Just because you're low income doesn't mean you should be dirty

@mondogecko01

4 күн бұрын

Its the tenants not the owners.. The problem is we are way to tolerant to the point of sheer hellsinki syndrome to recognize that some people cannot get along

@bosatsu76

3 күн бұрын

@@mondogecko01 Some of both...

@realtree297

3 күн бұрын

Probably why they’re low rent, lazy, meth hoars, uneducated, unemployed. Still no reason to trash the place your living,owner or renter

@30daysorless8

3 күн бұрын

Facts! Cleaning is free. All it cost is a little time.

@sonnylatchstring

2 күн бұрын

Indeed, bad behavior is mainly something that the rich can afford.

There is a big difference from being poor with bad credit, yet being a good person versus a poor dirtbag who thinks its ok to steal from neighbors and cause chaos.

@Sashazur

5 күн бұрын

The headline should really have been “Crime drops at apartment complex after improvements and rent increases”. This place was fully renovated by the new owners. Nobody with bad credit can afford to live here now.

@kingbullyrock8739

5 күн бұрын

@@Sashazur Good. No one wants to live with Thugs

@LSPalm

5 күн бұрын

​@@kingbullyrock8739 magamethers

@LipsNEyes555

5 күн бұрын

​@Sashazur If that's what it takes . So be it!

@fredhoy6697

5 күн бұрын

@@timwaddell9450 exactly. Years ago I did a paint job locally on a low rent housing apartment complex. Overall it was pretty bad but livable I suppose, but the apartments ranged from third world, bombed out hovels to the immaculate, well cared for home. Human nature.

Slum lords vs land lords.

@paleocon777

2 күн бұрын

+ credit check

@JDnFL

2 күн бұрын

Slum lords + scumbag tenants

@nicholasklangos9704

2 күн бұрын

+ people who live there have to care about themselves and where they live. The broken windows doctrine is very real, the same as crime. Small crimes lead to big crimes!!

@covercalls88

2 күн бұрын

A problem that has always existed was getting te bad tenants out. If you want a safer complex, get te drug dealers and trouble makers out.

@craigpridemore7566

Күн бұрын

Well said.

what ----- you mean, the out of state property management/owners couldn't manage their property being out of state??? but the locals could!? ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING!?!?! WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED!!!!!

@bobroberts2371

5 күн бұрын

In state or out of state owners makes no difference as all properties will have management on site.

@stanleyhape8427

5 күн бұрын

I spent several years trying to do this, but the local corrupt government made it impossible. I finally sold out, and what small difference I made is gone .

@anngoldberg7857

5 күн бұрын

That's unfortunate. I assume you are making a difference in other ways. ​@@stanleyhape8427

@HiDefHDMusic

5 күн бұрын

@@stanleyhape8427unfortunately capitalism is incompatible with any sort of ethics or morality

@ciddoctor6993

5 күн бұрын

Bet it's a business based in Ne coast, Cali or Florida. Usual retail real estate suspects.

I am a former addict. I can guarantee you 1% of the population create 80% of all problems in. society. Addicts hate transparency and attention. We need privacy. If regular residents organize and make places unsafe to use in, it can do a lot. Addicts put on a tough show, but we are in fact cowards running away from reality. Call our bluffs and we will disappear.

@mathiso01

2 күн бұрын

In property management it’s 10% of the residents are causing 100% of the problems.

@justintime41776

2 күн бұрын

It's those future doctors and engineers. As someone who has been in and out of jail and prison when I was younger, I can agree. Drugs are a huge problem.

@DaveP-uv1ml

2 күн бұрын

I don’t agree with your comment. It’s not a good idea for people to be getting into a fight with people who are loaded up on drugs, depending on whatever it is they’re taking that could end in somebody being seriously hurt. You always let the police deal with that person.

@trublgrl

2 күн бұрын

We don't want you to disappear, we want you to get right. You did it. That's amazing. Thank you for being 100% real with us.

@v-town1980

2 күн бұрын

More like 13% create 80% of the problems.

I lived there. It was terrible. I was addicted to opiates and other drugs so I probably did not make the place better. I'm glad to have moved away and moved on with my life. Also grateful for the strength to stay sober.

@freeindeed8416

4 күн бұрын

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

@Blueisntmycolor

4 күн бұрын

🙌 I hope that you stay sober forever. Please just know that drugs and alcohol will not solve your problems but make worse . God is by your side if you allow him 🙏🏼

@darrellcook8253

4 күн бұрын

You might make a good tenant yet if you stay strong. Keep on keeping on.

@PaulLoveless-Cincinnati

4 күн бұрын

Thank you for the well wishes everyone!

@LL-sw7qj

3 күн бұрын

@@PaulLoveless-Cincinnatikeep up the clean living! You can do it!

Amazing what happens when you get rid of the trash…

@bosatsu76

3 күн бұрын

Out of State Hedge fund... Hundreds of them are currently buying up every home in America so they can milk them for the most while giving the least... That's trash IMO... Also the reason property costs have skyrocketed... See all those "I'll buy your home for cash, no matter the condition"? That's them... Took all inventory off the market, drove up prices... Welcome to gop America, where Greed is good... Maybe we should just get rid of the republican voter... They've encouraged this since reagan's Trickle Down nonsense began. But yeah... Vent your racism...

