What's Happening in Spring Gate?

*Laundry rooms were updated.

*Legitimate tenants are abused.

*The living environment, management, and security suck!

*Occupancy agreements and fair housing laws are constantly violated by mgmt.

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This is a TAX-CREDITED and GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED property where the following has recently been reported, once again:

1.  security guards have oral sex, drink, and smoke weed with certain tenants, guests, and/or live-ins within the common areas while in their love-machine security vehicles.

2.  management still allows some adult troublemaking residents and their incomes not to be accounted for on lease agreements or on any HUD documents.

3.  tenants continue to be denied freedom of speech without having to suffer severe repercussions from management

4.  installed security cameras have been and ARE AVAILABLE on the premises to allow management to finally correct some serious issues; yet, management doesn't correct violations which makes this tax-credited housing complex a nuisance property.

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Bribes for 5-Star Reviews

During this covid crisis, First Hartford Realty Corporation and Connolly & Partners LLC sent around notices to their financially vulnerable tenants in Rockland, Massachusetts offering a bribe to write "5-star reviews". 

     Notices were distributed to tenants two or three different times, beginning November 2020, urging residents to write 5-star reviews about the subsidized property that was recently fined by the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office for hazarous asbestos disposal. 

     This nuisance property has also been known for illegal drug distribution, mail theft, assaults, noise, filthy hallways, threats, harassments, etc.  Of course, FHRC never called their coercion a bribe, but labeled it a contest instead.   If it were really a "contest", corporate management would have asked residents for their honest reviews, good or bad, to be eligible for the drawing.  In order to receive an abundance of 5-star reviews, Management limited the eligibility of residents who wrote the 5-star reviews, by making every TENTH resident who wrote a 5-star review to be eligible to win a gift card.  If you're confused, here's what Rockland apartments management wrote . . .

. . . "As a valued tenant, we are looking for some input on making our community even better.  We are offering an incentive for every 10th resident that writes a 5-star review will be eligible to win a gift card.  See drawing dates below.

First Prize will be announcing on Monday, February 22, 2021 at 12pm

Second Prize will be announcing on Friday, February 26, 2021 at 12pm

Third Prize will be announcing on Monday, March 1, 2021 at 12pm

The lucky winner could win a gift card up to $100.00"

      Some of the Spring Gate resident reviews could be seen on the following website:  https://www.apartmentratings.com/ma/rockland/spring-gate-apartments_781871232302370/

     Most financially vulnerable tenants, who hoped to win a gift card, wrote wonderful reviews, whether true or not.  On the other hand, so glad to see some residents refused to be bribed and wrote what their genuine resident experiences are or have been!  Thank you to several Spring Gate Apartment residents for having good ethics even when corporate managers do NOT.

Scandalous Housing

 Here's an interesting documentary by an investigative journalist. It touches on one major problem of corporate, and sometimes political, corruption that exists with subsidized housing. 

 * https://youtu.be/8iei3HtdBbQ

Here is a link to a recent news article about just one of the ways low-income residents at Rockland Place dba Spring Gate Apartments in Rockland, MA are placed at risk by corporate property managers and their corporate affiliates. In this case, three companies were fined by the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office.  Prosecutors said the actions of the three companies put the health of workers and tenants at risk. 

Funny there's no mention of William M. Connolly and Partners, LLC in the news article.  Tenants were told in 2008 that Mr. Connolly purchased the subsidized apartment complex from Cornerstone Corp., Boston Financial, and/or Abrams Mgmt., etc.  Perhaps they're all Partners with Boston Capital by now.

     "Under the settlement, First Hartford and its companies are required to pay $250,000 in civil penalties, $50,000 of which will be suspended pending compliance with terms of the judgment. 

      First Hartford is required to provide more asbestos training for staff members, provide asbestos inspection reports and maintenance records to the state Department of Environmental Protection, hire a licensed asbestos consultant and an asbestos abatement contractor to be available “on call” as needed and develop a plan to inspect and deal with any asbestos materials remaining in the apartments.

      TRC is required to pay $25,000 and Enviro-Safe is required to pay $10,000 in civil penalties for the asbestos violations under separate agreements. 

“Asbestos is a known human carcinogen and MassDEP’s asbestos regulations are designed to protect public health and the environment,” said Millie Garcia-Serrano, the Department of Environmental Protection’s Southeast Region director, in a statement. 

    The microscopic fibers of asbestos can cause lung problems and death. Asbestos was used in window caulk, insulation, plaster and taping compounds, floor and roofing tiles, siding and other housing materials until it was banned in the late 1970s."

** https://www.patriotledger.com/story/news/2020/12/23/three-companies-face-fines-over-illegal-asbestos-abatement-rockland/4026190001/

And here is a news story regarding the same problem of asbestos in 2017.  It's no coincidence that the resident who reported this incident is no longer residing in this housing complex. 

*** https://www.boston25news.com/news/rockland-apartment-company-says-it-warned-residents-about-asbestos-removal/520952556/

This particular housing complex on Martha Drive and Hannah Way in Rockland, Mass., along with others they mismanage, have a long history of harassing vulnerable tenants who speak out.  Corporate management has even deliberately caused extreme distress to those with genuine medical disabilties until tenants end up surrendering their subsidized apartments to homelessness or death. They don't approve of tenants who simply request management abide by their lease agreements or those who question unfair housing practices or organized corruption schemes.