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Message: [QUOTE="bevosu, post: 3780274, member: 46"] When I first moved to Syracuse The Skyline apartments were considered higher end...Imperial Gardens and The Regency Tower. All decent. It's obvious that slumlords have gotten away with murder on the south side...near west side and now the north side with multi-family and single-family rentals. The Skyline is a larger example of that neglected neglect. Something is wrong when slumlords are allowed to basically ruin neighborhoods. Here's a Google comment from a resident of the Skyline. [IMG]https://maps.gstatic.com/consumer/images/icons/2x/ic_star_rate_empty_14.png[/IMG][IMG]https://maps.gstatic.com/consumer/images/icons/2x/ic_star_rate_empty_14.png[/IMG] a month ago I moved in three years ago, and despite how much I love my apartment I have made the difficult decision to leave. In the last year the safety issues have become so much worse that I no longer allow family and friends to visit. I am also in danger of losing my home health care provider due to the safety issues. Some agencies will no longer send their workers here. The police are here almost every day and quite often more than once. Other emergency vehicles arrive daily as well. The Fire Dept., must come almost every day to turn off the faulty fire alarm - sometimes three or more times a day! This evening it went off four times. The reality is that the owner uses the city's police department as a free security outfit because he won't invest in the proper professional security measures recommended by the department. Long term tenants have left in a grand exodus. But the owner simply increased the number of apartments available to a large not for profit agency that provides subsidized apartments for the chronically homeless. That is not a bad thing except the government program that pays for this, by law does not allow for its clients (the homeless) to be forced into mental health, addiction treatments, evaluations or ANY programs against their will. The idea is to get the homeless off the street first and then inform them that these programs are available "should they want them". Therefor there are a good percentage who are not prepared or provided the necessary tools to successfully transition from years of living on the streets. And just as an aside; current estimates have it that 25% of the long term chronically homeless suffer from undiagnosed and untreated mental illness. The Greens are simply profiting off the taxpayers dime by receiving guaranteed rental income provided by the government. The program is a desperate attempt to solve a problem that has no real solution. There is no supervision or on-site staff for them yet, the Skyline is becoming a hybrid shelter/psychiatric center that is neither staffed or experienced in dealing with inherent issues involved. And there are drugs, drugs, and so much more drugs! The amount of drug selling, usage, and associated incidents is so rampant it is unavoidable. I have been offered drugs while in the elevator during the middle of the day - and so has my aid!!! I can watch it take place from my window when I am bored. I can smell it when I open my apartment door - and even if I do not. Currently almost a quarter of the 360 apartments are rented by that one agency. To put it bluntly, the owner Tim Green has turned the Skyline into a chaotic and very unsafe place in order to collect guaranteed subsidized rent that is given to these agencies by the State and Federal government. One last thing. Aside from the many other unmentioned issues it all comes down to the owner Tim Green and his son not wanting to invest in the proper money and resources necessary to change this. They just collect the subsidized rent, while living handsomely off the tax-payers in their big mansion on the lake. And although they may be trying to sell this mess, they currently own 34 other buildings within in four states. Just imagine the sheer amount of damage this one family, the Greens are contributing to all the communities in which their buildings happen to be. [/QUOTE]

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