Owners of troubled Las Vegas apartment complex start evictions

The owners of a troubled apartment complex have sent tenants 30-day pay or quit notices after the owners reached a settlement with Clark County.

[@carynvanwyk]

So they admit they haven't paid rent. So where's the money that they should be saving so they could move?

[@MH_6160]

Brand name clothes, smart phone bills, eating out…. people who live like this have no financial brain power.

[@Rowrin]

"California based". I think i found the problem...

[@ROCEMPOWERMENT]

💯💯💯💯

[@pearlsswine]

Lol you think native Las Vegans would own anything? The only thing you own is weed and alcohol.

[@chrislockhart3585]

Little India mixed in there also.

[@3jimp]

I mean, it is true you can’t live rent free, but there are a tenant landlord rules that state if the conditions or deplorable and unlivable you can withhold rent until they fix them all up that looks quite deplorable to me

[@pepperonipizza7633]

Yes they can withhold rent but it doesn’t mean the landlord can’t initiate a no cause eviction

[@3jimp]

@@pepperonipizza7633 be with you 100% but the law does state if repairs aren’t made in the conditions or deplorable you can withhold rent until those repairs are made now they have the 45,000 and they made the repairs so now they’re telling these truckers to get out which he has the right to do

[@desmondcastro3679]

Isn't that Nevada State law. Overdue repairs=$0 until services are rendered ?

[@3jimp]

@@desmondcastro3679 yah that’s what I’m saying but they gave 40 k something in fines and once it’s fixed you then have to pay

[@letschangepoliticsforthebe8366]

you can withhold rent to do repairs they are not doing...

[@CharleyTank]

*You haven't paid rent for month's? You think it's deplorable conditions? You have extra money to pay rent so move.*

[@tonyarichards5430]

You would think by this point.

[@thasarg4288]

Imagine???

[@hobbes7460]

Probably spent the extra money on drugs

[@CharleyTank]

@@hobbes7460 That's the truth, You can't spend money to fix an apartment building when nobody pays rent. People think drugs are better than paying rent lol

[@britavega]

It’s not extra money when all you’re doing is holding off paying until the owner/landlord fixes what’s broken. When the ac went out last summer in my apt complex, there were 120 tenets without working ac starting in the summer months! Do you think we should have paid for the 6 months that the ac was out?

[@Numba1hunna83]

Damn! In 2005 when I first moved to vegas I lived here for 6 months. It was bad then, looks way worse now.

[@DaveonGrave]

I lived there too back then too (I worked next door at Madison Avenue) and it wasn't great, but it was nothing like it is now. Back in the 1960's all those apartment buildings in the Twain/Swenson area was where cooks, cocktail waitresses and casino dealers lived and was actually a decent neighborhood. The city needs to bulldoze the entire area from the Strip to Maryland and Flamingo to D. I. and tear it all down and build decent, affordable apartments for casino workers and their families.

[@kennixox262]

@@DaveonGrave What city is that? Since this is in unincorporated Clark County it would be on them. I do think that there should be a public/private enterprise to do as you say, build affordable housing for those who work on the Strip. Places like Jackson Hole, Aspen and other expensive towns have done just that, specific housing for workers.

[@Suzanne-f4x]

@@DaveonGrave Define "affordable" and why should the city use taxpayer money to rebuild that place?. Somebody already owns the place.

[@QueenAnaya-x7b]

That shit looks like it needs to be shut down , would never let a dog live in that. That’s nasty

[@dianetan5790]

I mean if the cops would arrest the drug users and dealers and lock the. Up in a prison without access to drugs maybe we could fix a lot of issues but ppl like you just blah blah blah

[@jameshall915]

what about a cat?

[@QueenAnaya-x7b]

@@jameshall915 not even.

[@CharleyTank]

You can't expect an owner to fix problems when people stop paying rent.

[@joevarga5982]

Not as nasty as the people living there and not moving out.

[@tonyarichards5430]

Holy fuck. I lived there way back when it was the Mark Twain estates. 2014. That’s really a shock to see it now.

[@dianetan5790]

If I commented this I’d be banned

[@PMurray2694]

​@dianetan5790 that means you've said some nasty stuff and I'm proud of you

[@Hellfire0220]

Spent 2 minutes trying to paint the owners are horrible people, THEN says "Evict people who havent paid rent." well gee how horrible of them...

[@meganwynn372]

The owners are out of state. Absentee.

