Ohio apartment complex sees 90% drop in crime after ownership change

A apartment complex where murders, drug dealing, and assaults were commonplace has seen a 90% drop in police calls: tinyurl.com/mr...
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[@timwaddell9450]

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]

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]

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

[@LSPalm]

​@@kingbullyrock8739 magamethers

[@LipsNEyes555]

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

[@fredhoy6697]

@@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.

[@GorgieClarissa]

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]

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

[@stanleyhape8427]

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]

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

[@HiDefHDMusic]

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

[@ciddoctor6993]

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

[@fajile5109]

Slum lords vs land lords.

[@paleocon777]

+ credit check

[@JDnFL]

Slum lords + scumbag tenants

[@nicholasklangos9704]

+ 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]

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]

Well said.

[@franksnowboarder]

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

[@mondogecko01]

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]

@@mondogecko01 Some of both...

[@realtree297]

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

[@30daysorless8]

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

[@sonnylatchstring]

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

[@PaulLoveless-Cincinnati]

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]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@Blueisntmycolor]

🙌 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]

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

[@PaulLoveless-Cincinnati]

Thank you for the well wishes everyone!

[@LL-sw7qj]

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

[@Thehandle2day]

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]

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

[@justintime41776]

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.

[@trublgrl]

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]

More like 13% create 80% of the problems.

[@Kryosleep]

I appreciate the honesty. Confirmed, the wife and I helped shut down 3 drug houses in our neighborhood while everyone else cowered and wouldn't even call the cops. Liberal neighborhood, we're conservative. Liberals are cowards too.

[@SylviaWalters-m8q]

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]

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]

@@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...

[@piratelechuck1911]

A town is only as good as it's citizens.

[@whiskeymonk4085]

Would love to see the demography breakdown of police calls. We all know what it looks like. But you can't mention it or else you are *RAAAAAYSIS!*

[@antennaandy6893]

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]

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]

@@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]

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

[@rwill156]

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

[@jameshill2450]

It's pretty clear that the "problem people" here were the owners ...

[@joedaman2380]

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....❤❤

[@DwightStJohn-w1l]

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.

[@PeterCombs]

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]

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

[@bloodspartan300]

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

[@english7451]

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

[@robertsmith2956]

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

[@rabd3721]

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

[@floydjohnson4915]

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]

Corrupt local government is a huge problem.

[@metalbarbie7226]

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]

Thank you for your insight! Enjoy your retirement!

[@jameshurley224]

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]

@@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.

[@Shell2014]

Amazing what happens when you get rid of the trash…

[@bosatsu76]

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]

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

[@dar7230]

Absolutely the section eigt 😂😂😂

[@joelwillems4081]

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

[@gilwood7530]

@@joelwillems4081 about 13%

[@Chinunit22]

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

[@terryl.cooper]

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

[@soupdrinker]

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

[@necrom21221]

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

[@necrom21221]

But wages sucks.

[@janityy]

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

[@susannpatton2893]

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]

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]

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

[@KerryannePatricia]

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

[@Doomzdayxx]

Yes. Redlining/gentrification works....

[@phillhuddleston9445]

Getting rid of Section 8 helps doesn't it.

[@sirchadiusmaximusiii]

Agreed. And good Lord you’re fine.

[@agravery223]

​@@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.

[@crinklecut3790]

They never addressed this but did they stop accepting Section 8? They never said.

[@merryhunt9153]

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]

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]

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.

[@nongone]

Both the property records and the court case are public information, everything you'd want to know is available in a few minutes with a quick search. I was curious so I looked it up myself: - The "bad guys" as portrayed by this story are probably from Utah, one in Centerville and one in Heber City. The suit was filed by the State of Ohio on 5/21/21 against 7 defendants, 5 were LLC's with attorneys in Cincinnati and 2 were the individuals mentioned above. The suit was dismissed 9/1/21, probably because the owners agreed to sell. I'd have no problem putting their names out here, but I can't be 100% sure that I'm right so you'd have to look further to know for sure who's behind all these companies. - The "good guys" as portrayed by this story are not local at all, despite the conclusion that everyone seems to be jumping to. They're based in Beachwood, which is up by Cleveland, about as far away as you can get from Cincinnati and still be in Ohio. Their google reviews are about as bad as the people they bought the property from, so I'm not sure they're all that great either. What they DID do is put some money in to pump the rent from about $800 per unit to $1200 per unit in less than 2 years. Given they spent $14.5 million on the place, they'll recover their investment by 2029 and sell it for whatever they can get at pure profit. The less they do to improve the place in the mean time, the more they'll make. It's a vicious cycle, as the new improvements get older and inflation effectively makes the new rent cheaper, the same folks will eventually roll back in and we'll see the same story in 10 more years. I live close to a place just like this (also in Ohio) and I've watched it cycle 3 or 4 times since I was a kid. I remember going to a friend's house there in high school whose parents were executives and it was the nicest apartment I'd ever seen. 12 years later they were busting a meth lab in the exact same apartment. Now it's nice again. No winners here, really. That's what I hate the most about all of this: the bad guys are pretty bad but the good guys are usually pretty bad too. I know the story wants us to feel a certain way and I can tell from all the comments they were pretty successful, but dang I wish there was an actual good guy for a change.

