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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

TV 12 featured a story today on the 24 hour eviction notices given to the residents. The notices shown on the news cited Chapter 24 of the City of Flint ordinances. Some of the residents in 1910 Pierson received the notices in error.

I went to Chapter 24 (3) and what I read indicated the residents should have been given 10 days, not 24 hours.

Yes I know the argument will be that the residents have been without water since November. That mean the Emergency Manager and his minions had 8 months to work this out. That probably means the residents did not have the financial means to move. Now they will be homeless. In fact one resident expressed that she had no where to go and was desperate.

In his last report to the state, Earley disclosed he had eliminated the Human Relations Office. In the past, other apartment complexes were condemned. Rosia Anderson and other employees of the Human Relations worked late into the nights for days helping relocate these people being displaced. Some were elderly with few resources and little family here in Flint.

Now these residents are being referred to United Way. Having done social work, I know dozens of people cannot be relocated in less than 24 hours. WJRT did not announce the United way connection until tonight.

THE CITY IS ENFORCING THE EVICTIONS TOMORROW MORNING. THANKS GOP!


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Flint mobile home residents without water, city says owner owes thousands in late water bills

Posted: Mar 28, 2013 11:20 PM EDT


Updated: Mar 29, 2013 11:17 AM EDT


FLINT (WJRT) -
(03/28/13) - Imagine three days without water. You can't wash your hands, brush your teeth or even flush the toilet.

That's what's happening at the Ambassador Estates in Flint, and to make matters worse, they say they've paid their water bill.


We talked to the city of Flint public information officer, and he tells us the manager of the mobile home park owes almost $17,000 in water bills.

Residents at Ambassador Estates pay their bills through the park office.


"We're all paying our bills, but what are they doing with the money? We don't know," said Donald Eldred, who lives in the park.

"We really need it, please, please, please, please help us," said Trina Elliott, who lives in the park.

Elliott and her neighbors are desperate for a helping hand. They've been living without water for days.

"We're going through pure hell," Eldred said.


"We have kids out here and we have elderly out here," Elliott said.

Tenants are struggling through simple tasks.

"I'm getting water from my mom, she has her own well," Eldred told us before getting into his car to retrieve water using empty jugs.

They're worried that without water, they'll be evicted or even lose custody of their children.

"They're going to call protective services on us, we have no water, you can't live in a house without water," Elliott said.

"They think because you live in a mobile home park and you're poor, that you're stupid and that's not fair either. I'm far from being stupid," said resident Ada Cota.

For now, they're filling up water jugs at friends' and neighbors' homes. They have no idea when their water will be turned back on.

We tried contacting the park manager and are still waiting to hear back from them.
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

At least this owner helped his residents move out!


Flint mobile home park closing

Posted: Dec 17, 2013 4:55 PM EST


Updated: Dec 17, 2013 6:47 PM EST


FLINT (WJRT) -
(12/17/13) - The owner of a mobile home park in Flint says crime and an enormous water bill is forcing him to shut it down soon and put the park up for sale.

It's the Sunset Village Mobile Home Park, on Lippincott Boulevard near Dort Highway, on the city's south side.

Resident Beauford Deese said he's not in the best of health, has a wife and small child and says they have nowhere to go right now.

"What am I going to do?"

Deese doesn't have an answer and doesn't know where to find one.

"All we're asking for is the chance for us to be able to get out of here," he said.

Deese said he and a handful of residents, maybe six, were only told recently they would need to relocate.

He said he found out from the park manager.

"She informed us we're not paying rent in December. They're not accepting it. They're closing the park at the end of December."

Cass Ramaj said he's the owner and confirmed the park is closing.

He says crime is a big concern. So is scrapping and a city water bill.

The city's website shows an outstanding, nearly $83,000 utility bill for the address.

Ramaj confirmed that amount and says most of it was inherited from the previous owner.

Ramaj said he'll try to sell Sunset Village and that he has worked with residents to help find them someplace new to live.

"I have no tongue on my trailer. They cut it off," Deese said. "They've taken the axles and the wheels. This trailer is not going to pull. I'd like to find out if there's any help we can get to give the people that can't get out an opportunity that they can."

Ramaj said they've contacted the city about not shutting the water off until everyone moves out. He said they were hoping to have everyone out by the end of the month, but could consider extending the date out through January if people need more time.
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

Violence, $83,000 water bill force owner to close Flint mobile home park


Exposed wires are seen on Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 18, 2013 at Sunset Village mobile home park in Flint. Most of the homes in this neighborhood are abandoned and scrapped, and the park itself is closing due to high crime rates. Zack Wittman | MLive.com

Zack Wittman


Gary Ridley | gridley@mlive.com By Gary Ridley | gridley@mlive.com
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on December 19, 2013 at 6:00 AM, updated December 19, 2013 at 6:10 AM

FLINT, MI -- The owner of a Flint mobile home park says he is closing the facility over his concerns of violence in the area and his inability to pay a growing water bill.

