Panhandle78

its a slippery slope people. Todays it's the easment, tomorrow it's your garage.

When will this end? If a hispanic, black, white, blue, green man/woman steals your car off the streets,and claims he/she thought it was heavy trash, will you back them up? No..obviously not.

I want the Heights to be a place where kids can shoot basketballs in the street without waking up to see that Jose/John/Jamal has taken it along with the aluminum cans in the trash/recycle bin.

Please call your local authorities if you see someone taking your property without your permission, and send these people a message. Thank you Heightsite for doing the right thing.

Those people live on Allston and bought the truck they were driving 2 years ago with 288,000 miles on it. It seems as though they are exactly the type of people who would grab things that people are "finished with" (on heavy trash day) and use it until it is no longer useable.(much like the truck) If these were 2 white kids in a new Toyota Tundra instead of an old junky truck with older hispanics in it, would you have made a different assumption?

Nobody has said anything about their race other than describing them. It's what these people are doing is the question. Quit pulling the race card..its freaking pathetic.

Sounds like a couple of enterprising people to me. How can you be certain they did not think you set it out for trash. People do it all the time. A person could make some decent money going around and picking up things people set to the curb and reselling them at a yard sale I'm sure. It sounds like the goal was at the street. Times are tough my friend and people could very well be resorting to recycling people's percieved trash.

It's the old "One man's trash is another man's treasure."

Times are tough my friend? Get real ...Nobody should be stealing a basketball goal from a street, yard, anywhere..This is a crime and those two should be in jail. Quit sticking up for criminals.

yankee- use this website and search 77008...there are 38 people. see if he is there and report his ass..

https://records.txdps.state.tx.us/DPS_WEB/S...rchType=Zipcode

sorry about that, but in my eyes I connect the two issues. I know how it sounds and I hate that I sound that way, but I think there is some truth to it...

all these things are true and we must be vigilant as individuals but we also must be vigilant as a community. with the demographics of the heights being what they are these days. why is it so hard to get a neighborhood watch going? it's like all of my yuppie comrades want to delicate flower and moan about the crime but when i suggest we organize to do somethinf about it, all they can say is they pay taxes. really? well, houston's police force is thread bare and it's not for lack of caring on the part of the city government either... yeah, we pay taxes for schools, too, but does that mean we shouldn't help our kids with their homework? anyway, i would love to be a part of a neighborhood watch program or see the neighborhood do something as a group. i don't want a would-be-robber to just know i have a gun and that i am watching. i want him to know that if i'm not home, my neighbor is watching. the guy on the corner is watching. the couple walking their dog is watching with the police station on speed dial. only then will we have the safety we all want... even with more cops and the constible and everything else money can pay for, those officials can only be so many places at once.

what brings down a neghborhood? Apartments

what does the Heights have a lot of? Apartments

Lets keep up our streets and watch our neihgbors back, so developers will take a chance on our neighborhood and buy up these properties.

If you see a bum or homeless person in the Heights, do what I do..Dont give them a dime and tell them to get the ell out.

I always thought that old filling station at 14th & Oxford would make a great ice cream shop. Is it still there?

the Reagan kids would use it as their new hang out..good idea, just bad location.

Urban Rendezvous is over priced. Is that why they are about to close shop and leave the Heights for Kirby...oops!

This is truly disturbing. I believe this comes from the many apartment complexes and ratty multi family housing in the area. This is when I call on all of the builders and developers to keep doign what youre doing. Get these people out of the Heights.

Glad everyone is OK.

good luck to all

After a night of shopping at ROSS across the street, I enjoy getting my groceries at that fine establishment.

Had a good laugh watching homeless man trying to get shopping cart out of Krogers parking lot, he was stalled by the magnets and couldnt understand it. I just about lost it when he tried for minutes to pick it up and carry it over.....

On the subject of the homeless I was in the Mcdonals drive thru on Yale, and Mr. Worthless asked me for a buck at my window. After I said no, he asked if he could siphon gas out of my car, I agreed, and he looked puzzled and walked off....

