20111120 Paoli Indiana Tornado November 2011

A tornado touched down in downtown Paoli Indiana earlier this week. This tornado did lots of damage to the town square where the county courthouse is located.

This same town square had a disasterous fire which burnt 1/4 of the square down.  Paoli was just begining clearing out the burnt lots when this tornado came thru.

This comes at a bad time with the holidays and all.  What was supposed to be a time for strolling around the decorated town square and Christmas Shopping has turned into a mess of rubble.

Please, if you're in the Louisville, Bloomington and Evansville area. Please do some of your shopping in the Paoli area.  Just visit and have a lunch in the area.  The people of Paoli can use your assistance.

They area a proud people and wont ask directly. So I am doing it for them.

SHOP PAOLI INDIANA and help bring back this community.

20111117 Some things to do in the San Leandro area

Oakland Zoo
Dunsmuir Hellman Historic Estate
Chabot Space and Science Center
Bayfair Center
Harry's Hof-Brau
Banchero's Italian Dinners
Porky's Pizza
East Bay Regional Parks
San Leandro Library
San Leandro Marina
Paradiso Restaurant
Cinemark Bayfair Cinemas
Zocalo Coffeehouse
Sabinos Coffee
Ghirardelli Outlet
Marina Square Outlets
Marina Square Auto Center
Ford Store San Leandro
Otis Spunkmeyer Cookies
Boulevard Burgers
Horatio's
Hilton Garden Inn San Leandro
San Leandro Marina Inn
Real Estate in San Leandro

20101027 The Bed & Breakfast and my planned additions.

Here are some of the ideas I am working on for turning the mansion into a bed & breakfast Inn.  Oakvale Park Inn will be located on the outskirts of West Baden Indiana.  I plan on adding a bathroom to each of the bedrooms at the front of the home.

The second floor would get a similar addition with bathrooms off the bedrooms up front as well as an upgrade to the existing master bathroom.

I would also add an innkeeper's cottage. The innkeeper's cottage may also be the prototype for extended stay cottages for RV (Recreational Vehicle) pad guests.  My owner's cottage will be the same with the exception of two additional bedrooms added out the rear of the unit.

20111026 Sorry I haven't blogged as much

Hello all again.

I've been twittering @mdgreenslade, follow me.  I am trying to get my web-presence up a notch.  I have also been dealing with some issues on my mansion back in Indiana.  I have also been dealing with mother's successful surgery for her colon cancer.

If you're on twitter, follow me, I think that I am doing to be able two tweet these postings.  I am covering a real estate course #RE101 and highlighting neighborhoods with #NeighborhoodSpotLight.

 Master Bath Ceiling

 Laundry Room Wall

 Dining Room Door

 Storage shed

 East Side View

On the issue of my house, as you may remember I've had a contractor installing a standing seam metal roof on the mansion, garage and storage building.  The contractor left the job 1/3 of the way through. My house was tarped once and then never maintained.  Ceilings and walls in just about every room in the house have been damaged.

The metal roof has to be trashed and now I am having a second new roof installed which will be an asphalt shingle (Certainteed Landmark Series Slate).

Now to some good news, the doctors at Kaiser Permanente were able to get all of mom's colon cancer.  She is now cancer free for the first time since 2005, that's six years with cancer.  She will be having radiation therapy to make sure that if anything is still there, it will not grow again.  I am so happy for her..

Now, I need to ramp up my Real Estate career.  If you know anyone looking to buy or sell real estate in the San Francisco East Bay area.  I would appreciate it if you would send them to me. 510 334-7800

20111007 Some recent updates

Some recent updates.  I have added a profile to HGTV's Frontdoor.com covering real estate in the San Francisco Bay Area.   Click the link to see.

http://www.frontdoor.com/pro/Sanleandro

I visited my property out in French Lick Indiana and checked out the roofing job that was supposed to have been going on.   Notice the way I phrased that.  The contractor, Mark Kimmel, walked hasn't worked on the house in months.  Rain has seeped into the interior and my tenants have been dealing with moving buckets around to catch the drips.   Ceilings have been falling down and the plaster on the dining room is, well, melting over the door to the veranda. I have already posted a Yelp.com review for the contractor.   2/3rds of my metal roof never showed up to the property and I am going to end-up getting the sheriff involved in what appears to be the theft of thousands of dollars of metal.

20110805 City employee parking abuse.

Here is a City of Oakland vehicle parking in the Grand Avenue pay lots.  These stalls go for $2.00 an hour.  This city worker is taking up three parking stalls.  That's $6.00 for the hour he was there (lunch hour) 

Let's not forget that if we mere citizens who pay his salary were to park in a manner like that we would get a very hefty parking ticket.

Oh did I mention that in this same pay lot there were two meter maid SUV vehicles also parked there too.

No wonder the city is complaining about not enought revenue coming in.  Let's make these exempt vehicles accountible for their actions.  Parking tickets to the law breaking employees. 

It's only fair

20110430 Let's solve the national budget

1) Ground Air Force One for daily use and fundraising trips.  Use of the executive jet to be used to go to funerals of world leaders and when needed to evacuate the President in case of a threat to Washington D.C.

All other trips can be and should be substituted with secured teleconferencing from the oval office. There will be plenty of time for vacation after your term is over.

2) Banks--- It was in large part due to your bad loans causing this collapse of the Real Estate Market.  Stop flooding the market with your foreclosure mistakes.  Stopping the flood of foreclosures on the market, you will help save the value of the surrounding homeowners in each neighborhood. 

If you must foreclose on homes keep them in your inventory.  Set up a property management subsidiary and rent the houses back to homeowners that are foreclosed upon.   I wouldn't suggest that the homeowners that lost that house rent as part of that program.  Let the dislocated homeowners move in as tenants into another home as a renter in the same town or city.  Let's make the rent fair and equitable.

3) If someone is in our country illegally, we need to stop pandering to them and supporting them with our public services and assistance.

4) We need to go back to the constitution and reexamine our spending habits.  If it's not in your charter, we don't require you to spend a dime on it.  Do not expect the public to sponsor your pet projects.