Especially if it's dangerous to get from your car to the front door and worry if you'll be raped and murdered when you're home. You don't just buy a house, you buy the neighborhood, too.
Yes. Precisely. They made their bed; now they can lay in it. Woke ideology produces a 'reversal of fortune' effect. Instead of a healthy city growing, expanding, becoming more advanced, Portland is reversing everything that made it a beautiful tourist destination and a wonderful place to live and work. The voters chose their leaders, so they alone shoulder the blame. I have neither sympathy nor patience for people who knowingly choose to inflict injury upon themselves. The irony of the woke agenda is that it is the homeless who now rule Portland, and not the voters, homeowners, and businesses.
Absolutely correct and if this woman voted for democrats within the last 5 years, she should be forced to stay right where she is. God forbid, most of these woke idiot liberals are moving to red states and ruining those areas with their bad ideas and voting records. They are too stupid to understand that they are the reason their cities have been destroyed, so they unfortunately, don't leave their terrible voting habits in their blue states when they inevitably have to flee from their homes.
What a stupid statement. These squatting drug addicts don't care about who is in office. Round them up and put them on a private island. They can live in their filth without affecting anyone else.
The cost of camps, porch thefts, car thefts, break-ins, lost property value, should be charged to the mayor, the commissioners, and the army of bureaucrats running this city. If they feel the impact, maybe they’ll start doing their jobs.
The few who were not insane, good for them, I'm very glad they escaped. Portland used to have liberals who were not totally insane, it was manageable. Now they are all Communists, Marxists, Socialists, bent on destroying America and the nuclear family.
My husband and I did the same 12years ago. Moved to Birdsview, Wa. Population about 300. Can't say how happy I am that we did. You couldn't pay me to live with Portland now.
@@Dannyvirk There are, but much more & larger cities, with problems from liberal ideology. Wake up and look at your party. You probably grew up liberal & your friends are, like me. But really, last 10 years who are they, crazy beliefs!
So glad we moved both our businesses out of the cess pool that was once my favorite city on the planet. All I can say to people is move away from the west coast. We're in Huntsville, AL now and it's given me a new appreciation for life. There are still places with values that respect businesses. Just not on the west coast
That is a tiny house, not even 1200 square feet, with a cramped kitchen and exactly one bathroom. There's a tacky little hair salon next door, and an auto body shop across the street. But yeah, she did "lower the price" to a MERE $379,000. 🤣🤣🤣 Lady, please.
How else is she gonna find her retirement 😂? She feels like she’s getting lowballed by having to lower the price. This is one of the bigger issues is homeowners asking for way too much thinking they know the market better than real estate appraisers
@@currenteventsenthusiast9477 Bro, that's ridiculous. In a sane world, that little dump wouldn't even cost $40K. Over the last 50 years greedy, clueless Americans have bent over and allowed home prices to rise to such outlandish heights that average people can't possibly afford them. Now everybody's wringing their hands and wondering why their hovels can't sell, and OMG, where did all these homeless people come from? Here's what's going to wind up happening, and oh oops, it's already happening. Super-wealthy investors---many from China, Dubai, India, Saudi Arabia and, oh yes, Iran---are snapping up these "unsellable" homes and renting them back to U.S. citizens who haven't a prayer of ever owning houses themselves. Americans have become so blinded by real estate dollar signs that we're selling our country right out from under us; nobody even has to fire a shot.
that fat daughter of hers is exactly whats wrong with portland. youre not 20 anymore. the sympathy and emotional understanding needs to turn into logic and reasoning: these bums are drug addicts. kick them out.
If you want this problem to abate, you have to have state-run mental hospitals with drug remediation available. This will also likely involve involuntary medical detention. Its been interesting to see the difference between the west coast and east coast on how they handle this situation. On the east coast, its shelter and drug treatment first, then housing; whereas, on the west coast, its housing first. Looks like we found out which one works the best.
Housing does nothing if someone isn't clean first. Look at these campsites. These people cannot manage a household-at all. The legal framework already exists for involuntary medical detentions, as you phrased it. They are breaking the law after all, and are subject to incarceration. Some states just choose not to do it. They think compassion and tough love are different things.
Well, maybe so but if you want improvement the first course of action is to imprison all politicians in Oregon. Then, proceed with your dream solution. East coast has the same problem and no solutions. Politicians still walk the streets - with armed bodyguards.
Remember when using drugs were illegal…? Or when we had mental health facilities? Or what about the millions of dollars that go to service providers to help these individuals to get ideas jobs in into recovery programs… Oh no one’s worried about those things
What is most interesting to me is where these camps do not exist. They do not exist in your mayor's neighborhood or any other of your states leaders neighborhoods. Those neighborhoods use enforcement to prevent such things. Unfortunately, if you don't live in those "nice" neighborhoods it's up to you to do something about it.
It used to happen right in front of the Mayors apartment downtown, and INSIDE the building. He was basically forced to move, to a different city. He wasn't very popular with the neighbors due to it. Antifa even started a fire on the bottom floor. It's all on youtube.
Many of these homes are perched up on the steeper west hills making it more difficult for homeless to camp. It certainly does happen from time to time, but it's more rare. What's happening is they are setting up along the east Bank of the Willamette- so all the west hill houses have a lovely view of the slum on the river.
She's sad. I bet she also voted repeatedly for the politicians who allowed things to get to this point. Maybe she needs to drop the price another $15K to escape Portland.
