SCAM ALERT Safeguard Properties + Forest City = Slavic Village Recovery - First House 'donated' by the County Land Bank

Submitted by Gone Fishin on Thu, 06/20/2013 - 18:59.

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The Cuyahoga County Land Bank has started the process of giving Safeguard Properties & Forest City (Slavic Village Recovery LLC ) up to 50 houses- with the possibility of 100's more.

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Slavic Village, the Cleveland neighborhood often called "ground zero" in the nation's foreclosure crisis, might become the proving ground for a recovery.
A private-philanthropic partnership aims to acquire, renovate and sell or rent out 50 vacant houses in the southeastern city neighborhood this year -- and could tackle hundreds more.
Called Slavic Village Recovery LLC, the new business is backed by Cleveland real estate developer Forest City Enterprises Inc.; Safeguard Properties, a Valley View company that maintains foreclosed properties for banks; and a pair of local nonprofits.
 

 

The very first property given to Slavic Village Recovery LLC was on June 19, 2013 and is located at 3679 East 54th Street in Cleveland's Slavic Village area.

 

Transfer Date: 19-JUN-13 AFN Number: Receipt:
Parcel Deed Type Vol / Page Sales Amt Convey. Fee Convey. No Multiple Sale / No. of Parcels
131-35-075 Warranty Deed / $2,495 $10 281085 0 / 1
  
Grantee(s) Grantor(s)
 
SLAVIC VILLAGE RECOVERY
 
CUYAHOGA COUNTY LAND REUTILIZATION CORPORATION

 

 

 

 

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According to county records, the county land bank sold this property to Slavic Village Recovery LLC for $2,495.

 

The county land bank has hoarded this property since May 2011 and has saved it for such a special occasion.

 

Safeguard Properties founder and chairman, Robert Klein,  believes lenders will give away those troubled houses, starting in Slavic Village, to get the burden off their books.

Klein's goal: Get a house for free or for very little money. Invest $40,000 to $50,000 in renovations, using Safeguard's national network of contractors to lower the cost. Then sell the house for $60,000, turning a small profit and providing affordable housing in a city neighborhood.   
 

 

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Safeguard Properties should have no problem lowering the cost by using their own contractors since they don't like paying their contractors after the work was performed.  Safeguard Properties is well known across the country for ripping off their contractors after their work was completed.

I investigated Safeguard Properties for years and this company has received more complaints than any other company that I am aware of.  Contractors across the country have resorted to creating their own websites to complain and spread the word about Safeguard Properties con game:
 
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Complaint Review: Safeguard properties
 
Safeguard properties This company owes me around 15,000 dollars, contractors beware stop while you dont have alot of money in to making them rich, because once they let you go and they always do. YOU WILL NOT BE PAID cleveland, Ohio
 
 
 
 
MoveOn Petitions
 
 
 
Making sure "Safeguard Properties" is held accountable
 
 
Safeguard Properties Incorporated Safeguard's Bank / REO Clients Should Know The Truth! Internet
 
 
 
 
 
Urge Safeguard Properties to come clean.
  • Target: Robert Klein CEO of Safeguard Properties
  • Sponsored by: John Markham

Safeguard Properties is based out of cleveland Ohio, this company has a horrible track record for keeping money that its contractors earn and charging them back on their pay if they so please. They also have thrown many people out onto the street, working closely with banks such as Bank of America, Citi Bank, Chase Manhattan, HSBC, to name a few. This housing and urban development(HUD) company is taking advantage of everyone that it hires, and is abusing its power by taking advantage of homeowners throughout the nation. Lets stop these corporate criminals and hold them accountable.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 If you google 'Safeguard Properties Complaints Lawsuits" you will find hundreds and hundreds of complaints and lawsuits.
 
 
Another major complaint regarding Safeguard Properties is with contractors entering occupied homes that are in the beginning stages of foreclosure.  Contractors are hired in an attempt to secure these properties and protect the mortgage holder's interest.
 
Property owners across the country come home to their still LEGALLY owned and occupied homes , only to find locks changed and personal items stolen.  No foreclosure was even granted in court. Some homeowners were completely wiped out by these thieves.  THOUSANDS of property owners have complained about this issue.
 
