Another house is Tolbert-ized

By NADIA PFLAUM

If Dolores Royston had read this story, she might have known better than to rent her house at 6837 Bellefontaine Avenue to Richard Tolbert.

Tolbert — the former City Council member, unsuccessful candidate for county executive and lone activist for saving the economically depressed Bannister Mall, now scheduled to become a soccer complex — seemed to have nowhere else to stay when he and Royston drew up a lease agreement. For $200 a month, the lease stated, Tolbert could stay in the property, with the first two months free. He moved in last January. The property wasn’t perfect — Royston was installing new gutters in order to comply with city codes when Tolbert moved in — but it didn’t look like this:

(pictures after the jump).