There are no sidewalks, the other side of the building isn’t completed, the exterior still hasn’t been fully painted, but you are telling me you are preleasing? I can’t imagine things are finished inside.
The real estate marketing people are eternally optimistic.
It’s not unusual for houses to disappear, but this one was not for sale, and the last time I saw it, people were living there. And not the type of living where you disappear in the middle of the night, but where you have an entire carport full of stuff with a flapping tarp hanging down to make a sort of door.
The house wasn’t in great shape, but it wasn’t falling down. Not that the state of the house makes any difference as to its fate.
This is a smaller lot, so it was fence, house, bit of a front yard. They had tall fir trees with empty bird feeders.
They had barky dogs that would often run past the fir trees to the fence.
According to Portland Maps (link at the top of the post) Royal Custom Homes Inc owns the lot/house as of 5/4/15 with a recorded sale price of $262,000. The home was built in 1946.
Here’s a photo I grabbed. We shall see what comes next.
photo from: http://www.sunriverrealty.com/s/or/multnomah-county/portland/97217/1807-n-kilpatrick-st/dmgid_95719376.html
Thanks to vacation, it’s been more than a week since I took this trek to the train. What has changed with our apartment building?
Here’s the long view:
Windows have finally been installed in our middle panel.
But we’ve still got that construction cloth on the side.
Matt participated in the Rugged Maniac at Portland International Raceway. As that location is close to our house, we walked. Here are some things I saw.
Interstate Ave north of Argyle is experiencing road construction. This here is a new sidewalk added to the viaduct. I was interested to note the random fencing that is nowhere else along this section of sidewalk. My guess is that some sort of law says it has to be above rail road tracks, to keep shenanigans to a minimum.
Along this walk is a junk place. With some butterfly bush looking pretty. Butterfly Bush is classified as invasive, but I do appreciate how pretty it is as it takes over.
Cacophony of junk. 
From one point on the sidewalk you can see two mountains. Here is St. Helens, with a topper of electric wire.
And here is Mt. Hood with a swallow cooperating with me and agreeing to be in my picture. It only took 10 or so tries. 
I’ve long enjoyed walking past this lot at 1536 N Schofield St. It’s a little bit overgrown, but has some great mature trees on it. Portland Maps tells me it’s currently owned by the Frank A Morse Family Trust and was purchased for $22,500 in 1997. If I wanted to buy it and keep it a fun little hideaway, I’d have to pony up $210,000. I just ran some mortgage numbers and with a $5000.00 down payment and a 15 year fixed rate mortgage, I would have to pay $1900.00 per month. So I’m guessing this will be a large infill house very soon.
Ooooooooo! I said as I caught my first glimpse of the stucco siding. So pretty! And it will look great against the grey skies of winter. Assuming it ever rains again in Portland, Oregon.
The other thing I have noticed is that all the windows have been installed except for this set. I assume they are leaving them open for easier access.
It doesn’t look very malevolent from this angle, but this house has always creeped me out. I deliver the quarterly neighborhood newsletter and I always take a deep breath before setting foot on this property. You know how some houses are like that? There was some indication today, that this might be a tear-down. But perhaps I’m just hopeful.
The windows have begin to wrap around all sides of the building. I’m also interested that the mesh covering only covers one half of the building. I initially thought they would just use it on the places they were installing windows, but here are windows without any mesh covering. So who knows?
The windows are coming. This is when it gets boring again, as most of the changes are happening inside, where I can’t see.