 
Safeguard Properties Internal Documents Reveal Rampant Complaints Of Thefts, Break-Ins
 
 
Outside in the world, Safeguard Properties was supposed to be protecting millions of homes that had slid into foreclosure, shoring up and repairing abandoned properties for the banks that were responsible for tending to all this real estate gone bad.
But inside the offices of Safeguard’s complaint department, Kevin Kubovcik says he gained a starkly different perspective on his company's pursuits as allegations of incompetence, malevolence and larceny rolled in day after day.
People with legal title to their property called to complain that Safeguard contractors had broken into their homes and carted off family heirlooms, valuable artwork and weapons, he recalled. People living next door to foreclosed properties complained that Safeguard mixed up the addresses and locked them out of their own homes.
Complaints came in seemingly without end. "I'd pick up the phone, put it down, and then it would ring again," Kubovcik said.
A recent Huffington Post investigation focused on Safeguard as the largest player in a little-scrutinized industry spawned by the American housing bust: the contractors tasked with the gritty work of maintaining a veritable empire of distressed real estate. Safeguard has been the target of dozens of lawsuits alleging that its contractors have wrongly broken into properties and carted off people’s property.
In response to previous questions from HuffPost about break-ins at occupied properties, Safeguard dismissed such incidents as "extremely rare" compared to the sheer volume of jobs the company manages. But Kubovcik, who logged and investigated complaints for more than two years until he left the company in April 2010, said his experience attests to precisely the opposite. 
 
 
To Clean Up Foreclosure Mess, Banks Rely On Little-Known Industry Plagued By Fraud, Abuse
 
 
Last March, a 23-year-old bank contractor cut through the secured gate at the entrance to a farm in Little Rock, Ark., and proceeded to a small house on the property. There, according to a police report, he broke the lock off one of the doors and forced his way inside.
The man, who police would later identify as David Cole, was allegedly there on official business: He worked in a little-known but booming industry that maintains and inspects millions of foreclosed and abandoned homes owned by mortgage lenders in the wake of an epochal real estate bust. The bank responsible for this particular home had presumably decided that the home was another discarded mess, and Cole's company had been dispatched to shore the building against the ravages of weather and decay.
The owner of the property, a recently widowed woman named Marie Osborne, acknowledges that she was indeed in foreclosure. She was away when Cole arrived, she said. Still, the house was very much hers and far from abandoned, as even a cursory review would have made clear, according to a lawsuit she subsequently filed.
When she returned home, Osborne was "astonished" to discover that her doors had been padlocked and her belongings ransacked, she claims. A grandfather clock was missing, along with an antique gold mirror, several televisions and family photos, Osborne alleges.
Osborne filed the lawsuit against those she asserts are responsible -- Safeguard Properties, a Valley View, Ohio-based firm that has quietly become a giant in the business of tending to abandoned properties, and Daryl Cole, proprietor of Cole & Sons, a local business that was supposedly acting as a subcontractor.
 
 
 
 
 
Fraud, abuse, theft, larceny, incompetence and malevolence.        Safeguard Properties will fit right in with the County Land Bank.
 
 
 
Safeguard has been working with the county land bank for years.  It is no surprise to read about the County Land Bank's willingness to give this company taxpayer's property that the county land bank has hoarded from other possible investors.  Again, another selective beneficiary of taxpayer property.  
 
 
Renters, Homeowners & Investors: The Changing Profile of Communities
February 26, 2013
Renters, Homeowners & Investors: Panel 3
 
Well, one of the--I talked earlier about the Slavic Village partnership that we're working 
on with--for ForestCity and Safeguard and quite frankly is that mix and match. Safeguard is 
coming in, understanding that not every property is going to be turned over and become 
homeownership but they're going to hold and that's where ForestCity comes into play. They're 
going to hold the properties and put them into the rental portfolio. So, the key to the partnership 
was that they want to be able to hit a 2,000 house block of--2,000 houses in a number of blocks 
and touch everyone of them.
 
 
 
 
The plan  was put in place a couple years ago:
 
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
 
 
Major banks may give away discarded residences to cut losses
 
 
City sources said the representatives are from Safeguard Properties of Cleveland. Also in the meeting was James Rokakis, former Cuyahoga County treasurer who worked on foreclosure issues there. Spokeswoman for Safeguard Diane Fusco confirmed the discussions were under way.
 
 
 
And Robert Klein of Safeguard Properties has traveled the country on a 'demolition crusade':
 
 
Fernbacher’s company GSPS is a contractor for several property preservation firms. All they do is tear down homes. They are the last resort for many communities all over the country overrun with blight.
 
