Important Questions on the Towing of Vehicles

A notice was attached to the outside entrance doors of each building this past week. In summary, the notice reads that a company called Firehouse Towing will be towing vehicles for snow removal purposes and will also remove vehicles from 11pm thru 6am for residents denied a parking permit.

• Does the company 'Firehouse Towing'  legitimately exist in 2011?
• Aren't tow companies required to be licensed and insured in the state of Massachusetts?
• Shouldn't 'Spring Gate' residents have a right to be informed of the tow company's legal name, license number, current address, and current insurance information?

Here are some interesting facts uncovered about the tow company Rockland Place dba Spring Gate Apartments has hired or contracted with to tow vehicles from this subsidized housing complex. Firehouse Towing or Firehouse Inc. used to have the address of 190 Columbia Road, Hanover, Mass. until 900 shareholders voted to approve the company's dissolution several years back. The current business listing at that same address is now Petroleum Gas Station, 190 Columbia Rd., Hanover, MA 02339. So whatever happened to Firehouse Towing? Are any of those shareholders affiliated with investors, owners, or management of Rockland Place dba Spring Gate Apartments?
     We certainly wouldn't want any conflicts of interest or kickbacks going on. Would we?  I believe it would be reasonable for residents of Spring Gate to know the answers to all of these questions before anyone is allowed to touch their personal property, especially because low-income tenants' personal property was carelessly damaged by hired-hands during the renovations in 2006 and during other times also.

 

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FORECAST FOR FAVORITISM

Today I noticed an advertisement for Spring Gate Apartments on the internet. It looks as though deceptive business practices and false advertisements aren't illegal any longer.  I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that numerous business partners and affiliates of Rockland Place pay campaign contributions, hire expensive lobbyists, and have strong ties to the Democratic party.
Price: $931, City: Rockland, Square feet: n/a - Location: 52 Hannah Way, Rockland, MA, 2370, USA - Come home to the quiet relaxation of Spring Gate Apartments. Private and luxurious, this is a haven with numerous amenities. Spring Gate Apartments is perfectly located near major freeways with access to downtown, shopping, medical facilities, and.......
Property Type: Apartment - Listing type: For rent
Listing status: Active - Bedroom: 1 - Bathroom: 1

As the ad claims, this HUD subsidized housing complex is truly a haven. As I've witnessed, it's a haven for crime; it's a haven for drugs; and it's a haven for fraud. I suppose the person or persons writing the Spring Gate Apartments ad believe 'quiet relaxation' to mean living under the duress of threats and physical assaults. Let's not forget all the beatings and the most recent 2011 blood bathings on the walls and floors of the laundry facility, inside and outside of 63 Hannah Way.... Ahhhh, quiet relaxation indeed!


So, what's so deceptive about the ad?  Here's the truth about Spring Gate Apartments: It is still the same Rockland Place Apartments in Rockland, Mass. minus a few of the people who were concerned enough to have reported crime, abuse, deceptive business practices, and other violations which still continue today. Spring Gate Apartments is only 'private' to those households who allow violent loved ones, with police records, to reside in undersized units...(Of course, there are some tenants who remain overhoused too.)  Management kindly accommodates select nuisance, drug-dealing, and violent households with employment, lease invisibilities, on-premise parking privileges, etc. while several legit households are denied the same leniencies. Sometimes Management even forbids a handicapped person access to the same common areas most other residents have!