My daughter and her husband left before it got really bad. Went there for work. Luckily they never bought a house. They decided to rent. This lady is not going to sell that house at that price with what is in her neighborhood. She may have to abandon it if this continues. The daughter expects the city to do something. Not happening. They don’t care. But keep on voting for the wrong people.
shes probably asking way to much for a 2/1 in a bad neighborhood those covid prices are gone should have sold a year ago...with interest rates so high who would be able to afford a 429K 2/1 with a 7% interest rate..
Let her rent her house in the meantime. I’m sure she can find a renter. However the house has zero curb appeal. A little effort to polish up the front of the house. Cut the grass , add a nice pot of flowers. Paint the front door. Etc. And maybe she’s asking too much.
Oh, they've tried that. The realtor's got Susie paying for all the usual tricks. Plant a few shrubberies! Hang flowerpots by the door! Powder blue paint in the ONE, postage-stamp bathroom! Photoshop Expand-o-Vision! 🤣 All to avoid the obvious: That shack is barely worth $37K, not $379K.
I'd argue is has more to do with the over inflated price of the housing market. Put your house up for $400k and people will trample one another for that house.
This is what happens when "compassion" overrides common sense. Accountability is also a form compassion because it's hardly compassionate to let people live in squalor and to let crime and filth afflict other residents. A more enlightened approach (though I am sure one which will never be enacted) is to require the homeless to stay in either non profit or government shelters. If they refuse, they go to jail. Also, the police should be increased and the DAs should be required to prosecute all crimes, even minor ones. That would start to change the situation.
American compassion, you have no universal health care, highest imprisonment rate in the world, a federal minimum wage of $7.25 with zero benefits or sick/maternity leave. The govern in Texas just banned water breaks for construction workers in 3 triple digit heat. Your only export is badly built cars and weapons of mass destruction. What a joke, American compassion, the only thing Reagan was right about is if the American government says 'we are here to help', the best thing you can do is run.
How would the da prosecute all the crimes? They don't have the staffing and it's what the dude has said for a while. But yall just wanna point and scream.
So glad I got out over a year ago. It's only downhill from here and may be too late to get out at this point. Feel bad for my old neighbors but I warned them!
You knew this was going to happen. You wait too long and then nobody wants to buy your place. This was coming. Now it's there. The homeless problem has been growing for over 10 years already.
@@zmonsterk you're right.... but a HUGE majority did. I USED to live in California and I escaped 12 years ago . If she didn't vote for it she waited too long to get the hell out of Dodge.....
@@williamhickock1203 so very glad you left but it’s not alway easy to see the writing on the wall and even if you do be able to leave. There is a lot of foolish people and I guess they will reap their stupid… particularly in California.
@@raydn23 yes, I know. I grew up in Colorado. When I was a kid, there were bumper stickers everywhere that read dont CaliFORNICATE Colorado. Colorado has definitely been CaliFORNICATED.
She needs to drop the price... again... and unload before interest-rates go up again; my guess is it's overpriced in the market of yesteryear Rose City. Some fool from CA might but it, but I wouldn't wait around for that offer as Portland continues its death-spiral. It's a toxic asset.
nope, the question to ask is why do folks 'not' have to work to eat, when mandating 'work' to eat it solves multitudes of issues, so till this ends march on to the tune of liberals and their mantra...
I think of the lady’s statement “no one is making a difference of doing anything”. It’s the liberal way. Complain about everything but do absolutely nothing. Being non productive, disrespectful and irresponsible caused this mess.
@@Dannyvirk ~ The problem is people like you who people are homeless because they can't afford housing. The homeless problem is a mental health and substance abuse issue. Period.
Everyone seems to think homelessness is largely a function of expensive home prices. In reality it is largely a result of addiction, mental illness, tolarance for criminal activity and a generation raised with a victim and entitlement mentality. You can build as much low cost housing as you want but when drug addicted people move in it will be trashed just like they trash everything they touch.
Thank you...Thank you.....Thank you......I am sick of all these comments about providng "affordable housing" and "More jobs" as you pointed out....most of these persons are living on the streets because of their addictions that often manifest into "mental illness" but the tolerance for criminal activity by local governments also is a HUGE factor!
I was a public health nurse for 10 years working with the homeless. Very, very few wanted a better life. The wanted drugs, liquor, smokes etc. I filled out paperwork on the people I worked with for a decade, the system failed as the clients didn't want to change but no where did any of my documentation make a bit of difference in the plan of care. They don't want to change a thing in their lives.
It's not just the house, you buy into the neighborhood, too. I agree, if it's too dangerous to get from the car to the front door no screaming good price is worth it.
This is heartbreaking on both sides. I live right where this is and SE Portland is the hot spot for developers and real estate corporations. There are tons of new homes poorly built and existing home prices are still really high regardless. The new apartment buildings--again run by corporations--are just as expensive to rent with tons of *fees and they will raise your rent any chance they get to *market rate. Realize that they do not want long-term tenants. This is all gentrification. I know, I'm a native from San Francisco and this all started in mid-1990s thanks to the dot commies. Haves and have-nots. There is no middle class. I will tell you this--quality of life is much, much better here and I would never move back to CA.
there's loads of short term tenants in the area...all living on the streets. It's not just the house or apartment, it's the neighborhood. If you're murdered getting to the front door who cares what the property is valued at.
@@eckankar7756 Exactly, many people never think of the future and live for the day. Than all of a sudden - they're 50 something and complaining about economics. Always someone else to blame.