One of Fernbacher’s clients is Safeguard Properties, the Ohio-based property preservation firm. Its founder Robert Klein is taking Fernbacher around the country this year from conference to conference on a demolition crusade, to convince cities to pursue the clean slate their hardest hit communities crave. 
 
Their first opportunity is a quiet place left even more silent after the housing downturn. In Slavic Village, a community located in Cleveland, Ohio, home prices plummeted from nearly $150,000 during the housing boom to roughly $39,000 today, according to data from Altos Research.
 
Safeguard and GSPS will start a pilot program this year to demolish 2,200 Slavic Village homes that are considered beyond saving. But it isn’t as simple as that.
 
Barbara Anderson was one of the first black homebuyers in Slavic Village. According to her Senate testimony in 2007, a broker approached her with a refinancing proposal and approved her for a loan at 8.5% through the now-defunct Conti Mortgage. Within four years, the rate jumped to 14.5%, pushing her monthly payment higher by nearly 60%. Her loan was sold 15 times over that time. Today, the result is apparent. Slavic Village is a ghost town.
Klein with community leaders and the local city council president in February with their solution.
Safeguard placed all Slavic Village properties into three categories. Owner-occupied homes fall into the first category, homes in need of rehabilitation but vacant are the second category, and the third category consists of ones that need to come down.
Most of the properties sit in either of the first two categories, but any progress waits on tearing down the ones in category three.
“No developer will come in when you have five occupied properties, five vacant properties and one that needs to be demolished. Those five properties are affordable, and can be rehabbed fairly cheaply. But nobody will come in until you’ve demolished that one property,” Klein said. “What we’re doing now is we’re putting together a model to make this thing work in Slavic Village. If it works in Slavic Village, we can do this anywhere in the country.”
 
 
 
Safeguard Properties had their dirty little hands in the county's land bank for a long time:
 
On a national level, two organizations are working to acquire REO properties and connect them to local organizations:The nonprofit
National Community Stabilization Trust was formed in 2008 by six national nonprofits with expertise in community development and
housing.The REO Clearinghouse, a for-profit agency formed by Safeguard Properties, was established in early 2009.Both agencies’ purpose
is to help stem the decline of communities with high concentrations of vacant and abandoned property by connecting national-level servicers
with local community development organizations, offering foreclosed properties to these organizations at discounted rates. Cleveland
was one of the first cities to work with both the Trust and the REO Clearinghouse. Although these organizations’ current efforts in northeast
Ohio are small in scale and strategically focused on very specific areas, they will help inform and direct broader efforts going forward.
 
 
 
REO CLEARINGHOUSE formed by Safeguard Properties is certainly 'clearing house' in Cuyahoga County:
 
Every day, Cuyahoga County Treasurer Jim Rokakis gets correspondence from new Cleveland real estate investors that makes him crazy.
 
Also with the company is Northeast Ohio’s Robert Klein, CEO of Safeguard Properties, one of the largest caretakers of foreclosures for financial institutions. Treasurer Rokakis says the county’s new landbank is looking at buying about 550 Cuyahoga County homes through REO Clearinghouse.
Jim Rokakis:The clearinghouse will be a logical place to go to acquire properties for the land bank not in groups of one or two or three or four, but a place to go to acquire properties in groups of hundreds.
REO Clearinghouse is piloting in Cleveland with plans to go national. http://www.ideastream.org/news/feature/26031/
 
 
 
Safeguard Properties has control over demolitions and county taxpayer's property in the land bank.
 
This is probably the biggest scam yet in Cuyahoga County.  Much bigger than Jimmy Dimora being bribed with prostitutes.
 
 
 
Safeguard Properties should have used this 'donation' money to pay one of their many contractors that have been cheated out of their money:
 
 
 Western Reserve Land Conservancy Donors
 
Visionaries
$25,000 and over:
 
 
 
It's time to free Frank Russo and Jimmy Dimora from federal prison.  I would rather deal with those two corrupt thieves than this one that has devasted folks across the country.
 
