Comments on: Again: Cocaine Dealers Graciously Hosted by Frum Yidden in Lakewood

By: proud of KAJ WH TIDE

proud of KAJ WH TIDE — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:28:11 +0000

How many of these landlords are involved in tghe drug business? How many Jews are doing drugs or selling them? How can a landlord throw out a tenant who consistently pays rent on time and after moving in starts selling drugs but there were no Jews living in that area when he came in? You cannot simply throw people out or refuse to rent to them because you don’t like them. It is against the law!

By: takingabreak

takingabreak — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:59:51 +0000

dont you know that the criticism of communal responsibility can only be leveled at homeowners and not publishers who pass along unresearched claims that dont verify all the details. heaven forbid that we should be consistent that may chalila lead to moshiach coming.do we really want that to happen?!

By: 08701lakewood

08701lakewood — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:57:06 +0000

LETOELES HARABIM: to find out who owns a property in lkwd – goto ocnjtax.com and click on “OC.TaxRecords.com” on the left nav.

By: Thinking out loud

Thinking out loud — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:14:07 +0000

Interesting discussion:
Is one allowed to accept money that was earned from a chillul h-Shem?
Does it matter if you know?
Does it matter if you pretend you don’t know?
If you find money, do you try to find out where it came from?
Is it a kiddush h-Shem to be a slum lord… ANYWHERE???

Ask your Rav, I guess. But make sure you are asking the right question!!

Is one allowed to lower property values in a neigborhood, by circumventing zoning laws?

If you steal my property value, does that make you a thief, or me a kvetch!?

(Yes, its quite easy to find out on-line who owns the property)

Maybe it’s time to stop throwing around blame?

Im H-Shem lo yivne Bayis… shum amlu bonav bo… Im H-shem lo yishmor ir… shav shakkad Shomer.

By: PbP

PbP — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:32:34 +0000

http://criminalsearches.com/default.aspx

By: savelkwd

savelkwd — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:26:36 +0000

To all who blame the “vaad” about the rabbonims letter about slum lords – you are wrong. Please don’t give them any credit as one of the vaad members is a slum lord himself. I know 100% a fact they were not involved and felt the letter caused more problems.

After the letter came one vaad member told me they were considering coming out with a new initiative demanding certain responsibilities for landlords such as criminal checks….NOTHING HAPPENED- WHATS NEW

On another note in the past week hundreds of thousands of cash dollars plus extremely large amounts of drugs have been taken during many police arrests in areas that are center of Lakewood and predominantly Jewish. I am not sure why this is happening now and what allowed the police more leeway to make such arrests . YWN is only listing one arrest of several drug, guns and gang arrests that have taken place in the past week,.

A suspect murderer (who was on parole for selling drugs)was also arrested this week for trying to kill a witness and instead killed someone else in the house. This and on of the drug arrests took plce on Maple Avenue which is right near Ridge and Park so give me a break all the complainers

It’s a mitzvah to publicize all the names of these slum lords. They have had enough time to clean shop of anyone with criminal records or gang activity. .I dont care were in lakewood- You are allowing the criminals/gangs/drug dealers to make the entire Lakewood unsafe.

PUT up cameras at your properties to make sure no one is doing criminal/drug activity or being roundy at 2 am and waking up all the neighboors especialy on shabbos or even during the middle of the week. Trust me they wont.

Some in our area have clean shopped because of the letter and some were done because we the residents posted signs with their name, called them day and night and had the police coming over to the house for any nuisance that created noise or disturbance that were not normal or peaceful. Its called the Quality of Life police officer.

We don’t have to live in fear when you the slum lord live in peace. Take responsibility

We had a meeting with over 50 people showed up to voice their concerns to Chief Lawson and guess what there is a significant improvement . Yes we NOW need to remind the police force once again. If no one calls to notify them of issues they will look at other neighborhoods that need And WANT help. The police stated, to always call for anything as they track each call and it all gets entered into a system that reports patterns of criminal activity so they can properly assign the force to patrol those specific areas that need attention based on the amount of calls and type of complaints..

. MANY OF THESE CRIMINALS/DRUG DEALERS /GANGS ONLY LIVE IN LAKEWOOD BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WILL WANT TO RENT TO THEM IN ANY OTHER TOWN. READ THE BLOGS ON APP.COM. LAKEWOOD IS KNOWN FOR THE BIGGEST CRIMINAL GANGESTERS AROUND. MANY NON JEWS ARE AFRAID TO EVEN CONSIDER LIVING OR VISITING LAKEWOOD BECAUSE OF THE GANGS AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITY INCLUDING DRUGS, MURDER AND OTHER THINGS THAT CAN NOT BE POSTED HERE.

NOT TO MENTION WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO DOWNTOWN WHICH USED TO BE A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO SHOP JUST A FEW YEARS AGO.I WAS THERE TONIGHT ON 2nd STREET TO GET MEDICINE AT THE PHARMACY AND IT IS TOTAL LAWLESNESS- THAT’S WHY MANY OF THE JEWISH STORES ARE MOVING AWAY.

By: mark levin

mark levin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:14:56 +0000

GIVE US NAMES! LETS KNOW WHO RENTS TO THE DREGS OF SOCIETY.

By: Health

Health — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:34:42 +0000

All the landlord bloggers should stop pointing fingers at YWN and look in the mirror. Lakewood is not what it was even a few years ago, even a lot of bad neighborhoods have now frum yidden living in or near these neighborhoods. Maybe you should say to yourself that I should listen to the gedolim, it’s not just the Rosh Yeshivos of BMG saying this. Maybe you should reconsider renting to unsavory characters. Many yidden will now rent or buy in almost any neighborhood, and if you can’t find yidden -there are many ways to weed out the bad from the decent goyim. There are many companies online that offer background checks, and I’m sure there are many other ways to find out what is going on with your property. Stop putting your head in the sand and pretending that you’ve done all your histadlus. Also, your financial income is not more important than ruining someone’s neighborhood. Also, stop with
this business “I was there first”, let them live
somewhere else. If you want them to live somewhere else -why don’t you switch your mansion down 14th St. or wherever you live with their house. After one week in that neighborhood, you’ll
wonder how one Jew can treat another Jew this way and allow this to go on. BTW, that lawsuit you had against the township with regards to cleaning up properties was a total chillul Hashem. You knew it had nothing to do with discrimination!

By: red

red — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:37:05 +0000

This reminds me of what some “frum”yidden did to the Bronx Many decades ago.
They turned 4 family homes into boarding houses and filled them with PR’s.
Within a decade the East Bronx was lost.

By: slammer47

slammer47 — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:02:43 +0000

#4 yoina there are plenty of yidden there, and not everything u don’t like has to be blamed on the vaad and if u don’t like this town u can move out ! !!! And THANK YOU YW for posting this stuff maybe after enough storys the landlords will have enough of everyone talking about them and they will do something.