Its not heartbreaking. Its stupidity. People that elect the leftist politicians who allow this get what they deserve. Cry on someone else's shoulder. I bet the politicians will cry with you.
I really don't think that guy is struggling to get into a home. Having a place to live would just take away from his drug money, unless it was free, but the places they want to give to the homeless (shelters, subsidized housing) don't allow drug use, so those would be a no-go for him. He'll just continue to stay right where he is, unless someone forces him out of it against his will
My house in Tacoma proper was right on the main drag from a homeless mission and I knew it was just a matter of time before they started camping in my front yard. Sold the house, made a chunk of money and moved somewhere that I knew no one would be camping in my yard except me.
There are already laws on the books in Portland. The city government is stalling citizens. No driver's license, vehicle registration, trash, drugs, illegal parking, camping on right of ways, blocking access, fire codes, all these issues give PD probable cause for search, seizure, and arrest. If the homeless are constantly hassled they will move on, or return home. Research studies estimate 40-60% of homeless on the west coast are from out of state.
@@ITheorey they come to where I live and I introduce them to all of my neighbors the Smiths, and the Wessons, the Mossburgs, the Glocks, the Sig-Saures, the Barettas, and any one else who wants to join the party, that will change their minds really quick.
stop rescuing them, let them OD, stop feeding them. Citizens are going to have to revive the old vigilante groups and take the situation in their own hands.
Housing is nuts! This house sold in 1995 for $76,700. If you put that number in an inflation calculator it would be just over $153,500 today. So in the last 28 years, inflation has been 100% and this house's value has inflated 388%. If it sells for $300,000 her investment will have doubled the rate of inflation....
Wow homeless camped out in your front yard make it harder to sell your house really sounds like this woman should sue the city of Portland I think all the homeowners in Portland should sue Portland have a class action lawsuit like in Phoenix they are winning their lawsuit against the City of Phoenix Phoenix is going to have to clean up their crabtastic homeless encampment why don't the people in Portland get it together and Sue the city of Portland too
if you'd take the time to actually follow the news in Portland,. you'd already know this already happened (and they won). Of course, winning a Lawsuit is not some magical overnight fix to this problem. It still has to be effectively (and humanely and ethically) enforced. There's also Oregon House Bill 3115 (passed in June 2021) that says enforcement has to consider how many available shelter beds exist (which due to Portlands signficant homeless population, there's likely never going to be enough). No amount of Lawsuits or rotating politicians is going to effectively change this situation. We need better ideas for "boots on the ground" day to day solutions.
8 years ago I owned a home near SE 70th and Duke. I got a ticked for my $300,000 motorhome being farther forward in my yard than the front of the house. FULLY ON MY PROPERTY…. Just too long to fit fully behind the front of the house. Portland sucks. Code violation! Why me and not all those crappy campers in the street? Simple. I had the financial ability to pay a fine. It’s never been about the homeless people. There's just no way for the government to monetize a solution. If homeless people could pay a fine …. The city would be out in force cleaning up neighborhoods.
Feel so bad for this woman. Looks like a well maintained starter home. Sold our house in Hawaii a year ago and I almost feel guilty for the multiple offers and the final sales price.
Funny, it's not just the homeless. It's the economy and ridiculous housing prices that is stopping home buying/selling. The homeless gave always been here, greed has increased the problem.
I met a crazy one a couple weeks ago. I am a Realtor in Florida. A couple in their 60s has a beautiful mid-century house they restored beautifully. It is in a very nice neighborhood with very little crime, clean and prosperous. They are selling the home because they claim living in Florida has become intolerable from the policies of our governor DeSantis. They bought a condo in downtown Portland. I will never understand that level of delusion but am pleased they will no longer be voting in Florida.
I moved from Portland to Tigard (one town over) about four months ago, after about nine months in Portland (just blocks from the lady's house). I sleep well at night not worrying about my catalytic converters being stolen. No homeless camps anywhere. Amazing what republican(ish) governance can do (or, more accurately: not tolerate and actively encourage).
one doesnt realize how city government policies really do affect your life. i was there probably 8-10 years ago for a coffee show. Such a pretty city. But i noticed then how the trains were all free and the little plexiglass muchroom "things" were downtown & asked what they were. "oh, those are for you to leave your leftovers under the plexiglass for the homeless so they can eat & they can move around freely on mass transit".... can anyone say "bring me your troubled, those who don't want to work, etc & watch what we will do to your city when word of mouth spreads among us & many come & we take over & create chaos"....best of intentions from the city with little to no foresight as to what would happen. YOU DONT GIVE A PERSON A FISH---Teach them to get off their lazy ass & learn to fish! Be responsible for your own actions. NO ONE OWES YOU ANYTHING. Where you are today is a result of the actions you have taken in the past. it's just a fact of life. Next will be reparations for all these people who were raised in "bad" situations as children. Boo-hoo, it's my parents fault. Hellen Keller took a shitty situation into which she was born & lived a life well worth living, making a difference in the lives of millions. The list goes on of people who were born into crappy situations & still decided to do something with their lives.
She's selling this 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom shack for nearly $400k! Even at the peak of the housing market this is way too much (homeless or no homeless)
Nearly half a million for these small places with barely a yard is ridiculous. Some Cali transplants will buy them eventually.
That's actually really cheap here
Actually, if you look at the comparables around that area, $400,000 for a house like that is not at all uncommon in her area.
