Beauclerc Bay Residents Call Living Conditions Deplorable

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Beauclerc Bay Residents Call Living Conditions Deplorable

POSTED: 4:43 pm EDT August 7, 2007

UPDATED: 8:17 pm EDT August 7, 2007

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Several residents of a Beauclerc apartment complex said

they are fed up because the conditions at their homes are unlivable and

unsanitary.

Residents living in the Beauclerc Bay Apartments said they are living in

deplorable conditions, and some of the residents are taking their complaint to

the state level.

When Channel 4 cameras and a reporter arrived at the apartment complex to ask

some questions about the living conditions they were confronted by Jack Keyser,

who said he owns the property and got physical with the photographer.

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What Keyser might not have wanted the public to see was what residents said was

mold, raw sewage, dangerous staircases and deplorable living conditions in and

near their apartments.

Resident Shull said her air conditioning unit and her vents are covered in

mold, and so are the staircases outside her apartment.

" I spray them with bleach but it keeps coming back. The A/C is covered in black

mold, and you breathe that in, " said Shull. " I was going down the steps and fell

because the steps were rotted. I wound up having to have major back surgery

done. I have a cage on my spine. I was left with permanent nerve damage in my

legs. I live in constant pain and on pain pills everyday. "

She said she could barely walk because of a fall on the steps.

Shull told Channel 4 she has asked management for help and that she has even

filed a lawsuit, but still is getting no help.

Resident Stohler also said she lives with inhumane conditions and

constant mold.

" It's in my son's room. That's where the A/C unit is in his closet. The carpet

is soaked. It's all over, " Stohler said.

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She said a foul odor near her home is what appears to be raw sewage leaking

outside of her unit.

" If something is wrong, they should be able to fix it, " Stohler said.

Another Beauclerc Bay family, that asked that its identity not be revealed, said

the ceiling of the shower was caved in because of mold.

" Everybody that lives here has a right to be safe and not have to worry about

getting hurt or getting sick, " Shull said.

When Channel 4 reporter Pantelides went to ask management about the

situation, Keyser tried to push the camera.

After the confrontation ended, Keyser asked Pantelides inside and said he

planned to renovate the apartment complex about a year ago but that legal

troubles delayed the changes.

The city has investigated the Beauclarc Bay Apartments in the past. Since 2003,

the city's division of housing and neighborhoods said there have been 34

complaints against the apartment complex.

There is currently one active complaint against the complex regarding a rotted

gate surrounding the pool.

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