Sentences with phrase «vacant houses as»

As far as finding deals, I advertise that I buy houses, look for vacant houses as I travel, scan CL, etc..

«We have a real sense of urgency,» said the mayor, who was elected in November 2005 but has grappled with vacant houses as a city councilman and a state senator.

Not exact matches

(BTW, the keeping inherited house vacant for decades is not as uncommon as one would think — anyone out there who can come up with a workable solution to converting probate and inherited family property into rentals could have an amazing business).

A conservation that meant merely a prevalence of tennis courts over vacant lots, of golf courses over swamps and housing developments, of scenic vistas over factories and roadside advertising might well be discounted as a too - expensive luxury.

As the nation's capital struggles with a homeless crisis, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson plans to introduce legislation as soon as this week calling for a study into converting a vacant residence hall blocks from the US Capitol into cheap housing for the well - paid politicians, some of whom are sleeping in their offices to save casAs the nation's capital struggles with a homeless crisis, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson plans to introduce legislation as soon as this week calling for a study into converting a vacant residence hall blocks from the US Capitol into cheap housing for the well - paid politicians, some of whom are sleeping in their offices to save casas soon as this week calling for a study into converting a vacant residence hall blocks from the US Capitol into cheap housing for the well - paid politicians, some of whom are sleeping in their offices to save casas this week calling for a study into converting a vacant residence hall blocks from the US Capitol into cheap housing for the well - paid politicians, some of whom are sleeping in their offices to save cash.

An audit to be officially released today by Comptroller Scott Stringer faults NYC as being too slow through various mayoral administrations in transferring city - owned vacant land to developers to build housing.

with Medicare as the major resonating issue, the district became vacant because a GOP House rep. (Lee) used the internet or texting to send pictures of himself half naked.

The House of Representative seat became vacant following the death of the former lawmaker representing the constituency, Dr Elijah Adewale, while Akinwunmi Olaitan Nurudeen emerged as the APC candidate for the bye - election after a keenly contested primary.

The initial thinking was that picking Ellsworth was a win - win for Senate and House Democrats as Evansville Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel, long seen as a rising star, would hop into the 8th district race if the seat became vacant.

So both sides had incentives to burn buildings — the buildings were actually insured for more money than they were worth as rentals, and if the building was destroyed, you could build free - market housing on the site while paying very low property taxes when it was vacant.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has advocated a $ 20 million program that would put vacant apartments on the market at a discount as affordable housing, and these two buildings would be the first to take part in the program.

The owners of two distressed condominium buildings are negotiating with the city on a deal that would put vacant apartments on the market as affordable housing, the New York Post reported.

«As our city faces a crisis in affordable housing, it is shocking that a city - run program is allowing hundreds of affordable units to remain vacant,» she said in a statement.

Since then there has been another round of redevelopment: the vacant rows of terraced houses in Langworthy have been redeveloped for young professionals and the old Salford Docks on the ship canal are the core of the massive Salford Quays redevelopment, which as well as the Lowry Centre includes the new MediaCity which has become the home of BBC «s sport and children «s television departments since 2011.

Bacteria in tap water can multiply when a faucet isn't used for a few days, such as when a house is vacant over a week's vacation, a new study from University of Illinois engineers found.

• Hang Out at Heidelberg - Explore the Heidelberg Project, the village of vacant houses reimagined as funky art projects bearing poignant social messages.

It's even mentioned that next door is a vacant lot owned by the city as to infer that is where the old house that Craig T. Nelson and his fictional family once lived until it was sucked into a supernatural vortex.

Tech store worker Ben (Sebastian Stan, Captain America) and his aspiring vet girlfriend Kelly (Greene, whose body is shown off as much as nudity - free PG - 13 allows) have just moved into a large house in a nearly vacant subdivision, which Kelly's parents have bought into.

One vacant row of brick houses, slated for demolition, is being kept alive by a woman named Jeanine, who describes herself as the «sole survivor.»