[@hereandthere8900]

You can’t just live somewhere rent free.

[@niggakilla1166]

Unless your God

[@gasmith7486]

Oh you can if you’re an entitled person of a certain demographic. 🙄

[@michaelellringer5600]

The homeless aren't paying any rent!

[@MH-eu1dr]

Well. So… you in a way can. There are rules that say you can withhold rent if the landlord doesn’t do upkeep on the property. I guess the question is who did the bad thing first. The landlord not fixing stuff or the person not paying.

[@dianetan5790]

You can’t live somewhere if you neighbors smoke drugs inside ur home

[@stevekuresa5139]

As a renter you have to pay your rent. File a complaint to the city to demand your living rights..

[@davidgriffin4401]

Ol girl was running on them high heels 👏

[@meganwynn372]

I was delighted to see her doing that XD I was like' Get 'er, shes prancing so daintily after her- Ha You cant get away - she gonna get cha : D Now thats fine reporting!!! Cheers!!

[@anthonymartinez4307]

The garbage is widespread.

[@Frankieboy8189]

The tenants thought they can hold out. Now the legal battle is finishing up and you have to explain why you haven’t payed in over a year and half!?

[@carolr7823]

Evict all of the tenants and remodel the property and rent it out to decent tenants who pay rent.

[@Suzanne-f4x]

Background searches work. Don't accept anyone without a job and don't accept Section 8 or other welfare programs.

[@Diesel437]

This is the answer

[@mpat100]

Blessings for all the residents that they find new homes asap.

[@jaybeedelacruz520]

They abused the units.

[@JimmyGarcia-k3t]

I worked as security before it went to shit, property managers let anyone willing to pay move in, not checking to see if they even had a income. Obviously it moved in drug dealers, then came gangs and the druggies. Non stop foot traffic to units that were selling. Management would not evict them troubled units because they would pay on time, even with multiple people already trespassed from problematic units

[@erikh9991]

New Jack City.

[@JerryThomas-fg9ms]

hopefully the courts make these squatters leave. if not, it'll set a bad precedent. it doesn't matter how bad the conditions are. if you're not paying, you deserve to get kicked out.

[@702SinSuper]

Good ol Mark Twain Apartments 😅

[@MRosati5000]

Having a Dicken's of a time..

[@tonyarichards5430]

Yep. I lived in 3 different units there. I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembers that name. Thanks.

[@winstonperalta1345]

This type of PEOPLE WANTS TO EAT BUT DONT WANT TO POOOP.

[@johndoles3713]

The fukery

[@thepeterchannel3230]

There was feces on the ground outside that unit. (?)

[@JosephSoulMusic]

These people are wild. If you aren't going to pay rent, you have no say. Period. Even if you pay rent, you have no say.

[@joeburch9220]

How after the first kid not married why do you have 3 more so the government will take care of you nice way 2 treat your children

[@lorimars0]

they are only doing what the law allows...don't like this? change how you vote to get the laws changed. mistakes happen, but welfare and grifting should not be allowed to be a way of life. if they cannot take care of their kid(s), take the kid(s) away from that environment and make the bad parent work to support them until they can care for the kid on their own. stop further unwanted pregnancies by putting birth control in her arm if the mother is on public support. also, the fathers need to be found and held responsible for care. development of a male birth control has to be funded to help curtail this problem, too.

[@beautifulspirit4852]

That's how it is at the Sierra Vista apartments on Sierra Vista Dr. Units are bored up just like this. I know cause I left there.

[@BigVegasAlwaysWins]

I remember back in 2005 when I was forced to live at Sierra Vista square apartments

[@jasbak5701]

I lived there a long time ago too man and it was drug city but not like this. They got shit boarded up. Las Vegas is crazy now.

[@beautifulspirit4852]

@@jasbak5701 facts 💯, I'm from Detroit and Vegas starting to act and look like it's a struggling city.

[@jasbak5701]

@@beautifulspirit4852 true bruh

[@gasmith7486]

BOARDED Babe. 🙄

[@christopherbasham1551]

If the apartment is not being repaired you put your rent in escrow with a lawyer. You don't just not pay rent. These people are freeloaders.

[@victorcarrera4091]

"California": that should answer all your questions.

[@menarcanindians9370]

The only place you can live free is to own your own property but you will still have to pay the city property tax another fee attached to your housing

[@Lobonova]

So a house for couple hundred thousand plus is free?