[@damovandG]

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

[@english7451]

Background check is everything. Including credit scores.

[@Candy-O1776]

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]

@@Candy-O1776 Yet most everyone wants criminals running the country. ironic.

[@english7451]

@@Candy-O1776 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]

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.

[@Mlogan11]

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

[@tymigliore6390]

Drug dealers can afford the rent increase

[@LoriL010]

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

[@Mlogan11]

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

[@targetegrat]

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

[@ryanmac8283]

@@Mlogan11 they own your small town.lol

[@Red_Genie]

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

[@v-town1980]

Duh.

[@doom4067]

A neighborhood is a group of people.

[@juliebollman3944]

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

[@studmuffin1217]

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

[@efunkyman6853]

Shocking! Isn't it?😂

[@michaellopez2070]

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.

[@teamofone1219]

Yeah it doesn’t make sense XD

[@danasmith858]

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

[@danielebrparish4271]

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]

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

[@gregb6469]

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

[@CoryRwtfyt]

It's called jail.

[@GhostRider-dp2tc]

You think every criminal has a arrest record lmfao

[@springersound1844]

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.

[@clairebear1808]

Congratulations New Owner!

[@america9546]

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

[@marih3286]

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]

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]

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

[@Frederickotto55]

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[@Frederickotto55]

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[@Frederickotto55]

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[@jebronlames7789]

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

[@cynthiaholland13]

Yes the out of state landlords

[@FlipDahlenburg]

@@cynthiaholland13 Both. Wake up.

[@elisciachristie6984]

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.

[@feyfey6874]

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

[@tazg349]

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.

[@mkb7013]

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

[@did_I_hurt_your_fee_fees]

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]

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

[@paxundpeace9970]

You don't get good renters if your pools is green from algee and the windows and appliances are from 1980s. If it looks shit you get a dump.

[@LuckysLair]

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"

[@pattyotool9548]

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

[@0101-s7v]

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

[@ralphnewcomejr]

Probably because they ditched the section 8 scumbags...

[@LSPalm]

Clermont county they were section8 magamethers. Console your friends

[@OakIslandMorkie]

Yup. "Operation Clorox" in full force.

[@anderander5662]

Thanks LBJ

[@KyleS88]

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

[@TwisterTornado]

So meth'd up, these bleachedblondebadbuiltbutches...

[@fredhoy6697]

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

[@mcap8396]

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]

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

[@bosatsu76]

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

[@machupikachu1085]

@@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]

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

[@jaysonpida5379]

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]

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

[@v-town1980]

​@@bobloblaw9679Not usually. Especially those areas.

[@LSPalm]

​@@v-town1980Clermont is a pale rural county

[@agy234]

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

[@alohamom2380]

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!👏

[@deejames1219]

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

[@evilsharkey8954]

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]

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.

[@Michael-uc2pn]

​@@MisterMikeTexassooo... How are you going to pay for schools and local infrastructure? The next logical option would be raising sales taxes, but that would just hurt renters even more and directly.

[@MisterMikeTexas]

@@Michael-uc2pn The city ought to be able to run just fine on sales taxes. I'll bet there are plenty of bureaucrats city-wide and in the school districts that can be let go. Eliminate bureaucrat pensions and let them invest in IRA's and 401K's like the rest of us laypeoples. And the school superintendents don't need to be paid nearly $1M a year, nor do the city managers. Cap their annual pay at $300K or lower. POTUS pay is $400K.

[@Michael-uc2pn]

@@MisterMikeTexas I'd agree with you if there are any superintendents making that much. Everyone I know involved in local or state government gets paid utter crap and just stays in their job because they like it and the job security is basically bulletproof. Might differ for your city/state. I moved from a state to a federal position because my salary literally doubled for the exact same job and probably less work.

[@risinbison1106]

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

[@AliSwanson1728]

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]

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]

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]

​@@DavidLLambertmobile👮

[@thomasfrazier3378]

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.

