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"Nightmare Section 8 Renovator"
What was that hell I was living in?
Everything was fine for 18+ years of living there. Almost 20 years total. Then came the "Nightmare Section 8 Landlord".
Two months into signing my Section 8 lease, my first one after waiting 4 long years for it, I have a "new landlord". Apparently he had been sneaking around the property for a long time, plotting with the previous owners an entire "utility conversion" because the previous ones were negligent and let the utilities run out of control, letting the crackhead tenants with the thermostat in their unit run amok. Never once did they figure out why their utilities were so high. Never once in the 90+ years my family ran the home did we have a problem.
This guy shows up, buys the home, and promptly my lease becomes a problem. It locked the utilities in his name. He was supposed to honor it but immediately tried to gaslight me into thinking I had a month-to-month lease. This was just the first in a long line of false and deceptive practices that I have well documented that are being sent to the AG. This is why I'm sure he wouldn't mediate with them, due to them being able to refer him for his crimes. That, and I'm sure he had every intention on evicting me from day one.
The first the he does is breach the lease himself by having me sign an illegal side lease.
Then he commits grant fraud by lying on his grant application about why he's applying and what the work is for. There are so many lies on the application I really don't know where to start. It's the biggest pile of fraud, and the city let him get away with it. I think because they were covering up, because by the time it came to light, they knew the $26M was in the pipeline.
By the end of the year he's throwing whatever he can to make it stick to evict me. He tried everything under the sun. This was after a year of intimidation, harassment, hacking, lies, gaslighting, and when he couldn't hack anymore, spam.
When he obtained his precious breach of lease (when he didn't have to, because he had the lease terminated due to his own misconduct getting housing assistance terminated at the property in just one year, after I waited 4 long years. People are most disgusted by that when I tell them, besides the videos of course.)
OH THE VIDEOS!
He recorded all of us in the house when doing his building inspection, most likely for his lender. I let them know, as well as a lot of other truths of the matter, like about my original lease, what he was really doing on the property, and that he removed me illegally to do work to....well....not be so truthful with the buyer, one would imagine.
What this building inspection would show, of course, is that there were no cracks, no cracking forming, no cracking at all above the doors and windows when he bought the home. They started later. They started precipitously after he slathered Death Butter©, cement that is, all over a dry stack foundation. Why would he make such a drastic mistake? He fancies himself a renovator, that's why. He's no expert though. Not one foundation expert seemed to enter the picture, because he had a roofing company do the work and the city that gave him money to do this work never caught wind. In fact, according to the grant rules, he's not supposed to have a conflict of interest with these contractors, but we won't go into those details.
What's Most Disturbing...
By the end of the time in this home, which I WISH I had known the lease was terminated or I had been out sooner, sooner so I would not have been getting sick like I was, my cat was getting sick. We couldn't figure out why.
I lost 50 lbs due to the stress of this man but I think it was also because of the MOLD.
OH, THE MOLD....
Now that I'm out of the place that he turned into a wretched slum palace, I'm finding out the embarrassing truth. The work he did to the basement walls to "seal the moisture out" was done just to make it look shiny and new. Because that's all that's important to him, "looking" shiny and new. Never mind that the foundation was in "excellent condition" as said by an actual expert years earlier. He wanted to make it look shiny and new, much like painting wood paneling and vinyl wallpaper, much like putting porcelain touch-up paint in a fiberglass tub. I know these things because it used to be my house, that's why he felt it pertinent to hack me with a session hijacker the first day of my lease with him, with a malicious link to his rental portal. "Look for your link in the spam folder" they said, but of course that's where all malicious links go to die. I'm old enough to remember when links would go there, but they don't anymore. At worst, it should have gone to the "promotions" tab. No, alas, it went to spam because it was malicious, not because it was from a rental portal. In fact, Google told me itself Gmail should not have flagged that company as spam.
But proof of the shiny and new being more important than actually buying a good, reputable product? He was more interested in the "shiny", stainless steel, used fridge that was for sale, even when it's brought uncovered in the rain, than a new white fridge from Lowe's, who would never have brought it in the rain. He even went so far as to ask me to "cover" the cash price of the fridge because they didn't take credit cards, proving this man was illiquid and didn't have the capital to run the empire he portends to brag about having.
He then got in trouble, pulled what's called a "DARVO" response, and posted a grievance/validation video on youtube, defamation and all, against me, sitting outside my home to intimidate and harass me with the lies and grievances of a story that no one would have known about had he not brought it to the internet. Turns out no one agreed with him or cared to give him the validation he craved, on either video.
BACK TO THE MOLD....
Turns out that the moisture that was sealed out was also sealed inside the basement, with the dirt floor and all. A real renovator would have known this, but this guy fancies himself one, but isn't licensed. I'm guessing the MHIC will be really interested to know what he gets up to. It's only fair to other homeowners not to have him subject them to the horrors he inflicts upon his own properties.
The moisture from this basement, where there used to be dehumidifiers run all the time (the previous owners, the ones he bought it from, cared not to run the one that was left behind, someone ripped out the hose that would drain it.) continued to accumulate, especially once the concrete was applied to the foundation. The cracking also ensued soon thereafter, but at different rates around the home, and not noticed right away.
I can't remember the exact math/reasoning but's said if the concrete is added in the summer, the cracking happens at a 2% rate and in the summer at a 9% rate, something like that....
So my unit that I lived in slowly had an encroachment of mold in it.
Not from the leak he let happen for 3 months, because even in the room furthest away, I'm smelling the boxes that sat in there, and boy do they smell moldy. Especially ones that sat on the floor. I was in a first floor unit.
Not only that, all most clothes in the bedroom that hung in an open room on a rack? Moldy smelling. What's embarrassing is did people smell the mold on me? I was nose blind due to living in it. I only smelled mold/rotten cellulose once the leak started in the ceiling for 3 months and he never fixed it, leaving huge amounts of mold (wait until he finds out he can't collect on a terminated lease, much less one he expects to collect on with documented MOLD growing in the house to the size of a foot long hot dog.) This was reported to the city, btw. The chose to ignore the matter, they ignore me altogether now because of him. Not because I'm "annoying" or "hard to please" but because I showed the city was "full of liability" when it came to this man's fraud and now they are running scared. You don't get your PIA access removed illegally if you're just annoying, rude, or asking for "too much" or there would be a certain "mooning"-man with quite a large platform, losing his too. You lose yours when you're doing something right.