pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on thu 24 nov 05
Hi Kelly,
Find out from your County, how they deal with back-property-tax reposessions
for Commercail Buildings, whether they negotiate in the price of selling
them, have a set price, auction them merely to the highest bidder, or what.
Too, find out from them if you might submit a business plan, to represent
intentions that will favor or benifit the interests of the community, for
the County to show favor to you, for the price or terms or financeing of
making possible exceptions from usual proceedure, for you obtaining some
reposessed building...
The Building I a-l-m-o-s-t bought in Minnesota three years ago or so, was
kind of large, 28,000 Sq-Ft, and was a high school built by a Mineing
Company in 1908, and over all was very sturdy and in good condition. It had
been closed since 1972 or something. Some broken windows, weeds in the yards
and so on, but overall, nothing bad condition-wise.
Anyway, they'd sold it to someone yers back, and, that someone never did
anything with it, and did not pay their property taxes on it, so,
eventually, it reverted back to the county.
The County wanted $5,000.00 for it.
As I talked with them more, they decided they would sell it to me for
$1.00...but I would have to promise them I'd fix the windows and clear out
the weeds.
Too, there was someone high in the County who wanted to see it torn down,
which would have made the many extant and liveing graduates of it's past
classes, sad...
I inquired about the costs of demolition to the County, and found they were
going to have to spend about $240,000.00 to get it torn down.
So, I said to them, "Howsabout this ~ you give me $50,000.00, as a gift,
knowing I will use it to do things for the Building's repair initially, and
maintenance from then on. Give me or get me a super-low interest loan for
$25,000.00 also...and I will take that old Hi-School, and dedicate in
perpetuity, an attractive and well lit 3,000 sq-ft enclosed
handicapped-access area, for a Museum in whic all kinds of things related
to the School's past (School Letter Sweaters, Yearbooks, Photographs,
Memorabilia, Club related things, etc. ) will be on exhibit, will be
insured, niocely displayed, and so on, and the items will either be items I
find and purchase, or may be donated or loaned by local people or other and
will still belong to them, etc, and I will hire a docent or two or three of
local retired people, or accept volenteer docents ( knowing there will
ALLWAYS be endless fresh Coffee, Tea and baked good snacks) and train them
so that five days a week, 51 weeks a year, it will be open and fun and also
have various events now and then for re-unions and social occurances and
maybe even Bake Sales of other to benifit further acquisitions or to finance
other social events, dances and so on...and probably organize a News Letter
to be run by interested past graduates about whatever they want it to be
about.
( I prolly should have sought a $50,000.00 low interest laon, but oh well, I
was thinking on my feet that day...)
The rest of the Building, some I will use for me, for my Workshop and so on,
and some I will rent out to meritoriously occupied others for their uses or
occupations...
I will repair and landscape and so on as needed to preserve the dignity and
mood of the Architectural presence and it;s surrounds...and blahhh de blooo.
Well, they all loved it and it made lots of excitements. Everyone was all
for it but for one ( "1" ) sour-puss higher-up in the county government who
somehow could get his way, and his way, was to see it torn down.
So, the County spent almost $300,000.00 Dollars to destroy a really cool and
well built in good condition 1908 High School, that for $50,000.00 and a
little Loan, would have been a real cool and fun and interesting asset to
the community in many ways, making money, employing local people, enjoyed by
hundreds of people for many years to come. As well as looking damned good
just sitting there as itself.
My rambley example is to recommend to you, to consider how something you
might have to offer ( starting a small Ceramic's School others will manage
under your direction and discipline maybe) or whatever, might just cost you
very little to do if rightly planned, and be great fun for all, and get you
a big kiss on the forehead from the County who likely has many old Buildings
they'd like to see something happen with...
Negotiate...inquire, schmoose, glad-hand, listen to the spaces between the
lines when talking with them, find out who makes decisions, who has the
juice...
You are a great salesman!
So much better then me...!
I am only a barely so-so- salesman...but I am fairly decent at making
'deals' sometimes.
I bet you can do something along these lines, that you will be very happy
with, and that will satisfy many criteria and interests...that can satisfy
your key or salientmost interests and goals...and...
That immediately also becomes something the Community at large, and the
County, is in favor of and happy about.
Friends in county Government, who like whayt you are doing, in many many
ways, can be a very good thing of course.
Love,
Happy Thanksgivings..!
Phil
Las Vegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "primalmommy"
> Tony, I've thought about adding on a gallery, but my neighborhood is
> zoned residential, and to change zoning to commercial around here
> requires an act of god. Also probably liability insurance, wheelchair
> ramps, public restrooms, and a parking lot. I'm fresh out of parking
> lots.
<<<<<< I did a big snip here >>>>>>
> yours
> Kelly in Ohio
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