Each new revelation about the apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado being taken over by Venezuelan gangs makes it more and more frustrating. The owner of the apartment complex has now offered the building for sale after the city accused him of allowing it to be infested.
A Colorado landlord agreed to sell an apartment complex taken over by violent Venezuelan migrant gang Tren de Aragua.
According to documents obtained by The Denver Gazette, Landlord Zev B. Baumgarten is fighting with Aurora, a Denver suburb, over Aspen Grove. The city has accused him of allowing it to become a trashy, gang-infested hellhole.
According to The Gazette, Baumgarten also owns another apartment complex in which a viral video shows a group of armed thugs breaking into an apartment.
The Gazette reported that Baumgarten’s firm has agreed to either sell the lease or find a “similar disposition” of the complex, which was closed in August and displaced 300 residents.
The “similar disposition” could take many forms, but a wrecking ball wouldn’t be a bad idea given the past of these buildings.
Please read our previous comments about this topic:
It turns out, in another development that Zev Baumgarten’s buildings and others have been shut down after multiple code violations.
On Tuesday, more than 85 families who lived in an Aurora apartment building that was condemned by the city said goodbye. However, one former tenant of Fitzsimons Place has filed a lawsuit against the owners and managers.
Javier Hidalgo filed a lawsuit on Monday to force landlords to give him and other displaced tenants housing. The lawsuit cites conditions that made the 98-unit building “fundamentally inhabitable,” such as water leaks, insect infestations, and structural damage.
Hidalgo has asked the Adams County District Court for an order requiring property owners Nome Partners LLC and CBZ Management, as well as their representatives Shmaryahu, and Zev Baumgarten, to provide former residents either with apartment units similar to those they left or with hotel stays of at least 60 consecutive days.
CBZ Management also blames the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua group for the problems at the Fitzsimons Place properties.
The city of Aurora and the property owner have not done anything to address the real problem. That is, a large number of people are in the country almost certainly illegally. Unchecked and unscreened immigration of unknowns across our southern border has allowed this kind of thing to occur. If anyone is to be blamed for such things, it should be the Biden/Harris Administration, who have a complete lack of border controls. If the border was secure, none of these problems would have occurred.
Here is the onion:
According to Westword, though Baumgarten (the owner) blames gangs for the closure, prosecutors have pointed out that Fitzsimons Place, another Baumgarten-owned building, was also closed in August and had code violations going back to 2020.
This property was also overrun by migrant members of gangs, as had a third in Aurora, an Aurora suburb that opposes its neighbor’s policy of “sanctuary cities” that allowed more than 42,000 migrants to enter their city.
Residents of Aurora are now complaining about shootings and other criminal activities linked to Tren de Aragua.
Unintended consequences? The consequences may be unintended, but they are still there. People who live in areas where illegal immigration is a problem or have to find housing in areas where government housing programs have taken over entire hotels, apartment complexes, and buildings are not the ones who make these decisions. These policies are not implemented by those who have the most to gain from them, such as wealthy people or those in a good location.
Residents of Aurora, Colorado are paying for the foolish policies of local and federal elected officials. There’s still time for them to vote themselves out of this mess because the status quo will only make matters worse.
