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Arizona task force targets substandard rentals in ValleyThey are the drug-ridden, roach-infested apartment complexes that blemish many parts of the Valley: deteriorating eyesores that have gone largely ignored by their owners, substandard rentals that many people call home.
And they are in the crosshairs of the Slumlord Task Force, a coalition of Arizona law enforcement officials, city code enforcers, city and county attorneys, county health inspectors and federal housing officials.
Its goal: To force property owners to clean the blight and crime off their property by threatening them with fines, prosecution, liens and public humiliation.
"Word is getting out that we mean business," said Joe Parma, a Phoenix, Arizona code enforcer who has been part of the task force since 1999. That's when the state passed one of the toughest anti-slum laws in the country.
Asslan Morina, who bought a 14-unit west Phoenix, Arizona apartment complex in February, said he has gotten the message since being singled out by the Arizona task force.
Morina, who said he inherited a load of problems from the previous owner, has spent about $8,000 on repairs and has a ways to go.
Arizona officials say the 5-year-old anti-slum program has been successful in getting owners to clean up their property, which has led to improved living conditions for tenants. Arizona police statistics back up their claim, revealing a drop in violence and drug crimes on the properties after the task force stepped in.
"I've seen complete turnarounds on some of these properties," said Phoenix, Arizona police Detective Diane Martin, who has been part of the task force since 1999.
The real winners are the residents, many who are poverty-stricken and have spent years silently living in crumbling conditions.
"They've painted the walls, they installed new cabinets, they put in a new floor in the bathroom," said Julia Ortiz, who has lived with her four children in the same apartment unit in south Phoenix, Arizona for three years.
But she said the improvements were not made until recently.
Francisco Vargas, 30, who lives in a $450-a-month apartment in south Phoenix, Arizona with his wife and three children, lived in misery during the scorching summer of 2002 because the owner refused to fix their air-conditioner.
But since the task force stepped in on Feb. 10, they have a running air-conditioner as well as a working stove, which had gone unrepaired for months.
"Last year wasn't so good, but this year is much better," he said.
Cities' 'slum list'
The anti-slum program was launched in Phoenix, Arizona in 1998 but began targeting properties in Glendale, Arizona and Tempe, Arizona this year thanks to a federal grant. The grant will be renewable in April, but there is no guarantee it will come through again, said Beth Beringhaus, who oversees the task force program for the Maricopa County, Arizona Attorney's Office.
Other Valley cities showed interest in the program, but they needed to beef up their city code ordinances first, she said.
As of October, there were 27 properties in the three cities on the task force's blacklist, which is posted on the county attorney's Web site, www.maricopacounty attorney.org/SpecPros/ fullslumlord.asp.
"There is a stigma attached to it. Nobody wants their property on the slum list," said Jana Sorensen, a deputy attorney with the Maricopa County, Arizona Attorney's Office who helped launch the program.
"It makes it more difficult for them to rent an apartment if someone knows they're on a slum list."
To get off the list, property owners must meet criteria outlined by the Arizona task force, which is accomplished by evicting tenants who are the root of the criminal activity, as well as spending thousands of dollars to improve it.
Although the owners can be fined thousands of dollars in code and health violations, the program allows the owners to offset the fines by spending an equal amount improving the property.
"We give them a schedule of repairs they have to do," Parma said. "We try to keep them to it. If they stray, we'll write them a civil citation. If they give us trouble, we'll write them a bunch of tickets."
The maximum fine for each code violation is $2,500, and it is not rare for a property to have more than 100 code violations, he said. Anything from a leaky faucet to exposed electrical wires can result in a code violation.
But some properties are so bad that the task force recommends they be demolished, as was the case of one property in Glendale, Arizona said Diana Whittle, Glendale spokeswoman.
"What they found with this one is that it's going to cost more to rehab it than to just tear it down," she said.
The 1999 law requires owners to take reasonable steps to keep crime off their property. It also requires owners to register their property with the County Assessor's Office, enabling authorities to contact them.
"Before, a lot of the property owners could not be located," Sorensen said. "And if a corporation owned the property, it became a more daunting task to track down the actual owners."
Most properties that wind up on the list come to the attention of the Arizona task force through the Arizona police department or city code officers.
The owners
On a triple-digit-degree day in September, Morina was on the roof of his complex in the 2900 block of West Buckeye Road making repairs to the cooler.
Morina, 44, who has worked as a handyman for more than 20 years, knew the property was in need of repairs and renovations when he bought it last winter, but he went ahead with the intention of making the repairs over time.
However, six months later, when the task force placed him on the Phoenix, Arizona Dirty Dozen list, ordering him to fix its sewage, electrical and pest problems, he felt overburdened.
"They want me to do everything right now," he said. "But I've been working here every day since I bought it.
"I bought a new water heater, I planted flowers, I bought new heaters for the rooms. I've put new floors and new electrical boxes in the rooms," he said as he opened the door to a recently renovated studio that will rent for $400 a month. "Before, the wires were just hanging out. It was dangerous."
Pat Cano, 47, who has lived on the property for about a year, said Morina is always quick to fix things.
"When we moved in, it was really bad," she said. "It's still bad, but he is doing a good job of getting it fixed."
One of the first properties to be placed on the Phoenix Dirty Dozen list was a 16-unit complex in the 20 block of East Riverside Street owned by Salvador Garcia, a retired Phoenix, Arizona fire captain.
On Sept. 14, 2000, a team of about 10 Arizona task force officials swarmed his property, searching for violations. They found plenty, including roach infestation, leaky plumbing, faulty electrical boxes, sagging floors and deteriorating shower walls.
Garcia attributed the problems to the age of the property, which was built in the 1920s.
"One guy looked at the roofs. Another guy looked at the wiring. Another guy looked at the hot-water tanks," he said. "When they were done, they gave me a list."
After spending more than $70,000 and maxing out about 15 credit cards, Garcia, 73, has almost met the task force's requirements, which included renovating every unit.
"We still have one apartment to go, but it's basically done," he said. "All I have to do is buy a stove and a refrigerator for it."
A 40-unit complex in the 2700 block of West Medlock Drive is one of the latest properties to make the list. It made headlines in August after a Arizona police raid netted more than 20 suspected drug dealers, or about 75 percent of the people living on the property.
The Arizona task force, which found minor code violations, was mostly concerned about crime there.
Jim Spencer, who is running the property on behalf of a friend, blamed the complex's former manager for allowing drug activity to flourish.
"We made a mistake in hiring him," Spencer said. "He was allowing the drug operations here and was raking money off the top."
Spencer began evicting most of the remaining tenants who were affiliated with the suspects until only five units were occupied. Today, after a screening process, about 15 units have been rented.
But since the raid, the property insurance has quadrupled and they have spent more than $2,000 repairing doors and windows that police broke.
Beringhaus, who has been overseeing the program for about a year, understands the requirements can be costly, but added that the task force is willing to work with a cooperative owner, including extending deadlines.
"We're just trying to improve the quality of life for the resident as well as the neighborhood," she said. "We see this as an investment in the community."
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