[@Liimpy]

​​@@Lobonova in 2014 I purchased a ¼ acre lot for 5k , just an empty lot, I worked on it all summer cleaning it up and installing a fence around it, the taxes are 80$ year and I lived there in my RV for 2 years, saving every penny I made to purchase the home I live in now.. there are ways if you're willing to sacrifice, I still own that property today and have turned down offers as high as 30k to purchase it, my sister is currently living there in her rv saving to buy a home

[@lmcc0072]

So now that the repairs have been made in accordance to the city/county regulations, all the tenants have to do is to pay their rent with all of the money that they saved all of those months by not paying rent. They must have tens of thousands saved up. In many eviction cases where the tenant withholds rent payments due to repairs not being made, the judge will ask them “if the repairs are made, do you have the money to pay the rent?” Often times the answer is NO and the eviction proceeds….or at least they used to.

[@MH_6160]

And you know they didn't, probably wasted it on brand name shoes, eating out, buying 20" wheels for their hoopties. You know NOT a single one of those people has any financial smarts.

[@jonsmith976]

Pay your rent like everyone else or get the F out

[@d9918]

​@@maidenthe80slaIf it's so bad why don't they move? Because they are freeloaders and want free rent.

[@jonsmith976]

I wouldn’t even be involved with a slumlord in the first place. You guys obviously like it there you’re staying there and not paying rent. Why don’t you Just leave then🤔..must be liveable conditions huh!!😂🤮You guys are basically homeless encroaching on another persons property without paying

[@xrpuertorican4472]

I used to hang out there a lot in the late 70's and 80's. My best friend used to live there.

[@tonyhaynes9080]

So if the judge rules that they can’t be evicted, then they can live there forever without paying rent? Welcome to a fair and just system.

[@barryholiday8998]

Why do poor people have so many kids?

[@joevarga5982]

To get the welfare payments.

[@lilzachytwotimeabihh]

Sex is free

[@meganwynn372]

what kids? and poor people will save you someday.

[@barryholiday8998]

@@meganwynn372 typically, the more money a person has the less children they have. Why is that? And what does this have to do with someone saving me? That’s irrelevant.

[@litemup8187]

How is one supposed to make repairs while there's annoying tenants all up in the way?? Eviction then do repairs.. once done rent for market value and let them get first choice at refurbished units.. then we all see if they real or just want free rent

[@hermeskino711]

Don't even know the full story and still making assumptions 🤡

[@d9918]

Oh they just want free rent, no matter how good you made the place they would find a way not to pay. It's a cultural thing.

[@bryanspilner7370]

HOW MUCH RENT

[@T33KAY30]

I just saw Travis Smith at the club inferno! Got club money but no rent money? 🤣🤣 priorities messed up!

[@Estellbel1968]

Stop whining pay rent and you won’t get evicted I don’t know why people thinks they can live for free and then say they won’t pay rent cause the conditions if you don’t pay rent how do they expect them to make repairs.

[@felipenunez2058]

In california you can withhold rent if you have a slumlord. My ant was withholding rent from her landlord becuase he wasn't fixing anything even the bathtub was caving in. The landlord took her to court and my ant told the judgs ill pay every single cent I owe if this man fixes everything I ask him to fix and the judge cited with my ant. My ant paid all the back rent in a single check when he fixed all the complaints.

[@oliviabarfield4948]

This! But the thing is it seems these people have spent that money instead of saving it until repairs were made OR saving it to move. But they can’t afford anything higher than whatever they pay there so they stay there spend their rent money and are now crying about being evicted. You can’t live anywhere for free!

[@ThatGirlLib]

If they’re not paying rent, then they’re squatters? They should have a lot of money saved if they’re not paying rent. 👀

[@joeburch9220]

The hood of course

[@Ladytiqua90]

As soon as they said CALI it made so much sense...

[@gregfoster2222]

1:25 - classic Mike Wallace move. Well done, Vanessa!

[@UneducatedGeologist]

Hahaha True

[@pearlsswine]

Well done? Vanessa can't afford to live in even a decent apartment. Her life is utter failure lol. Well done lol. The things poors say.

[@joeburch9220]

Live off the government with 4 kids I guarantee you she can’t work get Taniff probably like 1,300 n food stamps is why don’t pay taxes

[@Teolulz]

leeching in every sense

[@gary9080]

Eviction!

