21 and counting

Don't know if you have been following the real estate settlements in the Sunday News each week, other than the numerous sheriff sales, one constant has been BHI Properties out of Mifflintown.

The property management firm, according to county records, owns up to 21 properties in the borough, if not more.

BHI is buying up properties in town that are single family dwellings and converting them into Section 8 or multiple family units. I was told last week by a member of borough council, a local broker is involved in this and at least one property was sold to BHI and the deal was negated after the seller found out what was going on. In addition, they are asking for appeals of their tax assessments as

BHI is located at 366 Empire Dr., Mifflintown.

Here is a list of their recent purchases and I think you might add another one, I saw for sale in the 200 block of South Fifth St. today.

• 1007 Cloverton
• 127 Bethel
• 212 N. Second
• 137 S. Fifth
• 557 Avenue H
• 443 Cherry
• 333 Perry
• 317 N. Second
• 316 Perry
• 486 Manor
• 309 Mill
• 105 Bethel
• 225 N. 3^rd
• 443 N. 3^rd
• 1047 Cloverton
• 477 Manor
• 243 Perry
• 240 N. 2^nd
• 806 Plane
• 128 Perry
• 314 S. 2^nd
• 245 N. 2^nd
• 543 N. 2^nd
• 529 Concord
• 234 Walnut
• 310 Avenue D
• 124 Perry
• 126 Perry

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Michael Burke will be representing Columbia in the 2011 edition of Mr. Touchdown.  WHP-580 is inviting listeners and fans to vote for their favorite high school football player as often as they can at WHP580.com. Fans can vote as often as they like until the polls close at11:59 p.m. on November 6th.  With the voting being done online, the fans do not even need to be in the local area to vote.Michael Burke will be representing Columbia in the 2011 edition of Mr. Touchdown.  WHP-580 is inviting listeners and fans to vote for their favorite high school football player as often as they can at WHP580.com. Fans can vote as often as they like until the polls close at11:59 p.m. on November 6th.  With the voting being done online, the fans do not even need to be in the local area to vote.

From Monday's LIVE CHAT

Last night during the LIVE CHAT, there were questions about vehicles break-ins. Here is advice from the Columbia Police Department.
"Keep their car doors locked and valuables out of sight. Also people that have GPS units need to clean of the round suction cup marks off the window. People can see that they have one and alot of people jsut don't take them out of their vehicle. Loose change is also something they look for. The less people see the better."