tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23202953150478574692024-03-14T01:30:17.665-07:00Federal Housing Corruption in Ogden, UtahThis Blog documents the Ogden Housing Authority's habit of selectively enforcing HUD rules and policy to best suit their needs and agendas. It also documents that the Ogden Housing Authority went well out of its way to ensure that I could not comply with their requirements in the time that they alotted, so they could terminate my housing assistance contract with HUDThe Peery Apartmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12127920237349829165noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320295315047857469.post-39565881379045445342015-03-03T11:42:00.000-08:002015-04-09T19:42:57.036-07:00So.... You Don't Think the OHA is Corrupt?<div style="text-align: center;">
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In their mad rush to terminate my Housing Assistance Contract with HUD and get my building off their books and me off their backs once and for all, the Ogden Housing Authority overlooked some very important factors... <b><u>MY TENANTS. </u></b></div>
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Not to suggest that my tenants are especially important to anyone at the Ogden Housing Authority, but they are important to me, and seeing them get mistreated and taken advantage of, by the people at the Ogden Housing Authority, was particularly disturbing to me.</div>
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On January 8, 2015, the Ogden Housing Authority held a meeting with my tenants, during which they were pressured into leaving the assistance program they were currently on, in exchange for receiving Housing Vouchers. In fact, they were told that if they did not accept the voucher, they <a href="http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-DKpAdk97uDg/VQHy986APcI/AAAAAAAAWQ0/9MnJ_py3CJ8/s1024-no/IMG_3510.PNG" target="_blank">would be dropped from the program and lose their housing assistance</a>. Put that way, it's a hard offer to refuse.</div>
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My tenant's were participants in the <a href="http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/modrehab" target="_blank"><b>HUD-Moderate Rehabilitation Program</b></a>, which offers very-low to no-income families the ability to obtain housing, by requiring minimal security deposits <i>(as low as $50)</i> and reduced tenant paid rents <i>(also as low as $50/mo).</i> The Program also covers the cost of the tenant's utilities, which, under the contract, are paid for by the landlord and included in the tenant's lease. <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Housing Vouchers that my tenants were offered, do not provide for any of these</span></b>.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">To address these issues, the Ogden Housing Authority came up with some fairly inappropriate workarounds for my tenants</span></b></div>
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<i>Note who my tenants turn to for advice when they are confused.</i><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Security Deposits:</u></span></i></b><br />
Because my income restricted tenants would now be required to pay the full security deposit at their new housing, they asked the Ogden Housing Authority how they were expected to come up with that money.<br />
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In response, Ogden Housing generously offered to pay their security deposits to get them into other housing... <i><b><a href="http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-kZZZ8Rp27ds/VQHzLhqFvSI/AAAAAAAAWRM/rfQtCNPHBSI/s1024-no/IMG_3514.PNG" target="_blank">with another Housing Authority's money</a>.</b> </i> A nice enough offer, until they told the tenant's that it would only be a loan which they would have to pay back in installments. The Ogden Housing Authority also told the tenants that they had a little money to help with their deposits, but they were so ill prepared to address this issue, that they didn't even know how much money they had for it.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY THEIR OWN AGENCY HAS?</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">I don't work for the Ogden Housing Authority and I have no idea what their books look like, but considering that almost none of my tenants had found other housing on the day my contract was terminated and had to remain in their units for another month or more, I can say with some reasonable certainty, that the Ogden Housing Authority had somewhere in the neighborhood of $9,000 to work with, on top of any other money they had, since they stuck me with the cost of the tenant's rent and utilities for the month of February.</span><br />
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<b><i><u><span style="font-size: large;">Utilities:</span></u></i></b><br />
When my tenant's asked how they were supposed to pay for their utilities each month, the Ogden Housing Authority advised them that there were programs to help low income families with the cost of their utilities... <span style="color: #990000;"><i> but they couldn't guarantee them that assistance.</i></span><br />
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When my tenants asked them how much time they had to move, the Ogden Housing Authority <a href="http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-OBQ33nq4koQ/VQHzLCRQmNI/AAAAAAAAWRE/6UrjW4TOnVg/s1024-no/IMG_3513.PNG" target="_blank">led them to believe they had 60-days</a>, when they actually had only 23. What they meant to say, was that the vouchers were good for 60-days, but they still had to move out of my building by January 31. When <a href="http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-49hDx0VMq9k/VPFp9ehhyvI/AAAAAAAAV6U/A75Vxwb5pbM/s1024-no/IMG_2995.PNG" target="_blank">I notified Ogden Housing </a>that my tenants had gotten the wrong impression from them, they never even bothered to contact the tenant's and clarify themselves.<br />
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<b><i><u><span style="font-size: large;">Obtaining a Lease:</span></u></i></b><br />
The Ogden Housing Authority never considered the possibility that these low-income families might not have sufficient credit, or have bad credit issues that would <a href="http://youtu.be/OeGHL_fszH8" target="_blank">prevent them from qualifying for a lease</a> at a non-subsidized property. The Ogden Housing Authority just told them to go out and find other housing and then turned their backs on them.<br />
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<i><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Tenants Abandoned by OHA:</span></u></b></i><br />
On January 31, when the assistance contract ended, more than half of the families had not yet found other housing and had no place to go. The Ogden Housing Authority just abandoned them on my doorstep and expected me to either pay for their rent and utilities, or evict them for not being able to pay the full rent amount... <i><span style="color: #990000;">Evict them for being victims of the OHA's corruption? ... I'm not sure that would actually fly in court.</span></i><br />
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<i><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">OHA Corruption:</span></u></b></i><br />
My tenants did not do anything wrong, and yet they are being punished. <a href="http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-feXQgKlxgT8/VQHy-V0aXDI/AAAAAAAAWQ8/-Dxq93IdBOU/s1024-no/IMG_3511.PNG" target="_blank">They had a contract with Ogden Housin</a>g to provide them with benefits that they are now being denied. They were forced to move out of the homes they loved and take on additional expenses that they did not ask for and can not afford, for no other reason than to terminate my asistance contract with HUD.<br />
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The Ogden Housing Authority doesn't like the fact that in the past, I have filed complaints against them with HUD when I discovered that they had made serious departures from HUD rules, which ultimately cost me a lot of money.</div>
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They also don't like the fact that I publish documentation of their indiscretions and misconduct on sites like this blog and on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kier-Corps-Crap/193852936559?" target="_blank"><b>Facebook</b></a> for everyone else to see. In fact, the Ogden Housing Authority told several of my tenants that <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVuiEtxrAewxYi9Srzd9UVReC9B0SU54axeJqzJPEuK2bngpXHLYV8yMPAZATJcwUbVQDfU_eRSSYSdxozbOKkNau7kNvBp8deewx45nGzfZhmJGrnhMmRw6d_8MLP4N-0dwRx2JKT7yg/s1024-no/IMG_3526.PNG" target="_blank">the reason they were terminating</a> my assistance contract with HUD, was because the were, '<i><span style="color: #990000;">sick of the things I had posted about them online</span>.</i>' <br />
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The Ogden Housing Authority has serious abuse of power issues. In fact, over the last 5-years, we have not had a single tenant move into the buildng who hasn't made the exact comment:<br />
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The woman they are referring to, is "Housing Specialist" Robeka Sessions. When people who have never met, make the same comment about a particular person, there's usually a good reason for it.<br />
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My own experiences with Robeka have not been dissimilar. Like my tenants, I also find her to be a rude, arrogant and angry woman, who would likely have trouble doing anything in life, without getting the directions from the HUD Manual first. I also find Robeka to be the most consistent part of the <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/116470828298604478290/OHAManipulationOfHUDRules?authkey=Gv1sRgCKmNmIiLkNCvpAE" target="_blank">Ogden Housing Authority's inconsistency</a>, inasmuch as she frequently provides wrong information, or information that contradicts information she had previously given me, and what she doesn't know, she either makes up or lies about, <i>(<a href="http://oha-corruption.blogspot.com/2015/02/oha-lied-about-damage-claims.html" target="_blank">i.e. Telling me for 2-yeas that there was no provision for filing a claim for excessive unit damages</a>) </i><br />
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Early on, the Ogden Housing Authority <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5hBG6xMMJPKZR84mHrM_auKVEhyLj9ih6v07i1BjqoNfHUIB_uyE181A7j8KcvQFpyHQarSfGBm1Tn-6kcvWhtF7zdyTqCJnxBSmrDJSQx2LsMJVmWoxo1K6lIGeHosrZ2ABNamBK2eY/s1024-no/IMG_3523.PNG" target="_blank">threatened to terminate my contract </a>with HUD, because I was using the same lease that my previous management company had been using for 4-years, which had been disapproved by the OHA. When I contacted HUD's Denver Field Office on the matter, they told me that they have a serious abuse of power problem, with many housing authorities across the country. In fact, HUD told me that the problem is so wide spread that they can't do anything to stop it.<br />