Especially if it's dangerous to get from your car to the front door and worry if you'll be raped and murdered when you're home. You don't just buy a house, you buy the neighborhood, too.
Keep in mind these are slab homes with no central heating or a/c. And walls made of paper. They use plywood for siding there. It's a city for fools.
Those people voted for the leadership that encouraged this, they got what they voted for.
Yes. Precisely. They made their bed; now they can lay in it. Woke ideology produces a 'reversal of fortune' effect. Instead of a healthy city growing, expanding, becoming more advanced, Portland is reversing everything that made it a beautiful tourist destination and a wonderful place to live and work. The voters chose their leaders, so they alone shoulder the blame. I have neither sympathy nor patience for people who knowingly choose to inflict injury upon themselves. The irony of the woke agenda is that it is the homeless who now rule Portland, and not the voters, homeowners, and businesses.
wow you are so right, chop the homeless into dogfood already. either do something about it or shut up
Absolutely correct and if this woman voted for democrats within the last 5 years, she should be forced to stay right where she is. God forbid, most of these woke idiot liberals are moving to red states and ruining those areas with their bad ideas and voting records. They are too stupid to understand that they are the reason their cities have been destroyed, so they unfortunately, don't leave their terrible voting habits in their blue states when they inevitably have to flee from their homes.
What a stupid statement. These squatting drug addicts don't care about who is in office. Round them up and put them on a private island. They can live in their filth without affecting anyone else.
yes. but they will never learn.
Portland has been headed this direction for decades. The problems are an outgrowth of the core values and the predominate culture of the city.
Lack of core values.
And by core values and predominate culture, you mean leftism.
Exactly. Don't give me that "since covid" bullshit.
What's your solution?
@@moncorp1what's your great solution?
The cost of camps, porch thefts, car thefts, break-ins, lost property value, should be charged to the mayor, the commissioners, and the army of bureaucrats running this city. If they feel the impact, maybe they’ll start doing their jobs.
Amen. And charge JoAnn Hardesty, since she helped create this mess when she was in office.
Nope, the people got exactly what they voted for......Now sit in the shit holes you have dug yourselves into!
Let's not forget the voters who voted these clowns in. Voting has consequences, this being one of them.
Citizens of Portland who are victims of these crimes should bring a class action against the city.
Land grab by Mr Potter.
Does she vote? Portland voted for what they have. I use to feel sorry for these cities not anymore.
I lost my sympathy for them a long time ago. You can't fix "stupid".
They r oblivious.... to their actions... voting.
Voted for The Party, got the evil.
Yeap, there is no homelessness in Phoenix
@@Dannyvirkisn’t Phoenix blue? It was when l lived there
It’s being done by design. This is a land grab. “Mr. Potter isn’t panicking, he’s buying!”
Good quote!!😆
It's obvious, except to the hive minds that keep voting for the Left.
Nice
It's not a land grab. Its leftism.
Exactly, because if the prices drop I'm going to Portland!
$98-120K home before all this nonsense. Now she pays $400K “market value” in taxes to have drug addicts tent up in her yard.
She’s trying to sell it for $400k, she’s asking way too much for a shack with no utilities
Property taxes are on assessed value ($136k), not market value.
@gavincurtis: But the drug addicts increased her property value to $400,000; they are lost artisans.
I know a family that moved out of Portland 9 years ago as they saw this coming. They count their blessings everyday.
The few who were not insane, good for them, I'm very glad they escaped. Portland used to have liberals who were not totally insane, it was manageable. Now they are all Communists, Marxists, Socialists, bent on destroying America and the nuclear family.
agreed. I escaped from California 12 years ago ... I also count blessings.....
My husband and I did the same 12years ago. Moved to Birdsview, Wa. Population about 300. Can't say how happy I am that we did. You couldn't pay me to live with Portland now.
I hate L.A. that is why I never live in California or any west coast cities. It's a world's biggest homeless landfill and toxic water dump.
Not when you look at the home price.
You can see this in numerous large cities from coast to coast. I suppose it's only a coincidence that the cities have democratic leaders.
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Uh -- Phoenix????
@@Tipperary757 Apparently there are no homeless or drug addicts in 'red' states because of low taxes and lots of guns?
What they have in common is corporatist leadership that puts the desires of corporate landlords over the good of the city.
@@Dannyvirk There are, but much more & larger cities, with problems from liberal ideology.
Wake up and look at your party. You probably grew up liberal & your friends are, like me. But really, last 10 years who are they, crazy beliefs!
So glad we moved both our businesses out of the cess pool that was once my favorite city on the planet. All I can say to people is move away from the west coast. We're in Huntsville, AL now and it's given me a new appreciation for life. There are still places with values that respect businesses. Just not on the west coast
If Huntsville mayor started to do the same as Portland mayor would you speak out.
I wouldnt live in OR or CA.
@@boobandit13Nobody like that could get elected in Huntsville.
Y'all's STOP coming to the South!!! 😝Before, y'all's didn't want jack shit to do with the south, now it's lookin pretty to y'all's!😍
@@boobandit13 I'll never vote for a liberal mayor again in my life so that pretty much excludes any comparisons to Portlands political overlords
sell* wtf fire that person. edit: lol they changed the title from SALE to sell finally.
That is a tiny house, not even 1200 square feet, with a cramped kitchen and exactly one bathroom. There's a tacky little hair salon next door, and an auto body shop across the street. But yeah, she did "lower the price" to a MERE $379,000. 🤣🤣🤣 Lady, please.
