by DAWGS Vacant Property Security | Property Security | Mar 14, 2022 | Oakland, Real Estate
The U.S. housing market is getting hotter, according to data from Movoto by OJO, a real estate search site. Fully 40 percent of homes sold in February fetched more than their list price, up from 36 percent in January. That reverses a cooling trend in recent months....
by DAWGS Vacant Property Security | Property Security | Jan 26, 2022 | Chicago, Community Outreach
For more than a decade, DAWGS has donated equipment and provided vacant property accessibility training for first responders and fire departments in the areas they serve. While having DAWGS steel door and window guards on a vacant property greatly reduces the chance...
by DAWGS Vacant Property Security | Property Security | Aug 16, 2021 | Community Outreach, Detroit
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown us all a curve ball over the last eighteen plus months. Adults have changed the way they work, and restrictions have impacted the way they socialize. Children have needed to cope with new ways to learn and many have been stuck indoors...
by DAWGS Vacant Property Security | Property Security | Jul 28, 2021 | Chicago, Community Outreach
The former home of blues legend Muddy Waters, a two-flat located at 4339 S. Lake Park Avenue in Chicago, was vacant and in a state of disrepair. Muddy Waters’ great-granddaughter Chandra Cooper owns the property and is leading the effort to . rehab it and turn it into...
by DAWGS Vacant Property Security | Property Security | Nov 9, 2020 | Detroit, Real Estate
When Zachary Rowe, Executive Director for Friends Of Parkside, approached DAWGS to sponsor its Annual Parkside Halloween Party, the DAWGS team didn’t hesitate to help out. Friends of Parkside (FOP) is a non-profit, community-based organization located on Detroit’s...
by DAWGS Vacant Property Security | Property Security | Jul 28, 2020 | Chicago, Real Estate
On June 12th, 2020, the City of Chicago, acting on an emergency default order, was getting ready to demolish a home in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. The demolition never happened because of the swift action from the Chicago-based DAWGS team. The vacant...