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The Ogden Housing Authority routinely disregards, manipulates, or selectively enforces HUD rules and policy to fit their own needs and agenda, particularly in their dealings with Kier Management, who clearly operates under a completely different set of rules, than what other property owners and managers are required to operate under, with the knowledge <i>(and apparent approval) </i>of the Ogden Housing Authority.<br />
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To say that the Ogden Housing Authority is corrupt across the board, would be unfair, because I don't know that they are. I only have knowledge, documentation and evidence of their corruption and misconduct, as it relates to myself, my property, and Kier's mismanagement of it, but generally, where there's smoke, there's fire, and in the case of the Ogden Housing Authority's termination of my contract with HUD, there's a lot of smoke. <br />
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For at least 5-years (and as many as 9-years), the Ogden Housing Authority has permitted tenants to live in my building, under the exact same conditions that they terminated my assistance contract over. The damage is no worse today, than it was 5-years ago when I took the building over from Kier Management, who, through their neglect and failure to maintain the property as contracted, caused the damage to occur... <i><span style="color: #990000;">but who would cite a buddy for their deficiencies? </span></i><br />
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The pictures below were taken on December 1, 2009 and show the dry rot damage that the Ogden Housing Authority terminated my contract with HUD over. The damage occurred sometime between 2005 and 2009 while the building was in the care of Kier Management. During that time, OHA/HUD Inspectors were at the property at least <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimlRdtSUBUWMnPy9fB-F0gOzfclAnqNMpUBJJos6emTo3UArI9EIioxvSD4SSot9qM-V036v4knIgFuKs7xjJ-k_Il-6NP9tB0mYQvnMofwLfBAhQUNa41gXeZ-utLsKhPpfax25z7sGg/s1024-no/IMG_3489.PNG" target="_blank">29 times that can be confirmed</a>, so there is absolutely no question that Ogden Housing Authority was aware of the damage.... <i><span style="color: #990000;">because they sat quietly by and watched it happen and did nothing to address the issue with Kier Management .</span></i><br />
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The damage is no worse today than it was in 2009, which at that time, was already well outside of HUD's <u><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUD2J9QoPAiVoY1dwJzYffpOH9UqB_g08AShYcbwirbVQi6yRteco-i2Ii-OpiSxjkXQYXjqYRCRUoQ-jBFtOmNFRgcNak4d9PsbT6crfjfGb0cOB8tygNRRzS_Ia-8cbfz7QmwkLpllE/s1024-no/IMG_7903.PNG" target="_blank">de-minimis</a></u> or 'trivial' level guidelines. For the 5-years between 2009 and 2014, the Ogden Housing Authority had no problem allowing tenants to live in the building, or with paying their rent, yet in 2014, making the repairs became such a dire matter for the Ogden Housing Authority, that after 5-8years without so much as a mention, they were suddenly compelled to stop paying the rents and then terminate my assistance contract for not being able to afford the repairs, rather than allowing me a few extra months to make them? <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>THE OHA DID NOT WANT THE REPAIRS TO BE MADE</i></b> </span></div>
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When the Ogden Housing Authority saw an opportunity to terminate my contract with HUD, they jumped on it like a pack of rabid dogs, first requiring me to make costly repairs that were impossible to make at that time of year, then doing everything in their power to cut off my only source of income, and prevent any future income from coming in, while causing me needless additional expenses, knowing that without income, there would be no possible way for me to make the repairs.<br />
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The Ogden Housing Authority was acutely aware of the high cost of making these particular repairs. In fact, they even <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJEHYp-DhmIc5wrPnT4kC9THEqAYzfDVXvYN8Ete6p_dNnCGRSXpIs8IJOeDAjw4p7sHSrFEbylOq2IBQhIUzH_y3ekk0YwJC-0HbGb8Zj6uoaRiXz2qrAtppdRP96trfg3pfwBWbkCJg/s1024-no/IMG_3487.PNG" target="_blank">shared their knowledge of it with my tenants at a January 8, 2015 meeting</a>, going as far as inferring that I didn't want to make the repairs, because of the cost.<br />
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<b>For 5-months</b>, the Ogden Housing Authority prevented me from re-renting my vacant units;<br />
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<b>For 8-months</b>, they stopped paying the rent on 4-other units, but required me to let the tenants remain living in those units and continue to pay for their utilities and absorb the loss in rent.<br />
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They also required me to have the building inspected, by an inspector that they obtained for me, which was both expensive and unnecessary. In fact, the Ogden Housing Authority kept so busy with their plan to terminate my contract, the thought of what to do with my tenants after the fact, apparently never crossed their minds.<br />
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For the Ogden Housing Authority to infer that I didn't make the repairs, because I didn't want to spend the money, is not only offensive, it is also untrue. The reason the repairs were not made, is because the Ogden Housing Authority knowingly cut off my only source of income, so I couldn't make them.... <b>so they could terminate my contract.</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">DESPERATION</span></b></div>
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The Ogden Housing Authority was so desperate to terminate my contract, they forced my tenants off of the program they were on, and onto a program they don't have enough funding for. Brilliant! The Tweet below was sent out by HUD's Denver field office on April 9, 2015. I wonder how long it will take for HUD to revoke the housing vouchers they gave my tenants, leaving them high and dry?<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your Tax Dollars Hard At Work</span></div>
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The Peery Apartmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12127920237349829165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320295315047857469.post-13898711468901214492015-03-01T14:40:00.000-08:002015-04-09T19:56:34.651-07:00In Their Own Words:The OHA Lies Their Way Through A Reporter's Questions<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On January 18, 2015, the Standard Examiner published an article about the Ogden Housing Authority's termination of my housing assistance contract with HUD and the displacement of my tenants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVuiEtxrAewxYi9Srzd9UVReC9B0SU54axeJqzJPEuK2bngpXHLYV8yMPAZATJcwUbVQDfU_eRSSYSdxozbOKkNau7kNvBp8deewx45nGzfZhmJGrnhMmRw6d_8MLP4N-0dwRx2JKT7yg/s1024-no/IMG_3526.PNG" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">the real reason <i>(<span style="color: #cc0000;">which they disclosed to a number of my tenants</span>)</i></a>,<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is because, "they were sick of the documentation I was posting about them, on this Blog"... and other online sites, showing that the Ogden Housing Authority has a history of making significant departures from HUD-Program Rules and Requirements in their dealings with Kier Property Management, which ultimately cost me a lot of money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obviously, It would be problematic for the Ogden Housing Authority to admit to terminating my contract over documentation I had published online, that could get them into trouble with HUD, so they labeled the reason as, <i style="font-weight: bold;"><u>failure to correct deficiencies</u>, </i>but when the facts are weighed against the contradictory statements they made on the subject, it's clear that the Ogden Housing Authority never wanted those corrections to be made, and they did everything they could to make sure that they weren't.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>BELOW ARE STATEMENTS THAT THE OGDEN HOUSING AUTHORITY MADE </i></b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #990000;">AND THE FACTS BEHIND THOSE STATEMENTS</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">When asked by the reporter, why they were terminating my contract, the Ogden Housing Authority declined to answer, beyond stating that it was for "<b>good reasons</b>". <u>IF</u> that were the case, why not publicly state what that reason is and remove all doubt? ... </span><i style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Unless there was some other reason that you couldn't make public.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's hard to know what the Ogden Housing Authority actually considers to be a "good reason", but for them to uproot 11-families in the middle of winter and force them to move out of the homes they love, they must have thought they had some pretty good ones....but when asked repeatedly, <a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-teUAYFI6cMo/VQHzMUCsxMI/AAAAAAAAWRQ/gmGFC4KeSis/s1024-no/IMG_3516.PNG" target="_blank">they wouldn't even tell the tenants what the reason was</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Ogden Housing Authority's "official" reasoning behind my contract termination, is because I failed to correct some paint related deficiencies along the roofline of the building's exterior, in the time that they had allotted me to correct them.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The concern was that the paint </i><i>could potentially contain lead</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1910, when my building was constructed, <u><b>all house paint contained lead</b></u>. In fact, prior to it being banned in 1978, every building in the country was painted with paint that contained lead. In Ogden's Historic District, where my building is located, finding a structure that does not contain some degree of lead based paint, would be very unlikely. Going by HUD guidelines, that would make Ogden's Historic District a veritable <b>hot bed of lead </b>and widely unlivable by HUD Standards, yet HUD has made no such declaration about Ogden, <i>or about any other city in America.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HUD's position on lead based paint is that, as it deteriorates and loses adhesion to the surface it was applied to, it leaves behind a layer of dust that contains lead. In higher concentrations, lead exposure can put some people at risk for a variety of health problems, particularly pregnant women and children under 6-years of age. That is not to say that it <b><i>WILL</i> </b>cause health problems, just that it could. In the case of deteriorating lead based paint, the higher the degree of deterioration, the higher the potential for lead exposure is. </span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To put things into perspective, my building measures just over 17,000 square feet. </span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The areas of deteriorating paint measures around 50 square feet. </span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That comes out to 0.294 % or less than 1/3 of 1 %</span></b></i></div>