Cass Ramaj, owner of the Sunset Village Mobile Home Park at Dort Highway and Lippincott Boulevard, said he has stopped collecting rent and plans to close the park by the end of December. Ramaj said theft and scrapping is out of hand in the park and the seemingly constant sound of gunfire makes it too much of a liability to allow residents to continue living there.

"I can't have anyone getting killed," Ramaj said. "It just isn't worth it."

The park is located on the border of the neighborhood that a report by NeighborhoodScout.com listed earlier this year as the 19th most dangerous in the nation. The neighborhood east of Dort Highway between Lippincott Boulevard and Atherton Road experiences 70 violent crimes per 1,000 residents and there is a 1 in 14 chance of a resident there becoming a victim of violent crime, according to the report.

Robert Morrison, 55, is one of the few people still in the park. Morrison agreed that crime has taken over the area around his home of 11 years.

"I hear gunshots out here," said Morrison while sitting in his tidy home Wednesday, Dec. 18. Morrison said that he's been able to avoid being victimized by the increasing crime.

Morrison said he had a feeling the park was closing about two months ago, before Ramaj told the residents they would have to leave.

"There was no one in the office," Morrison said. "There's no maintenance."

The park now sits mostly vacant. Some of the trailers have been visibly picked over by scrappers, leaving behind only empty shells with missing doors and windows. Pink insulation from a trailer covers the drive near the shuttered office of the park at the entrance from Lippincott Boulevard.

The outside walls of one trailer are completely gone, with just the structural skeleton of the former home remaining. Footprints are scattered throughout the snow in the park, going in and out of the vacant trailers.

"The theft is enormous," Ramaj said.

Ramaj said it has been nearly impossible for him to continue paying bills at the park since so few renters live there. Ramaj said that nearly a dozen people lived at the park but there are only a couple still there.

"We can't even collect enough rent to pay a quarter of the water bill," Ramaj said.

Flint City Council President Scott Kincaid said the lack of renters and increases in the city's water and sewer rates are likely driving the park's closure.

"The real reason they're closing is they haven't paid their water bill," Kincaid said.

Kincaid sued the city after Emergency Manager Michael Brown raised water and sewer rates 35 percent in 2011. Kincaid said the water rates, and fees charged by the city to use the services, are excessive and are forcing businesses and residents out of the city.

City records show the park owes nearly $83,000 in sewer and water fees, an amount that Ramaj said he mostly inherited from the park's previous owner. More than $28,000 of the debt stems from service charges rather than usage. City records show the last payment on the debt was roughly $3,200 in early July.

"This is just another example of the increase of the past emergency manager," Kincaid said.

Records show that Ramaj also owes more than $14,000 in taxes on the property.

Ramaj said he previously sold the park to another owner but bought it back about 18 months ago after the owner fell so far behind on the water bill that the city shut off service to the park's residents.

"They were without water for 24 hours," Ramaj said.

Ramaj said he is doing everything he can to help residents find a new place to live, including working with the owner of a nearby Burton mobile home park to relocate residents.

Bruce Stein, owner of Twin Meadows Mobile Home Park, said he is helping Sunset Village residents move to his facility at Bristol and Fenton roads.

Stein said his staff has been able to move some trailers from Sunset Village into his park and has provided homes for Sunset Village residents whose trailers could not be moved.

"We're just doing what we can, where we can," said Stein, noting that he is offering special rental rates to Sunset Village residents to help ease the transition.

Morrison said his trailer is going to be moved to Twin Meadows and he is looking forward to life in his new neighborhood.

However, Twin Meadows hasn't been without its own recent problems.

The property still shows scars from more than a dozen arson fires that destroyed homes in the park from September 2011 to spring 2012. Two men have been convicted in the blazes.

A water main was connected to the park in July 2012 after residents were forced to live off of bottled water because arsenic levels in water from wells at the park was found to be roughly four times the allowable federal limit.

But, Morrison said he understands the problems the park is facing and is appreciative of the effort Ramaj has put forward to help residents find a new place to live.

"I think they're being fair," Morrison said. "They actually treat us pretty good. "

Ramaj said he hopes to sell the property but he has not yet identified any buyers.

