Who owns these houses?
How much did they pay for them?
Are they taking taxpayer subsidies from the County of Ulster?
How much did they pay for them?
Are they taking taxpayer subsidies from the County of Ulster?
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I am guessing this is one of Mike Hein's houses which he rents to section 8?
What do you mean one of his houses? How many of those houses does he own?
That a pretty nice house. Lot's of people would love to own it.
And tell me that this house will qualify for HEAP this winter too??
Give me a break.
It ain't the house, it is the occupants.
Ulster Politics, Thank you for bringing light to such a key issue!
These decrepit properties detract from the charm and character of our neighborhoods and from the City of Kingston. It is amazing how one bad property can bring down a whole neighborhood and lower the morale, well-being, and quality of life of the neighbors.
Shame on RUPCO (Kevin O'Connor) and DSS (Roberto Rodriguez) for a lack of oversight on their subsidized housing programs and shelters and for enabling slumlords to profit from their decrepit properties.
Shame on the slumlords for being so irresponsible and negligent in the upkeep and appearance of their properties. It is not fair to those of us property owners who do, and for the tenants who live in substandard conditions.
Shame on tenants who do not keep up their respective living area and play loud music at all hours.
This is not an issue between the HAVES and HAVE-NOTS, nor is it an issue between rich and poor. It is all about us citizens and fellow neighbors respecting one another, making our neighborhoods attractive, safe, and clean places to live and frequent.
It costs NOTHING to pick up the trash and litter in your yards and sidewalks, it costs NOTHING to not play your music so loud as to disturb the neighbors, it cost NOTHING to say hello and be courteous to your neighbors. It cost NOTHING to ensure your tenants have a safe, clean place to live--one of which they can be proud to reside.
The values which matter most--common courtesy, respect, and responsibility are not material and cost NOTHING--rather they pay and are what make us invaluable to the community.
Hein has apparently benefited from his connections to the good ole boys!
So, who owns it???
So I guess this means the taxpayers are even? Bernardo lying on his IDA application and Hein providing low income housing are somehow equal? I am confused.
Hein is a landlord of a shabby property. So what? At least he pays the taxes, all of them!
Hein hasn't lied, Hein isn't stealing from taxpayers by lying on official forms. Hein is providing low income housing. Is Len doing that? Or is Len all about taking from the community?
If at first you can't defend yourself adequately, change the subject. The voters are smarter than that.
Hein raised taxes and jobs left.
Hein owns slumlord housing which is funded by the County.
Conflicts of interest and job killing policies.
How much did he pay for the houses?
Isn't it a conflict of interest if Hein is receiving rent for his property on checks cut by Ulster County, assuming Social Services is helping with the rent.
it's illegal for County Employees to buy houses at County auctions
fact check please, all of you. check your facts.
Hein should use his buddy Blaber to tell us:
1. how many homes does he own?
2. how many rent subsidized tenants live there?
3. how much in county rent is he getting through the county.
I heard that Michael Hein and his wife make more money in income from payments from Ulster County Department of Social Services in Rent for their houses than he does in his salary from Ulster County
I don't know how many houses or how they acquired them or how much they paid for them. I think we should know that.
If Michael Hein says that taxpayers are not ATM machines, then we should know how much money he is paid by the County for properties that he owns.
Converting Kingston once beutiful residential areas to multi-family/unit dwellings does NOT attract new business. It does NOT attract investors looking to get out of NYC to come to Kingston. Nancy Pelosi talks about the lack of "Adult Supervision" on the financial institutions. The majority of subsidized housing is subjected to the same lack of supervision! Typcially over crowded, and more likely UNKEPT!
If this house IS one of Mike Hein's 'Investments', it is a real shame how unkept it is. And it is a HIGHLY unethical, as a candidate for UC Exec, for him to make a buck off Ulster County Social Services, off OUR backs, and taking advantage of the poor.