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If 1/3 of 1% of deteriorated paint poses such a dire health threat, then why hasn't the U. S. Government declared that every city in America, established before 1978 is a toxic lead hazard that is unfit for people to live in? Most homes in America built before 1960 contain heavily leaded paint. <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead-based_paint_in_the_United_States" target="_blank">According to a 2011 study</a>, 87% of homes built before 1940 contain lead paint and there is a 69% chance that if you live in a home that was built between 1940 and 1960, it contains lead paint. Those statistics account for more than 90% of the homes in Ogden's Historic District, but people still live in those homes.</div>
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Further limiting their ability to use the term, "<b>health threat</b>" as a viable 'good reason', is the fact that in May 2014, the Ogden Housing Authority stopped paying the rent and utilities on all of my units that had pregnant women or children under six living in them, which are the people in the highest risk groups for lead. The Ogden Housing Authority did not move those families out of the building to protect their health. In fact, they expressly forbid me from asking them to move out and required them to continue paying their portion of the rent. If the health risk was so great, why would they allow families in the highest risk groups to continue living in the building?<br />
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The Peery Apartments is the best kept and cleanest of all the building's in Ogden on the same HUD program. We go well out of our way to ensure that there are no drugs or other crimes taking place on or around the property. We do not rent to felons and our standards are significantly higher than the city's Good Landlord Program requires them to be. We encourage our tenants to get jobs and we help them find jobs if they ask us. We offer our tenants amenities that none of the other buildings on the same HUD program offer, and we make sure that our tenants are in compliance with program rules and requirements at all times, in stark contrast to the way the building was previously managed and the way others are still managed today, which explains why we routinely have applicants tell us that they are afraid to live in any of the other Mod-Rehab buildings in Ogden, and why <a href="http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-OBQ33nq4koQ/VQHzLCRQmNI/AAAAAAAAWRI/-pY_BNXXQfQ/s1024-no/IMG_3513.PNG" target="_blank">our tenants feel safe there</a>. </div>
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It's hard to believe that HUD would terminate the assistance contract at one of the best managed and best kept properties in the city, over needing some extra time to do a little bit of paint repair. It would be easier to believe that the reason the Ogden Housing Authority terminated our assistance contract was because it was just too expensive and they were looking for a way out. It would be even easier to believe that they terminated my contract <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVuiEtxrAewxYi9Srzd9UVReC9B0SU54axeJqzJPEuK2bngpXHLYV8yMPAZATJcwUbVQDfU_eRSSYSdxozbOKkNau7kNvBp8deewx45nGzfZhmJGrnhMmRw6d_8MLP4N-0dwRx2JKT7yg/s1024-no/IMG_3526.PNG" target="_blank">because of the documentation I have posted online about them...</a> <span style="color: #cc0000;">w<i>hich is what they told my tenants. </i></span><br />
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The Ogden Housing Authority has been aware of the deteriorated paint issue at my building for years. In fact, they sat back and watched while the damage occurred, through the neglect of the building by my former management company. It's hard to imagine why the Ogden Housing Authority failed to cite the damage when it occurred, or why after 8-years, it suddenly became such a dire matter that they were compelled to terminate my contract rather than allow me the time I needed, to make the repairs when I was able to.<br />
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It's anyone's guess, what the Ogden Housing Authority defines as working with an owner, but in January 2014, immediately after my building failed the HQS Inspection, I contacted the Ogden Housing Authority, in writing, on two separate occasions, with serious questions, but they couldn't even bother to respond to me. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Not that I was surprised by it. The Ogden Housing Authority habitually fails to respond to serious inquiries</i>.</span><br />
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I finally had to have my manager corner the OHA inspector when she came out to the building and hand deliver my letter personally. Perhaps my standards are too high, but when an agency you do business with, repeatedly fails to respond and you have to hand deliver your correspondence just to ensure it was received, I don't consider that to be, "working with an owner"<br />
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In January 2014, after the paint deficiencies were cited, I began to investigate what would be required to make the repairs. I was advised by several painting contractors that in order to achieve proper adhesion to the substrate, the paint must only be applied when outdoor temperatures are consistently above 50 degrees, information that I also verified with a number of paint manufacturers.<br />
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Because January temperatures in Utah are consistently below 50 degrees, I asked Ogden Housing for more time to complete the repairs, and they granted me a 60-day extension, which still placed the date for completion at a time of year when temperatures are largely below 50.<br />
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At the same time, the Ogden Housing Authority stopped paying the rent and utilities on three of my units, until the repairs were completed and forbid me from asking those tenants to move out. The loss of income from those units was $2,500 per month.<br />
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I contacted Anita Short at HUD, who in turn, contacted the Ogden Housing Authority, who lied and <a href="https://archive.org/embed/AnitaShort&autoplay=1" target="_blank">told HUD that they were not abating any of my units</a>.<br />
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The Ogden Housing Authority also started preventing me from re-renting my vacant units and refused to send us new applicant referrals, causing three more units to stand vacant, at a loss of an additional $2,500 per month.<br />
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I contacted the Ogden Housing Authority and informed them that the money the building generated in rents each month, was my only source of income and that cutting my income off would make it impossible for me to make the repairs, but that didn't bother them in the least.<br />
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After several failed attempts at resolving the matter with Ogden Housing directly, I contacted HUD's Denver Field Office who quickly recognized that without income, I would not be able to make the corrections. HUD offered to contact Ogden Housing to help get the issue resolved, and get back to me.<br />
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Initially, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiee6UtL5lRvfRfVv_YFeqDipfGI52jJsC0Air5G7eMXCx2kJzP2qsjRkjl4ZkV53DkgG1gPlXhGmIG8biTJFOmfPFS_15ECtDxuMBOHTi_L1qkrG2jIGEqQwz9l6pSKfIS6nRyt11LVvY/s1024-no/IMG_3565.PNG" target="_blank">the Ogden Housing Authority lied</a> and told HUD that they were not preventing me from renting my vacancies, but after providing HUD with copies of emails from the OHA showing that they were lying, HUD addressed the matter with them.<br />
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Weeks passed while I waited to hear back from HUD and after making a follow-up call, I received an email from Ogden Housing telling me that they had addressed my concerns with HUD, but forgot to let me know what the outcome was. <i>(<span style="color: #cc0000;">right</span>) </i><br />
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HUD asked the Ogden Housing Authority to stop preventing me from re-renting my vacant units and to start sending us referrals again, for families that did not have pregnant women or children under 6 years of age in the household, so I could start generating some income again and make the repairs.<br />
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By the time the Ogden Housing Authority began sending us referrals again, 5-months had passed and I had lost over $25,000 in rents.<br />
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Ogden Housing was undoubtedly annoyed with the fact that I had gone over their heads to HUD. and immediately after that resolution was reached and Ogden Housing could no longer prevent me from renting my vacant units, I received a City Code Enforcement violation in the mail, that included a hefty, weekly fine, until the damage was repaired. The Citation was issued in response to a complaint they had received. Not surprisingly, the complaint was about the same damage that the Ogden Housing Authority had stopped paying the rent over. <i><span style="color: #990000;">It wasn't very difficult to figure out who filed that complaint.</span></i><br />
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The Ogden Housing Authority then required me to have a Lead Based Paint-Risk Assessment done, by a State certified inspector, to determine if lead based paint was present. The inspection was costly and served no other purpose than to cause me additional expense, since the Ogden Housing Authority had already <a href="http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ws28iBM3jPM/VPeh6rpAqoI/AAAAAAAAWGo/IQ_Ne8UZJTY/s1024-no/IMG_3159.PNG" target="_blank">made a determination weeks earlier, that the building had lead paint.</a><br />
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For the assessment, I was required to use a State certified firm, that specializes in lead based paint, selected from a list that is maintained by the Utah EPA, but I quickly found that most of the firms on the list had <a href="https://ia601402.us.archive.org/28/items/UtahDivAirQual_20140902/SLC-HA_9:2:14,%2011.42%20AM.mp3" target="_blank">no idea what a lead based paint risk assessment was, or why their firm appeared on the EPA's list.</a><br />
