City of Houston holding 'unhygienic' apartment complex accountable

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  • čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
  • Lawyers and inspectors from various city departments are going over the complex with a fine-tooth comb.

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  • @davidh246
    @davidh246 Před 2 lety +27

    "Strike force"? So in reality all these paid city inspectors of multiple departments have been greatly failing to do their jobs, and are now covering their asses..

  • @johndraper3210
    @johndraper3210 Před 2 lety +8

    *HOUSTON IS NASTY...THE ENTIRE CITY*

  • @benw9949
    @benw9949 Před 2 lety +32

    Watch how fast those apartments raise the rent and sell to another slum landlord. They will find reasons to raise every fee or add new fees. Watch how other apartment complexes copy them. If a competent, caring person gets hired for management, they don't last long or they get transferred. If maintenance improves any, it's mostly luck, but also, the crews are overworked, there are often too few people to get things done, and some things take forever or are only band-aided, while others, especially external cosmetics, get fixed. Mailbox issues? Oh, yeah. Dumpsters not emptied often enough so trash can accumulate? Sometimes. Sewage / waste issues? Periodic or intermittent. (Not lately, but during the worst of the pandemic, yeah.) Apartment rent can be as high as a mortgage payment, or nearly so, but most apt. renters can't afford a home due to not enough savings or other income issues. I would guess it's city-wide. Some are kept up better than others. My apt. complex is probably below average. I've been here almost 5.5 years. Landlord corporation's changed twice and apt. mgmt. office teams can change often (I've lost count). It's scary, wondering if your income will hold out with prices on everything going up and therefore, what do you have to do without next, or will you end up having to move or homeless. My apartment isn't too bad, but it's not great. Only a few times with specific people was there real help and attention paid to things. Those people only stayed a few months before being transferred or let go. At some point, you realize this is just how it is. Where I am, it's now better than during the worst of the pandemic shutdown, but it's not as good as when I first moved in. My income's bad. It's worrisome. I'm handicapped and over 50. This is not how I envisioned living the last half of my life.

    • @tynao2029
      @tynao2029 Před 2 lety +1

      Do you see costs of anything going down, Chachi?

  • @BottomRouge225
    @BottomRouge225 Před 2 lety +19

    North Houston Oakridge Apartments need to be on the list

  • @clarlewis1808
    @clarlewis1808 Před 2 lety +10

    WoW, this is so inhumanely horrible. Soon renters tenant's will be homeless due to Apt Owners getting multiple health code violations due to an overwhelming degree of neglect the Property is contaminated.
    Renters I will keep yall lifted up in my 🙏🏾✝️

  • @Platinumm76
    @Platinumm76 Před 2 lety +7

    My family lived there....and that is really how it looks...plus they over charge on rent and then they set you up to evict you.....I feel they owe us and everyone else financial compensation....and the mailroom was destroyed and we couldn't even get our mail...we got a P.O. Box so our mail could be retrieved...and no matter how clean you may be...some times your neighbors weren't... management was very rude and disrespectful.... but some people wouldn't complain because that's all they could afford..to them and many others something is better than nothing. But rent is cheaper than a motel.

  • @jessesrx7
    @jessesrx7 Před 2 lety +11

    I want to know who owns these slum apartments in Houston

    • @tynao2029
      @tynao2029 Před 2 lety +1

      They own them, they don't live there. If you pour gallons of oil and grease down your drains every day for years like these residents all did, you would have problems too

  • @mshaz4801
    @mshaz4801 Před 2 lety +8

    Too many apartment communities in Houston look run down n trash

    • @iheartcbd816
      @iheartcbd816 Před 2 lety +1

      But wont let you move in because of an eviction that happened due to covid, like they are a katy high rise!

  • @ampcafe64
    @ampcafe64 Před 2 lety +10

    You can clean it up
    And they will destroy it in a month

    • @ohreally404
      @ohreally404 Před 2 lety

      This is regular wear on the buildings, people dont make mold and rotting ceilings. Did you watch the video? The outside is rotting as well. You caucasoids love to make your little bigot comments

    • @paulettek2732
      @paulettek2732 Před 2 lety +6

      That’s true because some people don’t value where they live.

  • @ggdatboi
    @ggdatboi Před 2 lety +4

    Not much to be done tbh. I’ve seen some apartments like this be rebuilt from the ground up and they were shit holes again in 5 years. Unfortunately that’s just the type of ppl u get at lower rental prices.

