Who owns these houses?
How much did they pay for them?
Are they taking taxpayer subsidies from the County of Ulster?
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You never give us an answer. Stop playing games and tell us the details, and all. Remember you report WE decide.
How about how many households reside in each of these houses?
My buddy Hein! Slumlord extraordinaire!
Ah 12:21, according to Reynolds, the definition of 'households' or 'family units' is unconstitutional, and therfore should not apply. What you should ask no, is how many people reside in each of these houses? As of now, the term 'people' is still allowed to define a single homo sapien.
Obviously they are not RUPCO properties. If they were, they would be well-maintained, safe habitable affordable housing for seniors and families- and on the tax roles.
OK, I'll play....
question 1... who owns these houses? ummmmm I'll guess and say Mike Hein?
OK, question 2..... how much did they pay for them? now that's a little harder. my best guess is they picked them up at auction perhaps $100 each?
Last question 3..... are they taking any taxpayer subsidies from Ulster County govenemnt. I would say Yes, I think that they are all section 8 housing. The rents are paid for by you and I, the taxpayers. Checks that go to Mike Hein.
How'd I do Ulster Politics, do I win a prize?
So what? What is wrong with Mike Hein or anyone else supplying affordable housing? If it is safe, and meets the local code, what is wrong with it? Because it isn't a Hillside acres it doesn't meet your standards?
TO 9:44
The problem is that the County Administrator, Very Cheaply aquired properties through an inside track ( I assume as mortgage forclosures when he worked at the bank, or as tax forclosures when he worked as deputy county treasurer) and now recieves rent money from the county department of social services for section 8 housing. And on top of that, the properties are a nuissance to the neighbors as all manner of ilicit, unsightly, and illegal actions are taking place at them ie http://www.dailyfreeman.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=14401899&BRD=1769&PAG=461&dept_id=74969&rfi=8
9:44, wouldn't you consider it a conflict of interest? The county executive would be putting together the budget which directly controls Social Services, yes? Mike Hein could be deciding how much the county tax payers are going to give to him. Yes?
Click on my name to read about
The Mike Hein Crack House
All of this is hearsay and rhetoric. There is no proof that any of what you write here is true. Not that it matters. Everyone has the opportunity to bid on foreclosures and tax liens. They are published in the papers. Your laziness is not Mike Heins fault. The rates are set by someone other than the Administrator, you can be assured of that. If he does own them and he is collecting, it should be in a disclosure report somewhere.
A simple FOIL will reveal the following:
RECEIVED "April 30, 2008" by the Ulster County Legislature
COUNTY OF ULSTER
ANNUAL STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE FORM
Michael Hein
County Administrator
Jan 1, 2007 - Dec 31, 2007
List any interest, in excess of $1,000......in any contract made or executed by an Ulste rcounty agency.....
Self and Spouse
Apartment Rentals
Contracting Agency - DSS
"real estate rents"
113 Fair Street
67 Hudson Street
2 Post Street
16 - 20 Abeel Street
86 Foxhall Avenue
Signed
Michael Hein
4/30/08
3:05, No you are wrong, EVERYONE doesn't have the opportunity to bid on foreclosures and liens.
It is illegal for County employees to bid on houses that are for sale at County auction.
How do we know that Mike Hein was not part of the crack dealing in this house? He should speak out on this matter and let the public know what happened. If the Freeman reported on it, it must be true.
Ulster Politics... Here you go again.
Allowing a post that suggests that a candidate is involved with dealing crack? WTF? Are there no lower limits that panicked persons will stoop to to try and turn a failed campaign around?
I have never seen anything like this. Lowlifes, one and all.
4:10,
I am not suggesting that Mike Hein was dealing crack, the article in the Freeman said that crack was being dealt out of the house that Mike Hein owns.
If you have a problem with that, call THE FREEMAN.
Now, if The Freeman has reported that a house that Mike Hein owns had an arrest for crack cocaine dealing, is it too much to ask that Mr. Hein explain his involvement in said house?
If Bernardo owned a house where there was a crack cocaine arrest, Mike Hein's buddies would be screaming bloody murder.
Mike Hein owns this one, just like Brittany owned her DWI.
They are Hein's homes I believe.
I love the graffiti. Would someone from the Hein camp please deny these are Hein homes so we can end this silly game.
Isn't there a graffiti law in Kingston that says you have to remove the graffiti within seven days. These are obviously more than 7 days old (leaves are on the trees) and the graffiti is still there. The house is located one block off the bar area in Kingston on Abeel Street in case anyone cares!
Maybe we should start to look at Bernardos rentals.
This whole idea of how the houses are bought and where the rent comes from, IF illegal should be taken care of by the legal system. The fact that it is not leads me to beleive that the deal is legal.
But to blame the fact that some scum bag was dealing crack out of a house and that it is somehow the fault of the landlord is bull. The paper said that he is trying to evict the person. Do you know how hard it is to evict anyone in this day and age. The law is on the side of the renter, you can't just throw them out. And if you take section 8 or other housing assistance you do not have a say who you put in your rentals. Landlords that I know who refuse to take housing assistance and screen who they put into their properties, have well kept properties and have little chance of getting screwed. But they are also shunned for being heartless. So either way you can't win.
8:44am -
"obviuosly they are not RUPCO houses..."
Yea, I don't see 9 million illegal mexicans working all hours of the night by flashlight on them. You're right.
7:49 PM
"I don't see 9 million illegal mexicans working all hours of the night by flashlight on them."
If your post refers to the brown- skined workers who did a great job to restore the Kirkland Hotel, you should know that the mid-Hudson Valley based general contractor (Precision Contracting) who won the contract in a competitive bid happens to be a minority business enterprise (MBWB) certified by the state of NY. The contract between RUPCO and Precision required that I-9 employment eligibility documentation be kept on file for all workers on the job. These documents were available by inspection by INS.
That said, it seems to me that the only reason you think that the workers were "illegal Mexicans" is your obvious racial bias. I find your racial profiling of blue collar construction workers is offensive.
Alderman Reynolds is a not in my back yard Alderman.
First, section 8 is a Federal program. Section 8 (vouchers) are giving to those that are eligle. Rupco, City of Kingston and SS do not go out and find these individuals a rental. They go out themselves, find a rental, and than apply their voucher towards the cost of the rental. Any one who owns an apartment house can and do rent to those on Section 8.
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