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REAL ESTATE
Historic Toledo property going up for auction
At the edge of the nascent Vistula neighborhood a businessman from New York state, Joseph Secor, staked his claim off North Summit Street in 1870 by building what was then a waterfront home on the Maumee River. The public has a chance to bid on that historic building by June 20. The husband-and-wife duo at Helminiak Real Estate & Auction will close bidding at 6 p.m. that day for this gem of Toledo’s story. Dubbed the Secor Mansion, 311 Bush St. is a reminder of a burgeoning Toledo in the last third of the 19th century before the upper class moved to the Old West End neighborhood and Summit Street became more industrialized.
Maumee considers requiring sewer inspections for home sales
Maumee is in big trouble with the Environmental Protection Agency, which is the main reason a sewer inspection for home sellers may be implemented. Maumee City Council members and administrators defended the action at Monday’s meeting, which was attended by 50 people. The ordinance to check for illicit connections on sanitary sewers when a house is listed for sale had been on the agenda as an emergency item but will receive more discussion before a formal vote. The next council meeting is July 22. The issue is an emergency, said Patrick Burtch, city administrator. “Sewage in a basement is considered by the EPA to be an acute health risk, and right now we’ve been doing it by dumping sewage in the river,” he said. “We’ve alleviated flooding in people’s houses by dumping that sewage in the river illegally.”
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