Property values on my street have skyrocketed during the years I’ve endured the assault of a corrupt neighborhood watch and its speculating cronies. On Zillow.com, the property values in this northeast neighborhood jump with the sales, and in the years since the Great Recession there have been many. The result is an escalation in value of sixty percent or more.
The houses flanking my own modest 1940s home are now approaching the million dollar mark despite the lesser value of this property, each of them increasing in value something like $400,000 since the two single white male owners moved into them within weeks of each other about five years back. Recently sold houses line the street; yellow dots on the Zillow.com map show the path to the million dollar mark. The norm is houses sold recently, with few coming available.
Perhaps this was the goal of the racketeering of the nasty neighborhood watch and its speculator friends. Perhaps this is the million dollar row for which they’ve been trying for years to force me out of my rental home, almost certainly to compel its sale. As the nasty neighborhood watch lady of the northeast flung back over her shoulder at me the year before verbal abuse began to be piped into my home, “I hope someone buys it!” I don’t remember if this was before or after she told her then boyfriend in a stage whisper for me to hear, “I’m getting rid of her.” Here in northeast Seattle, the harassment of tenants, even piped into the home in which I should be able to shelter, is a component of a real estate scam hellbent on pushing up property values before house-flipping. You might call it “Hate for Real Estate.”
I remember reading sometime ago about the damage that sociopaths that do. Whoever said it, the statement appears to be true. At least, it’s true insofar as the effect of sociopathy, psychopathy, and racketeering on the fabric of the community in this northeast neighborhood where lesser home owners look for pretenses to file adverse possession lawsuits against their neighbors and those who are not interested in waging “property war” carefully mark the boundaries of their lots. Perhaps it’s true here along the lakeside in northeast Seattle, where a declining neighborhood watch is willing to use what may be unlicensed detectives, shaming crimes, cyber-crime, and even hate groups that hide behind “the Golden Rule,” to force their will on residents who believe that civil rights, and human rights, belong to us all.
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