This sums it up:
 
 
 
"Oh no.. Robert Klein is involved!!! Not a good thing for the City Of Cleveland. It comes down to cutting corners to make the most money possible. He has no intrest in helping the city it is just about how much money he can get out of the property. It makes his other company look good to the banks he works for by getting rid of the properties they have in inventory and let the city pay the bill to tear it down. Just keep a good eye on this guy. "  http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2009/05/reo_clearinghouse_wants_to_act.html
 
 
 
 
 




*** UPDATE ***   We are currently seeking other homeowners who were wrongfully evicted from their homes by Safeguard Properties or one of their vendors. Most states have a consumer fraud law that prohibits a banks and property managers from illegally breaking into one’s home, changing locks, falsely telling homeowners they can’t return and from stealing one’s personal possessions.
In addition to homeowners who may have become victim to Safeguard, we are also seeking to talk to vendors or contractors who have knowledge of Safeguard’s practices.
For more information or to see if you have a potential claim, contact attorney Brian Mahany at brian [at] mahanyertl [dot] com or by telephone at (414) 704-6731 (direct). All potential client inquiries are protected by the attorney-client privilege and kept in confidence.
Post by Brian Mahany, Esq.
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Others across the country are alleging discrimination against Safeguard Properties relative to "significant disparities in the maintenance of foreclosed properties in communities of color compared to White communities." 
 
The Cuyahoga County Land Bank is GIVING Safeguard Properties FREE property in the exact same neighborhoods in which Safeguard Properties was hired by lenders to maintain and 'safeguard' this property.
Now the property is 'distressed' and both the land bank and banks are giving Safeguard this property for free.
 
This is a major conflict of interest and waste of taxpayer's money.
 
 
 
STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF COMPLAINT OF 
THE NATIONAL FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE; MIAMI VALLEY FAIR HOUSING 
CENTER; FAIR HOUSING CENTER OF CENTRAL INDIANA; TOLEDO FAIR 
HOUSING CENTER; HOPE FAIR HOUSING CENTER; AND SOUTH SUBURBAN 
FAIR HOUSING CENTER 
AGAINST SAFEGUARD PROPERTIES 
 
I. INTRODUCTION 
 
 The National Fair Housing Alliance, Miami Valley Fair Housing Center, Fair Housing 
Center of Central Indiana, Toledo Fair Housing Center, HOPE Fair Housing Center, and South 
Suburban Housing Center (collectively, “Complainants”) bring this complaint based on 
Respondents Safeguard Properties LLC and Safeguard Properties Management LLC’s 
(collectively, “Respondents”) racial discrimination in their maintenance of foreclosed homes in 
violation of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 3601 et seq. (“FHA”). 
 
 Confronted with a national foreclosure crisis, Complainants have turned their attention to 
the maintenance and rehabilitation of foreclosed properties in an effort to ensure that all 
communities are being treated equally by those responsible for maintaining foreclosed properties 
and preparing them for resale. Far from equal treatment, there are significant disparities in the 
maintenance of foreclosed properties in communities of color compared to White communities. 
 
 Respondents are Field Service Vendors (FSV) that have contracted with Fannie Mae to 
provide property maintenance services at Real Estate Owned properties (REOs) owned or 
controlled by Fannie Mae. Respondents have engaged in a pattern of discrimination through 
their selective fulfillment of their FSV responsibilities based on race. Specifically, Respondents 
maintain Fannie Mae properties located in White census tracts noticeably better than they 
maintain Fannie Mae properties located in predominantly African-American and Latino 
neighborhoods in the same metropolitan area. Respondents have engaged in such discriminatory 
conduct in communities across the country, including Dayton, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; 
Chicago, Illinois; and Charleston, South Carolina. 
 
 The result of the Respondents’ unlawful behavior is deteriorating and neglected 
structures in minority communities, as compared to well-maintained, attractive properties in 
White neighborhoods. Respondents’ conduct has impeded neighborhood stabilization and 
economic recovery, and harmed investors, homeowners, and municipalities by unnecessarily 
depressing property values. 
 
http://nationalfairhousing.org/Portals/33/2013-03-21%20Safeguard%20Complaint_FINAL.pdf
 
Safeguard Properties is allegedly "unnecessarily depressing property values across the country", so our county has decided to give them FREE property in areas which have depressed property value- which Safeguard Properties probably contributed to the depressed value in the first place.
 
 
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Slavic Village Recovery + Slavic Village Dev. = Safeguard scam

Submitted by Gone Fishin on Thu, 06/27/2013 - 19:17.

