In case you needed more motivation to keep fighting the evil ones...
EDIT: Lots of deleting going on below by the mods. I wondering who is trolling. Is that you, Cankles?
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The Boston Herald reports, “the building in question is condoized into nine units. The one listed on the police report, valued in city property records in the $520,000 range that seems low for pricey Southie, has been owned by the same woman since the early 1980s. She’s now in her 60s, and no family members have been able to be reached for comment.”
but all the listings I can find for this address have prices in the 200K range
you can't sniff a 500 square foot studio for $200k in southie. $520k assessed value could be worth $750$ plus in real market. Boston has surprisingly low real estate taxes for those living there as their primary home
I can speak to southie. been doing lots of business there for 15 years now. I can tell you real estate has gone through the roof and almost every 20 and 30 something wants to live there. lots folks bought for $30k 25 years ago are going for millions just for the land. 10 years ago it was coming along and well on it's way but still some undesirable areas.
it's really cleaned up and lots of the meth heads are gone or pushed to other areas away from the pricey real estate
Very interesting. I visited Boston for a conference 10 years ago, and did a half hour walk from my downtown hotel into Southie to see the apartment building (or condo building now?) whose exterior doubled as St. Eligius Hospital in the 1980's medical drama "St. Elsewhere," my all time favorite TV show.
On the show, Southie was portrayed as still being a lower middle/working class, somewhat rough and tumble neighborhood, which I've heard it really was back then. Even in 2012 on my Southie pilgramage by foot, I felt like I needed to have my head on a swivel just a bit. Certainly sounds like things have changed a lot... :)