Brittany, what is your true motivation behind the IDA bit? It is a single issue, and more than likley and NON issue. The tax breaks he received was NOT, I'll say again with bold, NOT conditional upon the number of jobs Skate Timee would create. FACT! Sure, you have a fact too, number of jobs. I could say you were doing 52 in a 55 zone. I'd be factual in saying you were doing 52. You'd be factual saying you didn't break any laws.
Now your on to something. Why don't we expose Quigley's and Auerbach Real Estate Holdings too? How much are they milking the taxpayers for?
Let it all hang out!
Let's get one thing straight, folks. There was no lying on the Skate Time IDA application and no underperformance on any pledge. Sorry, Ms. Turner, you're just plain wrong on this subject.
Skate Time was approved under the tourism program, not the job creation program. The applicants gave an ESTIMATE of how many jobs the business could create, not a pledge. Anyone attempting to portray this issue in any other light is misinformed, to say the least.
By the way, many, many businesses in Ulster County have missed their public and private performance estimates in the last few years. Why? Because Mr. Hein and the Good Ole Boys who handpicked him have royally screwed up our County's economy.
Every business which has laid off people, failed to expand, closed its doors or moved elsewhere can thank Mr. Hein and the Legislature's poor record on fiscal and economic issues.
This reminds me of a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. When a mayor had someone take pictures of recycling bins filled with brush in front of an alderman's house. Or don't forget the famous ulster town supervisor's front page bassett hounds. Come on guys surely we haven't run out of real issues yet.
This is all a bunch of crap. Give me any name, a computer and 6 hours and I can give you a can full of dirt. This is all silly. I can't wait till the election is over. I for one am going to vote for the one that I think will do his job and get Ulster County Taxpayers the best deal possible. Not the one who has the most connected friends that can start investigations or the one with the best camera lens.
3:39... not so silly when there are more than 15 houses with multiple dwellings in question... in awful condition.... owner probably picked them up at auction and is receiving County money for them...
I think that's all pretty relevant.
so whats wrong with welfare housing,it is after all a welfare county.Nothing pleases me more than to be in a local stewarts shop watching some one getting their allotted cash using their benefit card,buying 10 bucks in scratch off tickets,winning 50,then using the same card for milk and bread,gotta love ulster county
3:48
You are right. But here is the part of this equation that I don't understand.
The things that you cite, are against the law. Both building codes (condition of property), maybe some ethics stuff, maybe some public officers law, and I am sure other things but I am not a lawyer. Yet no one brings these to the attention of people that will investigate.
I don't know about these fifteen houses or the rent that is collected, but it would seem to me that if these were true, certainly in this atmosphere of ethics you could start an investigation more substantial then posts on a blog. Look what the democrats are trying to do to Bernardo, it is a load of bull and they have no case but they are trying to waste our time at least. So, I have said it before I will say it again. If you have the facts, and they are really this illegal, unethical and such. Drop the bomb, dime them out, snitch. Get the idea.
Otherwise this is nothing more than a bunch accusations that will never go any further than some blog. Just my attempt at Common Sense, no pun intended.
I think Joe Bubel is brilliant.... this is on his blog, check it out
McCain getting hurt by Financial Crisis.
My question is a resounding, WHY?
Don't we Americans take pride in our intelegence? People come to our ccuntry from all over the world to take advantage of our superior higher education system. Think of all the inventions and innovation we as a nation can be proud of. So, why are so many Americans, so IGNORANT! Why are we so prone to knee jerk reactions? I would put much of the blame on the media, but even much of the truth about the origins of the current financial crisis has been reported (at least on the news channels). This crisis has NOTHING to do with the so called 'Right Wing" policies. It has very little to do with the last 8 years of the Bush administration.
If people KNEW the truth behind the financial crisis, McCain's numbers would be going up, and Obama would be plummeting. FACT! If people knew the truth, Barney Frank would be out of a job. Chris Dodd would be run out of Washington for misleading us. And Obama would be looking to get back to Community Organizing.
