Springfield: rentals and other issues

[nvrenuf]

We have a friend with several rental properties off Moncreif and E 6th (not in the HS district) and north toward MLK. She manages all her properties herself and they are in great shape. Approx 95% of her tenants are thankful to be in her rentals as opposed to others and they don't even get upset about paying the late fee for being just one day late. I say approx 95% because she's had 2 evictions over the last couple years. She doesn't allow her properties to get out of shape. Maybe it has something to do with her visiting them at least once a week.

She also does background checks, won't allow any with criminal background and immediately evicts if an arrest occurs.

[soxfan]

It's Springfield. May not be the 'historic' district, but the place was still part of the original Springfield/New-Springfield plat. And if you're nit-picking, then I'd love to hear your take on the Chop-Shop they had in the garage at 1531 Hubbard, which was definitely Springfield, and ditto with the issues at 1719 Perry, which Springfield and Historic District.

The place has improved, but it's still rough.

Dude, One stripped down Caddie does not a chop shop make.. That's just one stolen and stripped car. They find them all the time usually in abandoned lots or seldom used streets. All that says is that you never went into that garage and the guys that used it to strip the car knew they would be able to strip it and not have to worry about being interrupted. If they were running a  chop shop there, you wouldn't have found the shell of the car. They would've gotten rid of it to make room for the next one. Unless this garage was big enough for 2-3 cars at a time... Regardless, I agree with alot of what you're writing but, like DTP, I believe alot is overstated...

[zoo]

Let's revisit how European Cafe in Avondale was robbed by someone with an AK-47, and the Walgreen's at Park & King was held up at gunpoint twice, and the Gate gas station/convenience store on Hendricks just south of Emerson was held up (then the perpetrators running through the nearby neighborhoods with guns)...

No hyperbole there - those things really happened in 2008 (maybe 2007?) San Marco and Avondale are very scary places.

[jbm32206]

Exactly...and that's the very point that we've been making...that the issues are not specific to Springfield, it's everywhere.

[ChriswUfGator]

Let's revisit how European Cafe in Avondale was robbed by someone with an AK-47, and the Walgreen's at Park & King was held up at gunpoint twice, and the Gate gas station/convenience store on Hendricks just south of Emerson was held up (then the perpetrators running through the nearby neighborhoods with guns)...

No hyperbole there - those things really happened in 2008 (maybe 2007?) San Marco and Avondale are very scary places.

Well yeah, there's nothing I could possibly say in defense of the Park & King Walgreens. I won't even go into that place anymore. I got sick of being accosted by pushy vagrants demanding money (note my word choice over "begging" or "asking" as it's accurate). That place is gross, like an oasis of ghetto inside an otherwise nice area.

Yet...the City lets that be, and then goes gangbusters to hassle the Pearl where nobody bothers anybody...

[uptowngirl]

Chris I can agree with you here, there is MUCH bigger crime in the city than over crowding at the Pearl.

What I do not agree with is  how you have painted Springfield as the most crime ridden, crack alley in Jacksonville, it just isn't true. A big difference between Springfield and places like Avondale and San Marco is the people. We all look out for one another and NOTICE what is going on around us. If i was a criminal Avondale, Riverside, San Marco, Ortega, any suburb is the best place to go. Those people are not prepared, not expecting it, and not paying attention. Try to rob or attack someone in Springfield and find out how prepared they are. Now if JSO gave US as much police coverage and response as these other neighborhoods......

[RiversideGator]

Well yeah, there's nothing I could possibly say in defense of the Park & King Walgreens. I won't even go into that place anymore. I got sick of being accosted by pushy vagrants demanding money (note my word choice over "begging" or "asking" as it's accurate). That place is gross, like an oasis of ghetto inside an otherwise nice area.

Yet...the City lets that be, and then goes gangbusters to hassle the Pearl where nobody bothers anybody...

I can report that the Park and King Walgreens now has a video camera out front and I have not seen a vagrant begging there in many months.  So, it is safe to return.  As for a robbery there, I have not heard of this but it is open 24 hours a day so I suppose that might make it more vulnerable.  In any case, I have never seen any criminality there beyond the begging a long time ago.

[RiversideGator]

BTW, thank you for your first hand insight Chris.  I am not quite ready to make any move right now but Springfield still remains on my radar screen.  Hope springs eternal, I suppose.