And of course there have been stories about his sports idol, Willie Mays, otherwise known as the Say Hey Kid, the one he grew up thinking would move into the vacant house next to his in Montclair, N.J.. There's the piece about a Mays biography that Littlefield reviewed, which includes a mention of Littlefield dressed as Mays one Halloween as a kid.

The House will take up the texting while driving ban aka «TTYL» bill (HB2) sponsored by Rep. Jim McClendon, Rep. Mac McCutcheon's legislation adding utility trucks and wreckers to the list of vehicles for which drivers are required to slow down and move into a vacant lane for when parked on the side of the road (HB76), and Rep. Allen Farley's bill to crack down on synthetic drugs known as «spice» or «salts» (HB158).

New regulations included federal measures to tighten mortgage insurance rules, expand stress tests, and improve tax fairness around capital gains exemptions as well as changes to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's securitization programs; B.C.'s new 15 % land transfer tax on foreign nationals in Metro Vancouver and introduction of the Home Owner Mortgage and Equity program to provide interest - free loans to first - time buyers, along with Vancouver's introduction of a tax on vacant homes; and Ontario's doubling of the land - transfer tax rebate for first - time buyers, combined with a tax increase on homes over $ 2,000,000.

Rather, this is a completely separate property — be it a second house, vacant lot, office space or condominium unit — you keep in your portfolio as a source of additional income.

If you can consider the house as «let - out property» kept vacant, you can claim 1/5 th of PPI + regular interest payments of FY 2015 - 16 (no ceiling limit).

November 16, 2016: Vancouver vacant homes tax — This past year the B.C. government took a great interest in trying to correct what has been perceived as a distorted housing market in the Greater Vancouver area.

He also stated that the census showed improbably high numbers of vacant housing in vital neighborhoods such as Jackson Heights, Queens.

- will be subtitled «The God of Destruction Malroth and the Vacant Island» - the «God of Destruction Malroth» is the name of the evil god that appeared in Dragon Quest II - the protagonist is the descendant of the legendary builder that once saved the world - he or she has the same power to build things as their ancestor, but is still inexperienced - while relying on their «Builder's Book,» their goal is to become a full - fledged builder - the game takes place on «Vacant Island,» a huge, unpopulated island without houses or towns - this is where the protagonist washes ashore, and will adventure and build things to create a bustling island - you can see what appears to be a man - made temple in the mountains

You can of course kill people and buy the vacant house, but if you want to play as good character, then you are quite limited in your landlord options.

The house sat vacant for five years, having endured several ill conceived renovations in past decades as well as deterioration caused by water and neglect.

She wants to use these installations to shift a narrative in which only those with outside lens (such as developers and speculators) can ever see these spaces as potential gold mines and using a satirical quality she wants to make vacant parcels gold mines by re-embed gold leafed bricks in the ghosted footprint of where houses once used to be.

In 2009 the city of St. Louis, MO, under the direction of the Gateway Foundation, converted two vacant parcels of land into a world - class sculpture park, housing works by revered artists such as Keith Haring, Erwin Wurm, and Niki de Saint Phalle.

«We were concerned that the community housing project we are working on in Liverpool would suddenly be seen as «art»,» says Lewis Jones, momentarily downing tools on the building site in Toxteth where the group is busy transforming a street of long - vacant terraced houses into affordable homes for a community land trust.

Transformations include the Dorchester Projects, a pair of vacant two - story houses renovated for reuse as a library featuring an inventory of 8,000 LPs from Dr. Wax Records, a record store that closed in nearby Hyde Park; 14,000 volumes from the now - shuttered Prairie Avenue Art and Architecture Bookstore; a collection of glass lantern slides (60,000 images) from the University of Chicago's Art History Department; and temporarily, an archive of Ebony and Jet magazines; as well as a and soul food kitchen.