The TRUTH!
The Carter Administration pushed this affordable mortgages. It was a noble idea, AND it worked until 1995 because of a healthy ballance of good loans and more risky loans.
Enter the Clinton Administration effort with Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and other prominent democrats to pressure banks to increase risky loans, which will be backed by Fannie or Freddi. Banks were REQUIRED to allow these loans, or face Federal fines.
Enter ACORN. Using strong arm tactics to pressure banks to loan to minorities. Not that loaning to minorities is a bad thing, but these minorities could NOT pay back their loans. ACORN pressured banks to make these loans on the SOLE BASIS on race. A form of Financial Affirmative Action. Who was training ACORN 'agents'? OBAMA!
Enter the Bush Administration. Financial experts within his administration realized the dangerous practices going on at Fannie and Freddie. The Bush adminstration was intimidated being labeled as RACISTS because they WANTED to throw minorities out of their homes.
John McCain backed a bill to place more REGULATION on Freddie and Fannie, and the minority DEMOCRAT congress blocked it, using procedural tricks, never allowing it to get a floor vote.
Obama, Frank, Dodd are MAJOR recipients of campaign cash from Freddie and Fannie. Obama topping them ALL on an annual basis.
Everyone was blaming the banks, calling them sharks for taking advantage of people, knowingly giving them unaffordable loans. It was the DEMOCRATS who FORCED the banks to make these loans.
Watch this link. It is very enlightening. Cause behind the Crisis
MY WORD, SUDGJUH DISSCUTION...
Nourishing food for thought. Thanks for hinting at a legal or ethics connundrum.
I have, this very moment, emailed the DA, as shows the following:
Fellow bloggers fear not: I have attached whatever I could of your comments. I shall now attempt to send a hard copy.
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Holley,
...of subsidized housing.
Thought before the statute of limitations takes hold, as, regretfully, in the case of the UCLEC Taj Majal, someone might ask, as I ask, now:
Would you kindly let me know your opinion.
Thanks, Holley.
Allan Wikman
the soul (stet.) "pure" (thank you, Hugh) i ndependent
candidate for UlsterUSA County Executive
845 + 802-0403
295 Broadway, Suite 418
Kingston, NY 12401-5131
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Guys,
I would expect better, this is not JB’s blog. This is a typical inner city (Kingston) house. I like Mr. Bernardo and hope he wins. I would like him to stick to his issues; like holding the department heads accountable, reviewing how the social services money is being spent (has that report been filed yet?), making the IDA return phone calls and RFP for businesses, and changing the various business incentive programs to a commission based verse wholly publicly funded. I know those issues are not as sexy, but that’s what I want addressed in a County Exec. I don’t care for the good old boy campaign theme.
Regardless, I am also preparing myself for the county’s budget, as they are getting the figures together for all these new government jobs created due the charter. It is going to be a rough year. Can you handle it?
I really wish the issues would be discussed and the politicians would be doing the peoples work. Republicans and Democrats both could care less about the people.
Politics aside, the owner of this slum house should be ashamed. The most important intangible asset a man or woman has is his/her reputation.
Regardless of personal wealth, material possessions, or connections, a man or woman is judged by his/her integrity, candor and personal courage.
The owner of this house (like many slumlords in Kingston) clearly takes no pride in ownership, nor is he/she providing a safe and clean place for tenants to live.
I personally don't care if you are a Democrat or a Republican--just CLEAN UP YOUR PROPERTY! Take some pride in your dwelling! Take pride in your city!
If this house is owned by a political candidate, my question is...HOW CAN I TRUST YOU TO RUN A COUNTY WHEN YOU CAN'T EFFECTIVELY/EFFICIENTLY MANAGE A SINGLE HOUSE?
Things that make you want to say, "Hmmmmmm......"
Mr. Mack,
The problem that the "homeowner" has is that this is not his only property that he owns. He probably doesn't have the time to work on all of them. It not like "he" lives there.
