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PostSubject: Better Ways To Save YOUR Casino MONEY!   Better Ways To Save YOUR Casino MONEY! Empty2/20/2010, 9:35 am

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/article_b588d46d-ce7f-59cc-b8ed-31778b16e070.html

Font Size:Default font sizeLarger font sizeHAMMOND | Casino-generated revenue from two Hammond City Council members will help fund operations in the city's Inspections Department.

Members of the Board of Works recently approved appropriations from council members Mark Kalwinski, D-1st, and Kim Poland, R-4th, for cleaning up derelict properties, such as mowing lawns, boarding up windows and demolishing abandoned buildings. Kalwinski will chip in $100,000 for efforts in Robertsdale and North Hammond, while Poland designated $80,000 for activities in South Hammond.

For the city's 2010 budget, the Inspections Department made mandated cuts in lawn maintenance and expenses related to derelict homeowners. - By Times Staff


I don't understand why we can't just borrow the "non-violent" criminals from the jail and put orange suits on them, and chain gang them or provide the security of the few needed at these locations to do the boarding up or mowing lawns. It's only a three month deal, and would cos t NOTHING. Maybe a sheriff or a cop or two, not riding in their cars, but overseeing this, so expenses are lowered.

These non-violent criminals would love a day out of the pen, even they are chained together. Make them do other duties, like, clean the side of major roads. Why are they given three meals a day, and coop them up when they can reimburse the city for the roof over their heads?

As far as demolition, those bids should go to anyone but just those in Lake County, to get the lowest bid...and make it transparent.

This is a needless expense when you see other communities doing this in IL.

Over many years I have witnessed a bus, with a few officers overlooking inmates cleaning along Michigan City Road in Cal City.
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PostSubject: Re: Better Ways To Save YOUR Casino MONEY!   Better Ways To Save YOUR Casino MONEY! Empty2/20/2010, 9:38 am

On another note, I may be misinformed, but why aren't they going to the banks, landlords, or former owners to keep up with those properties.

It shouldn't take casino money away from taxpayers. Someone has to own those houses/buildings, last I heard if the bank takes it back, it is their duty for upkeep. Meaning, even mowing the lawn and boarding up the buildings or homes.

An exception would be there would be no exceptions.
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PostSubject: Re: Better Ways To Save YOUR Casino MONEY!   Better Ways To Save YOUR Casino MONEY! Empty2/20/2010, 10:20 am

They put a lien on the house and are reimbursed when the property sells. It is easier than waiting for the bank to clean up a property.
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PostSubject: Re: Better Ways To Save YOUR Casino MONEY!   Better Ways To Save YOUR Casino MONEY! Empty2/20/2010, 12:39 pm

Big Fan, unless I misunderstood the article, I'm talking in terms of many foreclosures, where the bank owns it. At least that is what I gathered from reading the article.

I assumed the bank repossessed it, and is not mowing the grass or boarding it up, once the people leave. Am I correct?

In my eyes, once a lien is on the house, the people still live there until it comes time to leave, so they should hall them into court for upkeep.

Once the bank declares it foreclosed, am I right, not to expect that bank to do the upkeep so they can sell it, and not depend on taxayers' money or the city of HAMMOND to obsorb this cost?

There is a lot of work out there where the non-violent criminals can do work to save the city money.

Meaning, upkeep of parks, etc. Cleaning roadside garbage...whatever. Heck of a lot cheaper to allow a couple of county workers out of their desk jobs and get some exercise, supervising these non-violent offenders.

Afterall, we don't really see the PAID officials doing the job.

Someday, like Gary, E.C.'s boat and the Horseshoe won't be forking out that money. There's a new boat (going green all the way, and not the money color) being built northwest of Chicago. Once they see the money rolling in, then you can bet Chicago will put one in.

Point is, that pot of gold should not be divided up among council people. It should be reserved in one pot, where someone has to apply for a need for that money which requires what it was meant for: infrastracture.

Look how bad the pot holes are on every street you go. Cline Bridge wouldn't be an issue had that money been saved for a "rainy day" even though it may be considered a state venture.

If a city or town proves to the rest of the state that they can use their money wisely and without question, and with transparency, they wouldn't need to go to the state to save the very places that put the revenue in all these years...in their pockets for pet projects. This includes the FEST. CLAY. etc.

Time to buckle up....and start showing examples to people that you can be trusted..that all our officials are working together, and show the transparency. It only hurts your reputation when you have to be re-elected or need support for a higher position.