@Don.Challenger

3 күн бұрын

Starting at the top - trash owners only wanting raw current income over future possibilities out.

@dar7230

2 күн бұрын

Absolutely the section eigt 😂😂😂

@joelwillems4081

2 күн бұрын

Probably only had to evict 10% or fewer and everything improved. A few bad apples...

@gilwood7530

Күн бұрын

@@joelwillems4081 about 13%

750$ rent for apartments? It's like the most cheapest rent in the entire country.

@terryl.cooper

4 күн бұрын

You can't rent a room where I am for that plus you have to pay utilities.

@soupdrinker

4 күн бұрын

Ohio is really cheap to live in, I visited my friend there last year

@necrom21221

4 күн бұрын

I know someone that lives on Cleveland Ave and pays 500 a month for a 1 bedroom apt.

@necrom21221

4 күн бұрын

But wages sucks.

@janityy

4 күн бұрын

750 can get here in PA . Gorgeous park like apt complex 1,000 including can also get here. Don't know why yunz live in these expensive rip off states

Getting rid of the problem people is a big step, also having a local company owning and operating a complex makes a big difference.

@RetroBerner

4 күн бұрын

The out of state operator put those "problem people" there because they don't care if the neighborhood is crap as long as they make bank

@antennaandy6893

3 күн бұрын

@@RetroBerner That's true, most crime is from high density housing and low income housing, What happens that the primary residents move in , they may be ok , but they let family members, or friends come in , that's where a lot of problems begin, I've seen it happen many times, good property management will see that happening and kick out those renters if they break the rules .

@v-town1980

2 күн бұрын

​@@RetroBernerThe problem ppl are the major problem. They're the ones making their lives worse.

@DaveP-uv1ml

2 күн бұрын

I wouldn’t get too hung up on this being in state or out of state. It just happens to be out of state and a lot of people will take that to make themselves feel better like it’s not one of us when I assure you it very well easily could just as well be one of you in the future.

@rwill156

2 күн бұрын

@@DaveP-uv1ml That out of state company probably has units in their home state that are not any better condition.

Many years ago in Boston, the city authorized a study about poor, run down neighborhoods in Boston with unlivable neighborhoods. The Real Estate firm that did the analysis learned the BIGGEST issue was nearly none of the Triple Deckers in these areas had owner-occupants. So the City sent in Code Enforcement crews and made it so tough the Absentee landlords were forced to sell. Today, those formerly run-down areas are BEAUTIFUL places to live.

@Rhaspun

4 күн бұрын

Yes. Local owner would be preferable. Usually a local owner would have some sense of community.

@bloodspartan300

2 күн бұрын

Ya I'm sure thats the only reason... I'm sure culture has nothing to do with it

@english7451

2 күн бұрын

@@PeterCombs why I would only sell my house not rent it.

@robertsmith2956

Күн бұрын

@@english7451 renting houses is usually safer. If they can pay they aren't as likely to trash the house like apartments get.

@rabd3721

5 сағат бұрын

Imagine that. Turns out people don't want drug dealers shitting where they eat. Local owner feel invested, socially.

This is bc of out of town owners. There is no pride of ownership, it’s just seen as a cash cow. Local owners turned it around

@michaellopez2070

4 күн бұрын

No, slumlords are often local. The business tends to attract people in it just for the money, so there's often no pride on way or the other, apart from how they're coming out financially.

@bosatsu76

3 күн бұрын

@@michaellopez2070 That too is true... It is the intent of the owner that determines the outcome... Perhaps these slumlords, whether local or out of state should have a two strikes and you're out clause in the city charter... Act like an animal towards other people and you are not allowed to own anything anywhere...

Having been an ON-SITE manager, I can tell you GOOD MANAGEMENT is everything.....I no longer manage but live in an incredibly well managed property. It's a tight ship BUT a fair ship, they don't play and shouldn't, our lawyer/owner will boot anyone for any stupidity, ALL employees are long term worker's and are fairly compensated, I've been here 7yrs and still no employee turn over nor have there been ANY disturbances at all, I know cause I'm always here as I am now retired.....it is awesome to see garbage properties turned into properties that tenants VALUE AND RESPECT....❤❤

@user-zf3xb3qx8w

4 күн бұрын

my parents built/owned/managed for decades a small complex in a so called "barrio" area in south El Monte. the land was affordable and zoned right. NO issues, new arrivals with JOBS, couldn't run a Credit Check (nor did we ever) as they were all new arrivals in the seventies and eighties, but often referrals from back home. there's a way to do it, and a way to screw it up. it's not complicated, as you point out.

My guess is they switched from being designated for section 8 to a proper rental community where credit and check are done.

@english7451

4 күн бұрын

Background check is everything. Including credit scores.

@BustedFlush7096

2 күн бұрын

At my last condo and my apt now, they run a police check and if you have any felonies, forget about it. Board votes on your other charges. No one wants criminals living near them.

@dunbarf2413

2 күн бұрын

@@BustedFlush7096 Yet most everyone wants criminals running the country. ironic.

@english7451

2 күн бұрын

@@BustedFlush7096 it’s a form of redlining really. But true no one wants drug sales across the street like I had. The guy finally sold the house and moved away. Now we see gentrification here. Got some apartment buildings but main problem is they have loud ragged cars.

