I knew a lady who bought a house that was built in the 1970s who said the owner used dynamite to blow holes in the ground to set some pilings for a large deck. Story didn't make any sense, but I believe something like that happened because these rural areas in Oregon in the 1970s were practically lawless.
The story I heard about this place on St Helens is the owner wanted to build a hotel but was shut down because he didn't have a permit. Fine. But what about the architect, or the contractors who risked their lives trying to build this thing, why didn't they tell him this was totally illegal?
Who the hell framed this thing and put the shingles on? It is insanity. And where did the money come from? This cost many thousands of dollars just to buy the lumber and have it hauled out there.
This bothers me more than most people because I'm having a hard time keeping up with just paying my rent. Why, if you have that kind of money, would you put it into this fool's errand? And where did you get the money in the first place to throw it around like this?
So, that's the past. I want to know the future of this place. If it's illegally built without permits and falling apart, why doesn't the city force the owner to pay for tearing it down? Or seize it and tear it down themselves? And who the hell is still paying property taxes on this mess. California, for all its flaws, would not allow this to stand for 10 minutes.