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Because I was having difficulty finding an inspector, and the time I was allotted to have the inspection completed was nearing an end, the Ogden Housing Authority suggested that I let them help me find an inspector, and they quickly secured one for me.<br />
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The findings of the inspection were questionable at best, with the inspector stating that most often, when a positive result was obtained, he would re-test the same area just a few inches away and obtain a negative reading. When I questioned the inspector's qualifications and the accuracy of the testing materials, the inspector quickly sent a revised report to me... then another... and another. <br />
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In total, I received 3-revised inspection reports, each one different from the last. The most suspect of his findings, were the positive readings the inspector obtained from the back stairwell railings.<br />
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Lead based paint was banned in this country in 1978, but after providing the inspector with a photograph of the back of the building, that was taken during the 1987 rehabilitation of the property, showing the back stair railings in their natural wood state, he became defensive and had no explanation for the clearly erroneous readings he obtained... <i>I've got a few theories</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Ogden Housing Authority secured an inspector for me, who couldn't obtain consistent test results, from a State certified lead based paint firm that doesn't do lead based paint related work?</span> </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Ogden Housing Authority routinely fails to respond to owner contact and has to have correspondence hand delivered to them to ensure they have received it. </span> </i></b></span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">If that's what the Ogden Housing Authority calls 'working closely with an owner'</span></b></i></div>
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The Ogden Housing Authority tries to paint a picture of themselves as being a kind, compassionate and caring agency, whose sole purpose on earth is to watch over and protect their clients, while helping owners in need of assistance, overcome any obstacles that come their way, so they can all march off together, hand in hand, into the sunset.... <b><i>WHAT A CROCK OF...$#!%!!!</i></b></div>
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It would be unfair of me to say that the Ogden Housing Authority was being less than truthful in their statement on extending the time necessary to make repairs in extenuating circumstances, but only because that would be a monumental understatement.</div>
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Initially, I asked Ogden Housing to <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIOfBOYejWrO5lTs0ui_lBjqQjfwn_SqubsCTusUUXNlLu6kgBrYtumNovHS8-UkvZS44z1tonXcviVmDp-4SPgL0Rf7ZqrL1e8GHYGHO1QmSIW7LCXSmvdQnC0NLcAUN1gGsUkCiCwD0/s1024-no/IMG_3571.PNG" target="_blank">allow me until the end of summer</a> to complete the repairs, because some unexpected expenses had left me without the funds needed to make them at that time. Although I had previously advised them that the painting couldn't even be started until outdoor temperatures were consistently above 50 degrees, the Ogden Housing Authority denied my request and gave me until April 16, to make the repairs, when temperatures were still largely below 50.<br />
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The damage to the paint occured under the former management company's watch, sometime between 2005 and 2009. The damage is no worse today, than it was in 2009 when I took over the management, which says that for at least the last 5-years, the Ogden Housing Authority had no problem with allowing tenants to live in the building, yet suddenly repairing the damage became so dire, that they felt compelled to terminate my contract and displace tenants who have been living in the building for as long as 30 years, rather than allow me a few more months to make the repairs when I was financially able to?<br />
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Because my finances at the time prevented me from being able to make the repairs and The Ogden Housing Authority would not compromise on time, they asked HUD for some guidance. HUD referred me to some programs, designed to help property owners with the cost of repairs, through low interest loans and grants, but after spending several weeks gathering the required documentation and submitting the applications, I found out that one program only offers tax credits instead of real time financing, and the other program was closed.<br />
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By then, it was too late...the damage was done. Seven months of the Ogden Housing Authority preventing me from renting my vacant units combined with them not paying the rent on several others, made it impossible for me to recover financially and make the repairs in time... <i>which, if you've read this far, was apparently their goal.</i></div>
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I question what the Ogden Housing Authority considers to be a show of good intentions. I routinely kept them updated on my progress, when there were updates to give. I complied with their directive to have a risk assessment inspection and allowed them to secure the inspector for it, yet the fact that we had corrected the other deficiencies cited, well before the deadline, totally escaped their notice. Why? Because you can't terminate a contract for <u>making</u> repairs, so completed corrections did not fit their agenda. </div>
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In the article, the Ogden Housing Authority tried to sound heroic, by coming to the rescue with "Protection Vouchers" for my tenants, but that's only half of the story. What they didn't say, was that the Protection Voucher doesn't really protect the tenants at all. Instead what the voucher does, is require my tenants to take on additional expenses that they cannot afford. It also forced them to leave the HUD-Program they were on, and give up benifits that they are entitled to under their contract with Ogden Housing.</div>
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My building, was on HUD's Moderate Rehabilitation Program, which gives low to no-income families the ability to obtain housing they can afford, by requiring them to pay minimal security deposits, offering rents based on 30% of their income, and covering the cost of their utilities in the rent. The Protection Vouchers my tenants received, require them to pay full security deposits and the cost of their own utilities. </div>
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My tenants are poor and on limited incomes. They didn't ask to take on these expenses, but they were not given a choice. When my tenants told the Ogden Housing Authority that they couldn't afford to move, Ogden Housing came to the rescue again and offered to pay their security deposits for them. Then they told the tenants that it would only be a loan, and they would have to pay the money back in installments. Add that to the cost of paying their moving expenses and the Ogden Housing Authority doesn't sound very heroic at all.</div>
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My tenants did not ask to lose their homes and be displaced. In fact, they told Ogden Housing that they wanted to stay right where they were. Ironically, when the Ogden Housing Authority sent them a list of apartment complexes to choose from and neglected to remove my building as one of the choices, they all picked my building as the place they wanted to live, but the Ogden Housing Authority wouldn't allow it.</div>
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The Ogden Housing Authority told my tenants to go out and find other housing. What they didn't do, is consider the fact that many of these income restricted people have no credit or bad credit, which would prevent them from qualifying for a lease at another property, or for utility accounts. They also never considered that it was the middle of winter and many of my tenants do not have cars to go out apartment hunting.</div>
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My tenants had a contract with the Ogden Housing Authority to participate in the Moderate Rehabilitation Program. They followed the rules and didn't do anything to be removed from the Program, and they are entitled to continue receiving the same benifits. The Ogden Housing Authority was also aware of this, so to address it, they held a meeting with my tenants and made it sound like they were the luckiest people on earth, who had just hit the jackpot, because they were getting Vouchers. Then one by one, they were all taken into separate rooms and pressured into agreeing to leave the Mod-Rehab Program and give up the benifits it offered, in exchange for receiving a Voucher that did not provide those same benefits.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Ogden Housing Authority never offered to help my tenants use their vouchers, or to help them with anything else for that matter. They couldn't even be bothered checking in with them to find out if they had made any progress, or if they were having any problems finding housing... and there were problems. Many had bad credit issues that prevented them from qualifying for a lease at another property, while others didn't have any credit at all and had the same problem. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the day my contract terminated and the Ogden Housing Authority stopped paying the</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> rent and utilities, there were still 5-families </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">living in the building who had not been able to find other housing and had no place to go. it was another month before everyone had found a place and moved out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got stuck covering over $9,000 in rents and utility bills in February, for the tenants who had not yet found a place to move to, and the Ogden Housing Authority couldn't have cared less. In fact, they planned it that way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They can try to justify it, or cover it up, any way they want, but the fact is, that the Ogden Housing Authority made it very clear to my tenants, that if they did not accept their offer of a housing voucher and leave the Mod-Rehab Program, </span><a href="http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-DKpAdk97uDg/VQHy986APcI/AAAAAAAAWQ4/tzaBAUatR2I/s1024-no/IMG_3510.PNG" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">they would be dropped from the housing assistance program</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> all together. </span></div>