@YeahThatPart

2 күн бұрын

Sec 8 they do check credit, but if you r a addict over time, not when you move in, people take advantage of poor people, they need a place to sell so that’s where they be at the addict house . The biggest welfare recipients r people who own farm land.

This is incredible. So many property owners could learn from this.

@Doomzdayxx

2 күн бұрын

Yes. Redlining/gentrification works....

@phillhuddleston9445

Күн бұрын

Getting rid of Section 8 helps doesn't it.

@sirchadiusmaximusiii

Күн бұрын

Agreed. And good Lord you’re fine.

@agravery223

Күн бұрын

​@@Doomzdayxxthey got rid of the absentee corporate landlords. Were you watching the same news clip??? Absentee landlords are slumlords who don't care and aren't interested in making the neighborhood better- they just want a check. Top down. Get rid of crappy landlord then get rid of addicts and drug dealers then credit check new tenants and enforce the rules of the renovated complex. See how that works.

Stop the out of state owners that do not provide maintenance or management on site. But if your management is in drugs and no person around to see it. Management gets away with whatever. Glad to see it owned by Ohio people

@theblade9024

4 күн бұрын

Out of state managment focused on profits. Make them stay in a unit for one month to see how their business model is failing

@donaldkasper8346

3 күн бұрын

Out of state does not matter, but don't give a shit matters.

I worked in multi-family properties (apartments) for just over 25 years doing property maintenance. I can tell you first hand that the management company has a lot to do with the success or failure of a property. If the company doesn't believe in having strong management and doesn't have a budget to keep the place maintained, it will lead to tenants tearing the place up and crime in the complex. I once worked on a property in Dallas where a maintenance tech was robbed while just doing his job and we had to have armed security for after hours emergency repairs. I've also worked on properties where the management was excellent and the property was like living at a resort. Many times when a new management company takes over they will change the name of the complex to try and get away from the old reputation. But unless the management company is serious about reporting crime and having a good security company on-site, it won't change anything. I took my job seriously and provided great service to all my tenants, but sometimes the company wouldn't give us the supplies to do a good job. I retired back in '08 as a regional mantenance manager for a great national management company. I don't miss that work at all.

@stanleyhape8427

5 күн бұрын

Corrupt local government is a huge problem.

@metalbarbie7226

5 күн бұрын

So true, out of state company manages my mom’s mobile home community it has gone waaayyy down since the Colorado company took over

@jesusbeloved3953

5 күн бұрын

Thank you for your insight! Enjoy your retirement!

@jameshurley224

5 күн бұрын

Nice attempt at spin, seems there's been a push to remove seniors from apartments because they can rent far above the standard SSI payments. Its bad enough they can barely afford utilities but now they are forced out by companies and now find they can't qualify for another because they can't meet the 3times the income over rent...its beyond believable. My last rental was bought by a company with a bbb rating of F...why are these crooks allowed to continue purchasing?

@floydjohnson4915

5 күн бұрын

@@jameshurley224 Life isn't fair and SSI was never meant to cover it all, it's "supplemental". I can't speak for every company that owns or manages properties, I just shared what I experienced during my 25 years. I worked in 3 different states and it was basically the same in all three.

If you are not in the financial market space right now, you are making a huge mistake. I understand that it could be due to ignorance, but if you want to make your money work for you... prevent inflation

@ariajames4677

Күн бұрын

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@Frederickotto55

Күн бұрын

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@ariajames4677

Күн бұрын

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@Frederickotto55

Күн бұрын

No I don't trade on my own anymore, I always required help and assistance

@Frederickotto55

Күн бұрын

From my personal financial advisor ..

This happened in my childhood neighborhood. When the military base closed, the base housing was taken over by the County. Where military families lived for decades (1940s to 1970s) overnight became low-income, welfare housing. Dozens of unemployed, drug addicted, alcoholics in the same place at the same time ruined the entire neighborhood. Working people had no choice but to move for our own safety.

@doverbeachcomber

2 күн бұрын

And what Party was constantly pressing to shrink the military and close bases, removing these good populations from the community? The Democrats. Then they took the money “saved” and used it for “social programs” that excused drug use and put repeat criminals back on the streets.

@FayHenderson-qv9wb

11 сағат бұрын

It happened to us in San Bernardino. Is that where you were?

My family has been living in the same complex for 14 years in a small city here in southern Indiana. I have never seen personally or heard of any criminality since we first moved in. Background and credit checks are prerequisites to being allowed to rent here. And one must show employment or consistent source of income. I like staying out in my patio bird watching and tending to my small garden during the day and at night people still do their walking and jogging around the complex without issues. That’s what I consider feeling safe 24/7. I think it’s a mutual respect between the management and the renters that fosters a peaceful and safe experience for everyone.

More like a drop in crime after they spiked up the rent, but al least they actually renovated the property.

@tymigliore6390

5 күн бұрын

Drug dealers can afford the rent increase

@LoriL010

5 күн бұрын

More like a drop in crime after they kicked out the bad seeds...

@Mlogan11

5 күн бұрын

@@tymigliore6390 Successful drug dealers don't live in seedy apartments.

@targetegrat

4 күн бұрын

@@Mlogan11 successful and drug dealers in the same sentence. You know its 2024.