[@bc1969214]

They can be Section 8 and held to the same standards as anyone else. The difference in the before/after is out of state slumlord vs. local landlord with screening standards. The HUD is quite clear about what constitutes an “allowable circumstance for terminating tenancy” for Section 8 participants. Landlords may begin the termination process for: Material noncompliance, defined as: Substantial lease violations Fraud Repeated minor violations Nonpayment of rent Drug abuse or other criminal activity Material failure to carry out obligations under a State Landlord and Tenant Act Other good cause (by state/local law)

[@melissastreeter22]

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

[@ChakatNightspark]

You should investigate the out of state property management. I Mean They are the Ones that ALLOWED to get it that bad in the First Place and NOT FIX IT and Cause Problems and People to Die. I would Have that out of state property management be Held accountable for the People Who got Murdered. Since They Didn't Seem to Care about What was Going On with the Property and Not Fixing the Issues as Quickly as Possible Like they are Suppose to.

[@megapromo3771]

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

[@kli9005]

What element is that?

[@dar7230]

💯💯💯💯

[@dar7230]

​@@kli9005GUESS 😂😂😂

[@YourWifesBoyfriend]

@@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]

@@kli9005 🏀Folks 🗑

[@Thomas63r2]

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]

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]

@@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]

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

[@Thomas63r2]

@@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]

@@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

[@LuckyCharms777]

2:32 Those last six seconds are awkward. You’d think a professional news station would’ve trimmed the video. 😂

[@darrellcook8253]

It was "what do you think about that?" kind of look. And thats the moment you start having conversations with your electronic devices. You start talking to the microwave oven and the hair dryer too. That's a side benefit.

[@j.thomas7128]

New management and NO SECTION 8.

[@LongLiveTheKing1986]

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]

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]

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]

I see what you did.... 😅

[@LSPalm]

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

[@MilePost106]

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]

If only they could apply this to the ghettos.

[@TDS621]

Great story.

[@robbrown4621]

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?

[@fridder.]

Lol, they increased rent and pushed the crackheads somewhere else. Literally like that SpongeBob skit where Patrick moves bikini bottom

[@ruthmusser4449]

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

[@JDReC100]

Good for everyone else Wonder what that child was doing....

[@DoobieDeb]

Thats JUST AWESOME JUST DONT GET CARRIED AWAY WITH RENT

[@dwave81]

Low rent = high crime.

[@exastrisscientia8656]

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

[@danielebrparish4271]

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

[@darrellcook8253]

It's already run away. Through the roof.

[@markfcoble]

Made some other changes not mentioned.

[@deathvvitch]

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

[@jcbell-dh1bm]

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

[@dwave81]

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

[@ronkomro7759]

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

[@LSPalm]

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

[@seattleflea]

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

[@gracegraceful4929]

No

[@michaellopez2070]

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

[@v-town1980]

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

[@radicalronie]

I used to live in peaceful apartments for about 7yrs. Midway through the 5th yr they started accepting section 8. A few months later my neighbors car was broken in to, there were police there almost every other weekend, and finally my car was broken into, then my neighbor and I both moved out cause wacky smoke started coming into our apartments nightly. Nope, left that place behind. And too bad because it was a nice little community before section 8. Glad to be in a house now!

[@isaac198428]

*Rent starting at $750, no background or credit checks* 🤔💭 …I’ll go ahead and assume there were lots of *unemployed section 8 folks* hanging out all day dealing drugs etc & management was from out of town so that was unchecked. Also, *maintenance was neglected* so didn’t attract tenants who value what they pay for with their hard earned money. Once *rent significantly increased after renovations,* decent hard working tenants moved in & behave accordingly to *maintain their good credit.* That’s done by being law abiding (not going to jail which could impact your job & housing you pay for yourself). I’m not saying that all low rent paying poor folks are bad, only that a handful who don’t pay their own rent getting handouts don’t value anything, especially someone else’s property which won’t affect their credit or background with whatever they do or don’t do. They had nothing to lose but the new higher paying residents got a lot to lose if they mess up.

[@gigaus0]

We had a complex like this in a neighboring county, basically out in the sticks. Everywhere was nice, except that one complex. Drugs, theft, gunrunners, black marketing in the back and hookers in the front. It wasn't always like that, but just one year it went hard into a nose dive. The people living there hadn't changed, not until the shooting started, so a lot of the townies and other counties couldn't figure what was up. Then someone did something no one thought to do: They talked to the people there. All the people. The hookers, the dealers, the criminals and the cops. Short end of it was, the complex had gotten bought up by a company HQed in *France* of all places, same one that bought up all our malls and drove em into the ground. The reason that mattered was some dealers got the bright idea to basically turn it into their own den because the owners weren't ever going to call the cops or make a move; They didn't even know the people here existed. Sure, there was a local manager; sure the townies could call the cops; sure there was video cameras everywhere. But none of it mattered because, and I quote, 'The pigs are running all over the fields, the boss is flat, and we own the cameras.' State and county forced a resale of the complex to a local company, and had it cleaned up with security added. Problems went away quick, and ironically it took that interview for the other counties to realize the same thing was happening on other properties owned by out of state companies. The state and every county separately are all considering expanding imminent domain and regulations of out of state buyers.

