The Meadowlands Apartments 1.06 Stars - Google reviews Apartment complex in Madison, Wisconsin
President of the Company says:
"I think you should read the Madison guidelines on how tough it is to evict people in your city. So why don't you talk to your alders, why don't you talk to your city officials, and get the rules changed."
Did the property management “drop the ball” as he says, or are there other issues going on there?
Are there issues with the management of the property, or are there problems with the tenants who live there causing “issues” as they say?
And are there things we aren’t allowed to say, about tenants and/or activities happening there, so instead we talk about problems with taking out the trash and “security” at the location?
It’s interesting how they never really identify the root cause of these (wink wink nudge nudge) “issues” that are plaguing the city. They just sort of talk around them.
Whatever could those “issues” be? Poor pest control? Water heaters not hot enough? Tenants can’t sleep because of traffic noise?
A Section 8 apartment complex went up near my suburban home in Suffolk, VA. It didn't take long before people were getting robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot of the upscale Kroger's Supermarket that I frequented or shot to death at the neighborhood 7-11.
And the neighborhood public schools quickly went to crap as well.
You voted Democrat that’s your problem.
The US Army Corps of Engineers should build a wall around Madison and let no one in or out and nothing in or out for six months. At the six month point they should send the mortuary people in to clean up the mess.
During the COVID nonsense, The Squad and Democrats pushed for rent moratoriums all over the country. Folks couldn’t work, they couldn’t pay rent.
Want to know what rent check NEVER stopped coming.....the Section 8 Check. And with the Section 8 check, normally comes the check for utilities and food stamps.
So, if you own a multi-family in a liberal city, guess what? You never want to go without getting the rent paid, you go Section 8.
Atlanta tore down all of their projects. Put up nice, new apartment complexes. Caveat that a certain percentage of the new apartments had to be given to some of the folks that lived there before. Usually the elderly ladies that caused no issues.
What was one of the issues with that? The elderly ladies had sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters that raised as much hell as they could. So, imagine living next to one of those sweet, elderly ladies( and they were, I dealt with them all day ), you’re paying market rent(and it ain’t cheap), but you also have to deal with her family members who are smoking weed, drinking(think the scenes in the Blind Side) all day and causing problems.
What’s the next question? How long are you going to rent that apartment next to the sweet, elderly lady? Not very long.
The apartment goes empty, they need a tenant, they put another Section 8 recipient in there and the cycle continues.
Now, if Madison wants to raise hell, look for the homeless advocates or such to start filing lawsuits and raising hell, screaming...discrimination.
And to think, Madison is one of two liberal, hellholes that cause Wisconsin to have Dem’s in the state level positions, a liberal state Supreme Court all while having an almost veto-proof Republican majority in the state legislature. Odd how that happens.
I see this happen time and time again. Brand new “affordable housing” apartments are built. The politicians all pat themselves on the back for the photo-ops and disappear back into their offices. Within a year police calls to the complex increase dramatically and the residents are complaining about roaches, broken windows, and faulty plumbing. The calls then go out for someone to “do something”.
They all ignore the fact that it is the residents (who have little to no skin in the game) who broke the windows and piled trash in the back room bringing the roaches and mice. The plumbing is backed up because everything from menstrual products to cigarette butts are flushed down the toilets.
In addition, crime is up because half the residents are dealing in drugs and they are all robbing each other for the cash and/or the drugs.
Tax-payers are then forced to pay for repairs or for the residents to all be moved to the new “affordable housing” complex just built down the road.
Rinse and repeat.
Well, as a landlord you can choose to avoid buying properties in areas where the laws are skewed in favor of renters but those tend to be the areas where you can charge higher rents too.
Yep. Apartments have to be very careful about how many low-income tenants they accept. Too many and paying customers won’t touch the place.
One of my colleagues thought he was going to be an urban pioneer and moved into a beautiful, new, high-end apartment/condo complex near the downtown area. There was a mandated set-aside for Section 8.
Colleague (uber lefty) ended up in an apartment above the Section 8 tenants - said they played thumping music 24/7, threw garbage and other things out of the windows, screamed constantly and the police were there a lot. He was able to escape and was grateful he hadn’t bought one of the units as was his original plan. My guess is the building is now ALL Section 8 - and destroyed.
‘We’ve messed up’: City, property manager says, “but at least it was YOUR money we wasted, hardy-har-har, and we got paid doing it so, hardy-har-har some more.”
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