But back to Krogers, I enjoy 11th street over West Gray. The shoppers on West Gray act like a bunch of $30,000 millionaires looking at the wine for 45 minutes. Just pick out your 6 dollar bottle of Yellow Tail, and move on....

I have a good sized stack on Cortlandt. I will make a deal with you. You have to haul it away first before determining if its hickory...then it's all yours.

I am all for growth in the Heights, but this does not sit right with me.I dont know if this has already been discussed or have no clue if this is true or just a rumor.....but a waitress at the Cafe told me their lease was up in December. She said the apartments across the street will tear down the building to put a parking garage she thinks.....

If anyone knows whats going on, please tell....I really like this place.

This is 823 Cortlandt listed at 275 k. It was built in 1893. I see homes like this sell daily to builders and you all complain. Well here is a perfect opportunity for someone. Any takers?......

i do not work for a builder, and will never work for a builder. I live in Heights Proper and have strong opinions about people I watch conduct business within the HHA over the past few years. If you know the people and situations then you know why I feel the way I do. I dont care if you think im an idiot. Ive seen the homes you defend....laughable....

i put my money where my mouth is..do you?

to the untrained eye they may look like well kept houses heights yankee, but next time actually walk through one of these homes on the inside. thank you so much.

The Heights posters here do have a wide variety of opinions, and I don't claim to speak for anyone else. But if you're asking about a seeming consensus of opinion with regard to neo-Vics in particular, my guess is that it's less an objection to the style itself (which many people find treacly) and more to do with the fact that neo-Vics are being built on non-Victorian streets, in the middle of a row of arts-and-crafts bungalows. It seems odd to want further emphasize the incongruity of a house that probably already sticks out like a sore thumb.

Beyond that, if you really do want to understand why some might not welcome your friends to the Heights, I'll take a stab at explaining. Many Heights residents, like many non-Heights residents, believe that Houston and Houstonians should be working toward preserving, not destroying, our few remaining historic neighborhoods. Which generally means preserving, not destroying, old houses. Your friends may not have torn down an original Heights home with their own hands, but may as well have in many people's eyes. They and others creating a market for new constructions in the Heights are the reason that builders are doing what they're doing to this neighborhood - they won't stop until/unless people stop buying their product. Your friends may not personally believe that individual desires should sometimes be sacrificed for the communal good, or (more likely) don't believe that the historic characteristic of the Heights is something worth preserving, but they have many neighbors who do. You describe your friends as "conscientious neighbors", but that's a subjective concept. Surely they knew before they bought how strongly many in the Heights feel about the destruction of original homes in the neighborhood?

All that said, have your friends been made to feel unwelcome? I'm guessing not. Not because there aren't many people in the Heights who feel as I've described, but because people here - like people most places - generally believe being a good neighbor involves being considerate of those around them.

I wrote the above before your more recent post... I was attempting above to summarize a common view, and not my own views, but mine are generally along those lines. If someone can't afford to buy in the Heights without buying a new construction, yes, I'd generally prefer they not buy in the Heights. Because I think buying a new construction in the Heights supports and encourages the further destruction of original Heights homes.

There is nothing historic about some of these homes getting leveled. So what if they were originals. In 100 years the new constuction will be considered historic, and the small vocal minority will be complainging on the message boards about the demolitions....

And yes I have walked through many old homes that were eventually demolished where people said "oh it should have been saved and restored, oh my"....well then you risk your rear end and fix it up. Good Luck!

I did show you facts. There may be a few of you redoing your bungalows, but what about the other 2,400 in the area. Sorry but it just wont happen.

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What would be more profitable and enjoyed by you all. Townhomes or a grocery store along the lines of Trader Joes....

Are you crazy? For every one bungalow that is restored or kept up in the Heights there are 100 that are TERRIBLE. Dont make me drive down my block and take pictures. We are not talking about barns on the east coast. We are talking about crumbling bungalows/duplexes in the Heights. Dont sell me hamburgers and tell me its filet mignon.

The old bungalows wont last another 100 years. The new construction will. 100 years from now the large "Mcmansions" (you people are sooo lame for those terms) will be torn down, and replaced with townhomes or whatever, and my kids will be complaining like you all are now. Its the circle of life. Get over it.

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