Another property added to Silver Bow Properties list

SBP now has another investment property, this ones a really crappy duplex on main street.
The place really isn't that bad of a property. It needs some minor work & cleanup. But the place is fully rented out, and the property is located right in the middle of a major city renovation project. In 6 months the place will be a real gem. Ill get some photos up later in the week.

Started the Third floor

Major demolition of the 2nd floor is now complete. All of the trim & cast iron radiators have been stored in the basement. Should take 3-4 weeks to Finnish off the third floor. & then the Plumbers can run the heating supply lines in, the electrician can run the electrical,I can run the Cat5 cabling, for the Computer networking, Phone lines, Alarm system, Intercom system, Central vacuum, & dual RG6 cabing for the Cable/satellite & Closed circuit television system. This week I will work on getting estimates for a fire sprinkler system. The windows have been a stale issue, not sure what is going to happen yet.

Max & I were interviewed on the local rock radio station KMBR today. Today was the first day of raising $ to put 12 foot x 18 foot, American flags on top of the dozen head frames that are scattered about the city. They are basically the elevators for the old mine shafts that zigzag under the city. I think of them as unique industrial art and they tower as high as 210 feet over the buildings and houses. Silver Bow Properties, LLC decided to donate an entire flag to the cause, and so we were asked to visit the radio station to talk about our donation and uptown remodeling project.


Anselmo Night c 2005 by Bernie Connor

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Oh yeah took in 1,280 pounds of scrap iron & 50 pounds of lead in for $34.50

Not much to update

No pictures, everything pretty much looks the same. All of the 2nd floor is down to the bare studs, & we are currently working on filling our 6th dumpster. Work has begun on the third floor & tomorrow or Saturday I'M plan on making the 3rd down to the 2nd floor Trash chute adaptor out of the old forced air heater ducting.

Billy Bob watching cars pass

Just pictures of the bare studs

Third Dumpster






Max Removing nails.

Old electrical tubes

Steven hammering out the last of the hallway.

Artice with a brief mention of our BLDC loan.

MT standard article

The First article

More demolition

Looks like we're not the only ones tearing stuff up this week.
Two blocks to the east(toward the mine), a county owned building was torn down.

The building was a total waste, muiltiple fires, no roof, and severly failing masonary.

More demo

The demolition crew hammered away all day again today. Looks like missed my goal compleating the demolition of 2nd floor in a week. I havent really given it much attention today, spent most of the day finnishing up my taxes and meeting with the inspector for another property. The new dumpster is about 8" shorter than the previous dumpsters & so I will need to make an extension for the "Chute of death". I also need to make an adapter for it to reach the 3rd floor. I cannot just make it longer, because then it wont clear the powerlines.

progress

Sunny & warm one day.

Next morning 5" of snow.

So far two dumpsters of junk for the 2nd floor, I am certain well use up antoher one. They are only $300 a piece.

Need a radiator? I've got 31 of these babys.

more Demo

Just 5 rooms left on the 2nd floor. Should deffinatly bedone with 2nd floor on friday. no photos today.

More demolition

Spent the day orchestrating the demo of the 2nd floor. At this current rate demolition of the 2nd floor will be completed by the end of the week. Most of the time seems to be taken up in the removal of the trim/wood work. I am hopping to save & reuse a large portion of the woodwork, & so careful removal is taking a fair amount of time.

Today a large portion of the woodwork on a wall was hidden behind a 5' long steam radiator. Some guy Max met wanted it, but three of us couldn't even budge the thing, much less carry the thing down a flight of stairs. So I did the next best thing.

Beat it into manageable pieces with a sledge hammer.



Going.



Going..


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Gone!

After an hour of hammering I hauled it off to the scrap recyclers, Whoooo hoooo! $15.50 for 620 pounds of scrap iron. Combine that with the old penny I found last week & I can buy a case of beer.

Truck Roll over

On the way home from the lake ran across this wreck. Nobody was around, & the engine was still warm(Within an hour of our arrival). No blood & no body so i guess whoever flipped it made it out okay.



Note the keys still in the ignition, & the ice from a soda on the winsheld in the corner.

From this angle you can see the tracks from when they drove in. It wasnt that hard of a manuver I have no idea what caused them to flip.

Sunday! no work

Spent the last few days taking care of some administrative stuff. So not much work has been compleated, or atleast none worth photographing. Tomarrow should be a very productive day, well see. I spent today shooting gophers, & took the dog Billy Bob to Delmoe lake. Heres some photos of Spire rock on the way in to the lake.

Demolition begins

Spent the day hammering out the lathe & paster.

The chute

10-10' sticks of 1" Emt conduit
2-10' sticks of 3/4" Emt conduit
3 sheets of 1/4" masonite
6 hours of welding
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1 20 foot long debris chute

Lights on upstairs!

Our building is in a pretty unique location. We are very short walking distance from bars, restaurants, several banks, a grocery store/butcher(actual real butcher), Gym. Just about everything is within walking distance. So during the day our street is quite busy with people going about their daily business's.
As the mine workers left, less & less people lived in the apartments & boarding houses located above these storefront businesses. I heard the historic population high in Butte was over 100K, all in the uptown area. The population gradually left the area and migrated away towards "the flats" Im guessing we are the first people to live in the historic uptown area in 30+ years. By the time the bars close there is nobody uptown, leaving us in a ghost town. I figure roughly 90% of the uptown store fronts are occupied by businesses, but the floors above these business have long been vacant. Things are rapidly changing. In the next couple of months a project similar to ours will be completed, and more apartments will be available in the uptown. The Acoma restaurant (300 feet away) building is rumor to have been purchased, by a developer who plans to convert the upper two floor into luxury apartments. The Fox hotel & neighboring building on the other end of park street has been purchased by a man who is also starting a project similar to ours(much larger scale). Anyways the point to this whole thing is the lights are comming back on in the uptown. I figure roughly 80 uptown structures have dark upstairs windows. And until last night the imperial was one of them. I rewired some old lamps found in the building, ran some extension cords to them and now the lights are on upstairs in the Imperial.


People are getting curious, & I am hopping to encourage others in lighting their upstairs windows at night.

Had to return Samson

The stairs were just too much for the old guy. Took him back today, I guess it was nice for hm to get a bath & sleep somewhere other that the shelter for a night.

We still have a small zoo.


"Max with death on his shoulder"

The "Death" puns never end around here. "Deaths scratching at my door" "Death is following me everywhere"