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The Ogden Housing Authority purposely misled my tenants into believing that they had 60 days to move out of my building, when they really had just 23, hoping that once the contract terminated, I would be forced to evict any remaining tenants for non-payment of the rent. This attempt at turning the tenants against me, was obviously done intentionally and maliciously, because when I <a href="http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ndtl_BNO_bk/VO77Z5FHxlI/AAAAAAAAV0g/_TSFmLLs1A0/s1024-no/IMG_2870.JPG" target="_blank">brought it to the attention of the Ogden Housing Authority</a>, they couldn't even bother to contact the tenants and clarify themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On January 31, 2015, the day my contract was terminated by the Ogden Housing Authority, there were still 5-families living in my building, who had not yet found other housing to move to. Evidently. the Ogden Housing Authority expected me to just kick them to the curb... just like they did.</span><br />
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The Peery Apartmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12127920237349829165noreply@blogger.com2461 Adams Avenue, Ogden, UT 84401, USA41.221122 -111.9680419999999715.699087500000001 -153.27663599999997 66.7431565 -70.659447999999969tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320295315047857469.post-52973332491138930772015-03-01T13:30:00.000-08:002015-03-23T08:32:43.199-07:00The OHA Blocked Me From Evicting Their Informant <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After making the decision to evict a tenant, for her habitual failure to follow the rules and repeated violations of her lease, I sent a copy of the proposed eviction to the Ogden Housing Authority, as required. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The eviction was largely based upon paragraph 23, subsection d(2) of the tenant's lease, which provided for the termination of the tenancy, due to repeated violations of the lease. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Less than an hour after serving the tenant with a 30-day Notice to Vacate, I received the following e-mail from Robeka Sessions at the Ogden Housing Authority, stating that on a 30-day notice to terminate a lease under the Mod-Rehab Program, the termination must be for "<b style="text-decoration: underline;">Serious & repeated violations of the lease</b>". <i>(which is incorrect)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Robeka's response was puzzling, because paragraph 23, subsection d(2) of the tenant's lease allowed for termination of the tenancy for repeated <u><b>minor</b></u> violations of the lease <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-style: italic;">(right),</span><i> </i>provided that the minor violations fall within the criteria specified.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even more puzzling was the fact that Robeka's response driectly contradicted documentation that the OHA had published and provided to me, which states, "...for serious <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><u>and/or</u></b></span> repeated violations of the lease. <i><span style="color: #990000;">With the Ogden Housing Authority, it's the and/or stuff you have to watch out for.</span></i></span></div>
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<li><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Failing to report additional household members to the Housing Authority;</span></b></li>
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<li><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Violation of a signed lease addendum resulting in damages to the unit;</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Permitting unauthorized vehicles to park on the premises;</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Permitting visitors and non-residents to enter the building through the rear of the unit;</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interfering with the building's management by gossiping and spreading false rumors; <i>and</i></span></b></li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Obviously this tenant had no intention of upholding the terms of her lease and further </i><i>complained to the housing authority when management enforced the lease terms she agreed to. <span style="color: #990000;">She was also acting as the OHA's informant, supplying false information to them to gain special treatment.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>In May 2010</b>, Lin Fulcher, the Special Programs Manager of the Ogden Housing Authority, notified me that the lease that Kier Management had been using for my property had been previously disapproved by their agency for prohibited content, but the leases at my property, <i>(including this tenant's lease)</i> were never amended to remove that content.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Given the email I received from Robeka Sessions <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YgtadNYR8Xw/TouWSJksuxI/AAAAAAAADvc/P2FIVjTDJbo/s1600/Robeka.png">(above)</a> </span></i>regarding this eviction, combined with Kier Management's propensity for continuing to use a <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F6VpcmS-IyI/ToUSmtHAiII/AAAAAAAADq8/_Aj0yTDEnlY/s1600/Program+Problems.png">lease that had been disapproved</a> by the Ogden Housing Authority, I made several attempts to obtain a confirmation from the Housing Authority that paragraph 23 of this tenant's lease did not have any prohibited content. A simple enough question... for anyone BUT the Ogden Housing Authority.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I made a second attempt to get clarification from the Housing Authority... </i><b>THEY FAILED TO RESPOND AGAIN.\</b></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because the Ogden Housing Authority repeatedly failed to respond to my question, I issued a withdrawal of the resident's 30-day Notice to Vacate until a determination could be made regarding her lease content, reminding them again that I was awaiting their response.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Housing Authority finally responded with this email, 2-days after making my first inquiry, clearly oblivious to the question posed to them. At no time did I ask the Housing Authority to approve this termination. The question posed to them was whether the content of paragraph 23 of this resident's lease was prohibited under the Program. Rather than providing an answer, Ms. Fulcher reiterates the information provided by Ms. Sessions, making the subtle, but obvious change in verbiage from, "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Serious <u>and</u> repeated violations</span>" to "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Serious <u><b>OR</b></u> repeated violations</span>" </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this email response to Ms. Fulcher, I spell out my question to the Housing Authority once again, reminding her that she had previously informed me that there was prohibited content in this resident's lease and that given Ms. Sessions original response to me, I had very real concerns about this particular lease paragraph. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After 5-atempts in 6-days, Ms. Fulcher finally provided the answer to my question.... Sheesh! </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After being served with an eviction notice, the tenant complained to the Ogden Housing Authority, that she was being singled out and held to a different set of standards than the other tenants, by enforcing the terms of her lease and requiring her to follow the same set of rules that everyone else has to follow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To address her complaints, the Ogden Housing Authority advised her to apply for a transfer to another property on the same HUD Program, A check of the Ogden Housing Authority's records will show that the tenant applied for a transfer, the same day the 30-day notice was served. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the same time, in an attempt to stop, or at least slow down the eviction process and buy enough time for the transfer to be processed and a unit at another property to become available, the Ogden Housing Authority purposely mis-quoted HUD's rule on terminating for violations of the lease. In an email I received from Robeka Sessions at Ogden Housing <i>(<span style="color: #990000;">above</span>), </i>I<i> </i>was incorrectly told that I could only evict for, "<b>serious <span style="color: #cc0000;">and</span> repeated violations of the lease." </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I received a letter from the tenant, begging me for more time to find an apartment. In the letter, she also stated that she had applied with Ogden Housing for a transfer to another building <b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><u>back in September</u></span></b> - not coincidently, on the same day her first 30-day Notice was served.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>What she was really begging for, was more time for a unit to become available in the building the Ogden Housing Authority had always planned on transferring her to. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Knowing that she was being evicted for habitually violating the terms of her lease, the Ogden Housing Authority advised this tenant to apply for a transfer, rather than terminating her per Program rules.. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>When she was subsequently evicted for illegal drug activity, the Ogden Housing Authority went ahead with the transfer, rather than terminating her from the Program, as required.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tenant was being evicted for habitually violating the terms of her lease and House Rules, but after making several attempts at obtaining a clarification from the Ogden Housing Authority and not being able to get a straight answer from them, I chose to rescind the eviction to protect myself, knowing that it would only be a matter of time before she did something else that would subject her to being evicted.... <i>and</i> <i>I didn't have to wait very long.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the night of December 26, the tenant and her son were invited to a post Christmas party in the unit of another tenant. A short time later, my manager and I both received phone calls from other tenants in the building, complaining about the smell of marijuana in the hallways that was coming from the unit where the party was being held. After questioning the tenant who hosted the party, he denied being the one who was smoking marijuana, but refused to identify the person(s) who were, and was served with a 30-day notice to vacate for illegal drug activity on the premises.