@ryanmac8283

4 күн бұрын

@@Mlogan11 they own your small town.lol

Let's hear the name and city of the out-of-state managers who neglected the property and let the tenants live in danger.

@billredding2000

4 күн бұрын

I'm sure a LOT of those "tenants" (residents) back then WERE the "danger" you mentioned -- they lived there, causing grief for everyone else in the complex. But they're gone now...Good Riddance to such low-life trash.

@MisterMikeTexas

4 күн бұрын

There's a lot of em. Has been since the 1970s. In fact, I'll bet most complexes are owned by out-of-state REIT's.

Good, it's nice to hear a good story.

It’s crazy how many beautifully named places can in fact be 💩holes.

@did_I_hurt_your_fee_fees

2 күн бұрын

Paris, London, France, Amsterdam, New York, California......OMG the list just goes on and on now. I remember how beautiful all these places once were. I mean, movie scene magic beautiful. Now garbage filled illegal$ packed shlt holes.

@robertsmith2956

Күн бұрын

it's the clientele. Look what Trump had to do to the White House to clean it before he could move in.

Well if you stop renting to the criminals they have to live somewhere else

@danielebrparish4271

5 күн бұрын

Or they need to get a legitiment job and quit being criminals. If their family and friends know better than to share a place with them, everyone else should too.

@rholmst

5 күн бұрын

And that’s the best place for them, “somewhere else”.

@gregb6469

5 күн бұрын

How about the criminals live in prison, and not keep being let go by stupid, bleeding-heart liberal judges?

@CoryRwtfyt

5 күн бұрын

It's called jail.

@GhostRider-dp2tc

4 күн бұрын

You think every criminal has a arrest record lmfao

Congratulations New Owner!

@america9546

5 күн бұрын

Wait till they can’t afford rent and the owners bring in section 8 mommy with 6 welfare kids . Renting is garbage!!

So they removed the career felons and made it harder for them to get back in. Sounds like a win to me

@cynthiaholland13

8 сағат бұрын

Yes the out of state landlords

@FlipDahlenburg

2 сағат бұрын

@@cynthiaholland13 Both. Wake up.

So wait, you renovated the apartments, raised the rents, did background checks, and crime dropped? Wow what a strange conclusion!

@efunkyman6853

4 күн бұрын

Shocking! Isn't it?😂

@michaellopez2070

4 күн бұрын

They aren't mentioning the most direct human element. A stressed out single mom making lower middle class wage doesn't want to have to go door to door messing with irrational drug dealers and killers in a small town. Even when cops do it their armed with bullet proof vest and, ideally, backup. For a lady or guy to thanklessly put their life at risk in the name of making the owner marginally more money with is absurd. That whole snitches get stiches thing is the biggest part of poor people acting sympathetic to criminals, they don't want to give reason to get hurt. It's a little bit easier when a new management company or manager is taking over. It makes it seem a little less personal than someone they've known for months or years suddenly evicting them and makes it seem more like the company than the individual.

Wow! That management group needs to take their act on the road. That's an amazing job.

@mcap8396

4 күн бұрын

It’s a capital intensive process managing that way, why most cheap out and it’s difficult to do at scale. Makes it up in the end when it’s a more desirable place to live, more want to live there, and they can raise rent more.

@machupikachu1085

4 күн бұрын

If they took their act on the road, then they would eventually be managing properties out of state. Like this one was.

@bosatsu76

3 күн бұрын

@@machupikachu1085 Good grief... Miss the point much? TEACH others how it's done was the meaning...

@machupikachu1085

3 күн бұрын

@@bosatsu76good grief...poorly communicate much? 'Take it on the road' to many people means go city to city providing your services. If it's a regional idiom you are using, consider dropping the smug condescension when using a vague colloquialism. Speak directly. Say what you mean. People will respect you more for it. If people don't understand what your message is, that's on you, not them.

@v-town1980

2 күн бұрын

​@@machupikachu1085Such big words...however, that's "too," not "to."

Growing up poor, something that always bothered me was how some people used poverty as an excuse to live like a complete slob, specifically leaving garbage, debris, and just junk laying all over. If you're usually unemployed, and doing absolutely nothing all day, why the f**k is your home NOT immaculately tidy. I'm not talking spending money you don't have on cleaning supplies...just don't make the entire community look like a pig sty because you're lazy. A community dies due to neglect and a "thousand small cuts"

Let's hear the old vs new number of section 8/affordable housing tenants. When people have to pay their own hard earned cash, they show a lot more respect to the property and their neighbors.

There’s nothing such as bad neighborhood it’s just bad people.

@v-town1980

2 күн бұрын

Duh.

@doom4067

18 сағат бұрын

A neighborhood is a group of people.

That's just terrible. It sucks that anyone had to be around all the bull. I'm happy to know you guys did a clean-up.

it should be against the law to buy properties cross state lines. every time i hear this mess it’s because of an out of state company that owns the properties

Simply NOT ALLOWING people to break laws and behave like banshees cleaned up the mess. This is all we have to do - DO NOT TOLERATE CRIME.

Once a certain element is removed, you will find crime drops rapidly.

@kli9005

3 күн бұрын

What element is that?