[@MikeDavis-kb3vo]

Same old element

[@joeburch9220]

Who the fuck lives like that

[@Mlogan11]

If the choice is that or a tent in the street, most folks would choose this.

[@AngelAPAVLOVSCornDog]

Slumlords..it should be a criminal offense

[@megapromo3771]

Out apartment complex did a full upgrade/overhaul two years ago. They refuse to rent to anyone who looks like the folks in this video. At first I thought it was wrong, but honestly, there is no crime, no loud music, no drug dealing, and the residents look out for each other.

[@claytongross5657]

Just more garbage property in Las Vegas

[@jungsh00k11]

Need to shut the entire area down

[@shiner8375]

The elite reporter dressed in her expensive pretty dress shaming the Levi class business owner. But we get no facts!

[@Erica-vd1gb]

They wouldnt pay rent period!!

[@mandybradley3079]

They get free rent. Get a job and pay your bills. We all have to work. Get rid of HUD.

[@eliot3010]

The complex is in shambles because the owners have not received any rent money to make repairs? What's the problem? Call in the sheriff's department and "Sweep Out the Squatters"!

[@infallibleblue]

Greedy California slumlords collecting rent and not taking care of tenants. Terrible

[@marktony9783]

I agree with the land lord he fix the place and still yall ain't paying rent stimulus checks got every one lazy

[@702tapatio4]

I drive by there all the time. It’s looked abandoned for a while.

[@meganwynn372]

That is illegal to not replace their windows! You know how much they paid in electricity for that? The windows have been broken a LONG TIME.

[@robbkardas3641]

Was living in Vegas in the last 70's and that was great area to live, right next to Boulevard Mall and Miller's Out post.

[@DonutsForever24]

I went homeless too , so i ended up moving to Taiwan . Vegas too expensive .

[@KevinWynn-iu9rk]

I live there now. I love it!

[@rbsmith3365]

Everything is getting expensive in Vegas.

[@RodneyMunch117]

0:08 was that a smoke detector beep?!?

[@thesailingtourists]

sounds like it

[@Haraia1999]

I never do leases. Month to month. Best way too go.

[@honeybeecrochet]

The apartment is getting the money and not doing repairs 😞

[@brushcrawler8612]

Build Back Better 🔥

[@TarumpSadiki]

Send them to slab city. They’ll fit in perfectly fine with the other “pioneer” bums

[@menarcanindians9370]

The bad thing about this for the tenants there the judge and anyone is going to ask the big question if you've been staying there for months without paying rent because the owners was at fault what did all that money go to y'all should have that money saved up already and have moved out but if you didn't moved out then you're okay with the conditions of that place but of course you're going to use someone else's downfall to justify why you need to stay there the judge is not going to Grant y'all anything because he's going to realize how long y'all been there without paying rent and first thing is going to come to mind these people have enough money to save and get out of there if they was really in a bad situation free room and board does not get a stay

[@lauriegriffin1835]

Pay rent or leave...problem solved

[@SteveKasian]

2:31 - ...as a freak squatter enters the frame and the apartment right behind her. lol What a mess.

[@QueenAnaya-x7b]

Probably got mold

[@Mlogan11]

Company took in over $300K in Pandemic subsidy funds, did very little if anything, and only got a $45K fine. You can thank poorly regulated capitalism for this- what a racket.

[@Diesel437]

Famously the program was called PAYROLL PROTECTION PROGRAM. so if you had to guess, where do you think the company spent the money? Probably on payroll to keep their employees employed. It was never a program to remodel a apartment building lol

[@Mlogan11]

@@Diesel437 You must be confusing the video with another one, or you didn't watch or understand it. This has NOTHING to do with remodeling, but with bring up the apartments to compliance with code satisfying Nevada law. Rent can be withheld when apartments are below code minimums- so these folks remained getting paid for doing NOTHING.

[@Diesel437]

@@Mlogan11 first off, you’re not very bright. Secondly, you said they took in over $300k in pandemic subsidy. That subsidy government program during the pandemic was called the payroll protection program meant to help companies keep employeees employed and not for use in remodeling or bring up to code compliance for any building. So as long as they used the subsidy money to pay employees payroll so they didn’t have to fire them, they absolutely used the money for its intended purposes. Instead the bums that have been living there rent free should take their supposed saved up rent money and money somewhere up to code. Or do you think they don’t want to pay rent anywhere?? I think the latter.

