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This is what I was worried that all these new fees, inspections, and property restrictions (refusing to issue permits to tear down old buildings) was leading.
I see condo conversions in my future...
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That was long before AirBnB. I called JC police and they had a ambulance come and pick him up.
Posted on: 10/3 13:43
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Wow... never knew that happened (I don't use VVP since i am not in the downtown). The playgrounds are one reason I like living in J.C. My kid has 'his gang' that he meets daily at the playground on Ogden ave (Pershing Field gets a bit insane with the crowds). Having playmates at that young of an age was something I missed out on (Gen X baby bust in the burbs... no kids in my neighborhood... or playgrounds). I take it the VVP planners didn't have kids...
Posted on: 10/2 19:44
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I don't have a dog in this fight (I don't do AirBnB). My main concern is the creeping micro-management of property owners by the city. I am a cynic who believes politicians are on the whole, bought and paid for. I don't think for a minute "quality of life" was the motivating factor. The city was fine getting millions from AirBnB until someone I suspect from some lobbying group offered $$$ in campaign contributions (or other forms of compensation) to do a 180 and get rid of AirBnB. So far my only bad run in was a AirBnB guest who blocked the garage I rent, when I needed to take my kid to the emergency room. Other than that, the AirBnB critters are well behaved. My 'bad experiences' were mostly neighbors (before the neighborhood gentrified) strung out on booze, drugs, etc. creating all sorts of issues. Thankfully most of the bad actors are gone now.* *One humorous incident when some guy high on who knows what was on all fours, barking at my bushes like a dog. He subsequently passed out on the sidewalk in the pouring rain.
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The sad thing is that with AirBnB regulated out of existence, rents won't be reduced by much, if at all. As long as multi-family buildings are torn down and replaced with Bayonne boxes, the rent market will continue to face shortages (at least until the next recession).
What will be lost is the revenue paid to the city by AirBnB. Wasn't it around $9mil a year?
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At least I don't have to worry about the 10 year battery smokes. Everything in my buildings is hardwired A/C.
Posted on: 9/29 19:09
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I know someone who just refused to allow the inspection (which you can do). I am inclined to do the same at this point.
I am inspected by the state every 5 years I get inspected by code enforcement every 5 years. Now we have to also pay an electrician to inspect the smoke detectors and submit a report to the city. Too much already. The one item that has bothered me the most about the Fulop administration is that it seems this administration is now enforcing every ordinance on the book to raise $$$.. Ordinances that were ignored previously. (i.e. if you have a home security system, you have to register it for a fee). Originally it was just businesses that were getting hammered with increased licensing fees and multiple inspections (with registration fees, from multiple agencies, checking the same thing). Now every 3+ family building owner is getting nickle and dime to death.
Posted on: 9/27 12:52
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The obvious solution is that we all need to buy flying cars:
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Never mind. You can't have cans in the front. This hasn't been enforced in the 20+ years I have been here.
Oh well...
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Is Jersey City on a ticket writing blitz?
Just received a ticket for putting trash out too early (new tenants I suspect on this one). I also got a ticket for 'improper storage of trash'. Not sure what that means. Is having trash cans outside next to the building considered 'improper storage'? The city it seems (not just trash) is digging up previously non-enforced rules and regs...
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About 20 years ago, I had one of those crazy dog ladies a few buildings down from a building I own in the Heights. The city raided her place twice, pulling what I think where about 3 dozen+ dogs in each raid.
The building was setback away from the street, but you could still smell the dog piss / shit from the sidewalk. Eventually the place was sold and gutted down to the studs by the new owners. My tenants complained that the dumpsters, when filled with the flooring and walls, stunk up the entire block.
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Typically, your lender will pay the increase and then adjust future mortgage payments to make up the difference. You need to contact the tax office to change the mailing address. I think they require something in writing, but I don't recall exactly. Been 15 years since I had to do a mailing address change.
Posted on: 9/17 15:20
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The guy I rent a garage from just put his property, that he recently bought.
I wanted to buy the place, but the asking price was too high.. no way to have positive cash flow on rents. Plus, the place needs work / updating... at least $150k of work. The guy didn't get the rents he thought he was going to get.. on the order of $1,000 less per apartment. So he went AirBnB on the place to get the revenue he needed. With AirBnB no longer workable.. he doesn't make the $$$. He is asking seven figures for place.. double what he paid for it. If he gets it... all the power to him.. I will take it as proof the real estate market has gone completely insane.
