ISO Handyman

[Oladybug]

Can anyone recommend an honest, reliable handyman available for a South Philly job?

[Oladybug]

We just need somebody to come out and install a cap over an open sewer vent pipe in our sidewalk.

P.S. Thanks also for the info in your signature line. I followed the links about tax-delinquent properties and found that a vacant eyesore dump of a house a few doors up from me is tax-delinquent by over $11K. I'm really seriously thinking about starting the enforced sheriff's sale process, but I'm sure the ol' man will tell me to mind my own business though. I think I'll start a new thread on this topic.

[Dave]

We just need somebody to come out and install a cap over an open sewer vent pipe in our sidewalk. My hubby called up Jack (who, by the way, says his last name is McCullen, not McClone)

LOL.

P.S. Thanks also for the info in your signature line. I followed the links about tax-delinquent properties and found that a vacant eyesore dump of a house a few doors up from me is tax-delinquent by over $11K. I'm really seriously thinking about starting the enforced sheriff's sale process, but I'm sure the ol' man will tell me to mind my own business though. I think I'll start a new thread on this topic.

While I don't necessarily advocate putting tax-delinquent properties up for sheriff's sale if there's somebody living there (even though everyone's responsible for paying their taxes), I think that properties that are abandoned and tax delinquent should be fair game. Many of these people don't even know they own the property because their Aunt Margaret who passed away left it to them (or it went to them automatically when their parent(s) passed away), or don't care that they own it because it's in the crappy neighborhood they left when they went to college and, once they get the sheriff's sale notice, they suddenly take more of an interest in their forgotten/unknown asset. There was a property a block or two from my house that was several years delinquent and somebody must have started sheriff's sale proceedings because the delinquent taxes suddenly got paid off and the owner showed up to seal the house up with ply-wood. It's still abandoned, but at least it's generating some revenue for the city and is no longer "open to the public."

I would actually encourage you to start the process on that vacant lot. I think the article mentions a way you can do it anonymously, if you want to avoid any potential trouble with the owner.