Think Again Before Moving Home or Business Here
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10/16/2010
City is very predatory for issuing fines and tickets of all kinds. They take a particular pride in issuing "Public Nuisance" fines for those actively working on repairing homes, even with permits in view, they will order you to do the work you are doing then fine you in housing Court. They ignore properties where there is no one to pay a fine and let them rot. Red light cameras are the City's growth industry. Police will not respond to property crimes except for an incident report, which is not included in the crime reports because the crime report is a separate paper after incident level, which must be filed in business hours in person downtown where an outside contractor runs wild papering cars with parking tickets. If your insurance accepts the incident report and you do not file a crime report, if they recover your goods the items are sold with no official crime report and the proceeds go to Police Department. Senior citizens are browbeaten into not filing a crime report, to keep the statistics falsely low, in addition to the "incident reports" not counting as crimes in the statistics. Police officers tend to live outside the City and in Michigan as well. I know someone who got a ticket based on Michigan law, which of course the cop could not find in his Ohio book, so he ticketed a licensed, insured vehicle with a valid plate for having no license plate at all. $80 Court costs for any traffic ticket, even if they choose to find you innocent, they win you loose. I have witnessed shootings and came close to discovering a murder victim near a prestigious Church and other Public Buildings. A wave of arson fires and gang shootings is the hot topic for the year 2010. School taxes have no where to go but up, even with huge new building program the number of students continues to plunge. I consider staying here one of the biggest mistakes of my life, homes are worth far less than the mortgages and foreclosures sell for half or less of the Tax appraised value. Think again before inflicting the City of Toledo on yourself. You can always come in from a more secure suburb to enjoy the Mudhens, Walleye Hockey and the Art Museum.
Bp | Toledo, OH