"I just don't know," Ramaj said of the future of the park.
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

Flint condemns Pierson Road apartments, gives residents 24 hours to move out

The city of Flint has given notice to residents of Glen Acre apartments that they must vacate their homes because of building code violations, including having no water.


Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com By Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com
on August 05, 2014 at 6:15 PM, updated August 05, 2014 at 6:17 PM



FLINT, MI -- The city of Flint is telling some residents of Glen Acre apartments that they must leave their homes by Wednesday, Aug. 6, because they have no running water.

All residents at Glen Acre woke up Tuesday, Aug. 5, to find condemnation notices on their doors, ordering them to vacate the property because it is unfit for human occupancy, with open and vacant buildings, broken windows and doors, and no running water.

But tenants in two of the buildings at Glen Acre will be allowed to stay because water remains on, Flint spokesman Jason Lorenz said, while residents in two other buildings in which there is no water must leave.

Although city property records show Glen Acre is owned by USALAND LLC, the complex actually has two separate addresses and two separate water accounts.

Lorenz said water was shut off to 1718 W. Pierson Road in November and found in June to have been turned back on by someone other than the city.

Apartment residents, some of whom have been here for years, said they don't know what they will do next.

"My mother and wife can't even wash clothes, take a shower or a bath," said Andre Bethay, who has lived there for two years, paying his water bill as a part of his rent.

Once a 12-building complex, 75 percent of Glen Acre, located on West Pierson Road, just east of Clio Road, is already shuttered with boards covering windows and doors.

Noelle Heller, general manager for the apartment's property management company, said owners have a payment schedule for paying down a water bill at 1910 W. Pierson Road, on one of two parcels that make up the complex -- the side where water remains on.

Heller said there is no such arrangement for buildings at 1718 W. Pierson Road, and said repeated thefts of copper pipe led to massive water spills and bills that the city claims at more than $150,000.

"I'm trying to keep people in their homes as well as work with the city," she said.

Lorenz said he could not comment Tuesday on how much is owed for past water use at Glen Acre.

Flint City Councilman Eric Mays, who represents the area, met with city officials Tuesday and said Flint needs to turn water back on at Glen Acres and give residents a reasonable amount of time to move, if they must.

"We need to relax the enforcement," Mays said. "I'm urging management to quickly get to the table with the city and set up an arrangement."

Azarea Spearman, 60, said she's seen conditions at Glen Acre deteriorate since she first moved in and saw the property change hands with little new investment.

"You got sick people in here (and) people with kids ... We're in dire need of some help," Spearman said. "It's terrible."

jbcsfl
1 hour ago


These slumlords should be heavily fined and given a time period to bring their properties up to code.

All the tenants who are, and have been, affected by the code violations should have their rent refunded proactively.

All the affected tenants should be reimbursed by the slumlords for the cost of moving out of the nightmare that they created.


grannylake
1 hour ago

Are the occupied buildings up to code in everything but the water?

Can the residents pay their entire rent payment toward the water bill instead of to the landlord to have the water turned on?

Wouldn't that force the owners to accept the responsibilities to the tenants that they have been shirking?

Ron Fonger

@grannylake The notice of violations was based on an inspection June 30. It claims the property is a nuisance based on structures being vacant and open; occupied with no water; and having broken, damaged or missing doors and windows throughout.

Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com


Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com
11 minutes ago
@grannylake The manager at the property and residents said their rent payments were suppose to include water.



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Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
Where the ragged people go
Looking for the places only they would know
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

The city inspected July 30, and waited over a month to implement a condemnation and eviction. The city inspector is not even following code to give the people ten days to move. waiting until the first if the month means many have already paid rent. These people have few if any resources.
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

Watch the city now evict the last remaining residents from Ambassador East Trailer park on Webster Road. This situation was highlighted on WJRT 12 and featured Councilman Nolden. Another situation of people too poor to move and without water.
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

Criminal investigation underway regarding water situation at Glen Acres

Posted: Aug 06, 2014 12:25 PM EDT


Updated: Aug 06, 2014 12:27 PM EDT



By Rebecca Trylch - bio | email


FLINT (WJRT) - (08/06/14) - It's another day of uncertainty for about 30 families living in a Flint apartment complex.

Tuesday, they were told they had 24 hours to leave. Wednesday, we've learned new information about the saga surrounding Glen Acres apartments.

Wednesday morning, the Flint Police Department confirmed there is a criminal investigation into the water situation at Glen Acres. People who live there tell us it's been off for at least the last 11 days.

The city has previously said the water was turned off back in November to some of the buildings and found to have been turned back on in June.

Who turned that water back on is now the focus of the criminal investigation.

We have calls in to the city's spokesman and the police department to learn more about that investigation.