How else is she gonna find her retirement 😂? She feels like she’s getting lowballed by having to lower the price. This is one of the bigger issues is homeowners asking for way too much thinking they know the market better than real estate appraisers
Bro that’s not that unreasonable for Portland. Anything under 400K that isn’t a complete dump and has a decent yard is a decent price
@@currenteventsenthusiast9477 Bro, that's ridiculous. In a sane world, that little dump wouldn't even cost $40K. Over the last 50 years greedy, clueless Americans have bent over and allowed home prices to rise to such outlandish heights that average people can't possibly afford them. Now everybody's wringing their hands and wondering why their hovels can't sell, and OMG, where did all these homeless people come from?
Here's what's going to wind up happening, and oh oops, it's already happening. Super-wealthy investors---many from China, Dubai, India, Saudi Arabia and, oh yes, Iran---are snapping up these "unsellable" homes and renting them back to U.S. citizens who haven't a prayer of ever owning houses themselves. Americans have become so blinded by real estate dollar signs that we're selling our country right out from under us; nobody even has to fire a shot.
379000 out there is a steal … but it’s gotta drop lower no one wants to live around a bunch of homeless camps and drug addicts
You can bet the ranch Susie is a hard-core Democrat, voted for this and will continue to vote for it.
You can bet your moronic ass voted for trump!
that fat daughter of hers is exactly whats wrong with portland. youre not 20 anymore. the sympathy and emotional understanding needs to turn into logic and reasoning: these bums are drug addicts. kick them out.
Voted for the homeless to never get any help?
I rejected a home because its neighbor used his backyard as a junk yard. Having a homeless camp next door would be a dealbreaker for sure.
@dancemaniac3868: But would you object to a nudist camp nextdoor??
That is why folks don't want to move to any toxic waste dump.
@@johnpickford4222 ... I don't want to live to next to street pharmacist next door.
If you want this problem to abate, you have to have state-run mental hospitals with drug remediation available. This will also likely involve involuntary medical detention.
Its been interesting to see the difference between the west coast and east coast on how they handle this situation. On the east coast, its shelter and drug treatment first, then housing; whereas, on the west coast, its housing first. Looks like we found out which one works the best.
I can't for the life of me understand how these woke fucks think you can just hand homes to insane drug addicts and not have them ruin the homes.
You want this problem to abate....STOP USING DRUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Housing does nothing if someone isn't clean first. Look at these campsites. These people cannot manage a household-at all. The legal framework already exists for involuntary medical detentions, as you phrased it. They are breaking the law after all, and are subject to incarceration. Some states just choose not to do it. They think compassion and tough love are different things.
100%
Well, maybe so but if you want improvement the first course of action is to imprison all politicians in Oregon.
Then, proceed with your dream solution. East coast has the same problem and no solutions. Politicians still walk the streets - with armed bodyguards.
She does not live in a high tax base neighborhood so Portland does not care.
Did they seriously ask a homeless guy if he feels bad for a homeowner?!
Yes, but the homeless guy wouldn’t share his meth which he thinks would relax the homeowner, make him less uptight, ya know?
Lmao
Of course they did and should have. Good journalism requires multiple perspectives.
@rickcowan4664 They never asked him how he feels being treated like a piece of trash.
Remember when using drugs were illegal…? Or when we had mental health facilities? Or what about the millions of dollars that go to service providers to help these individuals to get ideas jobs in into recovery programs… Oh no one’s worried about those things
The listing is removed and marked as "pending". If she gets her asking price, that's a 390% gain from her purchase price 22 years ago.
Homeless have more rights than the people paying taxes. You know the income that government depends on
@cassandra9699 I guess you never paid taxes.
What??? I was recently homeless and working in between jobs and that didn’t stop them from taking taxes out of my paychecks every week.
No, they don't!
"sale" her home?
Maybe she can't sell her house because the Market is not there and inflated prices with high interest rates are taking effect on the market also?
Market is still hot here. It's not that hard to see most people don't want to pay half a mil to live next to tweakers
Your homes are crap, there is only so many people from California who will pay over inflated prices.
What is most interesting to me is where these camps do not exist. They do not exist in your mayor's neighborhood or any other of your states leaders neighborhoods. Those neighborhoods use enforcement to prevent such things. Unfortunately, if you don't live in those "nice" neighborhoods it's up to you to do something about it.
It used to happen right in front of the Mayors apartment downtown, and INSIDE the building. He was basically forced to move, to a different city. He wasn't very popular with the neighbors due to it. Antifa even started a fire on the bottom floor. It's all on youtube.
Hmmmm, isn't that odd.
The ol' Rules for thee, but not for me.
Many of these homes are perched up on the steeper west hills making it more difficult for homeless to camp. It certainly does happen from time to time, but it's more rare. What's happening is they are setting up along the east Bank of the Willamette- so all the west hill houses have a lovely view of the slum on the river.
Well then, Do as our Governor has done with the illegals and ship them to HIS neighborhood. That will get his attention forthwith.
She's sad. I bet she also voted repeatedly for the politicians who allowed things to get to this point. Maybe she needs to drop the price another $15K to escape Portland.
