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Bad landlords and exceptionally bad landlords of Connecticut low income housing

For a long period of time, over a 3 year span, my younger sister was having a lot of trouble with a bad landlord. The police and the housing authorities wouldn’t do anything about it. This particular bad landlord was using eviction as a threat so she would sign documents, court documents, saying he was a real good landlord, because he was being sued over something serious. He tried to use the documents later on in court to get himself out of trouble. He was later convicted of stealing from elderly and disabled peoples apartments that had died, and drilling holes in tenants walls to take photographs of elderly tenants nieces and young relatives. It was a 12 story building and huge, full of real poor disabled and elderly, completely defenseless people, so I guess it was like a “winter wonderland” for whatever he felt like doing. This is what the city newspaper said. Now everyone is suing the public housing authorities and even the cops because they did nothing about it for years despite multiple written complaints, which are now being published in magazines. Then the courts tried to put my sister in jail for false testimony and false documentation (the documents the bad landlord forced her to sign under threat of eviction that said he was a good landlord that the landlord tried to use in court because he was being sued in another case).

Either usapublicrecord.com or an employee of usapublicrecord.com is somehow connected to Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta who eventually threatened the police with national television coverage. They actually threatened them in writing then threatened them in person. The police finally did come and arrest the landlord who was also a property manager for low income housing. It was in the city newspaper as well.

The building is in Connecticut. There are also new complaints made about retaliation carried out by this bad landlord against tenants who he believed filed complaints against him over a six year span.

And they are elderly and disabled tenants. Connecticut is a very wealthy state but the population and state are very small. The bad landlord here was employed by a wealthy land owner and property management company that got away with numerous illegal things and still does. Connecticut has been in world wide television and media news lately because the Governor, Governor Roland (and many of his co-workers and his friends) got sent to prison (2002-2006) for doing illegal things. There are articles in the New York Times Database online and the Bridgeport
Post and USA Today.

If the bad landlord situation you are in requires more information on a bad landlord, like if you are thinking of going to the authorities you can go to usapublicrecord.com and currently there is no charge for the general public, especially if you are having bad landlord problems. They will give you information that is documented and from public records, which can be very helpful when dealing with the authorities. And they send other info to help you end whatever nightmare you are facing regarding bad landlords. It did take close to 11 weeks for them to send word back to me but they did, and this is what started the ball rolling as far as the final outcome goes. When you go to usapublicrecord.com look carefully for the bad landlord page link at the top of the first page, the index page. There is a short form at the bottom of this bad landlord page. As mentioned the service is currently free for the general public ( a bad landlord database search ).

Beth Evanston

Visiting Nurse, Bridgeport Connecticut