@dar7230

2 күн бұрын

💯💯💯💯

@dar7230

2 күн бұрын

​@@kli9005GUESS 😂😂😂

@YourWifesBoyfriend

2 күн бұрын

@@kli9005 A detective is interviewing several suspects in the same room. He says "WHOEVER DID THIS CRIME IS A PIECE OF GARBAGE!" One guy gets offended. The detective now knows who did the crime.

@calmbro1970

2 күн бұрын

@@kli9005 🏀Folks 🗑

I think this is the first ever upbeat news story I have ever seen on youtube.

I’ve said for years that it’s easy to fix bad apartment complexes. 1. Just raise the rents. It really doesn’t have to be much. Even an extra ten or twenty a month will have a lot of the bad eggs heading for the exits. And it will keep them out. 2. As the undesirables move out, clean up the units. Don’t forget to clean up the property as well. I little paint and yard work goes a long way. Raise the rents as you do so. 3. Keep raising the rents. After all the property value (and taxes) are going up. This will force out the rest of the undesirables, if any are left. 4. Set a nice (high) standard for credit and background checks. Don’t lower your standards for a “marginal, but good person”. You will almost always regret doing so. It might take a couple of years to turn the place around, but the good renters you will attract will be well worth the effort, and you’ll be able to sell the property for a considerable profit.

@COlson-rh3dg

5 күн бұрын

Good advice.

@lilshawty2605

9 сағат бұрын

I just worry how anybody with a felony who has turned their life around is able to acquire housing

Recently saw in Ohio an 11yr old was arrested and everyone could let their kids play outside again and crime dropped.

Background checks are vital in making sure you have good people in those apartments. If you just rent to any ol' person, you will not have good outcome. There is a correlation in how well maintained a place is to crime rate. Bad management is another reason some places don't do well.

@DavidLLambertmobile

5 күн бұрын

Squatters can still be a issue. I lived in a apt complex, sec 8 type place. When the owners sold it was really bad for 10+ mo. Gangs, drugs, squatters, wrecked cars, fights. Orlando PD cops 👮🏽‍♂️ did not care. No one was paying them $65/hour to do off duty security.

@COlson-rh3dg

5 күн бұрын

I rented out a place to 'just anyone' and all they did was trash everything, leave mountains of garbage behind and stink up the place.

@v-town1980

2 күн бұрын

​@@DavidLLambertmobile👮

Such great news, and I'm not even in your state. Your actions are very good mentoring for other companies, residents, states.

They didn’t mention how much rent increased. People who can afford higher rents are less likely to be riff-raff. Unfortunately, raising rent means the poor people who aren’t riff-raff lose their homes, too.

@MisterMikeTexas

4 күн бұрын

Eliminating or reducing property taxes may help rents become reasonable again. Cities and school districts are very greedy and entitled when it comes to other people's money.

It's all a state-of-mind/character...just because you're poor & struggling doesn't mean you have to be a scumbag addict-criminal.

@bobloblaw9679

4 күн бұрын

a poor home can still be a comfortable and clean home.

@v-town1980

2 күн бұрын

​@@bobloblaw9679Not usually. Especially those areas.

@LSPalm

6 сағат бұрын

​@@v-town1980Clermont is a pale rural county

That property manager looks like she takes pride in the job she’s doing. Starts with people like her.

Wonderful transformation!

I did this for a living, I owned 65 units. You kick out the bad tenants, which was most of them, renovate, and then re-rent. I wouldn’t kick anybody out that wasn’t a problem, but almost everybody was a problem. What happens in places like these is that good tenants don’t want to live there, so the place is just fills up with bad tenants. Also my requirements to renters were good credit and rent must be no more than 40% of their net income. Being poor should not be associated with bad credit. Bad credit just means you are not paying for what you agreed to pay for. That doesn’t have anything to do with the amount of money you make.

Credit and background checks lol huge difference compared to section 8 low income housing

The last apartment I rented, the new owners put in security cameras and all but 4 tenants moved out of the building. It had been known for drugs and troublemakers for decades prior. It was a nice place when I lived there, they went floor by floor renovating every unit. I hope that this place stays safer and better maintained from now on.

I wouldn’t exactly call this “luxury living.” That said, whoever took over this place should get hired by the mayor of Los Angeles to clean up our city.

I used to have to go there to find my friend. I dragged her out, tried to help her, and when I couldn't babysit my roommate/friend, her small child, hold a job, try to keep her from being evicted with myself and her small daughter living there, I HAD TO call the child's father. My "friend" never forgave me. Oh well.😳

This is what happens when you apply standards equally, regardless of what boxes of person checks.

Huh, you mean that having tenant standards and background checks makes a difference? - or that by having the apartment complex in good condition that it would attract better tenants? Of course there was probably a sizable increase in monthly rents that is unmentioned in this video.

@rholmst

5 күн бұрын

As well as there should be. Raising the rents is the best and quickest way to move out the trouble makers, and to keep them out.

@raygunsforronnie847

5 күн бұрын

@@rholmst Yep. It has the side effect of pushing out legit tenants who are simply poor or disabled, too. I think credit and background standards are a bigger contributor to the total success. Higher rent just pre-screens those who want the cheapest place they can find.

@kingbullyrock8739

5 күн бұрын

@@raygunsforronnie847 Good. no one wants to live with thugs.