Management's lease invisibilities not only provide refuge to those committing crimes, but also lowers genuine household income for Management's favored households. Some innocent and legit residents who leave Spring Gate Apts., leave due to the ongoing violence, retaliation, noise, and because they refuse to sign misdated and fraudulent documents Management insist they sign. These documents help owners collect more undeserving funds.
     MassHousing backs up all of these deceptive business practices. And, it's become obvious to me and to others that HUD and some politicians also play a key role in supporting these unethical and even illegal practices at the 'new and improved' Spring Gate Apts. As a tenant here, just try to get a trial in front of a judge at the Brockton Housing Court. I'd be surprised if Management's unethical and illegal conduct were ever put on court record, especially when unrepresented persons are further tormented into unwanted mediation proceedings. The corruption and the good ol' boy network needs to stop.
     The truth of it all is, Spring Gate Apartments is a prime example of unfair housing.  Rockland Place dba Spring Gate is a cover-up for drug deals, violence, and fraud. It's a money machine for partners in crime, and a luxurious prison facility for those who've never committed a crime.
     As far as safe, decent, and affordable housing goes, it just doesn't exist at the 'luxurious' Spring Gate Apartments. Sadly, those holding the power to resolve the serious difficulties in this unfair and chaotic living environment, won't. They 'chose not to get involved at this point in time' while others simply choose to run deceptive ads.

From Liability to Asset?

January 5, 2011, around 10:45 p.m., police received a 911 call about another crime in progress, (an attempted break-in), at the 'new and improved' Spring Gate Apartment complex, which has a history of unfair, negligent, and abusive practices by Management.

Rockland Place dba Spring Gate tenants, Mr. Conroy, at 63 Hannah Way, and Mr. Smith at 74 Martha Drive, Rockland, were arrested for armed robbery, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest.  Additional charges of armed robbery were added when knives were discovered on both men in the arrest process.

Lt. Zeoli and Sgt. Pigeon of the Rockland Police Dept. did a commendable job under difficult circumstances.  While chasing the suspects through the complex, one of the officers was injured from slipping on the icy pavement in the common area of the HUD subsidized housing complex, mismanaged by Janet Hamilton of Cornerstone Corp. and First Hartford Realty Corp.

With new ownership in 2005, Mr. Wm. M. Connolly promised Rockland Board of Selectman he would turn Rockland Place Apartments from a liability to an asset. Though Rockland Place Apartments may have received surface name changes and billions in government grants to make the place more livable, poor management, shady practices, and crime on this HUD financed property continues.

DISTRUST, PAYOFFS, LAUNDERING, EXTORTION

     On January 6, 2011, a federal judge sentenced former state Senator Dianne Wilkerson to prison for taking $23,500 in bribes, saying too many Massachusetts politicians engage in political corruption without fear of serious consequences.
.......“It’s clear the sentencing imposed for criminal conduct here and, frankly, in other industrial states, hasn’t been sufficient,’’ said US District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock. Referring to a culture of political corruption in Massachusetts, Woodlock said, “That Gordian knot has not been cut. People go back to do it again.’’.......
      The intriguing January 7, 2011 Boston Globe article also mentions that 2 former House speakers were convicted of federal crimes, but not sentenced to prison.  Read the entire article by Jonathan Saltzman at http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/01/07/wilkerson_receives_3_years_in_prison/?p1=News_links

Social Issue Documentaries

Do you know of an important social issue or cause? Are you or someone you know disturbed by threats, violence, or other bad conditions on HUD subsidized properties?  Photos and video could be one way to tell your unbelievable story!
http://www.mediarights.org/
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BROCKTON POLICE PROVIDE BETTER DETAIL!
Unlike many vague Rockland Police logs, you can find greater detail within the Brockton Police Logs.
2:43 p.m. Hector Alicea, 28, 164 Martha Dr., Rockland was charged with possession of a Class B drug, usually cocaine or crack, after a call reporting suspicious activity near Pleasant and Main Streets.
This certainly says a lot about the millions allegedly spent to renovate the crime-ridden Rockland Place into the unimproved Spring Gate Apts.
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SUBSIDIZED ZONING LAWS?
Martha Drive and Hannah Way belong to the infamous Rockland Place dba Spring Gate subsidized apartment complex. Maybe you could figure out what taxpayers are really subsidizing.   Click here and scroll to the bottom of the web page.  
Friendly Ice Cream Corporate Sales Office (781) 792-0726 - 28 Webster St, Rockland, MA
Friendlys Restaurants Franchise Inc (781) 792-0726 - 82 Martha Dr, Rockland, MA

Oh, and let's not forget the long publicized Rockland Self-Storage business listing at 141 Martha Drive, along with several other peculiar business listings on this MassHousing/HUD-financed housing property (where suspicious activities continue to exist). 

