1115 HOYT AVE 2016-01-01 MF Import

d � � accusations opens the city to great liability. It is r.ot my purpose to fight with the city. All I want or evez wanted was to get the place taken caze of at a pace which would not break my family. There was no reason, other than the building not looking terrific, for the work ta be required Eo be done on a time schedule other than my own. The building was livable and had both water and electricity (and heat) and had no leaks ot broken windows. It had been occupied on and off over the last several years and continuously prior to that (before we started to improve it) . The siding that is "falling off" in youi employee' s words, was removed in even strips around the building to provide access for blowing in the insulation in the complete insuiation/weatherization job we did. It included all new insulated glass throughout the stcucture. Both of these imptovements are readily appacent to the naked eye of any layperson even from the street. It is quite easy to tell that windows are not and have not ever been bioken since their replacement with the new insulated glass, long before the written accusation of "broken windows" was made. It is truly a sign of incompetence, ignoring facts, or pure and blatant abuse of authority when a "professional" in the field of inspecting buildings cannot or will not recognize facts or chooses to ignor.e them in favor of bullying the taxpayers of this city. This person ' s actions have cost my family ovet $700 per month in zent and slowed the pzocess of improvement very significantly. It has also cost us substantial amounts to get inspections done by professional people to confirm what we already kne� and what was apparent to your employee, too, despite her lies. All that having beer; said, I still believe in doing things zight. As previously stated, I nevez had any intention of NOT doing thir,gs properly. The gatage at this address is in need of attention. We ate still in a quandary as to whether to testore it or tear it down and start over again. However, the season was not zight previously. Also, the structure was not nearly so deteriorated until neighbors started using it as a dumping ground for their qazbage and allowed people to come in and, as I was told by one neighbor "ram the garage with an old car until it started to sag" . These "concerned neighbors" didn' t bother to call either the police or me ! Maybe you can begin t-o see why we feel very discriminated against when we have been in process of improving this place and have been singled out for harassment by one city employee due to a grudge. We are progressing. We DO want to have the permits for things where they are needed in order to get inspections which will provide us the measure of deLense relative to liability in case of failure as you mentioned in your letter. These things have all been considered without having to have somebody try to shove them done our thtoats with a whole bunch of excess baggage thrown in, too. If it sounds like we are resentful , Tim, it is not you who has created the resentment . t9e know there are jobs to be done and respect that . Abuse of a system by an individual in a