@Thomas63r2

5 күн бұрын

@@rholmst Not just that the rents went up - I was being a little facetious about that. When the rents increased, they cleaned up the place and introduced higher tenant standards all at the same time. That's the way it gets done! The out of state owner made the mistake of having no oversight over their onsite manager, or more likely they just didn't even care - either way they were stuck in a vicious cycle of not attracting good tenants, and then these undesirable tenants made things worse in a downward spiral. Good on the new management (with local oversight) doing things the proven right way. This is not rocket science; keep the place nice and have expectations of the tenants.

@joelonzello4189

5 күн бұрын

@@raygunsforronnie847 people are renting rooms with background checks , no guests , pets etc for exorbitant prices. Some park trailers in driveways asking mortgage payment rents. Has gotten insane last two years

Who better to IN_vest in real estate than someone who is VESTED in their community! Bravissimo, Luma Property Group for showing how it CAN BE done!👏

Background checks instead of section 8 leads to less crime? How surprising

You bet it has a lot to do with management! I have seen it in trailer parks when they don’t do the job keeping it clean of riff raff!

@v-town1980

2 күн бұрын

If only they could apply this to the ghettos.

These local newscasts never give enough information: What was the cost of an average apartment before renovations? What is now the cost? Were drug dealers living in the apartments? Were they evicted? If so, how many?

I lived in a very large apartment complex for about 11 years. When I moved in it was a really good place at a affordable price. It a downward spiral about a year after I moved in. Through a combination of mismanagement and less than desirable tenants, it continued into a bad place. It was becoming the part to be careful at night. I witnessed a several fights . A whole lot of ‘ suspicious activity ‘ . Vandalism was very normal. A new manager came in. This guy immediately evicted a bunch of people including some rowdy college kids having wild parties. The manager continued by repaving all the parking lots. New playground equipment was in. Everyone got some new appliances. New apartment building locks were installed to keep unwanted people out. The list goes on but over the course of about 4-5 years, this new manager turned it into into a even better place than when I moved in.

A certain demographic used to live there. Once these changes were made they moved since they couldn't afford rent, so now since this demographic is no longer living there all the sudden crime dropped...

@michaellopez2070

4 күн бұрын

It's not just a matter of affordability. You can evict people is you have proof of illegal activity going on at their unit, and with over 30 police calls a month there, there would have been ample evidence for most of the problem units. The management or ownership either didn't want to drop their occupancy percentage or the onsite manager didn't want to mess with drug dealers and killers for a middle class wage while doing the bidding of a wealthy or upper middle class person that wasn't losing sleep over it.

@soupdrinker

4 күн бұрын

A "certain demographic" did not used to live there. If you are from that place, you'd know. It is almost entirely redneck land. It is a difference of whether you evict tenants who do drugs or committed a crime or not.

@DocZoidberg549

3 күн бұрын

I see what you did.... 😅

@LSPalm

15 сағат бұрын

Magameth used to live there. It's a pale as ale rural county .

Thanks for sharing

I wish they would come down South and clean up all this bullshit

Great story.

I lived at a place where you had to get a background check and each apartment had an alarm system!

@michaellopez2070

4 күн бұрын

They get one family member to pass the background check, and then their cousin, nephew, baby daddy, or whoever moves in a sells the drugs.

Always nice to hear good news ( for a change) 👍

Where did those other tennants go to? Sounds like a potential case of sweeping dirt under the rug. Unless those bad actors are in jail, then they will just act the same way in a different complex.

TLDR; Out of state property owners are bad for local economies. Support local businesses.

@gracegraceful4929

4 күн бұрын

No

@michaellopez2070

4 күн бұрын

Most of the slumlords I've worked for were local.

@v-town1980

2 күн бұрын

​@@gracegraceful4929That's a lousy attitude. Fool!

the rent was 750 new owner takes the property makes it nicer and then priced the poor and criminals out and replaced them with hmm people with jobs and morals not hard to figure out why crime went down facts hurt to say out loud

They bought that place for pennies on the dollar, renovated it, and raised the prices. Simple formula

Only an idiot would look at those apartment buildings and think "luxury living." They were CLEARLY made on the cheap.

Probably because they ditched the section 8 scumbags...

@LSPalm

5 күн бұрын

Clermont county they were section8 magamethers. Console your friends

@OakIslandMorkie

5 күн бұрын

Yup. "Operation Clorox" in full force.

@anderander5662

5 күн бұрын

Thanks LBJ

@KyleS88

5 күн бұрын

@@OakIslandMorkie doubtful probably Spanish. White on white murders don’t happen in the same neighborhood month after month. We roll tf out

@TwisterTornado

5 күн бұрын

So meth'd up, these bleachedblondebadbuiltbutches...

So gentrification is good? Glad we agree.

This is the same story at my complex. I moved in six months after new owners, and I hear stories - how Dominoes would refuse to deliver etc. I even saw some of the families that had old leases come up, being forcibly removed because they refused to go - lets just say they met the description the man gave.

As soon as they showed the new property manager I liked her right away! I never met the old one lol, but something about her tells me she knew how to get in there and get the ball rolling! Professional “cleaner” right there! 🙌❤️😎

Made some other changes not mentioned.

@deathvvitch

5 күн бұрын

Yup kicked everyone out. Raised prices too high for anyone to afford

@jcbell-dh1bm

5 күн бұрын

Future headlines, the new ownership of Ohio apartments being sued for discrimination.

