HOMES Program Encourages House Ownership in Schenectady By: Maria Valvanis 2:13 PM
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- Schenectady leaders are encouraging homebuyers to come to the Electric City. "I probably would have left, or sold it and left," said Charletta Robinson, a Schenectady homeowner. Thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Schenectady HOMES program, Robinson is still living in her Myrtle Avenue home."Most important thing, the egress window they were able to place in my bedroom suite so that I am able to occupy that space and get in and out in the event of an emergency," said Robinson. "These are services that you might need when you're looking to buy a house or when you own a house also to maintain it and keep it up," said Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy. The HOMES program was created to encourage home ownership in the city, in addition to fighting blight."When you become stressed with repairs and things you have to do in your home you feel quite desperate you feel quite hopeless and you feel on your own," said Robinson. As part of National Home Ownership month, the city wants to show people that they aren't alone. An open house is scheduled for Sunday to encourage others like Robinson to find resources to stay."We bring in realtors, bankers, perspective homebuyers, home sellers, and talk about the good things happening here in Schenectady and the options for home ownership," said McCarthy. "Stay in your home, fight for your home, there are programs out there willing to help you," said Robinson. - See more at: http://albany.twcnews.com/cont.....sthash.XKau2R29.dpuf
McCarthy is so fu(king desperate to make his program work. Give up for god sake look around you no one is coming to Schenectady to buy these $hit hole houses. Stop being a Realtor and start being a Mayor for once! Your policies and taxes and fees have scared the hell out of current homeowners why would people want to move to Schenectady? When people are running away from this $hit hole called Schenectady. Stop fooling people you idiot! Your stuck with over 2,000 foreclosures (city owned homes) and you can't get rid of those! Stop fooling the public!
McCarthy is so fu(king desperate to make his program work. Give up for god sake look around you no one is coming to Schenectady to buy these $hit hole houses. Stop being a Realtor and start being a Mayor for once! Your policies and taxes and fees have scared the hell out of current homeowners why would people want to move to Schenectady? When people are running away from this $hit hole called Schenectady. Stop fooling people you idiot! Your stuck with over 2,000 foreclosures (city owned homes) and you can't get rid of those! Stop fooling the public!
I probably would have left, or sold it and left," said Charletta Robinson, a Schenectady homeowner. Thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Schenectady HOMES program, Robinson is still living in her Myrtle Avenue home
She bought the place (8 Myrtle Ave) in August 2010 with an FHA mortgage (taxpayer backed/supported) for $85,000.
Now, this year she gets a grant of $25,000 from Schenectady's taxpayers ???????
Weird, there is a document dated last month called "Declaration" with City of Schenectady listed where normally a bank would be listed.
Seems she bought the house, couldn't keep up the mortgage payment and the INSANELY HIGH TAXES, so the house was place in the Community Land Trust and thanks to Mc THUG's theft from the rest of the city's homeowners, this one gets to keep her house.
There are many many many manty long time homeowners in the city who saved for a down payment, bought there house, maintained it, and have struggled to keep paying their own taxes PLUS the taxes of the millionaires downtown, they can't afford the taxes but they struggle to pay them by cutting back on medicine and food, forgo maintenance of their home, and they NEVER get a handout from the city!
Oh, but she has a bachelors and master's degree and is a doctoral candidate. She works at SUNY.
Or maybe did she just choose not to pay her bills and then sought handout to stay in her house?
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
She bought the place (8 Myrtle Ave) in August 2010 with an FHA mortgage (taxpayer backed/supported) for $85,000.
Now, this year she gets a grant of $25,000 from Schenectady's taxpayers ???????
Weird, there is a document dated last month called "Declaration" with City of Schenectady listed where normally a bank would be listed.
Seems she bought the house, couldn't keep up the mortgage payment and the INSANELY HIGH TAXES, so the house was place in the Community Land Trust and thanks to Mc THUG's theft from the rest of the city's homeowners, this one gets to keep her house.
There are many many many manty long time homeowners in the city who saved for a down payment, bought there house, maintained it, and have struggled to keep paying their own taxes PLUS the taxes of the millionaires downtown, they can't afford the taxes but they struggle to pay them by cutting back on medicine and food, forgo maintenance of their home, and they NEVER get a handout from the city!
Oh, but she has a bachelors and master's degree and is a doctoral candidate. She works at SUNY.
Or maybe did she just choose not to pay her bills and then sought handout to stay in her house?
Hummm... the City that has most of its residents collecting Section 8 and welfare....for DECADES and never questions why people from the Bronx travel to Schenectady on the first of the month to go to their PO Boxes for their checks they are collecting fraudulently.
Yep. If you get in line at DSS you'll be treated like gold.
If you are a struggling taxpayer in the City, you're treated like absolute crap by not only the personnel in the tax department, but McCarthy has no love for you as well.
Never bite the hand that feeds you McCheesy.... karma is a b*tch.
Today's gazette has a story about it. Her roof had leaks, she put a tarp over it.
She's a doctoral candidate at SUNY, which is taxpayer subsidized education.
She has a master's degree but not getting paid enough to make home repairs? She only bought the house 4 years ago, didn't she get a structural inspection which the inspector would tell her she would soon need a new roof which would she should be mature enough to do the financials and determine if she could pay a mortgage AND pay for a new roof?
Doesn't her taxpayer subsidized education ever teach her how to set priorities, if you can't afford tuition and a job for example, you choose one over the other and you don't go just expecting the taxpayers to cover your bills.
From where is she getting her income to pay her mortgage?
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
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