*150k
My daughter and her husband left before it got really bad. Went there for work. Luckily they never bought a house. They decided to rent. This lady is not going to sell that house at that price with what is in her neighborhood. She may have to abandon it if this continues. The daughter expects the city to do something. Not happening. They don’t care. But keep on voting for the wrong people.
shes probably asking way to much for a 2/1 in a bad neighborhood those covid prices are gone should have sold a year ago...with interest rates so high who would be able to afford a 429K 2/1 with a 7% interest rate..
When the homeless have more rights than homeowners.
Since squatter's right.
Let her rent her house in the meantime. I’m sure she can find a renter.
However the house has zero curb appeal. A little effort to polish up the front of the house. Cut the grass , add a nice pot of flowers. Paint the front door. Etc.
And maybe she’s asking too much.
Oh, they've tried that. The realtor's got Susie paying for all the usual tricks. Plant a few shrubberies! Hang flowerpots by the door! Powder blue paint in the ONE, postage-stamp bathroom! Photoshop Expand-o-Vision! 🤣 All to avoid the obvious: That shack is barely worth $37K, not $379K.
They should ask every person they interviewed if they voted for that or not.
Yes!
Must be the portland accent, "to sale her home"
I'd argue is has more to do with the over inflated price of the housing market. Put your house up for $400k and people will trample one another for that house.
This is what happens when "compassion" overrides common sense. Accountability is also a form compassion because it's hardly compassionate to let people live in squalor and to let crime and filth afflict other residents. A more enlightened approach (though I am sure one which will never be enacted) is to require the homeless to stay in either non profit or government shelters. If they refuse, they go to jail. Also, the police should be increased and the DAs should be required to prosecute all crimes, even minor ones. That would start to change the situation.
American compassion, you have no universal health care, highest imprisonment rate in the world, a federal minimum wage of $7.25 with zero benefits or sick/maternity leave. The govern in Texas just banned water breaks for construction workers in 3 triple digit heat. Your only export is badly built cars and weapons of mass destruction. What a joke, American compassion, the only thing Reagan was right about is if the American government says 'we are here to help', the best thing you can do is run.
Leftists are too stupid to believe in tough love.
How would the da prosecute all the crimes? They don't have the staffing and it's what the dude has said for a while. But yall just wanna point and scream.
So glad I got out over a year ago. It's only downhill from here and may be too late to get out at this point. Feel bad for my old neighbors but I warned them!
No one cares baldy
You left Portland but it looks like your hair left your head long before that
@@warrenconnick1949 you sound like a winner
@@warrenconnick1949 I shave my head by choice bonehead!
I warned all of my friends. Left in 2017 and it was already bad. Now you won't be able to give those houses away.
You knew this was going to happen. You wait too long and then nobody wants to buy your place. This was coming. Now it's there. The homeless problem has been growing for over 10 years already.
I’m sorry, but the sky rocketing value of these houses was obscene for years. So the values drop slightly and it makes the news?
what is sky rocketing is food. -- burritos are almost 20 bucks
@@oregonxyz Burrito inflation is real. But $20 is new to me, market price is up to $12 average.
its hard to feel sorry for these people. she got exactly what she voted for.
You don’t know she voted for it … might be hard to fathom but many didn’t
@@zmonsterk you're right.... but a HUGE majority did. I USED to live in California and I escaped 12 years ago . If she didn't vote for it she waited too long to get the hell out of Dodge.....
@@williamhickock1203 so very glad you left but it’s not alway easy to see the writing on the wall and even if you do be able to leave. There is a lot of foolish people and I guess they will reap their stupid… particularly in California.
Dont worry, they’ll move to your state and vote the same. see my home state Colorado, more California plates than CO plates on the road
@@raydn23 yes, I know. I grew up in Colorado. When I was a kid, there were bumper stickers everywhere that read dont CaliFORNICATE Colorado. Colorado has definitely been CaliFORNICATED.
"SE Portland homeowner struggling to SAIL her home."⛵🌊
There fixed it for you!
I tried to sale my house once, but it never selled.
Real Estate always goes up .... until it doesn't! 👎🏻👎🏼👎👎🏽👎🏾👎🏿
Leave the campers alone they don’t have any help so leave it or move
We voted for this leadership, can’t complain about the consequences.
Felony Flats... I'll bet that blonde reporter does NOT live in that neighborhood
No longer the City of Roses 🌹
Now its the City of Garbage and homelessness 🤬
A city of drug addicts and criminals.
And incessant graffiti to defecate on everything.
This and the fact that Oregon has 14 counties wanting to succeed to Utah, what do you expect?????
Start billing the city for loss of asset because of their inability to allow enforcement of laws. I smell a class action suit.
No but It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with housing prices
Your house is worth about 65 thousand may be
She needs to drop the price... again... and unload before interest-rates go up again; my guess is it's overpriced in the market of yesteryear Rose City. Some fool from CA might but it, but I wouldn't wait around for that offer as Portland continues its death-spiral. It's a toxic asset.
There is no way in hell I'd move to Portland, so I can see why it's a struggle to sell a home.
I get wanting out but the homeless are not to blame. Ask yourself why we let our society allow people to go without a home.
nope, the question to ask is why do folks 'not' have to work to eat, when mandating 'work' to eat it solves multitudes of issues, so till this ends march on to the tune of liberals and their mantra...
I think of the lady’s statement “no one is making a difference of doing anything”. It’s the liberal way. Complain about everything but do absolutely nothing. Being non productive, disrespectful and irresponsible caused this mess.
I'm willing to offer her a coupon for 10% off a butterball turkey, some pocket lint, and an old turnip that I found behind my fridge for the house.
