Remember These Houses? The Tilghman Plot Thickens

"This is Kerry Windsor. Houses 3 and 6 are mine. The city has done everything they can so far to prevent me from repairing those houses. #3 was arsoned in 2006. June 19. I had the materials and plans on hand 4 and 1/2 months after the fire but the city had other plans. Way too much to tell here. I had a meeting with Mayor Tilghman November 9, 2006 about this property. I called the meeting myself to keep all hands on the table. I had much trouble from Bill Holland in the past, She was supposed to be keeping him honest. She did a complete 180 on me and told me she would settle my problems with the city and she was screaming at me when I left. I could not get Bill Holland's office to look at my plans before the six month time limit and Tom Stevenson knowing I was ready to repair the house issued a demolition notice. The Mayor forced a meeting with myself, Tom Stevenson and Bill Holland the following Thursday after her meeting. Tom has made many mistakes but I credited it to him being new on the job but now it appears that he is following the Mayors directions I really wanted to like the new guy after the Bill Holland disaster..

This is the house with the porch roof I was telling you about at the Walmart Electronics Dept one evening before Christmas. While I was at the doctors office I got a call on my cell phone. Tom Stevenson had called me to notify me that a portion of my porch roof had come down. In less than 3 hours I was there with materials to secure it. They had already had it removed. All sounds so wholesome if you did not know of the other similar things that have occurred that cost me money. I received a letter the next day telling me what had happened. I requested a picture . I have never received a citation, no recourse. They sent me a bill for $1050.00. The bill was for removing and disposing of the roof. I have pictures of myself taking it to the landfill, receipts from the landfill and canceled checks. They even charged me an administrative fee for something I had no control over. The roof had been repaired after the fire. The charred wood had been replaced. I got a stop work order before it was 100 % completed but it was not about to fall down. The whole case it scheduled at the MD Court of Special Appeals for September. In essence the house would be up and running if the city had not prevented my progress. I am sure the city will have another story to justify their actions as they always do and a staff of lawyers to guide them through all their questionable actions. I have really suffered over all this and there is so much more I have not told you. I feel bad to see my house posted on the blog as if I was a derelict property owner. I am recovering from a stroke now but WILL be back in action.

House # 6. The builders of the small houses on each side were after this property. Bill Holland was helping them get it. It was condemned for lead paint. It was a up and running house in fair condition. Houses up and down the street had lead paint. Mine was condemned for it. I applied for a Lead Paint Grant several times and it gets "Lost". Now I have one being processed Here In Salisbury. The builder of the small houses died of cancer and the pressure to take my house is off. So much I could tell you. I had to board up the windows according to the city code. It brings attention to the properties. It advertises vacant houses. I had it boarded up from the inside as to make it look better but the city insisted on it being outside and painted white. I have replaced over 180 shingles on that house . They were broken by a kid named BooBoo. He is one of the arsonists. officer Dubois if the Salisbury City Police caught him red handed with the metal pole in his hand breaking my shingles. I called them when I was working on the other house, She parked down and walked up and caught him. She wanted to arrest him. His mother came to the scene. A crowd formed. I was the bad guy now. The mother called the officers boss, he came and sent the crowd home. BooBoo went home too.. The officers boss explained that with all the crowd an arrest would cause more problems... Seems the mother knows how to operate the City Police.. Meanwhile BooBoo is still breaking my shingles.I believe the big landlords have the control and are obtaining all the properties by whatever means they can, willing or otherwise. The Mayor throws the Habitat people an occasional bone to look respectable. There is way more corruption in the city that I do not know about but I do know I have been affected in a negative way by the BHZ, then the new Code and Compliance Dept. No actual police protection. Can't even get the Arson investigated when the neighbor had pictures of them coming out of the house while it was on fire. They said children were hard to convict. Two of the five children bragged that they were paid $50.00 each to do it.

Kerry Windsor"