drug gang and they said it was involved in at least three recent kidnappings, one of which ended with the slaying of a captive.
State and federal authorities, including members of the military, helped arrest the 11 suspects on Saturday and Sunday. They were flown to Mexico City for questioning by federal prosecutors who have authority over drug and weapons cases.
Mexico's Punta Colonet project also would create a new city in Baja California
This will help the cartel smuggle more illegals and the drugs across the borders using "lanchas" small water vessels from this port to a U.S. port undetected. The fishermen in Baja California do this, do you think they really sell fish/langosta/lobster from their ice coolers, then you don't really know anything. The drug is placed inside the fish or lobster, sold in the area. Or transported through this fisherman by boats with illegals across the sea to other ports, camouflaging into the Southern California beaches as residents...why is our government keeping this hush, hush. Report any suspicions or names of cartel people to Homeland Security.
It is sad that American citizens who have latino ancestry cover up or are involved in this mess, they will not tell on their relatives who live in Baja California and are involved in this criminal activity. How many of you paisanos know or have relatives that smuggle drugs/illegals? Many.
Mailing Address:
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, D.C. 20528
Citizen Line:
Operator Number: 202-282-8000
Comment Line: 202-282-8495
Ariz. School Trades Textbooks for Laptops
VAIL, Ariz. - Students at Empire High School here started class this year with no textbooks — but it wasn't because of a funding crisis. Instead, the school issued iBooks — laptop computers by Apple Computer Inc. — to each of its 340 students, becoming one of the first U.S. public schools to shun printed textbooks.
School officials believe the electronic materials will get students more engaged in learning. Empire High, which opened for the first time this year, was designed specifically to have a textbook-free environment.
"We've always been pretty aggressive in use of technology and we have a history of taking risks," said Calvin Baker, superintendent of the Vail Unified School District
Kanye West is gay, wow.
What is the deal with this thread? Can't anyone stay on-topic? I might as well join in the fray:
I'd really like to know the ethnic background of the creep posting FUD about immigration.
Hey buddy, as opposed as you are to illegal immigration, would you be in favor of more legal immigration?
The irrational position people like you take on this issue has created a vast under-world in this country. There are no forces in this world that can keep workers in search of labor and businesses in search of workers apart.
The question is, do we want force others to subvert the rule of law so that we can uphold some bogus philosophy of "stopping the invasion"? Or do we want to work with these economic forces, and try to prosper from them?
"I'd really like to know the ethnic background of the creep posting FUD about immigration."
A: Human Being
Color=irrelevant
Law=relevant
To Anon of August 18 at 2:25 p.m,
Did you notice that none of their posts deal with illegal immigration from Brazil, Ireland, other regions of Europe, or countries in Asia? All four of which have natives here in the U.S. illegally, and in great numbers in some cities/regions (been to Boston, New York, or San Francisco lately?).
Why such a heavy handed bias in spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt about immigration from Latin America?
In America, the narrow and irrational perspective that we can, and should, shut down our borders at all costs is a telltale sign of someone who has not come to terms with their own background.
This person's ethnic background DOES matter: let he who has no formerly controversial migrant ancestors cast the first stone.
California has a history of some of the nastiest anti-immigration laws in the country, so I guess this person's perspective isn't much of a surprise.
However, being anti-illegal immigration is one thing. Being anti-immigration is another. Further still, being anti-Latin-American-immigration is a whole 'nother deal entirely - and one that suggests, if anything, the person whose posts I responded to should be the one being told, "Color=irrelevant; Law=relevant".
So there.
ubrayj02
Your post is great, and I hope bloggers learn that negativity at this level serves no good purpose. The anon who has spammed this thread with the racist comments must learn tolerance and understanding.
ubrayj02
Guess you really kicked their ass . . . and so politely too!
Back to the original topic:
Mayor Sam, contrary to others, I think it's very significant to discuss. But the prevalence of slumlords don't surprise me.
LA has a tremendous lack of housing so there's no competition among property owners to fight for renters. When people are living in garages because there's not enough affordable housing, it shows how skewed the market is.
Sadly, a property owner can make a good profit and not have to do anything to their property. When they sell, they change the carpet, slap on some paint and still get a nifty profit.
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