    • @lettyalvarez3102
      @lettyalvarez3102 Před 2 lety

      GG...totally agree with you....when the apts. are nice ..the kind of tenants they occupied them destroy everything( because is not theirs)!!

  • @lettyalvarez3102
    @lettyalvarez3102 Před 2 lety +2

    A clean apt. Is up to the occupant!!!
    Just because its dirty outside...does NOT MEAN THAT YOUR LIVING SPACE SHOULD BE...IT IS HOW YOU LIKE LIVING !!!

  • @rosealenius-spencer4823
    @rosealenius-spencer4823 Před 2 lety +16

    This is a nationwide crisis…not just in Houston. It’s appalling. ….”repairs fixed” ? Are you kidding? That place needs to be rebuilt from ground up. All people deserve to live dignified

    • @tynao2029
      @tynao2029 Před 2 lety

      They ruined their own homes by living undignified. Educate yourself before you look stupid

  • @agustindelgado1218
    @agustindelgado1218 Před 2 lety +3

    Also if may add houston can open an educate camp where they teach people how to fix their credit and purchase a home else where. Yes I know the market is high but the area is still rough , might as well buy a home in a rough area with everything working then to live paying 1k a month making these people rich and they are not fixing anything. We must educate each other on how we can advance at life. This is 80% blame apartments and 20% renter blame for putting up with it.

  • @panchaguzman3719
    @panchaguzman3719 Před 2 lety +10

    Well I know those apartment didn't mess themselves, up those people have a lot to do with all that mess

    • @DunkInHerDonut
      @DunkInHerDonut Před 2 lety

      @@Funknfritter he is talking about renter agreement and contract. If something is broken while renting there is usually a deposit fee holding that can be used to fix the building, or deductible. If the owner don’t fix you can not pay and then take it to court, small claim. Been a social worker for over a year and I am guessing these tenants are getting some kind of city help or something for rental.

    • @ohreally404
      @ohreally404 Před 2 lety

      How do people grow mold? If you don't pay for trash service, then the trash will collect. If you never pay an exterminator, rats will continue to breed....and yes even in clean apartments. There's no excuse and the city even gives out free rat poison to complexes. This is property neglect, but they're collecting $1,000 rent

    • @SuperHtownswag
      @SuperHtownswag Před 2 lety

      youre an idiot sir

    • @tynao2029
      @tynao2029 Před 2 lety

      @@Funknfritter janitorial work? Lol you think people who own homes have janitors? You clean up after yourself doofus

  • @devinsunpopularopinion6239

    So who’s throwing the trash on the ground?

    • @jessesrx7
      @jessesrx7 Před 2 lety +3

      The dumpsters are full

    • @benw9949
      @benw9949 Před 2 lety +3

      If you're looking to blame the apartment residents, it's not generally their fault. Apartment complexes are owned by big corporations that hire management teams they can fire in an instant and replace. The landlord corporations are all about milking the tenants for money, and not about putting reasonable money back into interior or exterior maintenance. If you ever see an apt. rental contract, it basically takes away nearly all rights for the tenants in favor of giving nearly all rights to the landlord. Apartments in the Houston area get rented to everyone: it's not racially segregated, it's very mixed. So if someone is trying to imply it's any racial group's fault, that's not true, and if you think it's just renters being lazy, trashy, then that's also not true. Try living in an apartment for a few years and see. It's about lack of options and income, having to make do, and having to put up with the problems of living in an apt. complex owned by some remote corporate landlord that does not care about renters, only about milking profits, and won't put enough aside for needed maintenance.
      * Dumpsters typically fill faster than they are picked up, and yet apt. renters pay fees monthly. So trash can overflow the dumpsters and people must stack things beside the dumpsters.
      * It's not the renters' fault, and they pay increasing fees. Rent itself and all fees have increased several times where I am. My apartment complex is probably below average, but not nearly as bad as some.
      * Grounds maintenance and apt. remodeling can produce waste that either must be hauled off or put in added dumpsters. Or else it may get piled up and sit before being taken away. The maint. crews often don't have enough people to do the work, so they are always overscheculed. Apt. complexes may not do all that's needed, in order to save money. Or they don't have enough supplies and can't get them in because the landlord corp. takes away the profits and doesn't put them back into maintenance.
      * External cosmetics often get done or smaller, low-cost / no-cost repairs inside apartments. But things like mailboxes may go for weeks or months without getting fixed, while lawns and landscaping gets replaced or over-mowed (summer heat and winter cold), and painting may happen often, that cosmetics thing, yet painting may be in some spots or some things and not others.
      * I'll bet people could make longer lists of issues. My apartment complex is below average but not as bad as some. But during the worst of the pandemic shutdown, it got bad and sometimes scary.

