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Tameren (Osman & Penny Semen) ‘land’lords

Do not rent from Tameren (AKA “Lameren").

The building is known as “Autumn Woods” to them, and is in the phone book as such, but it was originally “Evergreen Hall”. A large welcome mat in front of the building still mentions EH. 430 Cooper Street in Woodbury, NJ; right at the corner of Cooper and Evergreen, across from the former country club.

This is the third management I’ve gone through; all three were horrible for their own reasons (with the first, for example, spending the security of deposits of multiple tenanants).

I’ve lived here for 16 years exactly, beginning in March 1994. Suddenly and without any notice, this management, Tameren, decided to not renew the lease. Absolutely no notice was very unprofessional and illegal.

Their first names are Osman and Ferihan (but she is known as “Penny"); the last name is...Semen. Is don’t know if it’s pronounced “sea-men” or “sem-en”.

He’s the one who does maintentance work (although that’s a stretch) and she supposedly handles business. They also have a couple sons living in apartments who do yard work and cleaning as well. They are more interested in the outside appearance of the place and the land more than anything else.

For at least half a year, I had been requesting a receipt with my rent payments. In my case, she never does it—even when she says she’ll “bring it up at the end of the day.”

This is a building from the 1800’s. There are plenty of cracks and leaks in my apartment, resulting in spots of black mold ingrained in the wood floor. Locations in the bathroom and bedroom had their wall removed and a board screwed in place “in case they need to get to the pipes again”.

The basement floods at times and those spooky collections of wires hanging open down there don’t make me feel comfortable. Getting stuck in that ancient elevator and having to climb up when between floors was not enjoyable either.

I know that they rent out garage spaces to people who don’t even live in the building. I guess that is permissable, but I should still be allowed to have my space even though I don’t drive.

Someone else in the building has told me that another apartment on the top floor is in need of work on the roof. Perhaps that is why I might need to leave. That, in addition to wall & ceiling cracks, leaks, and mold makes it unhealthy for me, yet they are not right in giving me no notice.

I received rental assistance from the Housing Authority; it seems that Tameren doesn’t want to do the repairs that were requested by the HUD.

My lawyer feels that rather than fight to stay, it’s a place that could be harmful for me and I can find better.

Laudan Marie McKay

Laudan Marie McKay lived in the house for 2 years without paying rent. The owner of the house lost it in foreclosure and I bought the house. I offered to pay her to move and help her. She said she would accept the money and was meeting someone that afternoon about a rental. She then would not talk to me, answer the door, didn’t move, didn’t pay rent and became totally uncooperative. She had a ficticious individual respond to the unlawful detainer and held me up for approximately 2 months before I could take possesion of the house which was granted by the court.

Here is the condition of the house: abundant cockroaches, trash, feces, diapers, blackened floors, ruined kitchen and bathrooms. The yard was filled with so much trash that you couldn’t even open the gate. The yard had been used as a bathroom as the water and power were off. The house is destroyed and requires much of it to be replaced and will cost upwards of 35K to fix it.

William Covaci - Chicago Illinois

Never rent from this guy. He is a huge foreign dick.
The worst landlord I have ever had.