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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Beleaguered Tenants of Kushnerville
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-beleaguered-tenants-of-kushnerville?google_editors_picks=trueTenants in more than a dozen Baltimore-area rental complexes complain about a property owner who they say leaves their homes in disrepair, humiliates late-paying renters and often sues them when they try to move out. Few of them know that their landlord is the presidents son-in-law.
The Townhouse on High Seas Court in the Cove Village development, in the Baltimore suburb of Essex, was not exactly the Cape Cod retreat that its address implied: It was a small unit looking onto a parking lot, the windows of its two bedrooms so high and narrow that a child would have had to stand on a chair to see out of them. But to Kamiia Warren, who moved into the townhouse in 2004, it was a refuge, and a far cry from the East Baltimore neighborhood where she grew up. I mean, there were bunny rabbits all hopping around, she told me recently.
In the townhouse next door lived an older woman with whom Warren became friendly, even doing her grocery shopping once in a while. But over the course of a few months, the woman started acting strangely. She began accosting Warrens visitors. She shouted through the walls during the day. And at night she banged on the wall, right where Warren kept the bassinet in which her third child slept, waking him up.
Warren sent a letter reporting the problem to the complexs property manager, a company called Sawyer Realty Holdings. When there was no response, she decided to move out. In January 2010, she submitted the requisite form giving two months notice that she was transferring her Section 8 voucher the federal low-income subsidy that helped her pay the rent elsewhere. The complexs on-site manager signed the form a week later, checking the line that read The tenant gave notice in accordance with the lease.
So Warren was startled in January 2013, three years later, when she received a summons from a private process server informing her that she was being sued for $3,014.08 by the owner of Cove Village. The lawsuit, filed in Maryland District Court, was doubly bewildering. It claimed she owed the money for having left in advance of her leases expiration, though she had received written permission to leave. And the company suing her was not Sawyer, but one whose name she didnt recognize: JK2 Westminster LLC.
The Townhouse on High Seas Court in the Cove Village development, in the Baltimore suburb of Essex, was not exactly the Cape Cod retreat that its address implied: It was a small unit looking onto a parking lot, the windows of its two bedrooms so high and narrow that a child would have had to stand on a chair to see out of them. But to Kamiia Warren, who moved into the townhouse in 2004, it was a refuge, and a far cry from the East Baltimore neighborhood where she grew up. I mean, there were bunny rabbits all hopping around, she told me recently.
In the townhouse next door lived an older woman with whom Warren became friendly, even doing her grocery shopping once in a while. But over the course of a few months, the woman started acting strangely. She began accosting Warrens visitors. She shouted through the walls during the day. And at night she banged on the wall, right where Warren kept the bassinet in which her third child slept, waking him up.
Warren sent a letter reporting the problem to the complexs property manager, a company called Sawyer Realty Holdings. When there was no response, she decided to move out. In January 2010, she submitted the requisite form giving two months notice that she was transferring her Section 8 voucher the federal low-income subsidy that helped her pay the rent elsewhere. The complexs on-site manager signed the form a week later, checking the line that read The tenant gave notice in accordance with the lease.
So Warren was startled in January 2013, three years later, when she received a summons from a private process server informing her that she was being sued for $3,014.08 by the owner of Cove Village. The lawsuit, filed in Maryland District Court, was doubly bewildering. It claimed she owed the money for having left in advance of her leases expiration, though she had received written permission to leave. And the company suing her was not Sawyer, but one whose name she didnt recognize: JK2 Westminster LLC.
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The Beleaguered Tenants of Kushnerville (Original Post)
RKP5637
May 2017
OP
These people (Donald & co.) are unbelievable. May all their reputations become sh*t.
Madam45for2923
May 2017
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Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)1. These people (Donald & co.) are unbelievable. May all their reputations become sh*t.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)2. Very Creepy People! n/t
underpants
(182,830 posts)3. Really long read but a good one
I was just scanning through it
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)4. They are total scum lords. n/t
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)5. K&R
tblue37
(65,408 posts)6. K&R for visibility. nt
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)7. These worms try to hide in the decaying woodwork with slime! n/t
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)8. K & R ......for visibility..nt
badhair77
(4,218 posts)9. K & R
Kushner and Trump - the whole family - have no shame. I'm glad Maggie Haberman of the NY Times retweeted this link so it will get more visibility.