    • @SolidBehindBlueEyes
      @SolidBehindBlueEyes Před 2 lety

      Dumpster divers... they are as prevalent as the homeless... I'm constantly chasing dumpster divers from our apt dumpsters...AND non residents will come by and unload by the truckful.... we can only catch so many.

  • @tynao2029
    @tynao2029 Před 2 lety +6

    Any living area will quickly resemble the people who live their and their lifestyles.

  • @DunkInHerDonut
    @DunkInHerDonut Před 2 lety +8

    City officials demanding the landlord and property owners to take care of the horrible tenants, while taxing the sh!t out of landlords and making it difficult to run a business. The officials pander to these tenants and benefits from it without any hands involve in actually helping.
    I want to hear the side of the property owner in this case. This segment from the news is one sided.

  • @dianamcmillan3285
    @dianamcmillan3285 Před 2 lety +2

    Wow , 1000 for a two bedroom apartment. No wonder it’s a shit hole well know that if they fix it their rents will be going up .

  • @slavs4jobs294
    @slavs4jobs294 Před 2 lety +3

    Your supposed to leave. You deserve what you pay for.

  • @iheartcbd816
    @iheartcbd816 Před 2 lety +3

    Tbh I would take a run down apartment right about now, tired of these weekly rates, $400 a week

    • @danijones819
      @danijones819 Před 2 lety +2

      If you can afford a 400 weekly rate you can get a 1 bdrm apt.

  • @vincejamison8078
    @vincejamison8078 Před 2 lety +5

    City should take the property and make it affordable housing.

  • @joeball4809
    @joeball4809 Před 2 lety +2

    Bull shiet the office is not doing shiet I do Makereadys and fix apartments it don't take weeks to fix things plus it takes couple of days to call pest control...they just don't want to pay...

  • @kcbazz
    @kcbazz Před 2 měsíci

    The Alegria (formerly The Wilcox/Morgan) Villa Solano & Villa Luna apartments all need to be on the list too!!

  • @kokingshag2278
    @kokingshag2278 Před 2 lety +2

    Three Letters.....H.U.D.

  • @Scruface954
    @Scruface954 Před 2 lety

    they need to go to preserve at westchase also

  • @ju5t1n26
    @ju5t1n26 Před 2 lety

    Woodlake oaks needs to be checked out too

  • @bettinaparker3652
    @bettinaparker3652 Před 2 lety

    I used to pay $ 579 and it gratefully went up to $ 719 for a Townhouse with areas to plant my vegetables. That was on Cypresswood/45 N., that was 6 years ago.
    I just took someone to a 1 bedroom of Walden Rd. / Montgomery, he pays $ 545.

  • @charlesmatthews3301
    @charlesmatthews3301 Před 2 lety +1

    Put money back in your business because they never forget to collect rent.

  • @kg4021
    @kg4021 Před 2 lety +1

    $1,000/month for 2 bedroom is cheap rent. I used to pay $1200/month for a small 1 bedroom 8 years ago in Houston. This must be in a low socio-economic neighborhood. About 13 years ago I used to pay $900/month for a small one bedroom in the ghetto on the outskirts of Houston. Now my unit was not rodent infested nor any bugs. some of my appliances I recall did not work correctly but I was always working so I was hardly home to cook. I hope they receive the help they need because it is not fair for American citizens to live in squabble and those who cross the border are living in better apartments/dwellings provided by the government. The government should step in and either force the landlord to fix the apartments or allow the owner to sell the complex without penalty. I can understand if the owner does not have the funds to repair because there are people who can not repair their homes due to lack of materials. If this is the case then maybe the owner can give the deed of the complex to the city, sell the property, or maybe sell the units individually to each of the tenants at a low cost. If the tenants was to own their own unit like a condo then they will be responsible for maintaining and fixing the units up themselves. In the long run they will become a property owner and would not have to worry about finding another place to move since they will have their own place.
    Hope everything is resolved
    the only way to salvation is Jesus Christ
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    • @israelmoreno3620
      @israelmoreno3620 Před 2 lety

      tell da lord to send a few thousnd bucks not money but bucks ill start a bbq sore

    • @lettyalvarez3102
      @lettyalvarez3102 Před 2 lety

      KG....those "" who crossed the border"" ...they have 2 jobs ...the wife works...so they can live in a decent place cause they want better for themselves!