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Several days went by, before he decided that he didn't want to lose his housing assistance because of something somebody else did, and chose to identify the person who was smoking marijuana, hoping that I would cancel his eviction. Which I did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The persons he identified as the ones smoking marijuana were this tenant and her son, who were promptly served with an eviction notice that would stick this time, for drug activity on the premises.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Program rules dictate that a landlord may evict a tenant if he suspects that the tenant is involved in illegal drug activity. HUD rules dictate that a tenant with a documented history of illegal drug activity on the premises shall be terminated from the Program and become ineligible for assistance in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rather than immediately terminating the tenant from the Program, the Ogden Housing Authority let the eviction process play out and then helped her negotiate for more time to vacate her unit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although "illegal drug activity" was listed on the 30-day notice as the reason for the eviction, and several tenants provided written statements that supported the action, including the host of the December 26, party where the drug activity occurred, the Ogden Housing Authority chose not to terminate her from the Program, in violation of HUD rules. Instead, the Ogden Housing Authority transferred her to another property on the same HUD Program, despite her documented history of illegal drug activity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we began to suspect that this tenant was the OHA's informant, my manager and I decided to test our theory, by leaking some juicy, but false information to her and <u>only</u> her. Within hours, the Ogden Housing Authority was on the phone to me with question about that same, phony information... Case closed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evidently, in recognition for her many months of providing false information to them, the Ogden Housing Authority decided to reward this tenant, by transferring her to another subsidized property on the same HUD Program, rather than terminating her as they wre required to..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Undoubtedly, this tenant was thrilled to be moving into a new apartment, after thoroughly trashing her apartment in my building. This slideshow (right) documents the condition of her unit when she moved out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Upon filing a claim for excessive unit damages, the Ogden Housing Authority held a mediation hearing to determine the extent of her liability . Of course, when she pulled out the old, "<span style="color: #cc0000;">It was like that when I moved in</span>" routine, the Ogden Housing Authority disallowed much of the damages, even though it was evident to everyone in the room that she was lying through her teeth, including her attorney, who asked her to leave the room several times, due to her emotional outbursts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After determining the extent of the unit damages she was liable for, and putting a dollar amount on them, the tenant promptly declared that she couldn't afford it, and wouldn't pay for the damages, even if she could, at which point, the Ogden Housing Authority offered to front her the money to pay for her damages, effectively footing the bill while this tenant who was evicted, with a documented history of illegal drug use, and caused several thousand dollars in damages to her unit, moved into a new apartment at another building on the same HUD Program... Presumably, to do it all over again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During his subsequent eviction the following year, the tenant who did the right thing and identified this tenant and her son as the ones who were smoking marijuana, but was not smoking it himself, was terminated from the housing assistance program by the Ogden Housing Authority, citing illegal drug activity. Meanwhile, this tenant, with a documented history of illegal drug use that is supported by <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3Kaxtfvs3SA/VPOe9cTbSDI/AAAAAAAAV_E/I4zCdL13Wr0/s1024-no/IMG_3025.PNG" target="_blank">written statements</a> from several other tenants, was transferred to a new apartment at another building, in violation of HUD rules, and her drug activity was never even mentioned in her file.</span><br />
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The Peery Apartmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12127920237349829165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320295315047857469.post-83581390803735070492015-02-28T01:36:00.000-08:002015-03-23T04:44:31.399-07:00OHA Knowingly Processed Ineligible Tenants for Assistance<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2010 I had to evict a tenant who had damaged her unit, well beyond what would be considered normal wear. The tenant, her phony assistance animal and her unauthorized and undocumented boyfriend, caused nearly $7,000 in damages to the unit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In order to get a judgement against her and to document my losses, I filed a small claims case against her, which was heard in District Court on, December 2, 2010.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the course of the hearing, the tenant alleged that she left her unit (in the pictures below) in EXACTLY the same condition that she received it in from Kier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because Kier had placed this tenant, the only proof that I had to the contrary was in the unit <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E7jXSvqQUpw/ToxtdgFtj-I/AAAAAAAADwQ/wASfaVxF6fw/s1600/Petersen+Move-in.png">Move-in Inspection Sheet</a> that was provided to me by Kier.</span><br />
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I also pointed out to the court that, per HUD / OHA regulations, all units must pass a Housing Quality Standards Inspection prior to the unit being rented and that this unit would have never passed the inspection had it been in this condition. Unfortunately, without a copy of the OHA's inspection report, all I had to rely on was Kier's inspection sheet, but given Kier's deplorable record keeping habits, the Move-in Inspection Sheet they had completed when the tenant moved in, was utterly useless as you can see here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Fortunately, the judge agreed to continue the case until Feb. 17, to afford me some time to gather more proof that the tenant was lying.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">On December 7, 2010 I sent an email to Lin Fulcher, the Special Programs Manager at the OHA, asking for a copy of the rent-ready HQS inspection that they had done on the unit, prior to the tenant moving in.</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The response that I got from Ms. Fulcher was that due to the move to their new offices, my request could take up to 10 days to process, but I never heard anything more from her. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the court date fast approaching and after 2 follow-up emails and a couple more phone calls, my request for a copy of their rent-ready unit inspection was finally addressed....<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">42-DAYS LATER! </span></i></b></span></div>
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<i><b>January 18, 2011:</b> - OHA sent me a copy of their inspection...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although I won the case against the tenant, she failed to pay the court ordered judgement against her, making her ineligible to receive housing assistance under this or any other Federally funded program.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"Under Program rules, a person who leaves a rental property owing money to the Landlord, </i><i>shall become ineligible to receive further housing assistance, under this or any other HUD funded program, </i><i>for a minimum of 3 years or until such time as the person can show proof that he or she has made </i><i>full restitution to the Landlord and the debt has been cleared"</i></span><br />
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Coincidentally, a few months later, I ran into my former tenant at the Ogden Housing Authority on June 7, 2011, being processed for housing assistance. </span><br />
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When I confronted her, my former tenant quickly ran from the building to a waiting car and drove off... but not before I snapped this picture of her. </span><br />
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Knowing that she was ineligible to receive housing assistance due to the unpaid judgment I had against her, I asked the Ogden Housing Authority why they were processing her for assistance.</span><br />
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This is an email that I sent to Robeka Sessions at the Ogden Housing Authority, asking why they approved a tenant for housing assistance, when she was ineligible, due to the fact that she left a property owing money to the landlord. <span style="color: #cc0000;">What made my inquiry particularly embarrassing for the OHA, is that the property she left owing money to, was mine. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regrettably, I had to evict the tenant less than 3-month after she moved in, for illegal drug activity on the premises. The unit stood vacant for another 2-months before we found another suitable tenant... Money I wouldn't have lost had the Ogden Housing Authority done their job. </span><br />
