Comments on: Wayward Homes Get Ticketed https://boiseguardian.com/2005/11/14/wayward-homes-get-ticketed/ A different slant on the news. Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:22:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Julie in Boise https://boiseguardian.com/2005/11/14/wayward-homes-get-ticketed/#comment-372 Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:22:31 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=155#comment-372 Hey Guardian,

You may already know this, but two of the wayward houses may have a new home soon.

A bulldozer showed up here on the 1400/1500 block of Columbus Street today to knock down a small, somewhat run-down existing home. My husband went over to inquire, and he reports that two of the skinny homes at the Protest-Federal Way intersection (just a few blocks from here) are destined for the lot.

The shoutgun homes won’t change our block’s character much, especially since there’s already a massive (for this area) two-story home on the adjacent lot, and ours is a block that’s roughly half rental, half owner-occupied. It’s no Crescent Rim, in other words, and the Depot Bench Neighborhood Association wouldn’t have objected to this change because I doubt anyone on our block is above the 15% tax bracket.

]]> By: HH https://boiseguardian.com/2005/11/14/wayward-homes-get-ticketed/#comment-371 Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:02:47 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=155#comment-371 Homeless shelters? No, too small. Trade those in for the Simplot joint – now that would house quite a few familes! Let the gov move into these two places…one for public affairs and one for his family.
It really would be a good social experiment to see who would run for office if they were expected to live on the bench in “infill” type of homes.

]]> By: Porcupine https://boiseguardian.com/2005/11/14/wayward-homes-get-ticketed/#comment-370 Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:27:23 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=155#comment-370 Tam
Dirk isn’t going to live in JR’s house…. any guesses who will be the first governor to live in it will be… my money is on his ex son-in-law, Butch. Something ironic about that… At least Butch will know where JR has hidden the key!

]]> By: Tam https://boiseguardian.com/2005/11/14/wayward-homes-get-ticketed/#comment-369 Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:34:18 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=155#comment-369 I like Ryan’s idea…afterall they are “homeless” “shelters”. You don’t really want to get me started on Smirken’ Dirk and his being an example for all to see of what’s really wrong with the entire living world. Conspicuous consumption doesn’t even begin to cover this one. JR could afford to build the house and live in it. Even then it wasn’t likely as “grand” as his fortune would have allowed it to be.

]]> By: Porcupine https://boiseguardian.com/2005/11/14/wayward-homes-get-ticketed/#comment-368 Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:20:19 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=155#comment-368 NR
Not to argue with you about the cost of rehabbing the Simplot house… it has cost us taxpayers money.
Simplot donates a old house the need to be fixed (MAI appraisal.. Made as instructed? )and guess what… he pays less tax, Federal and State! And who will be paying for the day to day operation of a house that big?

Simplot donates a money losing ice rink (Ice World) to the city, and guess what he pays less taxes Federal and State, and us poor tax payers get to pay for the losses out of the city budget.
I hope that I am as wise as he is when I am 90!

]]> By: Ryan https://boiseguardian.com/2005/11/14/wayward-homes-get-ticketed/#comment-367 Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:47:59 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=155#comment-367 Hey Porcupine, great ideas… I have another good one. Let’s get some rednecks to put blocks under these glorified trailer houses and we’ll have Boise’s newest homeless shelter…

]]> By: NR https://boiseguardian.com/2005/11/14/wayward-homes-get-ticketed/#comment-366 Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:35:05 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=155#comment-366 Not to diminish the “creepiness-factor” of having the governor inhabit a mansion on a hill(like the lord overlooking the peasants), but the renovations for the house are all private contributions, and nothing out of the state general fund.
And still off-topic, who in their right mind would buy a $2M house and spend $3M worth of renovations?

]]> By: Porcupine https://boiseguardian.com/2005/11/14/wayward-homes-get-ticketed/#comment-365 Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:44:47 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=155#comment-365 Our new Gov. is going to have a new house on a hill ( the old Simplot house), and the State of Idaho is going to spend millions of $ to fix it up! So why can’t Boise have a new house on a hill for our Mayor? For two or three million we could whip this house into shape…or maybe we could save some money to have this as a new school… or a new library, or take it down and use in for a new convention center? Please Boise use your head… many things we can do with it!

]]> By: Jack https://boiseguardian.com/2005/11/14/wayward-homes-get-ticketed/#comment-364 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:39:19 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=155#comment-364 My 1974 Ford van got a ticket while I was parked legally attending a meeting.

]]> By: Tam https://boiseguardian.com/2005/11/14/wayward-homes-get-ticketed/#comment-363 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:35:52 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=155#comment-363 Proving once again that “attractive” is in the eye of the beholder. If they plant them …will real houses grow?

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