Dump Here
by Bill Dusty
Meet the Danieles.
They’re a proud Italian family. They own at least two properties – one at 64 Magnolia Circle, in Longmeadow, MA, the other at 56/58 Adams Street, in Springfield’s South End.
Below is their home in Longmeadow….
The Danieles love their home in Longmeadow – and it shows. Nicely landscaped, beautiful woodwork and patio areas. Very nice.
Unfortunately, the Danieles are apparently not so loving of their other property, the one in Springfield. Notice the man-made landscaping along the front porch and sidewalk? I sure did.
I’ve called up the city-recorded owners of this property once this past spring regarding their dump site. I’ve also called up the Springfield ordinance police (the “flex squad”) twice since February. The second time I called, the police told me that the city is taking the assessed owners to court in order to enter the property and clean it up. But this appears to be a failing effort on the part of the city, as the tenants simply replace one trash heap with another – oftentimes worse – mountain of garbage. The trash in the above picture is the third such dumping ground since the beginning of the year. The tenants dumped this crap a mere day after I saw a city code enforcement vehicle pulled up with a guy checking out the property. I think perhaps the tenants now have the mindset that they can just dump away because, hell, the city will eventually clean it up for them, anyway (if the city has, in fact, ever entered the property at all).
Now, the tenants of course hold a major part of the blame in this situation, since it is they who are performing the actual dumping. But this property has been an absolute pig sty and eyesore on this street for at least a year, now. And with at least myself and the City of Springfield giving them phone calls and making complaints, you’d think the Danieles would either clean up their property, evict the slob tenants, or sell it.
But no. Better to just spit in the face of not only the City, but also the neighbors along the street who have to endure looking at this shit hole.
So that’s the neighbor we have to live next door to every day here in Springfield, folks. And for you folks living on Magnolia Circle in Longmeadow, now you know the kind of shitty property owner you have living near you.
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Nice work, Bill. What about printing it up and mailing it to the Daniele’s with a note saying that if it isn’t cleaned up and if it ever happens again, you’re sending picture to their next door neighbors in Longmeadow. This approach gets results fast.
And then there’s always picketing the Longmeadow house with enlargement photos of the Adams Street property and the inspection reports from the city. This worked well for us when the Alexopouloses of Longmeadow were reluctant to make repairs on their Carver Street Springfield property. We got really good press coverage, the property got fixed up and has been pretty nice ever since.
Well done.
I will give the landlord the benefit of the doubt and suggest that it might be a problem with a bad tennent. Having said that it does not excuse the dump on the treebelt. Why dont we clean up the treebelt on Adams street and dump it on the treebelt of the home on Magnolia Terrace.
I bet it would then get cleaned up very quickly.
think the people/person living on Magnolia has been divorced for years…..who owns the Springfld prop. ? The ex-husband or woman living in L-meadow……Somewhat irrelevant as prop should be cleaned up but did not want to “trash” woman if ex owns the other prop.
I”d call the housing office DAILY and tell them you want them to FINE them.. this is a Violation of the city ordinance.. they should go there and fine this landlord!
Bugg the crap out of them.. I doo.. Drive around
call up on all the azzholes with furnature and crap on tree belts and they go and sudeenly its gone.. HHUUMM?
The squeeky wheel!
Be one.. take back our city from these slum lords..
GGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRR!
Whose to say this pile was there temporarily so that arrangements for a truck were made. whose to say that pile was there for any longer than a half a day. Whose to say that the oner’s, who happen to be from longmeadow have kept the structure and land of the property up better than some of the shxtholes springfield residents own? whose to say there are not properties in Longmeadow that are as much unkempt as well. Whose to say someone doesnt have an axe to grind. whose to say some people jump to conclusions? whose to say some people must not live in glass houses?
oh bythway Bill, try policing the spfld owners who keep thier properties worse that this as vigilently as non resident owners otherwise you seem to have an axe to grind, putz
UkidME… whatever your name is…
First of all, *I* am the one who says this trash has been dumped on this property for more than a day or so. I live here, and I have dealt with it for months now. It is not for you – some anonymous posting coward, who may very well be the accused land owner – to say otherwise.
I did not write this post because I have nothing better to do with my time. This post is the result of months of frustration and having to deal with an abusive neighbor and ignorant land owner.
Second of all, any other neglected properties in other parts of Springfield, or anywhere in Longmeadow, are entirely irrelevant to the property I’m talking about.
Finally, I have lived in Springfield for 22 years. The non-resident land owners of this city are absolutely criminal compared to owner-occupied residents. For you to say otherwise merely means you are a non-resident landlord yourself.
Coward.
it is absolutly not irrelevant. your pinpoint activism ignors the general problem you don quixte about. The problem is larger than one home owned by one person living in one brub. Aim your tooth brush at the homes I’ve seen in Spfld owned by springfieldites that look just a the property you target. why the unjust venom? Additonally, what is your absent critism of the call of renters in Spfld who fail to show a minimum level of decency towards the property thaey temporarily reside in? So the landlord are to blame when it is thier property at risk and never the human beings who choose to live as such. Your voluntary musings here are certain one sided.
as for your anominity crack, hello, welcome to the internet.