I'll beat your offer by throwing in a gutter sock and crack spoon.
Give her a Trump 2024 bumper sticker
If you drop the price enough, it will sell
As a home owner you gotta make life miserable for those people.
Yeah, by making rents so unaffordable they become homeless
@@Dannyvirk The guy sitting on the corner had no ID and a fentanyl addiction. He doesn’t just “need a house”.
@@Dannyvirk Sure, it is HER fault. How old are you, twelve?
@@Dannyvirk ~ The problem is people like you who people are homeless because they can't afford housing. The homeless problem is a mental health and substance abuse issue. Period.
I’m getting ahead of the curve in my city and selling my house now. I think my city will be this way in about 10 years or less.
@Frugal_fitchic: Help others out, What city are you referencing?? It may be too late!!
@@johnpickford4222 I barely have the finances to help myself. Not to mention, I don’t want to associate with people who do drugs or are dangerous.
0:38 she feels sad. Nevertheless, she voted to put progressive policies into place.
Is Portland dying 😞❓
Everyone seems to think homelessness is largely a function of expensive home prices. In reality it is largely a result of addiction, mental illness, tolarance for criminal activity and a generation raised with a victim and entitlement mentality. You can build as much low cost housing as you want but when drug addicted people move in it will be trashed just like they trash everything they touch.
Thank you...Thank you.....Thank you......I am sick of all these comments about providng "affordable housing" and "More jobs" as you pointed out....most of these persons are living on the streets because of their addictions that often manifest into "mental illness" but the tolerance for criminal activity by local governments also is a HUGE factor!
I was a public health nurse for 10 years working with the homeless. Very, very few wanted a better life. The wanted drugs, liquor, smokes etc. I filled out paperwork on the people I worked with for a decade, the system failed as the clients didn't want to change but no where did any of my documentation make a bit of difference in the plan of care. They don't want to change a thing in their lives.
Im sure it couldnt have anything to do with price...
Right? Bck when tiny, shabby hovels on mixed-use streets weren't listing for $379K, a lot of these homeless people could probably afford to go home.
DEMOCRATS, YOU VOTED FOR THEM!!!!!!!!
If you offered this home to me at $120.000 still hell no. Unless you enjoy hell.
It's not just the house, you buy into the neighborhood, too. I agree, if it's too dangerous to get from the car to the front door no screaming good price is worth it.
This is heartbreaking on both sides. I live right where this is and SE Portland is the hot spot for developers and real estate corporations. There are tons of new homes poorly built and existing home prices are still really high regardless. The new apartment buildings--again run by corporations--are just as expensive to rent with tons of *fees and they will raise your rent any chance they get to *market rate. Realize that they do not want long-term tenants. This is all gentrification. I know, I'm a native from San Francisco and this all started in mid-1990s thanks to the dot commies. Haves and have-nots. There is no middle class. I will tell you this--quality of life is much, much better here and I would never move back to CA.
Why we call ya'all libtards. 😂
there's loads of short term tenants in the area...all living on the streets. It's not just the house or apartment, it's the neighborhood. If you're murdered getting to the front door who cares what the property is valued at.
@@OptionalZero A shame you didn't buy your own house when homes were affordable and easy to qualify for 10 to 20 years ago.
@@eckankar7756 Exactly, many people never think of the future and live for the day. Than all of a sudden - they're 50 something and complaining about economics. Always someone else to blame.
Its not heartbreaking. Its stupidity. People that elect the leftist politicians who allow this get what they deserve. Cry on someone else's shoulder. I bet the politicians will cry with you.
you voted for it and this is what you get..These people never wake up
You're struggling to get out of a home and they're struggling to get in a home. What a cluster.
I really don't think that guy is struggling to get into a home. Having a place to live would just take away from his drug money, unless it was free, but the places they want to give to the homeless (shelters, subsidized housing) don't allow drug use, so those would be a no-go for him. He'll just continue to stay right where he is, unless someone forces him out of it against his will
Ted Wheeler needs to be reelected, he is doing such a great job. He is experienced in giving the people what they want.
Portland has very inflated home prices. The great reset is occurring now. Unfortunately for homeowners who want out they're going to take a hit.
Gotta love those dopefiends!
Shocker, why do you think
Anyone with a brain moved two years ago.
Escaped the Portland metro area in July! We are so happy in our new state ❤️🤍💙
My house in Tacoma proper was right on the main drag from a homeless mission and I knew it was just a matter of time before they started camping in my front yard. Sold the house, made a chunk of money and moved somewhere that I knew no one would be camping in my yard except me.
There are already laws on the books in Portland. The city government is stalling citizens. No driver's license, vehicle registration, trash, drugs, illegal parking, camping on right of ways, blocking access, fire codes, all these issues give PD probable cause for search, seizure, and arrest. If the homeless are constantly hassled they will move on, or return home. Research studies estimate 40-60% of homeless on the west coast are from out of state.
Sue the mayor, the DA, the governor too
Time for the neighbors to get together with baseball bats and do what the”police”refuse to do. Time for some urban discipline
You don't want war with drug addicts who know where you live and literally have nothing to lose.. Would be very dumb
@@ITheorey they come to where I live and I introduce them to all of my neighbors the Smiths, and the Wessons, the Mossburgs, the Glocks, the Sig-Saures, the Barettas, and any one else who wants to join the party, that will change their minds really quick.
stop rescuing them, let them OD, stop feeding them. Citizens are going to have to revive the old vigilante groups and take the situation in their own hands.
it is going to get worse.
