I'm going for a Guinness World Record here. Can I make someone fall asleep using fewer words in one sentence than ever before? Here goes: In a Google search for a certain slumlord, a rather interesting spreadsheet with housing data came my way.
No, wait! This really IS important for NoMi and even for all of Minneapolis. Don't lose consciousness just yet, please. The document in question is the 2009 Board of Appeal and Equalization list of applications for reductions in assessed property values. Look, I'm sorry. No matter how I try and present this stuff, it just comes off as verbal Ambien. So let's jump right to the juicy stuff, shall we?
Bashir Moghul. Quite a few Moghuls, actually. Danna D III. Property owners we haven't covered on NoMi blogs yet, such as My Truong, Steven Meldahl, and Patrick C. Burns come up quite a bit here too. It's not known if any of those last four are problematic landlords, but in my experience, very few people or businesses seem to manage that many properties well.
Furthermore, until regular citizens are able to search property records with the name of the owner as a search criteria, lists like this may be the best way to determine something close to the full list of properties owned by a particular person. Why? Well, I'm glad you asked. It's because...