@dwave81

5 күн бұрын

@@deathvvitch Someone can always afford it. Maybe not the people on food stamps but the people with jobs can.

@ronkomro7759

5 күн бұрын

​@@jcbell-dh1bmI was waiting for someone to say something. Always has to be that one!

@LSPalm

5 күн бұрын

​​Words of an often unemployed lush trumpet^ angry about their own lives@@dwave81

Thats JUST AWESOME JUST DONT GET CARRIED AWAY WITH RENT

@dwave81

5 күн бұрын

Low rent = high crime.

@exastrisscientia8656

5 күн бұрын

@@dwave81 Bad management can also lead to high crime. Not evicting the trouble makers is the number 1 reason.

@danielebrparish4271

5 күн бұрын

Low rent is usually the result of deferred maintenance and renting to anyone who applies.

@darrellcook8253

4 күн бұрын

It's already run away. Through the roof.

I think all complexes should be owned by a resident of the state it’s located in or the neighboring state if located near a state boarder. Anyone with DV charges, Theft, drug use of harder drugs you don’t want in your complex. Also maintain your complex if it looks in poor condition trouble is more likely to follow.

@darrellcook8253

4 күн бұрын

The broken window effect. If its not fixed it gets disrespected and more broken windows follow. You keep it clean people are less inclined to trash it. One ciggeret butt begets more ciggeret butts. (The navy taught me that.) And sometimes it's little things that start the avalanche of litter. Like no outside garbage cans that are emptied as needed. Grubby humans too.

So kick out the riff-raff and crime goes down, who would have known!!! This is just kicking the problem somewhere else, those trouble makers do not just vanish off the face of the earth!

New ownership Raise rents to drive out troublemakers / grifters / riff raff Crime rate drops substantially. Not a complicated process. Works every time

@DavidLLambertmobile

5 күн бұрын

I do security. The big point is squatters, fake Air B&Bs, doing back ground checks, proper lights 💡 , access control. 1 community 🏘 in Orlando FL just paid out $8mil to a gun shot victim's estate, family. Lack of security, no measures.

Why was he looking at me for so long at the end? I felt like it was my turn to talk or something.

@AndriaaLeoLove

5 күн бұрын

😅😅😅

@darrellcook8253

4 күн бұрын

That's the ole waiting for a reaction stare. It's ment to disturb your thinking processes or stimulate them. It's in your hands now kind of look. What do you think of that? I'll wait...

Love to see stories like this. This is why local ownership also matters vs out of state. The latter really don’t care about the community. They only care extracting the most profit. I’ve seen this in my own Midwest state. How it goes to crap when an out of state “investor” takes over. It’s sad

Excellent

Cheap neighborhoods mostly have high crimes. Expensive neighbourhoods usually low crimes.

@OakIslandMorkie

5 күн бұрын

Why is that? The criminal, MINORITY element CAN'T AFFORD to live in the expensive neighborhoods that affluent white people live in, and keeping THEM out is what keeps those neighborhoods safe!

@anderander5662

5 күн бұрын

That's why people move to better neighborhoods...

@francislarv3012

5 күн бұрын

Low income. Low ambition. Low standards. Low intelligence. Low down ways. High income…..you dig ?

@emjay2045

5 күн бұрын

Yes. And poverty in America is a POLICY Choice. This can be stopped

@TheMargarita1948

5 күн бұрын

The numbers change depending on the crimes you count.

So basically it went from being the projects to being a legit apartment complex worth living in.

It's amazing how bad owners can cause massive issues for everyone.

Yeah. They left out how much the rent was raised. I would have thought that tidbit of info would have been important to the story but I guess not.

@NewSocialistEraVideos

5 күн бұрын

yea, I just looked it up, now a 1 bed costs almost 1k/mo ... that's one way to get rid of the downtrodden! lol

@doverbeachcomber

2 күн бұрын

When rents go up and background checks are made and crime is reported and prosecuted, lazy troublemakers get a choice: change your life or go elsewhere.

They renovated the entire apartments, renovated the complex, credit checks, and kicked out non payers.

This is how it can and should be done. No exceptions! Fair rent prices should be included too.

So with motivation and investment, it can be done.

Credit checks do not separate the good from the bad. I know a bunch of sketchy people with great credit. Have spent my entire adult life living in similar situations due to a congenital heart defect preventing me from steady employment and forcing me to rely on govt assistance from time to time. I think most people would be surprised how good most sketchy families look just on a rental application.

@michaellopez2070

4 күн бұрын

Due to fair housing laws, apartment complexes don't have much ability to pick and choose who they rent to, as long as someone qualifies on paper, even if there are red flags and you can see it from a mile away what's going to happen once they move in.

@v-town1980

2 күн бұрын

Of course, even if they look bad on paper, some can use their "card."

@jessicaanderson7885

2 күн бұрын

People were using my credit when I was a child and I was in debt by about a quarter of a million dollars before I became an adult. Trying to get the fake stuff removed has been a life battle. The social security office said that I couldn't prove that it was someone else doing it so I couldn't get a new number.

@michaellopez2070

2 күн бұрын

@@jessicaanderson7885 yah this. And not to mention when a family member or significant other uses your info to qualify and moves in and causes problems.

How can landlords keep their properties safe if the state county and city make it difficult to evict tenants? And how can the city expect safety if they allow section 8 housing?