Imre,
You are so right...but this is the political season when folks like Brittany Turner and March Gallagher, true political operatives for Mike Hein, can attack with true malace.
Keep up the fight and present the facts. The truth prevails!
Are these for college kids? A fraternity perhaps. Looks like Delta House.
If the DOJ launches a criminal investigation into Obama's 200million in fundrasing 25 bucks at a time, will the same people calling this IDA issue legitimate, think the DOJ is playing politics? Or would that be legit?
Just because BT claims to be a non-democrat doesn't mean she isn't a Hein operative. She treats this IDA issue as if she was some jaded ex-lover. Why not kick Hein in the shins as well, he certainly has his fair share of 'smoke and mirrors'.
the blue one looks like a house on Fair Street
How about playing "How many people live in each house"?
To 10:28,
If this landlord does not have the time to take care of his property, or at least pay someone to maintain it, he should not own it--clear and simple!
I would personally be ashamed to have my name and reputation affiliated with such a shoddy, dilapidated property.
This landlord is telling his tenants (regardless of their subsidy) that they are not important or worthy of having a decent, clean place to live.
The tenants in turn will not take care of the property, thus becoming a cyclical problem.
He is also telling the surrounding neighbors that he does not respect them or give a damn about their quality of life.
As I said before, I don't care about politics--this is a serious issue endemic to Kingston and affects us all--Democrat and Republican alike.
We should all speak out against such slumlords and must hold them accountable to their responsibility in providing clean, presentable, and safe housing.
POSTED ON BLABER NEWS:
Once again, Mike Hein is showing that he is not about change, not about integrity, not about moving this County forward. His statement is steeped in the Good Ole Boys' business-as-usual game of dirty tricks instead of addressing issues.
Just today, the Kingston Freeman published an article in which Mr. Hein defends his complete lack of action to protect Ulster County against jobs poaching by Greene County (in the Colony Liquors matter) by stating that he has neither the "authority" nor the "jurisdiction" to deal with economic development.
"The Ulster County Administrator's Office, by statute, has no involvement in economic development efforts in the county," says Mr. Hein, excusing his failure to provide leadership, to inform the residents of the County of our IDA's ineffectiveness to combat what the Office of the State Comptroller calls "intrastate piracy" and his lack of recognition and utilization of the bully pulpit with which his position provides him. At the same time, he thinks nothing of calling on Ulster County businesspeople - who have, in fact, done nothing wrong - to return IDA money WHICH THEY NEVER RECEIVED.
That's right. Skate Time 209 never received $100,000 in taxpayer money, nor even a single cent. What they got was the ability to build the facility using the IDA's tax exempt certificate (a completely legal move created by the State when it formed the concept of IDAs) in order to save on sales tax during construction, thus allowing them to put that money into marketing, promotions, wages and operating costs.
Skate Time 209 has also had its property taxes rescheduled over a ten year period in such a way that it pays no property taxes for the first three years, then pays progressively more each year. The rescheduling is structured so that at the end of the ten years, the entire ten year property tax total is completely paid up. Not one cent is lost to taxpayers there.
It is indeed ironic that Mr. Hein accuses Mr. Bernardo of not understanding the way in which the County Administrator's Office operates when he - Mr. Hein - apparently has no understanding of the way in which the IDA operates.
The difference here, however, is that while Mr. Bernardo was not looking at the statutory powers of Mr. Hein's office (just at his influence), Mr. Hein is trying to create facts out of thin air to bolster his assertions against Mr. Bernardo.
Let's repeat the basics here: Mr. Bernardo did not receive $100,000 from the IDA, there is nothing to repay, he did not promise to create 20 full time jobs, he did not break any pledges and this entire case is nothing but a desperate ploy to avoid dealing with the fact that Len Bernardo's experience and qualifications far, far outpace those of his opponent.
Notice how Mr. Hein's supporters will dig up any scurious issue they can in order to draw attention away from the qualifications gap between the two candidates?
