If you talk to any non-Bluff Parkians they consider Alford part of Bluff Park.  So I guess we are guilty by association.  
 
I am with BPPanther.  Alford does look like crap as people are starting to let their yards go.  This reflects poorly on us as it is the main road into Bluff Park.  

Quote from BluffPark2010 on 07/31/08 at 3:39pm:

 
BluffPark2010,
 
Can't help that I want to live in a clean community.  From your previous posts it sounds like you want to live in a trailer park.  

Quote from BluffPark2010 on 07/31/08 at 4:36pm:

 
This post is very ugly.  You do not have to agree with everything that is posted, but there is no need to behave this way.

Wow Bluffpark2010.  I see that you have made a lot of assumptions on your post.  Please let me respond to them below:
 
“The truth is your yard probably looks as bad as the people you are”
 
My Reply:  My yard is immaculate.  So are my cars, house and about everything I own.  I take a lot of personal pride in about everything I do.  
 
“You're just another I'm better than everybody snob, when the reality is you are probably one of the worst people in Bluff Park”
 
My reply:  I am not better than everybody but I am better than you.  From your previous post you sound like a trailer park hick that doesn’t want to improve this community and is content to let it slowly degrade.  So feel free to preach it from the Trailer Park there brother.
 
“Bluff Park, Alford Ave, Shades Mountain, were all around before Hoover, and before wanna be yuppies like you moved in.”
 
My reply:  My wife and I make more money than yuppies.  In fact we make a sheisse load of money and we plow it into our house and surroundings.  Given that we have invested so much in our home we are concerned with the neighborhood around it.  
 
We could live in Greystone, Forest Park, or Mountainbrook, but we chose to live in Bluff Park.  I hope this decision turns out to be a good one.
 
“Also, I noticed that nothing has changed about the big house on Alford Avenue. Is it maybe because the city did just as I thought they would, take a look at the property and then just laugh at you behind your back?”
 
My reply: You are assuming that the City of Hoover will enforce a housing code that they just recently adopted three years ago.  Yeah that’s right the City was without something as basic as a housing code up until three years ago.  Even then it took three older gentlemen to champion the cause because nobody else would push it through.
 
Given that I don’t have any faith that the City of Hoover will ever enforce the code.
 
“While you are spending all of your time complaining about how much better your little street is than Alford Avenue, you are just too stupid to realize that without Alford Avenue to connect you to the Interstate, you would have a much more difficult time getting to work. Maybe you should take the time to learn about things before you start running your ignorant hate filled mouth.”
 
My reply:  I never compared Bedford to Alford but I think Bedford would win hands down.  The $500K house that you referenced actually went on the market for around $350K and it probably sold for less because it stayed on the market forever.  The $1M home is actually three homes on a massive lot so if you averaged them it would be around $300K apiece.  Also there is no correlation to how much someone pays for a home and how clean it is, so I am not grasping your redneck logic.  
 
And I never mentioned anything about Alford being a commuter road and what does that have to do with how it looks?  I think your “Solution” is pretty stupid.  Why don’t you just ask people to start cleaning up around their yards so it doesn’t look like a vine/equipment infested pig pen.
 
“Hey, why don't you go do something about that empty house in your own neighborhood. Bedford Avenue is such a high upper class neighborhood compared to the rest of Bluff Park.”
 
My reply:  People around the Bluff Park Meadows area have been complaining for years and nothing has happened.  I guess the City of Hoover is laughing behind their backs too.  

Another PSA,
 
Who asked your opinion??  I sure didn’t.  
 
Unless you have been going through my bank/retirement statements, I don’t think you would know how much money I make or where I can afford to live.  The point was that I can live anywhere in Birmingham that I want but I chose BP.  To clarify: Anything under $600-700 I could afford.
 
I chose BP because everyone said it was going to be the next Homewood or Crestline.  Boy were they wrong.   There hasn't been any progress at all.  In fact it has been slipping backwards because you and your buddy Bluffpark2010 want to live in filth.  You want to take up for people that will eventually drag this neighborhood down.  You are to concerned that I seem to be picking on Mexicans to realize all of the crap that is in their yards.  I think someone on this site called the Alford Ave yard the "Sanford and Son Yard".  Just the neighbor I want.
 
Two other things:
 
The yard is a little bit bigger than a bedroom.  I know. I cut it.  That doesn’t seem to be the theme on Alford.  
 
And unless you have been living under a rock you would know that people have been complaining to Hoover about the Savoy house for years. Nothing is ever done about it which is the situation in Bluff Park.
 
You seem to have some thing about back yards.  Yours probably looks like sheisse oh I'm sorry scheisse.

Quote from Forolemiss on 08/01/08 at 1:37pm:

 
I dont want to get in your argument but I have a question about this statement.. who is everyone?
When I bought that is what my realtor had said that to me also and I have seen that kind of growth in the area that I am in maybe not as fast but a continued growth. My realtor told me that there are SOME prime spots in Bluff Park, popular roads and areas that are fixed and sold or flipped. Some examples she gave me included but not limited to (sorry I cant remember all of them) Park Ave, Chapel, The Farley's, Cambo's, Rockland area, etc. They are the ones I remember because they had the houses that I was most interested in. No where did she mention anything about Alford Ave. nor did I look at any homes on that road.
 
I guess from what I have read on here from others is that there are people that see the same problems you do around them and then there are people who do not see it around them... so maybe its not an overall problem just a few homes here and there??? I would be interested in hearing from a realtor that sells in Bluff Park. Considering that the house next to me sold in 10 days for 205,000 and it is a postage stamp with a new updated kitchen and hardwood floors, I am not in an area of Bluff Park where I am seeing what you are seeing and I am thankful for that. Anyway I was just wondering who had told you that statement that is all really.

Let’s just get something straight.  I am not the one that fired off the original one page hate post.  I was just responding to your trailer trash friend.  As far as the income discussion, that was in response to your friend’s post.  Not lying or compensating for something else.
 
You can call me a racist till your blue in the face, but I could care less.  I just call it like I see it.  Every house in BP with massive amounts of construction equipment in their yard is Mexican-owned.  I am just pointing out the direct correlation.  If that makes me a racist, then so be it.  
 
Oh by the way, have you seen the two dump trucks parked in front of the new Hispanic home by Larkspur Lane.  When are you going to concede to the fact that I am right??
 
As far as moving out of Bluff Park, once the kids get out of Bluff Park Elementary we plan to jet to Vestavia.  So there you go.  Sorry I took a gamble on Bluff Park, a place of all talk and no action.