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The Peery Apartmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12127920237349829165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320295315047857469.post-13164512384994220442015-02-27T23:15:00.000-08:002015-03-12T15:55:33.390-07:00The OHA Allowed Kier Management To Use A Disapproved Lease:FOR NEARLY 4-YEARS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">On May 5, 2010, I received this email from Lin Fulcher, the Special Programs Manager at the Ogden Housing Authority, scolding me for using the same lease that Kier had used for my property for nearly 4-years. According to the email, the Ogden Housing Authority had disapproved the lease that Kier was using, yet they continued to allow them to use it from March 22, 2006 through September 30, 2009 <i>(the last lease that Kier executed at my property)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since I was unfamiliar with the content that was required for a lease at a HUD property, and because Kier was such a large company and did an enormous amount of subsidized housing business with the Ogden Housing Authority, I assumed that any lease they were using would have the correct content. So, when I took over the management of my building and began leasing units, I made a direct, word for word copy of the last lease that Kier had used at my building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Concerned that I had done something wrong, I immediately responded to the OHA's email, with a copy of my lease and asked them to point out the sections that contained any disapproved and/or prohibited content, so that I could make the necessary corrections. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What I got back from them was the epitome of Ogden Housing corruption, and a perfect example of the separate set of rules that they routinely allowed Kier Management to operate under. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Below, is a side by side comparison of Kier's lease and my lease after the Ogden Housing Authority had edited out all of the disapproved and/or disallowed content in it. The verbiage in both lease is virtually identical, yet the Ogden Housing Authority allowed Kier to use their disapproved lease, for nearly the entire time that they managed my property. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In stark contrast, within 2-weeks of executing my first lease, the Ogden Housing Authority came down on me like a ton of bricks and demanded that I change it immediately, under the threat of terminating my contract with HUD.</span></div>
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The Peery Apartmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12127920237349829165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320295315047857469.post-56064215123685811072015-02-26T15:51:00.000-08:002015-03-21T04:03:38.066-07:00HUD-HQS Inspection Fraud<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HUD conducts a Housing Quality Standards (HQS) inspection of the building, prior to renewing the housing assistance contract for the following year. If the building does not pass the inspection, my contract with HUD would be terminated.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On December 22, 2008, Terri Muchmore from Kier Management, claimed in an email to me, that the building had failed the HUD inspection and needed some repairs, or it would fail the re-inspection and my contract with HUD would be terminated. <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(right)</span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A month later, on January 14, 2009 Terri Muchmore from Kier Management, sent me an email containing a list of repairs that were required in order to pass the HUD re-inspection. <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(below)</span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leery of their claims, I asked Kier to send me a list of the required repairs. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The list that I received from Kier, was substantial and contained a significant number of tenant caused damages.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Kier's list, NOT ONE of the 14 units in the building, was operating at or above HUD minimum standards, both on Dec. 22, 2008 and Jan. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14, 2009. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The two lists of repairs that Kier sent to me, are the ones you see above, and at left. Kier refused to make the repairs unless I pre-paid for them with my credit card..... <b>I did not</b>. Yet somehow, the building miraculously passed the re-inspection and the HUD contract was renewed in 2009. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soon after taking over the building form Kier in November 2009, I discovered that most of the repairs on Kier's lists from the previous year had never been made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 2010 / 2011 HUD-HQS Inspection was scheduled to take place just a few short weeks</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> after my contract with Kier had ended. I wanted to make sure I was present for the inspection, so that in the event the building did not pass, I could have the required repairs made immediately.... </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The HUD inspector arrived on February 18<b>, </b>2010 and<b> </b>after a very thorough inspection, she promptly<i style="font-weight: bold;"> <u>failed the building</u></i>, citing among other deficiencies, every single item that appears in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">red</span>, on the lists of repairs above and was ordered to correct them in 30 days.<i> </i></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Kier, the building failed the 2009 HUD-pre-inspection. <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(FYI: There is no such thing as a HUD pre-inspection)</span></i></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The findings of the 2010 inspection confirm that Kier never corrected the deficiencies that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">were cited in the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 2009 inspection. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(The items in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">red</span> on the lists above).</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kier refused to make the required repairs in 2009, unless I paid for them up front with my credit card. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(I did not)</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Miraculously, just weeks after failing the 2009 inspection, the building passed the re-inspection and the contract was renewed for 2010. </span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the 2010 inspection, not only were the <b><i>same deficiencies cited again</i></b> by the <b>same</b> <b>OHA / HUD inspector</b>, she also cited me for <u><a href="http://thepeeryapartments.blogspot.com/2010/10/removal-of-kier-corps-crap-april-may.html">the enormous amount of pigeon droppings</a></u> that had been accumulating on every horizontal surface of the building, for the entire time Kier was under contract to me to maintain the property. The inspector also noted the presence of <u><a href="http://thepeeryapartments.blogspot.com/2010/10/negligent-maintenance-and-lies-may-7.html">dry-rot along some of the eaves</a>,</u> that was caused by Kier's failure to remove those pigeon droppings, even though they charged me for removing it, <i><b>several times per year!</b></i></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For 4 years, Kier Management was permitted to maintain an <u><a href="http://thepeeryapartments.blogspot.com/2010/10/removal-of-kier-corps-crap-april-may.html">enormous health hazard</a></u>, that placed every single tenant at risk of contracting several, serious and potentially fatal diseases, yet Kier was never cited for it by OHA / HUD inspectors, </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kier was never cited by OHA / HUD inspectors, for the <u><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ofbNwDMIQlY/TKmBPt6eYQI/AAAAAAAAADU/jp1X9YTfMgI/s1600/104_4156.JPG">dry-rot along the eaves</a></u> of the building, <i>that was caused by their failure to do any preventative maintenance at the building, as</i> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=133860476625310&set=a.133860186625339.22614.132098726801485&pid=347918&id=132098726801485" style="text-decoration: underline;">required by paragraph 10 of our contract</a><u>,</u> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">despite that damage falling well outside of HUD's acceptable limits. <i> (<span style="color: #b45f06;">this is the same damage that the OHA terminated my contract over</span>) </i></span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On December 1, 2009, I began to self manage the building and was immediately cited by OHA / HUD inspector, Angela Pender for everything that she and the Ogden Housing Authority had looked the other way for with Kier, for the previous 4 years, including the unit deficiencies that Kier had been cited for <u><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg1rhCm5ZNsEiFMjGKagNRRmcCtdSCd66AT2YQEj67c8tsglU1SDzFr2X9hlmnVxa_T8sHtiBrD5H-0-2vsFZIFJVhUUWyYyqMphyphenhyphenPUl8TAMvuLTGnpKMC_sZ8d6XSYM9YP9YzLkndB3pA/s1600/2008-HUD+Inspection1.jpg" target="_blank">in 2009</a></u>, but never corrected, and repeatedly renewed the housing assistance </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">contract, while permitting Kier to maintain the building in the filthy, dangerous, and deplorable conditions that are so clearly documented in the posts on this Blog, and never even issued so much as a warning to Kier. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On May 2, 2010, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I received this email from Special Programs Manager, Lin Fulcher at the Ogden Housing Authority, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">informing me that Kier Management had been </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=133860459958645&set=a.133860186625339.22614.132098726801485">using a lease which had been previously disapproved (4)</a></u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by HUD and their agency. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kier failed to remedy the situation and although </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=133860469958644&set=a.133860186625339.22614.132098726801485&pid=347917&id=132098726801485">the lease that they were using (7d)</a></u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> contained prohibited content, the Ogden Housing Authority permitted them to continue using it, for nearly the entire 4-years that they managed my building. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ms. Fulcher went on to accuse me of allowing tenants to <u><a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=133860469958644&set=a.133860186625339.22614.132098726801485&pid=347917&id=132098726801485">add persons to their households without authorization (7d)</a></u> and questions whether or not I had an unauthorized occupant's permission to run a background check on him,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> when the authorization was attached to the form she was referring to.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ms. Fulcher then suggested that a meeting between myself and the OHA might be in order, to discuss these and other issues., to which I wholeheartedly agreed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I responded to Ms. Fulcher's email with this letter, in which I informed her that I had absolutely no idea that Kier had been using a lease for my property that their agency had previoously disapproved.</span><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also informed her that it was not me, but Kier Management who had allowed tenants to add people to their households. I was merely trying to ensure that all of the tenants were in compliance with Program rules. </span></span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On November 30, 2009 when I took the building over from Kier, five of the units had 9-additional occupants living in them, who did not appear on the tenant's leases and did not have the approval or the authorization of the Ogden Housing Authority to live there. (#2, #3, #7, #10, #14). </span></span></span></i></b><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every single one of those tenants told me that they didn't realize they were doing anything wrong, because Kier knew about their additional occupants and never had a problem with it.</span></span></span></i></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Does it strike anyone else as odd, that Kier would be permitted to continually use a lease which had been disapproved by Ogden Housing, yet when I use a lease with the same content, the Ogden Housing Authority comes down on me like a ton of bricks?</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">That shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, since they essentially gave my tenants just 23-days when they terminated my contract with HUD</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2007, Kier Management placed a tenant in unit #4 at my building. The tenant was </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">apparently transferred from the Marion Hotel (another Kier managed property), to mine.</span></span></div>
