- @jakedakota11 I still remember what that station looked like before it was renovated. The train station for Chernobyl was nicer.
- @jakedakota11 It’s no cakewalk but Berks stop of today is 10,000% better than it was just 10 yrs ago.
- Congratulations Fishtown! You've Unlocked the Fairmount Parking Achievement http://t.co/CTFcXCW5aV
- @jakedakota11 will it have been worth the disaster just to not have the fear that hipsters may not use the EL and have 4 cars per unit?
- @jakedakota11 What if REACH catches on fire like Kensington Factory and torches a few old heads homes in the process 1/2
Category Archives: The Law
AVI Has Now Been Passed – Awaiting Nutter Signature 1.34% Rate / $30,000 Homestead
City Council has just taken final vote on the Actual Value Initiative. Mayor Nutter will be signing it when he returns from Chicago. Get ready to go back and check the AVI Calculator! Tax Rate To Use: 1.34% Your Homestead … Continue reading
WATCH NOW: 10 Year Tax Abatement Under Fire at City Council Committee
The Finance Committee of City Council has just started and one of the bills that will be pushed out today is Councilman-At-Large Wilson Goode Jr.‘s bill to scale back the 10 Year Real Estate Tax Abatement.
Payday Lending to Return to Pennsylvania? Future Homeowners Beware
Sometimes politicians just completely baffle me. Payday lending, if you don’t know how it works, is a form of legal loan sharking where interest and fees are taken out of a loan before the principal is given to you. … Continue reading
Drunk Driver Rep. Cherelle Parker Torpedoes Bills To Collect Back Taxes
Thanks State Rep. Cherelle Parker for blocking the City who has been requesting the power to place personal liens on tax deadbeats to get their bank accounts and wage checks in a last-ditch effort to chop away at that massive mountain … Continue reading
Posted in Reality Check, Tax Deadbeats, The Law
Tagged Rep. Cherelle Parker, tax deadbeats
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This Edition of the Winter of Discontent: Your School District Is Imploding
Last year I mentioned that 2013 would be the Winter of Discontent in Philly. As the heat rises and tempers flare, the coldness and anger boils over. There’s AVI. There’s the municipal unions going batshit crazy. There’s IAFF22 which … Continue reading
Posted in Reality Check, The Law
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Who’s Also Not a Fan of Nutter’s Liquor By the Drink Tax Hike? FOP5.
The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 banquet hall is not pleased with the Administration’s proposed tax hike to to throw some cash into the gaping maw of the school district’s funding gap. Also… (surprise!) there’s a change.org petition to protest it.
Posted in The Law
Tagged FOP5, liquor by the drink tax, school district miasmas, SDP, sin taxes
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More Power to Collect; More Willingness to Actually Do It?
State Senator Mike Stack is pushing through a bill in the state house to start garnishing the wages [Philly.com] of delinquent taxpayers. We’re not talking about just the hundreds of millions of dollars owed in the Real Estate Tax crisis the City … Continue reading
Posted in Tax Deadbeats, The Law
Tagged Maria Quinones-Sanchez, Mike Sestak, real estate tax, U&O Tax
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Royally Huge Act 135 Case Launched Against Owner of Royal Theater
Editor’s Note: Don’t know what Act 135 is? Take a quick read here. We’ve all seen the horrible state and beacon of blight that the Royal Theater is in. Neighborhood theater screens have long since been bested by suburban megaplexes … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatorship, The Law, VLCIPs
Tagged Act 135, Kenny Gamble, OCF Realty, Royal Theater, Universal Companies
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Philadelphians Show Their True Colors, Or: People Don’t Really Care About AVI
City Controller Alan Butkovitz triumphantly declared his mandate to continue in his office in what is now a guaranteed win with the Republican challenger surely facing defeat in November. Voter turnout? 9%. 9 out of 100 eligible registered voters in Philadelphia … Continue reading
JUST IN: Kensington Slumlord Gets SIX YEARS In Federal PMITA Prison
Fresh from the gavel at 6th and Market: Today was the day Bob Coyle Sr. and his defense attorney tried to show himself as a delicate little flower, too gentle to face the nasty reality of Federal prison. As Coyle … Continue reading
AVI, AVI, AVI… Tax, Tax, Tax
Let’s just wrap up all the AVI and Delinquent Tax news links over the last few days in one short post: The guy who used to run PGW is now the “tax czar” of Philly [CBS3] Clarena Tolson, the new … Continue reading
Posted in AVI, Sheriff Sales, Tax Deadbeats, The Law
Tagged Actual Value Initiative, property taxes
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This Is How Justice Is Served in Philadelphia – Out of A Horn & Hardart Coffee Can
Poor Leon King, Esq. Leon King is a story that exemplifies how we pick our judges in Philly, and in Pennsylvania in general. Mr. King used to be Commissioner over the Bureau of Prisons, in charge of keeping Philly’s … Continue reading
Posted in Nuisance Businesses, The Law
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What Did Former Senator Arlen Specter Have to Do With A Slumlord Property?
1817 East York Street is now an empty field, with grass, replete with scattered bricks. Buried underneath the soil are more bricks and the original underpinnings of the Thomas Buck Factory. It is the newest member of what … Continue reading
Posted in Sheriff Sales, Tax Deadbeats, The Law, VLCIPs
Tagged 728 Market Street, Arlen Specter, City National Bank, Lichtenstein Group, Michael Lichtenstein
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PDQ Pushes Crack House to Sheriff’s Sale – Wanna Buy It?
I wrote about 2044 E Fletcher a while back. Well, the time has finally arrived! GRB Law just called. They want someone to buy it. Sheriff’s Sale Scheduled: Monday, April 15th, 2013
Posted in Sheriff Sales, Tax Deadbeats, The Law
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