Freedom can not ring in an oppressive society. This blog reflects thoughts, personal experiences, + several notes of interest on 'affordable' housing. What do you think of gov't financing nuisance properties? Rockland Place continues doing business as SPRING GATE APARTMENTS along Martha Drive + Hannah Way in Rockland, Mass. (shady business).
1. Section 8: missing ceiling in Arizona * http://youtu.be/OeQ5AaVisgs
2. Phoenix, AZ: dangerous housing w/HOA * http://youtu.be/XgGv12PMvx8
3. Arizona: improved Section 8 housing * http://youtu.be/WNXh03tgR-Q
4. Senior citizens and others living w/ sewerage overflow inside section 8 apartments * http://youtu.be/6QUrtfx4F5Y
5. Being poor in the world's richest country * http://youtu.be/f78ZVLVdO0A
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Here are only some of the horror stories of why it's best not to have to do business with big corporate landlords, their affiliated companies, their LP and LLC partnerships. They often have lobbyists who contribute campaign contributions and have government connections; therefore, they DO get away with violating residents' rights and breaching too many agreements.
Laws need to be passed that allow American citizens to know who each individual is behind their numerous corporate names and partnerships. Too many corporate landlords abuse their power and take advantage of vulnerable residents in a number of ways. They are known for targeting outspoken residents and making their living situation even worse than it was before. More on all of this later.
2. http://www.thecoronavirusreport.earth/everything-else/the-real-problem-with-corporate-landlords/
3. http://www.complaintsboard.com/sun-communities-harassment-and-unfair-treatment-c1072284
4. http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/specific_search/sun+communities
5. http://www.stopcorporatelandlords.org/
As you can see in the web pages above, these large corporate landlords are used to getting away with violating residents.
Wouldn't it be an improvement to know each individual person's name tied to each corporation and partnership? This way, residents would be better able to protect themselves. We'd know whether or not to move into a particular community because who wants to have to waste all that time spent in court? Most people prefer not doing business with abusive landlords who breach prospectus' and lease agreements.
Watch video about tenants across America running out of options for safe, decent, and affordable housing all across the USA. And yes, for those who are asking, there is still plenty of discrimination and harassment going on at Rockland Place dba Spring Gate Apartments along Martha Drive and Hannah Way in Rockland, Massachusetts. Corporate management continues to discriminate against certain legitimate residents at that subsidized housing complex while allowing 'live-ins' and others to do as they please, even while violating others' quiet enjoyment & safety.
Below is an excerpt and a link to the article and another to the video where you can hear what a politician says about the corporate lobbyists enriching corrupt politicians who are selling out America and The People.
Regarding the pay-to-play corruption exposed by Brooks and Massie, while the national media are aware of the issue, and both political parties are guilty of engaging in it, no one is bringing it to the forefront as a major public policy issue.27 Yet, the corruption runs so deep that, in the “Breaking Points” video above, it’s pointed out that even Brooks and Massie aren’t immune.
While Brooks has received money from REAL ESTATE INTERESTS and DEVELOPERS, and the military-industrial complex industry, Massie has personally invited lobbyists to fundraising events. “He’s playing the game himself here,” host Krystal Ball says, referring to Brooks. “He’s exposing the game in this regard, but in no way are his hands clean … They love to posture, but then they’re just as guilty of playing the same game as everybody else.”28
* (Outside Video Link) https://youtu.be/WSn3My1tKa4
Why do bizarre business listings continue to be allowed within HUD subsidized housing, and always within nuisance subsidized apartment buildings? Could some real estate developers and/or investors really be laundering money while violating residents' lease agreements?
(click on image to enlarge)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.
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."
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.
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.
That story appears in the Boston Globe, September 10, 2015. Court appearances were made in 2016 where 2 of the defendants, Mathis Lemons and Ismael Morales, hired by Cornerstone Corporation, were found guilty of 7 counts of bribery, etc. They were employed at the Roxse Homes, a federal subsidized housing complex on Tremont Street in Roxbury, MA at the time. They were arrested and found guilty for accepting more than $30,000 in payments from multiple tenants in exchange for preferential treatment regarding the waiting list selection process.
This is another great and honorable job done by the office of US Attorney, Carmen M. Ortiz.
Cornerstone Corporation has a long history of preferential treatment, unethical, and illegal conduct toward various low income tenants in other places they've also mismanaged. The name of Robert L. Evans appears on a corporate document as just one of the partners/agents of Cornerstone Corp. That name also appears in an old article as someone who once worked at (MHFA) Mass Housing Finance Agency. In 2016, I see a person named Robert Evans at Peabody Properties as the replacement for Cornerstone Corp. at RoxSE Homes. hmmm...
Here's just one more story from December 2009 regarding Cornerstone Corp.; however, there are several others, too many to mention here.
**https://legalnewsline.com/stories/510522060-coakley-gets-settlement-with-property-management-company
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - A consent judgment has been obtained by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley's office against a property management company and its former manager to resolve allegations that they violated state anti-discrimination laws. Cornerstone Corporation and former manager Linda Evans falsely accused a foster parent of operating a day-care business out of her home and subsequently attempted to evict her.
Then there are those older stories where Cornerstone Corporation deliberately, illegally, and successfully tormented good tenants with medical disabilities for many years in Somerville and Rockland, MA. Some tenants could get no relief from the Massachusetts courts because tenants would only be forced into mediation proceedings when they requested a trial. Some law-abiding tenants died while others finally had to surrender their subsidized apartments to stop the many years of abuse and harassment by the people at Cornerstone Corp. and then from those at First Hartford Corp. and Connolly and Partners, LLC.
*Note: Before hiring a management company to manage your property, investigate all of the people behind the corporate names, if possible. It's been discovered that some of the same people from Cornerstone Corporation are partners or employees with affiliated companies.
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It's been reported that ambulances were called about 1-2 weeks ago to 191 Martha Drive in Rockland due to a couple of drug overdoses on the same day involving newer tenants at that residence. Drugs like cocaine continue to be distributed on that subsidized property.