Don't Ulster County managers have to fill out an ethics statement listing any business dealings they may have, especially those that may be linked somehow to the county? If they do, I have to think copies of those documents can be requested with a Freedom of Information request.
These people have no desire to go and check facts. They have no desire work to find out the truth. They just want to sit behind the keyboard and bitch. Lazy.
Mr. Mack, you are so right, but if the landlord, to put it nicely, were to do all that, they wouldn't make as much money.
i notice there are two mailboxes on the house on the top. do two different people live in this one?
So let's look at our two candidates.
One appears to be a slumlord. It's to his advantage for the there to be a lot of low income people looking for Section 8 housing. It looks like this economy and economic development situation suits this candidate just fine. It doesn't affect him at all if the economy of Ulster County is in the crapper because he makes his money off of the taxpayers who pay his tenants rent.
The other candidate owns a business in Ulster County. Everyone is accusing him of not creating enough jobs. EVERY business owner that I know WANTS to create more jobs. To say that Bernardo lied when he said he was going to try to create a certain number of jobs is just ludicrous. It's not the nature of any entrepreneur to lie about jobs, that what their passion is. It's what they WANT to do. Bernardo's business stands to benefit if he can bring more jobs and lower taxes to Ulster County.
Mike Hein.... not so much so.
Mike Hein gets out of bed every day and knows that he will get a paycheck and full benefits from Ulster County.
Mike Hein gets out of bed every day and knows that the rents on his properties that he owns will be paid by the taxpayers of Ulster County. He doesn't have to worry about collecting from his tenants. Section 8 is a sure thing.
Ulster County Business owners get out of bed every day and only get a paycheck, after they have paid their employees and vendors. Many times there is not enough money left over for the owner. Ulster County Business owners have to pay for their own benefits if they can afford them.
People who own rental properties get out of bed every day and struggle to get their non-taxpayer subsidized units filled with tenants and to collect the rent every month.
Wow, it must be nice to be Mike Hein.
I'm voting for Len Bernardo, a business owner that knows what it's like to struggle every day in Ulster County.
shouldn't those stairs on the top house have some sort of handrails? that looks unsafe
Funny how only a handful of posts have made their way onto Blaber's recent post. I guess his "firewall" is working overtime. He's as evil as his keeper.
Does he poay the taxes or is Uncle Lew doing the dirt? Fair street according to tax records he paid $1 Also if you look at the for rent sign and blow it up you see the phone number call it. Lead to the law office of Josh Koplovitz County Attorney I'm sure its just a coincidence BT at least its not march Gallagher he won't even use her
BT, I call them as I see them as well. Partisanship plays no role in your feverish attempts to burn Bernardo at the stake...it comes across as nothing more than something personal. Focus your attentions on the IDA, not some bogus witch-hunt. As an NOP'r, I give you credit for your passion, but maybe a little research on your end is needed as well...contracts vs. applications, perhaps?
To Brittany,
10:31, I'm not an operative for Mike Hein. I'm not even a Democrat.
Maybe not...you just play one online.
BT I'm sure Tony Marmo is shitting his pants cause we all know the Trauma Center is on the list, isn't he working on Hein's campaign also
I believe Brittany works for the Hudson Valley Area Labor Federation. IDA's are a big issue for labor unions. The unions are pushing for state legislation to require all IDA projects to pay workers prevailing wage. She may not be a Democrat, but she is an operative and foot soldier for them just the same.
Mr. Mack, you are so right, but if the landlord, to put it nicely, were to do all that, they wouldn't make as much money.
And their tax assessment would go up too!
By the way, where exactly are these two houses located?
Hein and Quigley would be a good check and balance.
To find the purchase price - you need to look at the transfer tax stamps and then work backwards into what the rates were at the time.
Did Hein buy from old people entering Golden Hill and then flip them for quick profit like Spada did for years?
i hope the sidewalk gets shoveled unlike the he owns on foxhall ave
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