What a Mess...
This should be used in one of those captain obvious commercials
Right? "Woe is me, nobody's lining up to pay $379,000 for my one-bedroom hovel. And where, oh where, did all these homeless people come from?" (－‸ლ)
Very sad.
Housing is nuts! This house sold in 1995 for $76,700. If you put that number in an inflation calculator it would be just over $153,500 today. So in the last 28 years, inflation has been 100% and this house's value has inflated 388%. If it sells for $300,000 her investment will have doubled the rate of inflation....
The city should be sued for the homes lost value. How come these zombies always lose their id.
Because people steal them.
Just ship all the addicts to the Arizona desert work camp until they sober up. They will have to work for their meals.
Who in their right mind is going to move TO Portland?
Wow homeless camped out in your front yard make it harder to sell your house really sounds like this woman should sue the city of Portland I think all the homeowners in Portland should sue Portland have a class action lawsuit like in Phoenix they are winning their lawsuit against the City of Phoenix Phoenix is going to have to clean up their crabtastic homeless encampment why don't the people in Portland get it together and Sue the city of Portland too
if you'd take the time to actually follow the news in Portland,. you'd already know this already happened (and they won). Of course, winning a Lawsuit is not some magical overnight fix to this problem. It still has to be effectively (and humanely and ethically) enforced. There's also Oregon House Bill 3115 (passed in June 2021) that says enforcement has to consider how many available shelter beds exist (which due to Portlands signficant homeless population, there's likely never going to be enough). No amount of Lawsuits or rotating politicians is going to effectively change this situation. We need better ideas for "boots on the ground" day to day solutions.
Why not just invest in fire ants?
8 years ago I owned a home near SE 70th and Duke. I got a ticked for my $300,000 motorhome being farther forward in my yard than the front of the house. FULLY ON MY PROPERTY…. Just too long to fit fully behind the front of the house. Portland sucks. Code violation! Why me and not all those crappy campers in the street? Simple. I had the financial ability to pay a fine. It’s never been about the homeless people. There's just no way for the government to monetize a solution. If homeless people could pay a fine …. The city would be out in force cleaning up neighborhoods.
You seriously paid $300,000 for a camper? Dude. (－‸ლ)
Cities Renaming and relabeling the homeless as people who are "camping" is the real crime.
Sounds so cute, adventurous, exciting...'camping'. Like a fun vacation. Just change the term and the problem is better.
Work retreats
@user-mb8qi3ky5q: Well, it’s not exactly “glamping” is it no matter how nice Portland was.
Way?
This is nothing new. lol people have it way worse, and we're supposed to be worried about karen not being able to move?
Feel so bad for this woman. Looks like a well maintained starter home. Sold our house in Hawaii a year ago and I almost feel guilty for the multiple offers and the final sales price.
This how the American dream has become a nightmare.
“go back” to what it once was? When has anything ever done that???
Funny, it's not just the homeless. It's the economy and ridiculous housing prices that is stopping home buying/selling. The homeless gave always been here, greed has increased the problem.
time to sell.
That train had left the station long ago, with me in it.
If only she had like 25+ years of warning as Portland declined.
Portland's housing market is far overvalued. I would be out of my mind if I paid nearly $400K for a house like hers in a neighborhood like that.
You get what you vote for !
I met a crazy one a couple weeks ago. I am a Realtor in Florida. A couple in their 60s has a beautiful mid-century house they restored beautifully. It is in a very nice neighborhood with very little crime, clean and prosperous. They are selling the home because they claim living in Florida has become intolerable from the policies of our governor DeSantis. They bought a condo in downtown Portland. I will never understand that level of delusion but am pleased they will no longer be voting in Florida.
Yes! Goodbye. Pure insanity.
Call the social justice warriors to help out!!!😂😂😂😂😂
I moved from Portland to Tigard (one town over) about four months ago, after about nine months in Portland (just blocks from the lady's house). I sleep well at night not worrying about my catalytic converters being stolen. No homeless camps anywhere. Amazing what republican(ish) governance can do (or, more accurately: not tolerate and actively encourage).
Agreed HOWEVER Tigard is definitely woke so don't expect it to last forever
one doesnt realize how city government policies really do affect your life. i was there probably 8-10 years ago for a coffee show. Such a pretty city. But i noticed then how the trains were all free and the little plexiglass muchroom "things" were downtown & asked what they were. "oh, those are for you to leave your leftovers under the plexiglass for the homeless so they can eat & they can move around freely on mass transit".... can anyone say "bring me your troubled, those who don't want to work, etc & watch what we will do to your city when word of mouth spreads among us & many come & we take over & create chaos"....best of intentions from the city with little to no foresight as to what would happen. YOU DONT GIVE A PERSON A FISH---Teach them to get off their lazy ass & learn to fish! Be responsible for your own actions. NO ONE OWES YOU ANYTHING. Where you are today is a result of the actions you have taken in the past. it's just a fact of life. Next will be reparations for all these people who were raised in "bad" situations as children. Boo-hoo, it's my parents fault. Hellen Keller took a shitty situation into which she was born & lived a life well worth living, making a difference in the lives of millions. The list goes on of people who were born into crappy situations & still decided to do something with their lives.
Why should property owners pay property taxes anyway?
I’m looking to buy a home!
Just not in SE Portland. Actually, not anywhere in Portland - I’m moving out.