Slavic Village Development  is now transferring property to Slavic Village Recovery  , aka Safeguard Properties & Forest City.

 

Who would have  guessed this was going to happen???? !!!!!    

 

This is what happens when a con artist is control of the Cuyahoga County Land Bank  http://realneo.us/content/gus-frangos-president-cuyahoga-county-land-bank-con-artist-jesus

A con artist who has committed several counts of MORTGAGE FRAUD   http://realneo.us/content/cuyahoga-county-land-bank-president-gus-frangos-con-artist-forges-documents-obtain-2nd-mortg

 

 

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The property located at 3672 East 54th Street in Cleveland, Ohio is the second house that has transferred to Slavic Village Recovery LLC. 

 

Transfer Date: 25-JUN-13 AFN Number: Receipt:
Parcel Deed Type Vol / Page Sales Amt Convey. Fee Convey. No Multiple Sale / No. of Parcels
131-35-112 Quit Claim Deed Ex / $0 $0 0 / 1
  
Grantee(s) Grantor(s)
 
SLAVIC VILLAGE RECOVERY LLC
 
SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT

 

Both properties are on East 54th Street.

 

And it gets worse.   MUCH WORSE.

 

Aeon Financial fbo Capital Source Bank Tax Lien THIEVES transferred the property to Slavic Village Development:

 

Transfer Date: 25-JUN-13 AFN Number: Receipt:
Parcel Deed Type Vol / Page Sales Amt Convey. Fee Convey. No Multiple Sale / No. of Parcels
131-35-112 Limited Warranty Ex / $0 $0 0 / 1
  
Grantee(s) Grantor(s)
 
SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT
 
AEON FINANCIAL LLC

 

This property transferred from Aeon Financial  to Slavic Village Development to Slavic Village Recovery ON THE SAME DATE -  June 25, 2013.

 

Prior to incompetent Cuyahoga County officials selling out the original property owner for petty delinquent property taxes, the former owner owned this property since December 10, 2004.

 

The property transferred to Aeon Financial fbo Capital Source Bank on February 18, 2011.

NO PROPERTY TAXES were paid by Aeon Financial since the February 18, 2011 transfer.  

Aeon Financial Tax Lien THIEVES owed Cuyahoga County $ 1,881.14 in delinquent property taxes prior to 'donating' this property to Slavic Village Development.

The delinquent property taxes were wiped out and reduced to $0

 

Does this make sense to anyone? 

 

Why does Cuyahoga County allow tax lien companies to foreclose on property owners for delinquent property taxes and not say a word when the tax lien companies do NOT pay their own property taxes on property that was foreclosed upon for delinquent property taxes?   

http://realneo.us/content/plymouth-park-tax-services-aka-xspand-cuyahoga-county-victims-corruption-deserve-justice

http://realneo.us/content/aeon-financial-aka-capitalsource-bank-property-tax-foreclosure-thieves-does-not-pay-their-ow

 

Why is Gus Frangos in charge of all county taxpayer's property and millions of dollars?   

Who appointed  this incompetent person to be in charge?

 

Cuyahoga County Land Bank - Creators dabble in TEN MILLION DOLLAR Property Jim Rokakis & Gus Frangos

 

 

Slavic Village Development is listed as a 'non profit' organization.  

Slavic Village Recovery is a 'for profit' company, so the transfer had to go through Slavic Village Development first.

They had to wipe out those damn delinquent property taxes.

 

Slavic Village Development owns a lot of property in Cuyahoga County.  One by one it will all be in the hands of Slavic Village Recovery.

I feel sorry for the Safeguard Properties contractors who will more than likely get ripped off  after they work on all of these houses:

 

133-10-042  SLAVIC VILLAGE DEV.  07712    MARBLE  CLEVELAND 
132-10-008  SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPEMENT C  05406    FLEET  CLEVELAND 
125-26-001  SLAVIC VILLAGE DEV  05601    BROADWAY 

CLEVELAND

133-03-051 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEV 03598 E 74 

CLEVELAND 134-07-022 

SLAVIC VILLAGE DEV   WEBB CLEVELAND 

133-10-012 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEV CORP 07705  BROADWAY CLEVELAND

 132-01-112 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEV, 03625 E 59 CLEVELAND 

125-05-031 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEV. 03051 E 63 CLEVELAND

 125-05-032 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEV. 03069 E 63 CLEVELAND 

