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Property Rehabbers Find Potentially Deadly Booby Trap In Philly Home
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It started a week ago today
when Ari Miller – “Property Manager, Entrepreneur, Philosopher & Spreader of Good Cheer” – of Real Estate Management Advisors
LLC posted a jar- ring video to his Facebook page.
“As a property manager, I see some crazy things. This is, by far, the craziest,” wrote Miller to summarize the two-minute tour filmed by Ekrem Uysaler, sales executive
for ABC Capital RE. “I have a lot of crazy tenants.”
Well that’s the understatement of the season.
You can see the video embedded below, but before you do, here’s a brief recap of
what you'll be watching:
• A bunch of bro- ken glass lining the bottom steps of a staircase heading to the second floor.
• A trip wire that activates a trap reminiscent of those which Indiana Jones faced in the cave at the start of “Raiders of the Lost Ark."
• Those in the house triggering the booby trap from a distance to safely gauge its potential effec- tiveness.
“That would have f***** straight up killed you right in your f****** head,” says one of the workers after tripping the wire and seeing the knife come down, head level, along the steps.
Uysaler told PhillyVoice on Wednesday that
he couldn't give the specific address of the home, saying only that it was a distressed prop- erty in Southwest Philadelphia. The team was there to gauge what work had to be done before the house could be rehabbed.
"Luckily, we stopped one of our guys before he walked into the wire," he said. "The whole thing was pretty crazy."
He had to quickly run, so we could- n't get names and knife meas- urements, but suffice it to say, the trip wire has been cut and folks have been walking on eggshells in the property in the days since.
UPDATE: Many eagle-eyed
observers of local booby-trap videos noted that they'd seen this before Miller's post. They were right!
An earlier version was posted January 15 by a Michael Vincent Jarzyk, per screenshots pro- vided by one tip- ster. Uysaler said Friday he works with Jarzyk and gave him the video, which the former initially posted online on January 2, but was quickly taken down because "it was going viral."
"That video was recorded by a member of our team and then published to warn wholesalers, investors, etc. in the possible dan- gers of this indus- try that most see as cut and
dry," Jarzyk said.
Somewhat lost in the maelstrom that was last week’s “50 Shades of Maple Glen” real estate listing story was
an equally eye- opening video emerging from a rowhome in Southwest Philadelphia.
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