Last week, I bought a house with my partner in the Stevens Square neighborhood in Minneapolis. Weāve been renting the house for about eight years and in October 2019, our landlord informed us that he intended to sell both of his properties in the coming year, likely in April. Then the pandemic happened and despite our sustained interest in purchasing the house, it took until July 2021 for us to finally close on it. He didnāt want to use agents, which meant we had to do a lot of the work, things got done out of order, and we wound up having something like five inspectors out, along with three (or was it four?) assessments done by the time we got through.ā£ Ā ā£ Some interesting history of our house, which has an unusually large footprint with a massive (for a neighborhood a stoneās throw from downtown) side yard. Itās a corner lot, but itās still a lot bigger yard than anywhere around us. Our house sits on the very eastern side of the plot and there are two very similarly shaped houses to our east, with maybe 12ā between the structures. When the houses were all built in 1884, there were actually five houses built (see for reference), all similarly shaped. But where, you may ask, did those additional two houses go? If you look up the history of Minneapolis, particularly criminal histories, youāll find there was an arsonist who ran rampant in the late seventies, who was never caught, but was tied to the fiery destruction of many homes and businesses at the time.ā£ Ā ā£ The home on the corner was converted into a duplex at some point, then an additional structure was added onto it and served as a convenience store for the neighborhood. When I looked up the permit records for that building, it shows electrical contractors installing neon āGrain Belt Premiumā and PBR signs before it got torched. Luckily, that building and the one next to it were both abandoned at the time of the fire, so the only loss was structural. Apparently, the city didnāt really want to deal with cleaning up somebody elseās mess, so they contacted the homeowner of our house and told him that if he cleared the lot *and* built a garage somewhere on the land, that theyād just add it onto his parcel.ā£
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