125-05-058 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEV. 03052 E 65 CLEVELAND

 125-05-059 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEV.  E 65 CLEVELAND 

125-33-033 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPEMENT 06819  UNION CLEVELAND 

133-03-053 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPEMENT 03588 E 74 CLEVELAND 

131-20-089 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPEMENT 03416 E 52 CLEVELAND 

131-21-055 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPEMENT 03412 E 53 CLEVELAND 

132-07-091 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPEMENT 03720 E 69 CLEVELAND 

131-21-100 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPEMENT 03427 E 52 CLEVELAND 

131-22-084 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPEMENT 05628  BROADWAY CLEVELAND

 123-31-028 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPEMENT 05019  BARKWILL CLEVELAND

 123-30-001 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPEMENT CO   BROADWAY CLEVELAND

 125-26-145 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 05610  HAMLET CLEVELAND 

125-05-054 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 03080 E 65 CLEVELAND 

125-36-072 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 03444 E 76 CLEVELAND 

125-01-020 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 06409  FRANCIS CLEVELAND 

125-28-005 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 06107  BROADWAY CLEVELAND 

125-33-080 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 03445 E 69 CLEVELAND 

125-12-111 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 06515  PHILETUS CLEVELAND 

125-26-002 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 05605  BROADWAY CLEVELAND 

125-26-004 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 05619  BROADWAY CLEVELAND

 125-26-009 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 05715  BROADWAY CLEVELAND

 125-32-028 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 06509  UNION CLEVELAND 

132-09-018 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 03802 E 52 CLEVELAND 

133-03-045 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 03628 E 74 CLEVELAND 

132-06-028 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 06622  FORMAN CLEVELAND 

132-10-007 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT   FLEET CLEVELAND 

133-10-013 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 07723  BROADWAY CLEVELAND

 133-10-014 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 07725  BROADWAY CLEVELAND 

133-10-015 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 07731  BROADWAY CLEVELAND 

133-10-016 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 07735  BROADWAY CLEVELAND

 133-10-017 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT   BROADWAY CLEVELAND 

134-11-006 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 04301 E 71 CLEVELAND 

133-10-053 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 07700  MARBLE CLEVELAND

 133-19-061 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 07411  OTTAWA CLEVELAND 

131-28-019 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 03624  INDEPENDENCE CLEVELAND 

133-05-018 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 07507  AETNA CLEVELAND 

131-28-052 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 03594  BEYERLE CLEVELAND

 132-07-076 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 06813  FORMAN CLEVELAND

 132-10-165 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 03843 E 55 CLEVELAND 

133-05-109 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 03606 E 76 CLEVELAND 

132-14-085 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 06608  GERTRUDE CLEVELAND 

132-24-043 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 06705  CLEMENT CLEVELAND 

133-02-009 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT   UNION CLEVELAND 

133-02-010 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 07308  UNION CLEVELAND 

133-02-051 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 03576 E 74 CLEVELAND 

133-03-012 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 07119  AETNA CLEVELAND 

132-04-020 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 06519  BAXTER CLEVELAND 

125-32-012 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 03425 E 65 CLEVELAND 

131-36-040 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 05805  HUSS CLEVELAND 

132-24-002 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 06406  HARVARD CLEVELAND 

133-10-008 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT COR 07649  BROADWAY CLEVELAND

 133-10-011 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT COR 07655  BROADWAY CLEVELAND 

132-13-049 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT COR 06419  GERTRUDE CLEVELAND

 131-37-031 SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT COR 05505  FLEET CLEVELAND 

132-14-057  SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT COR  06722    FULLERTON  CLEVELAND 
132-08-103  SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT COR  03731  E  63  CLEVELAND 
131-22-076  SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT COR  05742    BROADWAY  CLEVELAND 
132-03-007  SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT COR  07018    UNION  CLEVELAND 
133-08-021  SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT GRO  03712  E  77  CLEVELAND 
131-21-052  SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELPOMENT  03404  E  53  CLEVELAND 
131-21-053  SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELPOMENT  03406  E  53 

CLEVELAND

 
 

Its a good thing Gus Frangos has a handle on the foreclosure crisis.  

 

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Local media FINALLY reports on Safeguard Properties

Submitted by Gone Fishin on Thu, 11/28/2013 - 03:27.

I suppose the local media had no choice but to report on Safeguard Properties.  This is old news and has already been reported across the country for many YEARS.  It has been reported everywhere except where Safeguard Properties has its headquarters.

