WTF?!? Woman Found Living in Family Fare Sign in Midland (MI)

[packyderms_wife]

I'd guess it was in that dormer sign?

Maybe some heat leakage from the store?

Access from the flat roof behind it?

Roof ladder for condensing units on roof.


I couldn't get good details from the satellite pic.

Hmmm so there's a fair amount of space up there, it's not at all what I had imagined.

 

[Meemur]

Here's another, this one Meijer.

 

[packyderms_wife]

Here's another, this one Meijer.

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Well it would work, have you seen some of those teeny tiny apartments in Hong Kong? This space would be a luxury unit by comparison.

 

[anna43]

It would be very interesting to hear the lady's thoughts and how she managed to do the whole living in a sign thing.

My late dh's aunt was deserted by her spouse in during the Depression. She was in NYC with three children. Her dad, who was extremely poor himself, somehow helped her move back to Iowa. Within a couple years she owned a large boarding house across the street from Mercy Hospital in Des Moines. She continued to run a boarding house until the mid 1960's when urban renewal took all those old places down.

I've wondered if a person could get around the law by saying that boarders were friends sharing expenses. I wonder how the IRS would deal with that??

There are a lot of illegals from Mexico living in Iowa including rural Iowa 15 plus per residence. Some keep their place decent, but others trash it.

 

[Firebird]

Yeah, we, and our neighbors, get at least one letter a year from them wanting to buy our properties to turn into rental units.

I get purchase letters all the time for my homes

 

[Loretta Van Riet]

As for the post, this was an episode of Malcolm in the Middle.

Man lives in Lucky-Aide, 3:09

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIevqMfoDPY

I loved that episode!

 

[Blacknarwhal]

I loved that episode!

Because you can't not sing along with Everyone Knows it's Windy.

 

[joannita]

I knew a Mexican who lived in a home in Fla w multiple other men. He paid a thousand dollars a month.

 

[SSTemplar]

I spent 4 days in Midland back in the 90s. I didn’t see anything weird but than I once lived in Midland Texas.

 

[pauldingbabe]

Yes, and Blackrock (etc) own a lot of the nursing homes, too.

Makes me shudder.

Yep...

Cradle to grave govt housing.

 

[Reasonable Rascal]

 

[Signwatcher]

Where is Midland, I looked in the OP and didn't see which state!

I put the abbreviation of the State in the title/headline of the Thread when I posted it so folks would know.

 

[Signwatcher]

Which is baffling because we already have a full version of Meijer, which is Meijer. It got its start in Holland, last I knew.

I think Meijer started in Grand Rapids.

Edited to acknowledge that it wasn't Grand Rapids. However, there's a big presence of Meijer there. Like Meijer Gardens.

 

[Macgyver]

Ya, someone forgot to lock the gate over the roof ladder I'm guessing.

 

[WanderLore]

I'd take living in my vehicle any day. You could also possibly get work at state park or campground, small wage and most provided for little bit of work.

 

[feralferret]

Been homeless twice many years ago. I lived in my vehicle for several months each time. Not a fun life, but better than a tent or worse.

 

[sy32478]

This seems like the most obious kind of story that the OP would post.

 

[SAPPHIRE]

When very young ( 10 or so ) , family shopped at Famous - Barr, a large diverse retail with loads of hidey holes. One department had small cubicles lining the high walls ( reached by ladders ) where products were displayed, such as a bedroom scene or small lounge area. The furnishings were usable and probably not maintained regularly. I always imagine hiding/living in some of them and emerging at night to a silent huge store. I was VERY IMAGINATIVE and liked these tantalizing daydreams. I think it would have been possible for awhile ... lots of staged displays.

 

[Satanta]

Does she post here? Helloooo? I'm curious about how you worked it out!

 

[Seeker22]

How did the human body and the furniture not show up as sillouettes at night when the light was on? Not a lighted sign?

Definitely qualifies as a tiny house, but I'd dread climbing icy stairs in winter to just get up there.

 

[GingerN]

Ha! (she thought to herself) they will never find me here!

well, in all honesty, why wouldn't she think that?
I bet had it not been for the cord, unless they had a storm or did remodeling, she wouldn't have been found for a while.