New York landlords promise to fix Shaker Square apartments at meeting with frustrated tenants, dozens of whom are now paying their rent into an escrow account
From left to right, Cleveland city council members Deborah Gray and Blaine Griffin, Yaacov Amar, and Eli and Mordecai Weiss of E&M Management at the Feb. 22 tenant meeting at Our Lady of Peace Church.The New York owner of three Cleveland apartment buildings on Shaker Blvd. which went without heat for months this winter met with community members this week to talk about plans to fix the building.
Shaker Heights Apartment Owners LLC, a group with ties to the Chetrit Group in New York City, bought the three buildings at 12500, 12600, and 12701 Shaker Blvd. in January 2022 for $12.4 million. At the time of the purchase, the building had already been cited for several interior and exterior violations, including lack of heat and issues with the elevators, according to city records obtained by The Land.
Frustration boiled over at his response and the lack of a clear timeline and comprehensive plan for building repairs. In one particularly tense moment, a resident asked Amar how to contact him so that they can let him know if issues aren’t fixed in a timely way. “You, sir, have repeatedly said that you don’t know what’s going on and no one spoke to you,” said Ronald James, a retired county worker who lives at The Residences of Shaker Boulevard at 12701 Shaker.
Another resident complained about having to use a space heater and her oven to heat her apartment. “It pisses me off when I go by the building, and I see windows up in some apartments, and the heat doesn’t work in my apartment,” she said. “I’m tired of heating my apartment with an oven. Space heaters from Home Depot are expensive.”
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