 

Investigation: Homeowners complain Safeguard Properties damaged their homes, trashed the belongings

A Five On Your Side investigation uncovers numerous complaints about serious mistakes made by a prominent northeast Ohio company.
Safeguard Properties is the largest property preservation company in the U.S.
Banks hire Safeguard to inspect and maintain vacant, defaulted and foreclosed homes.
The complaints
Five On Your Side investigators found 68 federal lawsuits filed against Safeguard Properties.
The lawsuits were filed in 27 states, including Ohio,
In the lawsuits, homeowners allege contractors working for Safeguard Properties illegally entered their homes, damaged their property and tossed their belongings in the trash.
For example, in 2011, a Pennsylvania couple filed a lawsuit that says the company’s contractors took their daughter’s pet cat and damaged their china when they entered their home.
In 2012, a Florida woman filed a lawsuit alleging Safeguard contractors took an urn containing her mother’s remains when they removed all of the belongings from her home.





Read more: http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/investigations/investigation-homeowners-complain-safeguard-properties-damaged-their-homes-trashed-the-belongings#ixzz2lvRLqpOq

 

 

Safeguard Properties Internal Documents Reveal Rampant Complaints Of Thefts, Break-Ins 

 

Outside in the world, Safeguard Properties was supposed to be protecting millions of homes that had slid into foreclosure, shoring up and repairing abandoned properties for the banks that were responsible for tending to all this real estate gone bad. 

 

But inside the offices of Safeguard’s complaint department, Kevin Kubovcik says he gained a starkly different perspective on his company's pursuits as allegations of incompetence, malevolence and larceny rolled in day after day. 

 

People with legal title to their property called to complain that Safeguard contractors had broken into their homes and carted off family heirlooms, valuable artwork and weapons, he recalled. People living next door to foreclosed properties complained that Safeguard mixed up the addresses and locked them out of their own homes. 

 

Complaints came in seemingly without end. "I'd pick up the phone, put it down, and then it would ring again," Kubovcik said.  

 



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/safeguard-properties-complaints_n_3165191.html


 

Safeguard Properties is getting it's ass kicked across the country.  Cuyahoga County should GIVE them some more FREE property and make them feel better.

 

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Federal $$$ is EASY $$$ for the mob

Submitted by lmcshane on Fri, 06/28/2013 - 07:53.

  GREED: Rokakis, Frangos, Forest City, Safeguard - these are the folks behind the Land Bank and, prior to their fake front of the "Land Bank" - their engineering of tax lien sales to benefit outfits like GLS Capital and Plymouth Park - these folks don't have a life - they live to suck blood out of every living creature in Northeast Ohio.

I am glad Bill Faith is speaking out - more need to step forward:

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/06/flexibility_needed_to_fix_blig.html

Forest City Enterprises feeling the heat

Submitted by Gone Fishin on Tue, 08/06/2013 - 15:40.

 

Watchdog group accuses Forest City Enterprises of profiteering at taxpayer expense

 

A self-described nonpartisan non-profit government accountability organization in Washington, D.C., is accusing Forest City Enterprises of using its political clout to profit at taxpayer expense.

Cause of Action released a report today that claims the Cleveland-based developer of using "highly paid lobbyists, political connections, campaign contributions and strategic hiring of government officials" to obtain "lavish public subsidies, tax exempt financing and the seizure of private land from eminent domain condemnations."

 

 

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2013/08/watchdog_group_accuses_forest.html#incart_river_default

 

 

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Taxpayer's property goes to Forest City & Safeguard Properties

Submitted by Gone Fishin on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 18:04.

Three more properties added to the list of free or nearly free property handed over to Slavic Village Recovery ( Forest City Enterprises & Safeguard Properties ) courtesy of taxpayers.

No public bidding.  No competitive process.

 

PROPERTY #1

 

ADDRESS 03866 E 53 ST
CITY CLEVELAND
ZIP 44105

 

 

This property transferred to the county land bank, and then to non-profit Slavic Village Development, and then on to for-profit Slavic Village Recovery:

 

PARCEL ID 132-11-099
OWNERS NAME SLAVIC VILLAGE RECOVERY LLC
ADDRESS 03866 E 53 ST
CITY CLEVELAND
ZIP 44105 Field Definitions
 

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