Enough said.
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PostSubject: Re: Better Ways To Save YOUR Casino MONEY!   Better Ways To Save YOUR Casino MONEY! Empty2/20/2010, 7:02 pm

If the residents can't afford to keep up payments, how can they afford upkeep? A neighbor's husband had the job of cleaning out houses that had been foreclosed - the stories he told.
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PostSubject: Re: Better Ways To Save YOUR Casino MONEY!   Better Ways To Save YOUR Casino MONEY! Empty2/21/2010, 8:16 am

KarenT wrote:
If the residents can't afford to keep up payments, how can they afford upkeep? A neighbor's husband had the job of cleaning out houses that had been foreclosed - the stories he told.

There have been a number of stories about people deliberately trashing their homes before foreclosure.
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PostSubject: Re: Better Ways To Save YOUR Casino MONEY!   Better Ways To Save YOUR Casino MONEY! Empty2/21/2010, 2:21 pm

Face it - if they're aren't paying their mortgage, they probably aren't paying utilities. That means no running water, no electricity. One house the neighbor told me about, they had cut a hole in the kitchen floor to use as a bathroom.
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PostSubject: Re: Better Ways To Save YOUR Casino MONEY!   Better Ways To Save YOUR Casino MONEY! Empty2/22/2010, 11:30 am

Well, in the case of my friend I grew up with, her mortgage payment was $1,500 a month. She had a really good job working for State Farm. The mortgage company was Wells Fargo. She lost her job, but got another one with the same agency.

After her mom died, a year later, (Two years this week) ....she tried unsuccessfly to contact Wells Fargo to make some deal to short sale her home, so she could avoid bankruptcy, and just move in an apt.

I witnessed it all that whole summer, her calls never returned, etc. I helped her move, she was an immaculate person....we left the place very clean.


Shortly after she moved things out, we went back in to get a few more boxes...lo and behold, someone deliberately socked holes in the walls, etc. This was after she notified Wells Fargo she was leaving, that she will be located, wherever, to work things out.

When we went back to get the few remaining boxes, there was a bolt lock put on the door, and no trespassing. We got in through another way, and was astonished: whomever put that lock on the door by Wells Fargo, made it a point to punch holes in the wall, take out appliances she was trying to sell (dishwasher, washer and dryer, refrigerator...gone!)

So, my thinking is, these companies hire people who do the punching in the walls, steal the appliances, etc. She did everything in her power to try and work for a short sale.

Wasn't no two weeks after she gave up with no answers, the place had a new owner. Tell me owners do that - not my friend. We even vacumned and cleaned before she left, cuz, that's exactly how we were raised.

If a bank like Wells Fargo refuses to work with their mortgage holders to help keep them in their home, and something like this happens where stuff is damaged, and appliances that she bought are stolen, then that tells me they hire people to do those things so they collect more off the house.

THAT doesn't surprise me, considering the fiasco with the Toyota Camry, where a guy has spent 8 years for vehicle manslaughter. All along he kept saying the car excelled to 90 mph while going down a ramp, and the brakes didn't work.

Now today, I hear on the news how Toyata - some CEO bragged a few years ago how they saved money by not exposing the flaws that existed in Toyota cars.

We need regulation, and it sure isn't coming our way, just as Senator Bahy said on the view today. Our government is broken. Big times.

I've seen houses in Dolton abandoned and stripped of copper wiring, garage doors, etc. No matter how many times they boarded it up, it got stripped down...within feet of a house across the street.

Down the old block were a set of new houses being built before my-ex's was sold...and guess what was missing....bathtubs, wiring, windows, you name it....two or three over night, despite the developer being there during the day. That was a couple of years ago. Point is, doesn't matter if you're buying new or leaving the old. We have a desperate economy that knows no boundaries, and those idiots in Congress should work together, and grow up.

Log onto today's episode on "THE VIEW," and listen to ex-Senator Bahy. Listen to the gals talking about the credit card crap (nothing changed except a period of notification). Those on the VIEW pay off their cards but will be penalized for an annual fee because these credit card companies need to make money, though they were bailed out.

It's true: OUR GOV'T IS BROKEN!

Put the lazy-borne, non-violent criminals to work in the summer, cleaning up the litter, or doing whatever needs to be done. A bank is responsible when it goes into foreclosure, they own it.

If there is a lien on the house, the city should be notified, so they can do code enforcement, as long as they remain in that house. That's my opinion.

That's a different group. The once-owned-a-house, single female, would not do that.
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