But, there was neither a phone number to call nor a human name attached. A search of Macon-Bibb County tax records turned up a company name, Crystal Lake Holdings, LLC with an address in a suburban home in Alpharetta. And while there are legitimate reasons for property owners to do this, when the system gets abused, tenants can suffer. In some of the most impoverished regions of the country, property owners use a perfectly legal financial arrangement to make themselves hard to find, either by tenants or by lawyers and government officials. It's in corporate hands and corporate got the money,” Nash said. But when Nash ever tries to get management to do something about the problems in the building, she said it is always the same answer. Tiara Nash and her mom have an apartment on the first floor for which they pay $840 a month, a sum that according to their lease should include utilities like water. One citation was for "Structures Unfit For Human Occupancy."Īnd still, Tiara Nash said the landlords want their money. Each violation gave owners 10 days to fix things.
HIDDEN LAKE APARTMENTS MACON GA CODE
Macon-Bibb County government has been amassing a list of code violations at Crystal Lake that is pages long and runs as far back as February of 2018. One had graffitied the words “Murder” and “Redrum” on a living room wall on the eleventh floor. The open stairwell smelled of human waste and, since vacant apartments were largely unsecured, there were squatters. The elevator was broken, so a wheelchair-bound tenant on one of the upper floors needed neighbors to carry him down the stairwell. The water was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to what was wrong with the 11-story building at the heart of Crystal Lake. “That’s the only water I’m going to get,” Jordan said, tongue only slightly in cheek. Water from an early rain dripped on the plastic containing a supermarket chicken she’d brought home for lunch. That meant that Jordan, who had just left a hospital visit with her daughter after working her regular overnight shift at a nursing home, would likely stay unbathed until her next shift that night. Unfit For Human Occupancy:When Landlord Privacy Means Tenants Suffer The water was still off at Crystal Lake Apartments in Macon. But, for the second day straight, she was out of luck. When Patricia Jordan got home midmorning on Wednesday last week, all she wanted was a bath.
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