Fantastic oversight and support

Its great its cleaned up but it was the prosecutors job to catch the bad guys not push the responsibility to the owners. Its not the owners fault that people are reprobate. I wonder if they leaned on the owners to make them sell cheap to someone the prosecutor knew who was looking to invest...

@bobdowns6973

5 күн бұрын

Always the same group of people 🤔 JUST SAYING!

@steveniemyer9288

5 күн бұрын

The previous owners were slumlords. They never did anything to improve or care for the property. When any property becomes a public nuisance, which this property was, the law allows for action to be taken as outlined in chapter 3767 of the Ohio Revised Code.

@LSPalm

5 күн бұрын

That group is not in Clermont county Ohio, for the most part. Learn​@@bobdowns6973

@LSPalm

5 күн бұрын

​@@steveniemyer9288the guy above you doesn't know who lives in Clermont county lol.

@kimconley8291

5 күн бұрын

@@LSPalm👆TROLL-ALERT 🐑

Because there is no one living there. I stayed there 2 years ago and it was actually fine as far as incidents but there was no maintenance available or hardly available.

@deathvvitch

5 күн бұрын

Yup while I will say on the outside this is all great but if you take a closer look you will realize the reason why there’s no crime is bc no one can afford to live there.

@jackofallglass165

5 күн бұрын

yea no one can afford the drugs or high rent anymore.

@xtrey19x

5 күн бұрын

@@deathvvitch You mean the riff raft can’t afford the rent.

@ronkomro7759

5 күн бұрын

​@jackofallglass165 well these folks have to decide if they want a roof over their heads or those drugs! I choose a roof over my head.

@LSPalm

5 күн бұрын

​@@xtrey19xthis is Clermont county Ohio land of magas

I’m not surprised. People don’t realize how much they affect the culture and safety of a complex

Broken people was the best description!

New management and NO SECTION 8.

They are putting up apartment complexes as fast as they can in every city in the country...... this is your future

@LSPalm

5 күн бұрын

Existing complex in a rural county small town this is

@kingbullyrock8739

5 күн бұрын

@@LSPalm True, but his comment is correct.

It's half spiffing the place up. The other half is getting the problem tenants out. Most if not all leases state the property won't be used to do illegal stuff. Simply don't renew leases on units with multiple calls for police service.

As a landlord who rents to blue-collar tenants, I can tell you that the previous landlord did everything wrong. They failed to maintain the property which leads to the better tenants leaving - which means that only the scuzzy tenants are left. They also failed to immediately evict the bad apples, which is critical to keeping control of the property. I will evict a tenant if they do something that leads to a police callout even once, or even if I receive too many complaints about them from the other tenants. There's a huge difference between good people who just have a low income and bad people who are poor because of the bad decisions they make.

So basically gentrification. They should have asked how much rents were increased. I'm not necessarily opposed to it but we need to be clear about "fixing crime" by getting rid of low income areas. The last question got at that issue but it wasn't really answered.

@spg5658

5 күн бұрын

I live in a large suburban county on the East Coast that has several low income pockets and only a small section of perhaps two of them have high crime. Most have normal levels (which means low because this is a low crime county). In some cases low income is associated with crime but the vast majority of poor people are not criminals

@lward9675

5 күн бұрын

Being low income doesnt necessarily mean criminal BUT unfortunately it goes hand in hand. It's a state of mind more than anything.

@spg5658

5 күн бұрын

I hear you ​@@lward9675

Yeah, I'm guessing what actually happened is that the main troublemakers were either arrested or forced to move because their leases weren't renewed or the new rent was too high.

@TwisterTornado

5 күн бұрын

Still, the difference between landlords who dgaf, and those who take the time, to find out who is the main cause? It kind of proves that "bad areas" are simply poorly run.

@mattbosley3531

5 күн бұрын

@@TwisterTornado Bad areas are areas where poor people live. Poor people tend to be desperate and to fight and steal more than people who aren't poor and who aren't desperate. Poor people frequently drink to cope which also leads to violence. They sometimes use drugs as a coping mechanism as well which again causes problems. They may get involved with gangs. All of these things combine to create the problems, not just an apartment complex being poorly run.

@TwisterTornado

5 күн бұрын

@@mattbosley3531 Uh huh. Tell me about it, Matt Bosley. Where did you live? (Why do "you people" think you are psychics?)

@mattbosley3531

5 күн бұрын

@@TwisterTornado Not a psychic, just lots of experience with poor people and crime. I am a poor person. I only have income of around $20,000 a year. I am barely able to pay rent and buy food. I don't own a car. I don't get food stamps.

@TwisterTornado

5 күн бұрын

@@mattbosley3531 Yes, Matt. And you presumed I have never been poor. Duh.

This happened in NYC. West 114th (between FD Blvd and ACP) had a row of 3-storey budlings owned by NYCHA, and they were disgusting back in 2010. There was open air drug dealing, crackheads smoking in the vestibules, assaults, and worse. Then a private management company took it over, and it all ended. New secure doors, intercom, lobbies were maintained, and it looked more like an apartment block than a jail. But they screened the new tenants, and nobody's allowed to hang out in the lobby or the stoop anymore. The rule you had to sign was, "If you don't do it in a Park Avenue luxury building, don't do it here.