[@stevenhickey326]

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

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

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.

[@Eric_Olsen]

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]

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.

[@S_H9260]

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.

[@Law19157]

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?

[@sumar207]

Wonderful transformation!

[@OakInch]

So basically they evicted the trash and untrashed what the trash had trashed up.

[@josephpearlman4010]

What do you want to bet that the biggest change the new owners implemented involved removing a certain demographic. No section 8 renters either.

[@LSPalm]

They were pale a ale in Clermont county. Look up places then comment

[@CharleneTruncer]

They did background checks!!!! That is the main reason.

[@v-town1980]

Credit and background checks? Yup, that will certainly clear out the problematic demographic.

[@LSPalm]

Clermont county is rural and 98% pale as ale

[@Jameywells777]

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

[@icalotdonthide2646]

Excellent

[@samfrancisco8095]

Removed most of the Black tenants played a big part.

[@jimmylight4866]

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

[@nunyabusiness1755]

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

[@7415_Gamer]

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

[@OakIslandMorkie]

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]

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

[@francislarv3012]

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

[@emjay2045]

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

[@TheMargarita1948]

The numbers change depending on the crimes you count.

[@phillhuddleston9445]

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!

[@RideWNC]

Section 8 needs to go away!

[@andyleo8418]

All you have to do is get rid of the single moms that have thug boyfriends and relatives. Rise the credit requirements and hike up the rent a little. That will filter out a the trash.

[@ericswain4177]

So with motivation and investment, it can be done.

[@joesmith3590]

So gentrification is good? Glad we agree.

[@stevenpike7857]

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.

[@rholmst]

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]

Good advice.

[@lilshawty2605]

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

[@ninabooker2904]

“ Attitude Is Everything “ If you don’t care, it shows. If you think you’re a victim, it shows. If you are optimistic and willing to try, it shows. Be part of the solution, Not part of the problem. God Bless you.

[@StacyDavenport-dn7kp]

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.😳

[@margyrowland]

Get real. They got rid of the criminals and that got rid of the crime. Renovating the building is secondary.

[@xjcrossx]

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

[@AndriaaLeoLove]

😅😅😅

[@darrellcook8253]

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...

[@CRiver396]

Geez. I wonder what race lives there

[@user-yq6ov6ow7l]

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.

[@rhess10]

I'll call BS. If the criminal element actually resided in the complex and they were removed, they have to go somewhere. So all they did was displace the crime and put it somewhere else, most likely scattering it across the city. How come journalists don't ask good and smart questions?

[@richellepeace4457]

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]

Always the same group of people 🤔 JUST SAYING!

[@steveniemyer9288]

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]

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

[@LSPalm]

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

[@kimconley8291]

@@LSPalm👆TROLL-ALERT 🐑

[@ronblack2700]

I am a security guard for the HACP so I understand what these people had to go through, recently I spent a weekend at one of the worse HACP properties in Pittsburgh Pa, drugs , prostitution meanwhile the management of this property does nothing to combat these issues. They are quick to fire one of the security guards but will not clean up the property from drugs and prostitution. People deserve safe housing.

[@christinemiller5297]

Way to go !! Investing in helping others to find housing in a safe environment!!!

[@haplessasshole9615]

My dear departed Southern Granddaddy owned a bunch of rental properties and also was a property developer, creating a couple of neighborhoods, selling houses when he could and renting others. His friends in civic organizations always told him he should raise his rental and sales prices -- he was under the market. Granddaddy would tell them, "I'm in the business of providing housing for people who need it. I'm not doing it to get rich." He grew up poor, worked very, very hard, and died a prosperous (though not wealthy) man. He did exactly as you say -- investing in helping others by providing safe housing.

[@theoriginalkrabbypatty]

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

[@michaellopez2070]

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.

[@mr.iforgot3062]

Got rid of all the N's that lived there.

[@anderander5662]

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

[@LSPalm]

Existing complex in a rural county small town this is

[@kingbullyrock8739]

@@LSPalm True, but his comment is correct.

[@georgepoitras3502]

Blight attracts crime. If you forgive broken windows obviously you make a great drug den.

[@TJS-life]

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]

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]

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.

[@gigaus0]

dear god, every apartment complex really is just the same buildings copy-pasted everywhere...