Corruption in 2010

Judicial Watch published their updated list on Washington's 10 most wanted corrupt politicians for 2010. This list spotlights incidents of secrecy, corruption and abuse of power. Several of the empowered individuals are involved in federal housing programs.... http://www.judicialwatch.org/weeklyupdate/2010/50-washingtons-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-2010

Restructuring Finances

Here he comes to $ave their day. The corporate welfare pro is on the way. http://multifamilycapital.net/success_ma.html

H.U.D.'s Unenforced Rules and Regulations

H.U.D.'s rules and regulations should NOT exclude several of the people currently living and working in subsidized multifamily housing. Complexes such as Rockland Place dba Spring Gate Apartments in Rockland, Mass. have property manager(s) pretending to be blind-sided and ignorant to drug dealers, listed self-storage facilities, etc. HUD's rules and regulations should NOT exclude an unmarried maintenance man who lives with the mother of his girlfriend in subsidized housing; yet, unlisted on their occupancy agreement to further reduce their share of subsidized rent.  These behaviors cause an unfair and unnecessary cost to taxpayers!

When property managers and tenants lie about who resides in any household, it usually diminishes the assets of the entire household income.  Also, it becomes an unfair expense to legitimate tenants when cost of utilities is used as one of the excuses by corporate landlords to raise rents.  H.U.D.'s rules and regulations do NOT exclude tenants listed with the housing authorities neither.  Either H.U.D. needs to honestly eliminate these unsafe and fraudulent matters or H.U.D. needs to be investigated. 

*http://www.masslegalhelp.org/housing/multi-family-subsidized-housing

Cover-up? The D.B.A.ing of Rockland Place Apts.

The reputation of Rockland Place Apartments didn't become negative until sometime in the mid eighties with the exposure of property negligence and drug trafficking. Rockland Place was on a steady decline. Eventually new management was brought in with promises of improvement, but residents were, once again, deceived. Now those reporting negligence and criminal activity were harassed, intimidated, and unjustly discredited. Gangs loitered on corners and worked well under the management of Cornerstone Corporation.

Following more letters of complaint, there were letters of poor response from government officials. It wasn't until then, that a website was developed. This website displayed photos of drugs and violence on this H.U.D. subsidized property. Numerous threats were published calling for the removal of that website. All threats were reported to Rockland Police and property management without resolution.

In 2005, new corporate partners declared the reputation of 'Rockland Place' had been destroyed by news articles, police reports, and by the publicity of that original website. They promised to clean up the crime with security cameras and a police substation on their subsidized property. While nuisance tenants and disruptive guests remained, the webmasters' were eliminated. Still, no security cameras or police substation. The only cleanup that took place were new appliances, paint, and cosmetic renovations -- Oh yes, word and name changes too.

There is constant confusion and conflict as to the official name of this H.U.D. subsidized housing complex. For example, Rockland Place has now become Spring Gate to rent payers.   And though the entrance sign has been changed to 'Spring Gate', H.U.D. and other officials continue to note it as 'Rockland Place'.
So, what has DBAing really done except to create a travesty of 'change'? Residents continue to see the same faces in management, maintenance, and corporate attorneys. Policies and procedures remain the same; deceptive. From advertisements to corporate partnership names, these new owners are wizards at words. It's my guess this grand illusion has enriched several partners associated with Rockland Place dba Spring Gate. The 'new' takeover of Rockland Place Apts. is more a cover-up than a clean-up.

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