Ben: owned by unresponsive corporation in MA. Bought for investment a few years ago, approved for condos, but the value is not there now. City needs to declare blight and 'take' the property, tear down dangerous structure and sell the waterfront lot. It is on the Q River.

See a pattern here. It is the same people that own Grand Bridge Restaurant and the other drug related properties. Diana Nastri is the property manager. The owners live in MA.

Sorry, different owners, both from MA.

NH will never do anything besides leaving a message for the owners. I say the folks in the neighborhood turn it into a community park while it sits as a drug/prostitution house. Use it, pretend it is an abandoned boat that needs a home. Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

Can we collaboratively sue these absentee scumbags for ruining our property values and destroying the character of the neighborhood? The "let it rot" attitude these people take with their poor investments should be illegal.

Linda Davis at LCI, if you are following this, what are you doing about it?

This issue was recategorized from Other to Private Property Issue.

Thanks rob, real stand up guy u are!

A little history: I always wondered about the chapel-like protrusion on the front of this house. (It used to have a bell in the peak but I'm sure that got scavenged years ago.) An old-timer in the neighborhood told me the reason for it was that the owner was a builder of pipe organs and used to season the pipe reads in the marshes behind the house! Presumably he would test out his finished products in his private chapel. What a sad shame that this little bit of local lore, like so many others, is disappearing before our eyes.

It is a sad shame, especially on such an historic street. Try and put vinyl on your house and the city/historical committee shuts you down quickly, let your waterfront house rot away with boards on the windows and the city does nothing.

Mr. Smuts, does this mean the City will take further action, or does it mean nothing will continue to happen except my tax dollars going down the sewer? A response would be appreciated.

Mr. Smuts is just doing his daily shell game. Shuffle things around, while really doing nothing. This home is beautiful. Unfortunately it will probably end up as a halfway house or a scattered site housing project. What incentive do people have to continue pouring money in on our side of the river? Zero. Such a shame.

I think I'd rather see the old church continue to rot into the ground as opposed to the city bringing in the demolition crew and building more low income housing, which brings more low lifes into my neighborhood.

I went to a small church called Evangelical Baptist Church in that building. The Paster was Donald Frost and the chapel was lovely. This was in the middle to later 1960's. I thought the owner at that time was a Mr. Clark . I believe in the late 60's early 70's the church moved to North Haven. I do not know whether it was the church or the owner who prompted the change.

If people take it over and can prove they have utilized it for 7 yrs can't they claim ownership under the concept of adverse position?

in that case Sandy the new owners would be crackheads and prostitutes. Thanks Rob Smuts for re-categorizing the problem, I'm sure things will happen now!

Sarcasm will get you far. You a brilliant.

I'm thinking that Johnny D has plans for a new section 8 housing complex before he starts banking full time in the fall. He probably just wants to see more people enjoy this fine piece of real estate while integrating all parts of the city except his own neighborhood, Westville. He really sees the big picture living in the heart of Westville.

Squatters rights, surely outweigh our own. I am just the schmuck that pays taxes here.

Thank you for the post. We will add this matter to our issue tracking system and will resolve it as soon as possible.

Well the owners had the weeds cut down, but forgot to clean the place up. The gutters and roof have big weeds, still no response from the owners, any luck yet City?

while the cutting of weeds in front may improve the look, the building and area are still ignored by the owners, they just don't care.

This place needs to be condemned, whatever, put back in someone else's hands or turned into a little vegetable garden. I love historical buildings, but this is bad.

If the city isn't going to legally punish owners, how about getting some public naming and shaming so that if anyone ever googles their names they can have "slumlord/absent investor properties in New Haven" as the top webpage hit?

It seems like these investors/absent owners in our neighborhood might be waiting for house prices to recover or something? But they're done - and everyone holding onto this waiting for a recovery is just making sure it never happens. Vacant buildings don't do much good.

If there is a bank involved in any business with Joel Schiavone, Diane Nastri, or the investors from MA they need to know what's going on with other properties involving the same people in the same neighborhood they have exposure. The lenders on all of our mortgages would rather not see the Heights go to *)&! either.

I actually saw a Latino male come out of a loose board on the house, adjusting his shirt. Not sure if people are turning tricks or they are squatters, but didn't look right.

Nearly every home on this section of Q ave has been on the rise....people are recovering, pitting money into their homes, landscaping, other than this one....either rehab this house or turn it into a public park.

Close old post

Why? House is still abandoned, nothing's changed. Post is still valid

Closing old issue due to current renovation.