Senior residents voice concerns about living conditions at Virginia Beach apartment complex
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Several residents who live at the Wesleyan Place Senior Apartments in Virginia Beach tell 13News Now that they've been dealing with a range of issues including long waits for broken appliances, elevators not working and bug infestations. "It's just ridiculous. A person at this stage...
Residents of Huntsville apartment complex fed up, say something must be done about deplorable conditions
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Backed up plumbing, collapsed ceilings, broken air conditioners and spreading mold are just some of the problems that have residents of a Huntsville apartment complex at their wits' end. FOX54 spoke with two people who rent units at The Kensington, located on Lancewood Drive NW, just...
Alabama law offers certain protections to tenants living in unsafe conditions
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Squalid conditions at a Huntsville apartment complex have raised questions regarding the rights of Alabama renters living in unsafe conditions. On Thursday, FOX54 reported on concerns regarding the Kensington apartment complex just off University Drive. Two residents there described chronic problems involving electrical, plumbing and heating and cooling systems.
Inside NYC’s priciest ‘slum’ — an apartment building boasting nearly $4K rents filled with ‘mold, rats’
A rat-poop-filled Brooklyn apartment building has become the priciest slum in New York, residents claim. Multiple residents of the battered Bushwick site on Starr Street say they are paying nearly $4,000 a month to live with rat feces on the countertops, moldy ceilings and leaky roofs in the trendy area — causing them to form a tenant union to fight the alleged slumlord who owns the place. Hunter Boone, 34, started the Starr St. Union a month ago after repeatedly calling 311 over the disrepair and occasionally “unlivable” building conditions in his two-bedroom apartment, priced at $3,500 a month. ...
Tenants at San Marcos apartment report moldy units and poor conditions
SAN MARCOS, Texas — Tenants at a San Marcos apartment complex say they're living in unsafe conditions, and management isn't doing much to help. At first glance, Kimberlyn Abbott says nothing seems off about her apartment at the Grove at San Marcos. But when you take a closer look, that's where concerns start to grow.
Hartford City Council to consider resolution helping fire victims find proper temporary housing
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — On Monday, Hartford’s City Council will take up a resolution to help dozens of people displaced by a fire more than six weeks ago. Here’s the bottom line: half of the Concord Hills Apartment complex is still uninhabitable and tenants said they are being forced to stay in motels without kitchens. […]