BTW you don’t mind not knowing the names of people who agree with you do ya? Why not try a post filed with ire aimed at td, M.SKI
First of all, I believe I did state that the tenants share much of the blame. It is they, after all, who are doing the dumping. Perhaps, however, I was not clear enough on this particular issue: The property owner has been notified several times of dumping issues, and has also been taken to court by the City. Yet the property remains a dump. The owner *does not care* what happens on her property.
Secondly, on anonymity: It is cowardly to attack somebody under an anonymous username. You hide behind it, knowing that no matter how ugly and insulting you are, you are not personally accountable for your statements. You also may be a landlord, yourself, seeking to deflect blame for your own neglected property.
Anonymous posters who *do not* insult others have no reason to be ridiculed since they are not using their anonymity to attack others. If you cannot see the difference, then you are a child. And I do not debate with children.
Thirdly, “td” is not anonymous. He is Tommy Devine, a friend of mine.
Lastly, the situation I have on my street is a problem I am dealing with because it directly affects me and my property. It is up to other people in other troubled neighborhoods to deal with their issues. I am not Batman. Your statement appears to be, “if you do not go after *everybody* who violates city ordinances, then you cannot go after anybody t all.” Which is stupid.
I am done with you, now, UkidME. I have other projects to work on, and I’m not going to debate with an anonymous user on this matter any longer.
Any further comments by you will be deleted.
Welcome to my blog.
Bill, these posts are just the same old, same old excuses from slum lords and their surrogates blaming tenants for all code violations. I’ve heard them blame tenants for problems with roofs and chimneys (really). Of course some tenants do destructive things and are slobs, but tenants as a class aren’t some slovenly sub-human species. Hasn’t anybody in Springfield who now owns a home ever in their entire lives been a renter? Sheesh!
Part of a Springfield landlord’s job is educating tenants about the right way to do things here. After all, if somebody moves here from East Cupcake, Montana, they might not know about buying a sticker for the old couch they want to throw away, etc. It would be better all around if landlords spent a few minutes telling new tenants how to prepare trash, recyling and bulk items in Springfield.
Until we enact laws prohbiting absentee owners, this problem will continue to fester. It is nothing more than yet one more symptom of the breakdown and collapse of the system of captalism without reponsibility that our current free enterprise system has forced upon us.
If we had legislators who were not so cowardly, they would represent the people and not the corporate and business interests they have been corrupted by and are no beholden to.
The solution is simple people, as long as we allow our national and local culture promulgate meterialism, money, and overall greed as positive attributes, the community will continue to suffer at their hands.
The time has come to rise up and rebel against the new materialism that has stolen the lives and dreams of multiple generations, and start living a life where life values mean more than property values. Unbridled capitalism has failed our country, and it is time to move to a new green economy and end this miserable experiment that has created ultra poor and ultra greedy class that both have no place in our society.
In the end, we will all realize there is more to life than your net worth.
Our resistance will not be futile. I encourage each and every reader to step outside their comfort zone and consider joining a real political party (Green?) and trying to effect grass roots change until enough us are ready to end capitalism forever.
And I forgot to mention, good article Bill! I find it highly amusing to see how many apologists are here for the Daniele’s, yet no one has stepped forward to remove the eyesore and blight.
My first home was a multi in Springfield. I loved the house. I loved the neighborhood. 33 Longfellow Terrace. I de-leaded, put in new windows(56 total), siding, poured new concrete for the front walk. I really fixed the place up. Then I moved to East Longmeadow. I tried to keep the house, but, I made a poor choice for tenants. They were section 8, which, i figured meant that section 8 would help protect me from tenants that didn’t respect their house.
Nope, these tenants were like that movie Pacific Heights. I called the SPD because they were dealing drugs out of the house. They didn’t take up my offer to set up a sting on my vacant first floor. They help me prevent the constant traffic going in and out of this house.
The courts had me pay all sorts of filing and sheriffs fees. I went 4 months without rent, I had over $2500 in damages, and I couldn’t recover a dime.
I sold the property. It’s sad, because I loved that house. I am relieved to be out of that situation. Perhaps the owners of this property are stuck and don’t know how to handle the situation.
Hey Bill B,
I used to live next door to you, at #35. The very next day after we moved out, there was a drug bust at #33. The cops pinned the guy down and handcuffed him in my former yard.
We loved our house too, but we weren’t happy with the neighborhood and the things we saw and heard on a daily basis. We had hoped we could make a positive influence by keeping the property nice, etc., but instead I found myself staying inside most times because I didn’t want my kids around all that behavior right outside.
It’s sad, isn’t it, Robin. When I first bought at Longfellow Terrace it was a good neighborhood. Less than 10 years has changed the neighborhood for the worse.
I hope you were able to get into a better place!
Bill
saw Mrs Danielle at a copy center in Longmeadow yesterday. Running the world, she was! Rude to Manager, oblivious to the “No cell phone” signes everywhere as she bellowed in Italian to her caller. I’m not convinced SHE isn’t the one doing the dumping- slob!