Tenants
allege that a property management firm controlled by Trump son-in-law
Jared Kushner’s real-estate company has unjustly charged them fees and
threatened eviction to make them pay up.
Tenants of the Baltimore-area apartment complexes owned by Jared
Kushner’s real-estate company have brought a class-action lawsuit
against the firm’s property management arm over its aggressive pursuit
of tenants for allegedly unpaid rent.
The lawsuit,
filed Wednesday in Circuit Court for Baltimore City, alleges that the
management company and related corporate entities have been improperly
inflating payments owed by tenants by charging them late fees that are
often unfounded and court fees that are not actually approved by any
court. This, the lawsuit charges, sets in motion a vicious cycle in
which tenants’ rent payments are partly assessed toward the fees instead
of the actual rent owed, thus deeming the tenant once again “late” on
his or her rent payment, leading to yet more late fees and court fees.
Making matters worse, the 5 percent late fees are frequently assessed on
principal that includes allegedly unpaid fees, not just the rent
itself. Tenants are pressured to pay the snowballing bills with
immediate threat of eviction, the suit alleges.
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