Houston judge orders closure of troubled Crestmont Village apartments (owned by nationwide slumlord)
At the urging of the city of Houston, a judge Thursday ordered the long-troubled Crestmont Village apartments closed by Oct. 30.
Lawyers for the city appeared before Judge Alexandra Smoots-Hogan, who presided over an emergency hearing to appoint a temporary receiver to the complex in September. No representatives for the owner of the property attended the hearing.
After the Oct. 30 deadline, the apartment's receiver will move to evict any remaining residents. Forty-five of about 100 unites in the development remain occupied, officials said.
Lawyers for the city called inspectors and the property's court-appointed receiver to talk about what they called "deteriorating conditions."
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/City-moves-to-condemn-long-trouble-Crestmont-6558540.php
[font color=330099]The apartment complex is owned by Denise Vaknin, a slumlord who lives in a posh multi-million property in New Jersey, and runs other dilapidated apartments in Miami and Indianapolis. The owners of the complex failed to pay the utility bill and electrical power was shut off to the complex in September.[/font]
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