    • @kg4021
      @kg4021 Před 2 lety

      @@lettyalvarez3102 I'm not talking about the ones who come here to work. I'm talking about before they are able to work. The government at the border have provided FORMULA, food, medical, dental, vision, clothes, a place to live, etc while they are waiting for the transition to go to their families here in the USA. Even when they get here and are working they receive FREE medicaid, food stamps, housing, etc...
      Years ago I was a single mother struggling to survive while I seen too often the illegal immigrants get everything FREE. I don't blame them for anything. It is the government's fault... They are crooked, demonic
      I blame Satan's fault... He is evil.
      We survived since Jesus christ took care of me but it was a struggle and by no means easy, Though this was way before I was living in the $1200/month apartment. Stay strong and become acts 2 :38 saved

  • @mikeyy425
    @mikeyy425 Před 2 lety +1

    Rats and mold? You got me all the way fukked up

  • @feliciahaynes4208
    @feliciahaynes4208 Před 2 lety

    LakeCrest Villages Apts is headed the same direction

  • @autumnseptember4635
    @autumnseptember4635 Před 2 lety +4

    It’s always the EAST side of town.

    • @yourdadsotherfamily3530
      @yourdadsotherfamily3530 Před 2 lety +3

      Bruh they are spreading out west and northwest… through that bellaire and alief to places like Katy/cypress/ SE like pearland

    • @SuperHtownswag
      @SuperHtownswag Před 2 lety +1

      its all over houston. get real autumn

    • @SuperHtownswag
      @SuperHtownswag Před 2 lety +1

      @@yourdadsotherfamily3530 facts

    • @Seabacon346
      @Seabacon346 Před 2 lety

      It’s on every side of town. Houston is the only city I’ve lived in where every side of town is the bad side.

  • @juwannwilliams155
    @juwannwilliams155 Před 2 lety

    People living at the La Casita apartment complex on sunnyside street in North Houston are experiencing the same problems. I pray the news stations shine light on those people living conditions as well and investigate the slumlord that owns the complex.

    • @israelmoreno3620
      @israelmoreno3620 Před 2 lety

      who care's it just mexican't people's no biggie ...........

  • @antasiashaw8815
    @antasiashaw8815 Před 2 lety

    Napoleon Square Apartments need to be looked at too management is horrible and you have to beg for months

  • @stevenrios713
    @stevenrios713 Před 2 lety +2

    If you are paying a thousand a month. You can move.. it's your choice to stay there and put up with it. Nobody is forcing yall to stay there

  • @hopeharris6544
    @hopeharris6544 Před 2 lety

    How do you add your apartments?

  • @BossDogChillin
    @BossDogChillin Před 2 lety +3

    10 rats 🤢🤮

  • @lettyalvarez3102
    @lettyalvarez3102 Před 2 lety

    The management....dont do anything for apartments whose occupants are on sect.8 or some type of housing!!!... they're going to "" patch and somehow mend the complex"" but they will raise the rent!!

  • @robertflores6394
    @robertflores6394 Před 2 lety +1

    Just move, you can leave and break the lease by law

    • @marywilson1442
      @marywilson1442 Před 2 lety +7

      Move where.... Did you hear that she said that she pays $1,000 a month for that hell hole. You have no clue what people of lower income go through. Plus to move now you have to have your application fee, your administration fee, and sometimes a deposit when you apply for an apartment then you have to show proof of three times the amount of the rent. Yes for an apartment. So how do you think these people can move when they're living check to check. They're stuck there. And because of all the trouble with evictions. It's even harder to get an apartment or any rental property now. Lower income people don't have perfect credit scores. Options are very limited. So stay in your lane and don't comment on things that you know nothing about...

    • @SuperHtownswag
      @SuperHtownswag Před 2 lety +2

      @@marywilson1442 plus renters insurance is required by many apartments

    • @ggdatboi
      @ggdatboi Před 2 lety +1

      @@marywilson1442 it’s almost like the choices people make in life have consequences. They could redo these apartments from the bottom up and they’ll be shit holes again in 10 years. Stop defending the indefensible and follow your own advice of staying in your own lane.

