I slept well again last night despite the heat in the building being set rather high. The heat in my apartment is controllable via the valve in the baseboard, but the property manager has forbidden me to use it, stating that it will be removed if it screws up again. Goldberg Realty Assoc and Newtonian Gardens property owner, Michael Goldberg, probably doesn’t even know where the property manager for this place is any more than I do.
If there is a serious emergency on this property, like a fire, life could be lost due to things like the lacking presence of anyone with access to keys. I’m quite certain The Newton PD knows what’s going on here and elsewhere and yet the town does nothing. I’m sure the county and state are aware of what goes on here and elsewhere too.
But property managers like Goldberg Realty Assoc are allowed to do what they damn well please in Sussex County New Jersey. So long as they can write a check to pay the fine for their sins, it just doesn’t matter. I’m sure it’s the same no matter where you go.
How do I know the property manager isn’t here? My open fire escape window overlooks the steps to the boiler room in Building 2. Normally, around 7:00 AM or so, on a day like today, I’d hear someone go downstairs to turn the heat off or adjust it as needed. But that clearly hasn’t happened yet, as my baseboards are quite warm right now.
This seemingly permissible virtual operation of apartment complexes here in Sussex County NJ is a threat to the safety and wellbeing to the residents of Newtonian Gardens Apartments and elsewhere and unfair given the rents that are charged. The perceived allowance of Goldberg Realty Assoc and other property management companies in the State of New Jersey to renovate apartments; making structural changes to buildings without proper engineering assessments or inspections being done is a safety threat to tenants as well.
How do I know that these things aren’t being done properly? “You are never going to convince me it’s normal for my floors to shake, closet doors to rattle and cabinet doors to vibrate, along with the burners on my stove and shelves in the refrigerator when my downstairs neighbor does laundry.”
Of course, it’s probably happening in other apartments as well. But who wants to admit these things. As it is, everyone around here is paying ridiculously high rent for what I would call substandard housing. But Why rock the boat if you only think you are going to be told, “If you don’t like it than move.”
So, instead, I’m simply going to meditate on my property manager suffering a major snowboarding or skydiving accident (I hear he’s got a hanger for auto mechanic type stuff at Sussex Airport) when he should really be here at Newtonian Gardens. I’m also going to pray that Janel Winter, who runs the Housing Division of the NJ Department of Community Affairs, acquires a catastrophic disability that renders her useless to anyone for her role in what’s going on in Sussex County New Jersey.
No one is going to convince me at this point that what I’ve described is being allowed to go on because there isn’t a benefit to someone for looking the other way. “I’m a passionate, mission-driven leader with more than 15 years of experience in the affordable housing, homelessness and community development fields,” My Ass! I guess it looks good on a LinkedIn profile though.