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Three decker under renovations has partial deck collapse
By adamg on Sat, 04/09/2016 - 1:19pm
54 Sudan St. Problem was in rear; stuff in front may just be construction debris. Photo by ViralPenguin.
One of the rear porches at 54 Sudan St. partially collapsed around 12:45 p.m. Nobody was seriously injured; ISD was summoned to take a look.
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The house number is 56 Sudan
The house number is 56 Sudan St. The collapse was on the back deck (not pictured).
Sudan
Heres the owner
OWNER
YOUNG MARY B
https://www.conference-board.org/bio/index.cfm?bioid=416
a smart cookie.......lol
Try digging a little harder.
Try digging a little harder. House recently sold to a developer. Good work blasting the former owner
The Former Owner
That former owner is responsible for the sad state of the property, if you read the links below. She let it rot despite many reports of problems from neighbors.
The former owner is actually
The former owner is actually dead, and is not the women in the link. Her parents died as did her aunt. Both the mother and aunt were in a nursing home that had a lien against the property. The entire estate was tied up in probate court for years. The former owner did not have the means to keep up the house and would have sold it or fixed it up for rental is she had been able to.
Abandoned property
I believe this house was abandoned 5 or more years ago; it may have been abandoned nearly 20 years ago from what I remember of the street. Since the BRA likes to have the power of life and death where buildings and neighborhoods are concerned they could at least use that power to acquire the property and sell it to someone who would restore the structure.
Are there other buildings in the city which are deteriorating and could be renovated and made available to the portion of the middle class that need subsidies for housing (aka affordable housing)?
Should've Been Demolished
I work in real estate and walked through this property when it was on the market and it should've been demolished, not rehabbed.
The decks were a known problem (no one was allowed out on them) but the house had many other structural problems. On one of the units, you could've even walk on any of the bedroom or kitchen floors because they couldn't support the weight.
Yet didn't stop the sellers from holding multiple open houses and walking dozens of people through the property at once.
I ran away from the property based on how much money they were asking for essentially a tear down. Glad no one was hurt.
I remember a similar story a
I remember a similar story a few years ago in the Dorchester Reporter http://www.dotnews.com/2013/sudan-street-house-under-scrutiny-after-comp... . Guess the ISD is no stranger to the street.