Professional Garage Sales or At-home flea markets
Susan and I like to garage sale. Aside from picking up bargains, it is a great way to see all different parts of Seminole Heights. (and Sulphur Springs, Tampa Heights and Wellswood.)
Today we drove by the garage sale at 1209 E. Henry. You musy have seen the signs. They were all over the place. In fact it would appear they have been up for the last month or two. As we drove by I confirmed our suspicions. This is one of the professional garage sale guys. We have sen him before having been to his sales several times. He sells "art" and other items. Even has a bright yellow "art sale" sign. He seems to have garage sales all the time.
There use to be a guy who had professional garage sales on Mohawk, someplace between 12th and 15th. He had a shipping container out front and had lots of flea market items. I'd hate to be living next to him.
Although I am whining about these two guys, a couple of years ago, there was a really great year long (every saturday) estate sale at Elm and I-275. (Right next to I-275 - last house on north end of the street) Some guy bought a seamtress' house (is a male version of a seamtress called a seamster? - or is that a dock worker who unload bolts of cloth?) The place and the large garage and a shipping container was filled with bolt upon bolt of cloth, curtains and even some furniture.
3 comments:
yeah, the guy on Henry is a serial yardseller.
The Mohawk guy you referenced was turned into code by neighbors on the street for his commercial semi trailer that he was using for storage for his weekly yard sales. I don't have issues with a yard sale but when it is set up every weekend it's a business - go to the flea market and set up a table for $10 every week and give your neighbors a rest with all the cars parked everywhere for your "bargins"
He also lost the commercial use of his property and now must turn it back to residential.
He has been a pain in the you know what to all of us here and it is a legitimate code problem.
Thank god they did something.
Never heard of the other guy.
If you like garage sales, we are having one on Saturday, July 22, 2006. 5111 N. Branch Avenue. Lots of stuff, just combined two households so we have 2 of everything. Furniture, applicances, lots of nick naks too. 8-1, weather permitting.
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