[@Mlogan11]

@@Diesel437 Learn to read and understand. They were NOT entitled to funds for NOT doing their job. Their JOB is to maintain the apartments to the right code, not operate like slum lords with substandard apartments. They were NOT entitled to any government aid to make repairs because they are RESPONSIBLE for it by Nevada law. So you are okay with slumlords still getting paid for neglecting their property? Figures. If you took the time to actually try to think, you'd see that they are still required to make the repairs and the fine given was for NOT making the repairs but still taking the money- but this must be too complicated for you to understand.

[@Here4theComments9]

Poor people doing poor people things

[@Scorpionbite8]

While we keep giving foreign nations billions of dollars. Disgrace.

[@BernardLimpet-qd8bk]

... they haven't been paying rent !

[@AndyonBlast]

Well the evictions will take months

[@FourHuskyHomestead]

The owners need to be in jail. They were given money to fix the apartment and they didn’t, the renters are due a check for living in deplorable conditions. And I don’t blame them for staying and not paying rent. They need to save up to fund another place to rent that is managed properly. Clearly the apartment owners are not providing what is required for the residents. What they have done by misappropriating those funds they were given and trying to force the tenants to pay for things that are not their responsibility is coming back to haunt them. No one will rent from them now. They got a bad reputation and they brought it in themselves.

[@MH_6160]

😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴

[@Erica-vd1gb]

The owners are thugs anyways probably need go homeless themselves drug dealers

[@Diesel437]

Does it hurt to be this dumb?

[@shiner8375]

Oh boy these elite women in there pretty dresses. After this they will be working on getting the best reservations at dining and events. Look how pretty they are! Pfffft. We need reporters!!!!!

[@jushere4thacomments671]

This is Sin City. The proof shows in the endless news reports and when you see it for yourself in real life. This city is so filled with greed and dishonesty that there's video proof of a business not complying with what they promised to abide by, that same legal system said hey Nevermind all the violations of the law give us $45k and all will be dismissed. That company that violated the law had families to answer to. Now the same company that didn't abide by laws is surprised when their tenants dont abide by laws. Sin City at its finest. This is crazy and watch other humans will justify this. Good luck everybody

[@youngkwak9931]

These people are not paying their rent and still feel entitled. Screw the tenants those people are ultimate victims

[@alwillk]

They are entitled to a residence that functions properly. Running water, garbage collection, etc.

[@youngkwak9931]

@@alwillk entitled to not pay????? Bro they could live in a mansion and still not.pay its not the conditions its squatting

[@Berkanae]

These people are not maintaining their property & still feel entitled. Screw the landlords those tenants are the ultimate victims.

[@hermeskino711]

Lol I see a slimy defensive landlord in you😂

[@youngkwak9931]

@@hermeskino711 i own nothing, in fact i grew up in the ghetto i have first hand experience with this behavior. People in these areas are like human coca roaches. All they want is free free free. There is no motivation or discipline in these people. They will never pay just collect ebt

[@go6944]

Condemn the building and get everyone out unsafe living conditions.

[@d9918]

Nope they just want to stay without paying rent.

[@kimberlychase9033]

Michigan

[@MG-jj3pn]

They are squatters! Of course they are fighting to live rent free

[@darrylnelson05]

No lady, you were reporting in Clark County. The property is in the County not the City of Las Vegas.

[@jtpalooki7757]

Solution.. eminent domain, city converts to affordable housing after making updates! Don’t do these greedy landlords any favors by evicting tenants so they can sell!

[@Suzanne-f4x]

Have you ever read the U.S. Constitution?

[@AlfonsoFlores-pu9uj]

I wonder when the American economy stops spending money in Las Vegas and everyone loses their jobs because the economy is so bad that nobody will have time to visit Las Vegas because bills come first rather than to visit Las Vegas and give away money they can't afford to spend away, what is Las Vegas going to do about out rages unemployment at 16.0 ?

[@whoisjohngalt7655]

Keep voting for democrats it's working for you so smart 😢😢😢

[@generator6946]

Soon all poor people and workers WILL be homeless and it be “their fault”! We could solve this and more if conservatives all worked for minimum wage! Come on republicans!! Step up and help us. For god and country!!

[@armandocastillo5364]

They kept that money

[@Diesel437]

You do realize the program was called the payroll protection program and not the remodel your apartment building program.