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(12,792 posts) Fri Jun 2, 2017, 03:16 PM Jun 2017

Jared Kushner is among the slimiest of all Slum Lords...

While stories circulate about the president's son in law's possibly treasonous mixture of business and foreign policy, not to mention his alleged felonious application for a security clearance, it is important to keep in mind the background of what kind of real estate practices he and his company actually engage. According to this recent New York Time's article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/opinion/jared-kushner-poor-tenants-legal-nemesis.html

For the past few years, Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, who is now in charge of vital parts of the president’s agenda, has been a landlord of often decrepit low-income housing. His subordinates aggressively sue tenants for the smallest infractions despite ignoring maintenance needs, and they pursue judgments even when the tenant seems to have been in the right. While landlord-tenant disputes are hardly new, tenants in Kushner complexes have complained that the company used legal action to hound them on thin or specious grounds.

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Last month, Mr. Trump was asked what aspects of his previous life were at odds with his role as president. “Well in business, you don’t necessarily need heart,” he said. “In fact, in business you’re actually better off without it.”

and for in depth reporting on some of the hardship cases of Kushner Company's tenants there is this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/magazine/jared-kushners-other-real-estate-empire.html

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Very few of the complex residents I met, even ones who had been pursued at length in court by JK2 Westminster, had any idea that their rent and late fees were going to the family company of the president’s son-in-law. “That Jared Kushner?” Danny Jackson, a plumber in his 15th year living at Harbor Point Estates, exclaimed. “Oh, my God. And I thought he was the good one.”