    • @marywilson1442
      @marywilson1442 Před 2 lety

      @@ggdatboi I am in my lane are you in yours. So everybody in that complex is indefensible everybody in that complex is useless, a waste of having a decent place to live, not worthy. Nobody in there deserves a decent place to live. None of the children there...nobody. What a way to view people who are less fortunate then you. And they'd only be shitholes again if they're not properly maintained. It's up to the apartment management and owners to maintain the property...

    • @Seabacon346
      @Seabacon346 Před 2 lety

      You cannot break the lease by law. These landlords have you locked in by almost any means once you sign. Texas rental laws are not friendly to the renter.

  • @ampcafe64
    @ampcafe64 Před 2 lety +3

    Is bad people that rent the apartments that make the land lords give up

    • @ohreally404
      @ohreally404 Před 2 lety +2

      Well they're getting $1.000 a month, its not like these are housing apartments, these are regular rent. Bad renters are everywhere, but not everywhere lets their property go down

  • @israelmoreno3620
    @israelmoreno3620 Před 2 lety

    as a Land Lord i do not allow more than 4 peolpe in my rentals mom dad 2 kids ....

  • @esabal1989
    @esabal1989 Před 2 lety

    All she could do is laugh to mask the pain… I’m living like this in MINNESOTA 🤷🏾‍♀️😳

  • @mswhite1004
    @mswhite1004 Před 2 lety

    Damn my brother lives here

  • @righteousbeyondgravity
    @righteousbeyondgravity Před 2 lety +2

    They gone make a Meme off Lil Mama🎱🤣 Way too many quotable Remarks 🎱🤣💪🏿💪🏿💯💯💯

  • @juanro5358
    @juanro5358 Před 2 lety

    Waterford Grove 🤢🤮🤒

  • @Babs27
    @Babs27 Před 2 lety

    One rat is too many.

  • @dennisthemenace49
    @dennisthemenace49 Před 2 lety

    Many complexes are like this. Too many complexes to inspect.

  • @jeanettesmith765
    @jeanettesmith765 Před 2 lety +1

    Slum landlords are sickening. Glad the city is taking some steps to help these residents.

  • @Jonas-nf2bc
    @Jonas-nf2bc Před 2 lety +2

    She just decided to wear her table cloth huh? This was clearly a f**k it day.

  • @shauneenicole2535
    @shauneenicole2535 Před 2 lety

    Smh!

  • @johandrafuentes9614
    @johandrafuentes9614 Před 2 lety

    Shit they need to hit pecan square

  • @droid4d279
    @droid4d279 Před 2 lety

    This is ridiculous these apartments just collecting paycheck and not fixing anything

  • @mikeyy425
    @mikeyy425 Před 2 lety

    Thousand dollas? The city needs to threaten to seize his/her property. They'll start puttin money in it like they supposed to

  • @murphyville
    @murphyville Před 2 lety

    Move OUT!

  • @dannyscott5821
    @dannyscott5821 Před 2 lety +1

    This place was beautiful twenty years ago until you let the mob destroy it so don't blame the new owners if things were that bad you have all the recourses in the word the government is gonna pay your rent no matter where you live

  • @MaineBaeRN26
    @MaineBaeRN26 Před 2 lety

    😧

  • @FelipeHernandez-hk6bm
    @FelipeHernandez-hk6bm Před 2 lety +1

    Probably Asian owners or turners friends

  • @Soo_Blessed
    @Soo_Blessed Před 2 lety

    🙏🏾🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏🏼🙏🏿💌

  • @arlisbartlett403
    @arlisbartlett403 Před 2 lety

    😮

  • @anthonywilkens5672
    @anthonywilkens5672 Před 2 lety

    If anyone at the station cares about this reporter. Please help her. This is sad to watch for years and yet there has been no positive change in her health. And it isn’t appropriate to have her giving diet advice to us at thanksgiving. She is a lovely looking lady, but…🙏🏼
    If this body type is what you choose to say is beautiful and perfect must put a male version of this reporter on air.
    If you have ever had to pick up a almost lifeless body and carry them to Safty. It is not easy even with smaller people. But with the kind of body type you are airing would be impossible for a single grown man with a history of lifting weights would not be able to save that person. So now your straining first responders. It may take 3 grown men and now you have increased the collateral damage. And whom out there want to get ride of men??

  • @UncleFjester
    @UncleFjester Před 2 lety

    *Mellias Correra could house a family under her MooMoo!*

    • @minervagarza95
      @minervagarza95 Před 2 lety

      What a waste of a human you are, why do you exist? Have you looked in a mirror?