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Has anyone else noticed that PSE&G has been digging up the streets (new gas lines) and then only repaving half the road (the side the new lines were installed)?
I drive down the road.. passenger side smooth, driver side a mass of poorly patched potholes. The most ghetto re-paving job ever!
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I have seen wild turkeys running around the grass around the Lackawanna warehouse. I've run into groups of them hiking around Vermont.... they can be a bit aggressive... Wonder if something like video below will happen here in J.C. sometime in the future:
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Speaking of skunks...
While putting the trash cans on the curb last night, I found myself about six feet away from one. First time I have actually seen one in the Heights. He looked well fed....
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Weird.. tried on two laptops and my phone last night.. same error.. This morning.. everything works.. oh well..
Posted on: 9/11 11:51
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Anyone got a direct link to the online payment portal?
The link on the city website has expired. Looks like the web registration expired. http://taxes.cityofjerseycity.com/
Posted on: 9/10 22:42
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I noticed the test scores for the grade school near my apartment scores have finally gone up. They were in the bottom 25% for years. Still not great.. but improving. I am keeping eyes on the Montessori charter that is attempting to get going in JC. Unfortunately, where they are looking to open up is nowhere near the Heights.
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9th Item popular with my tenants who have kids:
Move to the suburbs for the schools
Posted on: 8/28 14:56
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The NYC version:
"The ceiling heights were 4.5 feet to 6 feet tall on each level, depending on where you were standing," Department of Buildings spokesperson Abigail Kunitz said in an email to NPR. When an inspector visited the building this month, he found half-size doors and low ceilings, forcing him to kneel in an improvised hallway. A small staircase connected the two floors. Along with unapproved structural changes, the Department of Buildings says, the inspector found the space riddled with unpermitted electrical and plumbing work. The compressed living spaces prompted New York City Council Member Ben Kallos to compare the arrangement to the movie Being John Malkovich, which features a cramped office — and a tiny door — on floor 7 1/2 of a Manhattan building. --------------------------------- Officials promptly ordered all occupants to vacate Apartment 601, hitting the owner, Xue Pin Ni, with a potential maximum fine of $144,750 in civil penalties and ordering the subunits to be stripped out of the space. The penalty is set to rise, as the city will also fine Ni $1,000 every day that each illegal subunit remains on the premises, for up to 45 days. https://www.npr.org/2019/08/20/7527917 ... 8-micro-apartments-in-nyc
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The Harmon Street pool became a headache for residents who complained about the frequent fights and the deportment of some of the youths that frequented the facility. In true Jersey City fashion, instead of confronting and solving that problem, the pool was shuttered. The site has been vandalized to a fare-thee-well, but it still exists. Block associations expressed some interest in having it reopened, but nothing came of it. https://www.nj.com/hudson/voices/2011/ ... ce_to_cool_off_jerse.html
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If I didn't see the basketball backboards, I would assume the 16th St. park was an abandoned parking lot.
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There are a number of lots out on 1&9 that might work well.. including a rather large lot of a former Occidental Chemical plant that has plenty of room for a building and parking.
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I used to live down in that area. Saw that happen more than a few times.
Posted on: 7/18 13:35
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My wife had a thing for moving to Livingston for a while. Her friends bought homes there for the school system, which they all praised. Moving to a suburb partially in a floodplain and putting up with a long commute to work was not exactly thrilling for me.
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My corner three sewer lines merge into one. It also sits in a slight bowl. Before the sewers were repaired a moderate thunderstorm would fill the streets to the point water was sloshing against my building and my roof drain would backup. Pre repairs, the buildings downsteam from me would flood. There is a line of houses with garages and rooms partially below grade. More than once I saw people hauling out destroyed rugs and furniture. Curious if I will see that today.
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Checked a weather station in JSQ. 2 inches of rain in about 30 minutes.
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I think my neighbor just lost their hot water heater. Their basement filled up and is draining into mine through every available crack / crevice. Not the first time that happened
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I have the worst street flooding I have seen in over a decade here in the Heights.. and the sewers up here had major repairs / relined since then (which pretty much ended street flooding until tonight).
How are you people in the downtown doing?
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