Resource - efficient, relatively cheap to build and symbols of a simpler lifestyle, tiny houses have been characterized as an alternative for affordable home ownership, rehabilitation of vacant urban land and even an educational tool for sustainable design.

The New York Times says that «today, in this city beaten down by decades of factory closings and residential exodus, the razing of thousands of vacant houses is being touted as a sign of progress.

In some areas, there may not be a huge amount of buildings to source materials from, so it might not be quite as simple as in other areas, where houses, barns, sheds, and even commercial buildings are standing vacant, in part because of the country - to - city migrations that have been happening for the last few decades.

The Attorney General has advised the government that compulsory purchase orders under its existing legislation can be used to acquire vacant and derelict houses to be used as additional social housing stock.

This is a matter which will need to be handled via legislation and the criteria as to what vacant houses may be acquired under this new proposal is yet to be decided.

The House of Assembly, in the exercise of its historic right to expel a member in appropriate circumstances, hereby expels from the Assembly the member last elected before the coming into force of this Act for the electoral district of Inverness South by reason of his conviction on four counts of using forged documents in respect of money received by him in his capacity as a member, and the seat of that member is and is deemed to be vacant until an election is held in that electoral district according to law.

161 (1) Before delivering the first disclosure statement mentioned in section 72, the declarant with respect to a unit or a proposed unit in a vacant land condominium corporation shall request from the municipality in which the land is situated or from the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing if the land is not situated in a municipality, a statement of the services provided by the municipality or the Minister, as the case may be, including the construction and maintenance of roads.

(2) In addition to the material required under subsection 72 (3), a disclosure statement relating to the purchase of a unit or a proposed unit in a vacant land condominium corporation shall include whatever statement that the declarant has received from the municipality or the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, as the case may be, in response to a request.

(e) a change in the information contained in the statement described in subsection 161 (1) of the services provided by the municipality or the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, as the case may be, as described in that subsection, if the unit or the proposed unit is in a vacant land condominium corporation.

Whenever the chief justice and a majority of the associate justices of the supreme judicial court, or such other body as the general court may by law provide, transmit to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house their written declaration that the governor is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the office of governor shall be deemed to be vacant within the meaning of this Constitution.

The building housed 30 classrooms, so the school rearranged its schedule and started using classrooms that were vacant during teachers» planning period, as well as holding classes in the auditorium and other rooms.

- will be subtitled «The God of Destruction Malroth and the Vacant Island» - the «God of Destruction Malroth» is the name of the evil god that appeared in Dragon Quest II - the protagonist is the descendant of the legendary builder that once saved the world - he or she has the same power to build things as their ancestor, but is still inexperienced - while relying on their «Builder's Book,» their goal is to become a full - fledged builder - the game takes place on «Vacant Island,» a huge, unpopulated island without houses or towns - this is where the protagonist washes ashore, and will adventure and build things to create a bustling island - you can see what appears to be a man - made temple in the mountains

Here are numbers on a couple of vacant houses, I know the cost estimates are high as I have not seen the interiors and exteriors of some indicate some extensive rehab will be required and I'd rather overestimate than underestimate costs.

The glass - domed Winter Garden that straddles the World Financial Center currently houses roughly 180,000 sq. ft. of retail and restaurant space, only 3 % of which was vacant as of late November, says Hogan of Brookfield Properties.

I know it's not pleasant to think about the dangers we confront as real estate professionals — touring vacant houses, meeting strangers, working odd hours.

I'm a broker as well as a flipper and I know several «big time» high volume brokers who just won't list a house unless its either staged (if vacant) or if its occupied, they'll bring someone in to assess the seller's furniture, etc and make whatever changes they see necessary to make the place look just right to sell.

As part of the provincial Fair Housing Plan in April, the province is allowing the city to introduce a vacant homes tax in order to increase the supply of rental hHousing Plan in April, the province is allowing the city to introduce a vacant homes tax in order to increase the supply of rental housinghousing.