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In retaliation, <a href="http://archive.org/details/ChrisLambKilledHisGirls" target="_blank">he slaughtered his cats one night</a> and then called to tell me about it. <a href="https://archive.org/embed/ChrisLambKilledHisGirls&autoplay=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yXTjjcfTCU8/VRCp-FZaSDI/AAAAAAAAWqU/NsBl_u8L0bQ/s1024-no/IMG_3937.PNG" width="100" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Out of fear for her safety and the safety of her infant and newborn children, the tenant, who had already filed for a protection order, asked us in writing, to remove her boyfriend from her lease and add him to our letter of agency with the Ogden City Police Department.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We did as the tenant asked, out of immediate concern for the safety of everyone in the building, after the tenant informed us that due to his drug use, her boyfriend had become increasingly unstable in recent weeks, and would routinely sit with a loaded gun pointed at the front door. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On November 25, 2010, I was reprimanded by the Ogden Housing Authority's Special Programs Manager, for removing the tenant's boyfriend from the lease, without obtaining their approval first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I informed Ogden Housing that the tenant had made her request to remove him in writing, after her boyfriend had physically assaulted her. I also informed them about his illegal drug activity, and that he was reportedly known to be carrying a loaded handgun (on the property) and had become increasingly unstable in recent weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nevertheless, the Ogden Housing Authority forbid me from removing him, despite his history of increasingly unstable and violent behavior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evidently, on the morning of November 29, 2010, the tenant's boyfriend, woke up on the wrong side of the bed and decided that it would be a good time to assault his girlfriend once again. This time, throwing her through a glass French door in the unit. <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(left)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After my first eviction, I photographically documented the enormous amount of damages to the unit and building, and the cost to repair them <i>($12,000+)</i>. and then contacted the Ogden Housing Authority to inquire about <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3qa868c3ynEUutOgK6F-_KsHTt2xtCfEnBMMlIKuAbFX9UvvScovFsk9dGsfJtnmxMUeaBqKHM9_e3qXauNYjo54QTCk5BEWArzQg1nDQMTX4sNPJl3u4QNmgc15HCSQ6CsMhzW8yOmQ/s1024-no/IMG_3146.PNG" target="_blank">how to file a claim</a> for damages that were above normal wear and tear. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nevertheless, since I had already documented the damages, I sent the documentation to the Ogden Housing Authority along with a list of the damages and the cost to repair them, which became my regular habit after every eviction where excessive unit damages, if for no other reason than to show Ogden Housing what their clients had done to my property.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe she was busy that day, or maybe she didn't realize who was asking, or maybe it was because I included the information I had found on HUD's website? Whatever the reason, Robeka responded to me, stating that she would mail me a damage claim form and the went on to outline the procedure for me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That was the day I found out that the Ogden Housing Authority had been lying to me for over 2 years, and the last day that I ever trusted them again. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It doesn't matter whether they lied to stay on budget, or whether they did it maliciously. The point is, they did it. while I spent thousands on unit repairs. </span><br />
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During the first month in their new home, it became increasingly more apparent, that our new tenant was having some serious trouble breathing, due to respiratory disease. In fact living on the third floor proved to be more of a detriment to them by the day. </div>
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Coincidently during their first month, we had another unit become available. The unit was of the same size that this tenant was qualified for, and it was also on the first floor. The tenants inquired about moving to that unit and I advised them to contact Ogden Housing immediately.<br />
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The Ogden Housing Authority initially denied the tenant's request to transfer to the ground floor unit, going as far as telling them that which devastated them, and left them feeling trapped living in a unit that was totally inadequate for their needs.<br />
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By the end of February, the tenant's health had deteriorated and he was in constant respiratory distress. He had blacked out and fallen a number of times, just trying to get up the stairs to his apartment and he ultimately suffered a stroke. </div>
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On March 7 2012, I contacted the Ogden Housing Authority at the tenant's request and asked their agency to approve a transfer, which they finally agreed to, on the condition that the tenant provide them with his physician's written recommendation for the transfer, and a description of the disability. </div>
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The Peery Apartmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12127920237349829165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320295315047857469.post-90229439752079302142015-02-20T11:38:00.000-08:002015-04-10T23:39:11.598-07:00HUD Refuses Protection Voucher After Causing Foreclosure The Ogden Housing Authority's corruption caused me to lose everything. My house and my building were both lost to foreclosure, because after at least 5-years of looking the other way for Kier Management, the Ogden Housing Authority couldn't give me a few more months to make some repairs.<br />
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Today, April 9, 2015, I sent this letter to everyone at HUD who was involved in this process, asking them for a protection voucher, like the ones they gave to my tenants, so I wouldn't be homeless when the sheriffs come to lock me out of my home. I wonder if they will even respond.<br />
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Well, at least HUD's computer knows about this now, but I can tell you from past experience, the ONLY course of action HUD takes, is to do nothing.</div>
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I received this reply from Anita Short this afternoon. Evidently, she misunderstood my request. I wasn't asking HUD for a protection voucher as an individual who lost his home through foreclosure. I was asking as a person who was fast tracked into foreclosure by the corrupt Ogden Housing Authority.</div>
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Anita is the HUD employee who called to tell me that the Ogden Housing Authority was not abating my payments... after they started abating my payments. <b><a href="https://archive.org/embed/AnitaShort&autoplay=1" target="_blank">Click Here</a> </b>to hear Anita's voicemail message to me. I wouldn't expect anything less in the form of a reply from her. Still waiting for replies from the other four recipients.</div>
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</div>The Peery Apartmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12127920237349829165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320295315047857469.post-19535093845621971492015-02-19T18:55:00.000-08:002015-04-10T23:32:52.965-07:00HUD Refuses Assistance After Causing ForeclosureThe Ogden Housing Authority's corruption caused me to lose everything. My house and my building were both lost to foreclosure, because after at least 5-years of looking the other way for Kier Management, the Ogden Housing Authority couldn't give me a few more months to make some repairs.<br />
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Today, April 9, 2015, I sent this letter to everyone at HUD who was involved in this process, asking them for a protection voucher, like the ones they gave to my tenants, so I wouldn't be homeless when the sheriffs come to lock me out of my home. I wonder if they will even respond.<br />
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It's mind boggling, that in this country, it's against the law to take your own life, but it's not against the law for the Federal Government to take your life from you.<br />
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I received this reply from Anita Short this afternoon. Evidently, she misunderstood my request. I wasn't asking HUD for a protection voucher as an individual who lost his home through foreclosure. I was asking as a person who was fast tracked into foreclosure by the corrupt Ogden Housing Authority.</div>
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Quite a sassy response, coming from someone who doesn't even know when she is being lied to. Anita is the HUD employee who called to tell me that the Ogden Housing Authority was not abating my payments... after they started abating my payments. <b><a href="https://archive.org/embed/AnitaShort&autoplay=1" target="_blank">Click Here</a> </b>to hear Anita's voicemail message to me. I wouldn't expect anything less in the form of a reply from her. Still waiting for replies from the other four recipients.</div>
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