This all comes at a bad time for the people who call Glen Acres home. They woke up Tuesday and found the 1718 buildings had been condemned by the city and were told they had 24 hours to leave.

The eviction notices stem from the lack of water, according to the city.

It's been more than 24 hours and most of the people in the affected buildings are still here.

So far, we've only found one person who was moving his stuff out. The others tell us Alltimate Property Management, who manages the apartments, has told them they can stay. Right now, these people are very much in limbo.

The city has said the water was turned off because the complex owes money, but the property management team tells us there have been repeated thefts of copper pipes, causing leaks, and that that lead to a high bill.

We're still working to sort it all out and hope to have an update for you this afternoon.
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr gives power ... - WXYZ.com

Jul 29, 2014 ... Jim Kiertzner. 10:14 AM ... 7 Action News found a big apartment building at 850 Whitmore on Detroit's west side that had the water shut off Monday morning. ... Mayor Mike Duggan told reporters he want to make sure the water ...

www.wxyz.com/news/region/detroit/detroit-emergency-manager-kevyn-orr-gives-power...
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

Criminal investigation underway regarding water situation at Glen Acres

Posted: Aug 06, 2014 12:25 PM EDT


Updated: Aug 06, 2014 5:50 PM EDT

By Rebecca Trylch - bio | email


FLINT (WJRT) - (08/06/14) - There was a new twist Wednesday in the water shutoff saga between the city of Flint and a north side apartment complex.

Flint Police have now launched a criminal investigation as Glen Acres tenants face eviction.

The city of Flint says workers turned off the water to some buildings at Glen Acres apartments because the complex has unpaid bills. That happened back in November. In June, the city says it learned the water had been illegally turned back on.

Tuesday, tenants in the 1718 building were told they'd have to move out because there wasn't water. Wednesday, we learned Flint Police are now involved.

"It was actually turned on illegally yesterday. I sent officers out, it's currently under investigation. The city went out and shut it off in a more permanent manner," said Cpt. Collin Birnie, of the Flint Police Department. "It appears it's been turned on and off several times."

Someone has a special tool, or city key, that they shouldn't have.

"It's large. You stand up to use it. And it goes down into the ground and activates the valve," Birnie said.

Birnie says it was turned back on, illegally, on Tuesday.

"There's several levels of theft, and we'll have to see where exactly it fits in, but it's basically stealing the city's water," he said.

This all comes as the people who call Glen Acres home are trying to figure out what to do next. The city says you "must have water service to maintain livability".

The eviction notices said people had 24 hours to leave. One day later, we checked back and only found a few people who planned to move.

Samuel Morgan Jr. was packing up and heading for a friend's house.

"I'm sort of, was sort of prepared for it, but really not right now. But I knew it was coming," he said.

Andre Williams is still at the place he's called home for 10 years.

"I'm still here and I'm not going no where," he said.

Mike Shepherd would like to leave, but says he has to remain in place for now.

"If I don't buy water, hey, I can't be up in my house, apartment, and I can't flush the toilet," he said.

Morgan isn't concerned with who's at fault for turning the water on. He just wants to have life's every day necessities - like running water.

"Still need water for the flushing the toilet, take the showers and wash the dishes, clean the house," he said.

While this is still an open investigation, Birnie says they do have witnesses who saw someone turning that water back on, Tuesday.

There is help for people being evicted from Glen Acres.

The United Way has put together an army of agencies to help families. They are working with their United Way partners, including Resource Genesee and the Shelter of Flint. The organizations are going to try to get people housed.

The first step for Glen Acres Estate families is calling Resource Genesee One Stop at 810-600-4525. You will need ID for you and everyone in household 18 and older, social security cards or copies, a copy of your current lease and the eviction notice. They will use that information to get people relocated.
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

There are websites that sell the water key wrench used to turn on/off water. here is even an instructional site on how to construct a "ghetto" water key wrench.
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El Supremo

City of Flint alleges that water was stolen at condemned Pierson Road apartments

Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com By Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com
on August 06, 2014 at 2:00 PM, updated August 06, 2014 at 2:05 PM


FLINT, MI -- The city of Flint says tenants were using stolen water at the West Pierson Road apartment complex where a condemnation notice has been posted and residents in 28 apartments have been ordered to leave.

Emergency Manager Darnell Earley's office issued a statement Wednesday, Aug. 6, saying the city cut off water service to one of two properties that make up Glen Acre apartments in November 2013 because of unpaid water bills.

Six months later, "It was found that water was illegally turned on at 1718 and water service was again shut off," the statement says. "Under city law, residential dwellings must have water service to maintain livability."

A representative of the property management company at Glen Acre said this week that 28 apartments at 1718 W. Pierson are without water while 29 apartments at 1910 W. Pierson, the other parcel that makes up the complex, still have water.

MLive-Flint Journal could not reach Noelle Heller, general manager for the apartment's property management company, for comment Wednesday about the water theft alleged by the city.

Heller said Tuesday she was hopeful no tenants would be forced to leave, despite the condemnation order.

Both parcels that make up Glen Acre are owned by USLAND LLC, according to city and Genesee County property records. Business filings by the corporation with the state of Michigan list Leslie Humble, 7501 W. Saginaw Highway, Lansing, as its resident agent.

The city of Flint's statement says it will "continue to monitor the situation at the Glen Acres Apartment Complex to ensure that all applicable city and state laws are being followed.

"The landlord has known since November 2013 that the water service to 1718 was terminated. It is the responsibility of the landlord to notify tenants when there is a termination of water service to ensure the tenants have enough time to find an alternative place of living," the statement says.

"While no change in the condemnation order has occurred, the city is in communication with the management group of the complex. Any further action on the matter would need to take place in court."

The Flint Journal could not immediately reach City Attorney Peter Bade for further comment, but the news release calls water theft a serious offense and says, "Anyone charged with tampering with water service equipment resulting in unauthorized restoration of service, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

City Councilman Eric Mays called for a special City Council meeting to address the issue of water shutoffs and Glen Acre, which is in the Flint council ward that he represents.

"I will call City Council members to convene a special meeting," Mays said.

The councilman also said he is asking Mayor Dayne Walling to direct the Department of Building Safety and Inspection to hold off on the condemnation.

Earley turned over day-to-day management of two city departments to Walling in June, including the Planning and Development Department, which includes the Department of Building Safety and Inspection.

Earley maintains ultimate control while the city remains in a financial emergency.

The Journal could not immediately reach Walling for comment.

All residents at Glen Acre woke up Tuesday, Aug. 5, to find condemnation notices on their doors, ordering them to vacate the property because it is unfit for human occupancy, with open and vacant buildings, broken windows and doors, and no running water.

The city news release Wednesday says those condemnation postings should have only been posted at apartments located at 1718 -- not 1910 -- W. Pierson Road.

Buildings at 1910 W. Pierson Road have had uninterrupted water service and payments for water continue to be made, the statement says.
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untanglingwebs
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So the blame for the 24 hr condemnation is being shifted to Walling!

Why did it take the meter readers six months to find out the water was turned back on. That story differs from that of Captain Birnie on Channel 12.
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TV 12 featured a story today on the 24 hour eviction notices given to the residents. The notices shown on the news cited Chapter 24 of the City of Flint ordinances. Some of the residents in 1910 Pierson received the notices in error.

I went to Chapter 24 (3) and what I read indicated the residents should have been given 10 days, not 24 hours.

Yes I know the argument will be that the residents have been without water since November.
Please read Chapter 24 in its entirety. Your "30 days" doesn't seem to apply in the instance you're using it. See also Chapter 46. Additionally, have there been any changes to these chapters since 3-1-2012? No water is a safety and health hazard.

You might also want to read the 2012 International Property Maintenance Code (latest?) adopted by the City of Flint. https://law.resource.org/pub/us/code/ibr/icc.ipmc.2012.html
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"§ 24-4 ADOPTION — COMPREHENSIVE RENTAL INSPECTION CODE.
Pursuant to the provisions of MCLA § 117.3(k), the 2003 International Property Maintenance Code and any future additions and amendments as published by the International Code Council, Inc. and enforced by the City of Flint, together with City of Flint Administrative Amendments to the Property Maintenance Code, and the Comprehensive Rental Inspection Code, as are adopted by the City Council from time to time and filed in the office of the City Clerk, are hereby adopted by reference.
(Ord. 3707, passed 5-12-2008)"
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I never said 30 days. The city has a past practice of 10 days. The city condemned apartment complexes in the past and had a mechanism in place to assist these tenants. A 24 hour eviction is unreasonable, especially when you possibly have elderly and semi-ambulatory tenants. I remember one instance when volunteers stepped in with trucks and helped an elderly resident move.

There is now a court process involved.

The complex has been out of water off and on since November. I drove by there months ago and was shocked that people were living in some of the buildings. Since the city has allowed this situation to exist for so long, why the 24 hour rush? It was unreasonable and punitive.

Just east of this complex was another that was condemned, vacated and torn down. An area of heavy gang activity and violence, I would not be surprised if eventually all three are gone. The are already two abandoned apartment complexes on Clio Road north of Pierson.
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