Five minutes earlier this suspect in the video was waving and firing a gun into the air!

This video was recorded by a tenant who was assaulted trying to get into the Hudson apartment building at approximately 2:00am during a weeknight. When they were finally able to get inside the building, he was able to capture this footage from the front balcony where dozens of other tenants (who had been awaken by the commotion) were also watching on.

Yet CIM still seems to think the property does not need any onsite security of its own.

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A very dissatisfied Hudson Hollywood tenant sent us this screenshot this morning. Seems even LAPD officers warn AGAINST moving into CIM’s lovely Hudson Hollywood apartments.

(click image to enlarge)

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The Hudson Hollywood apartments saw another emergency as Los Angeles firefighters reacted to a crisis in apartment 405 (coincidentally the apartment of CIM’s on-site representative).

One must ask themselves, is this property as cursed as many residents past and present suspect?

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CIM dubbed by may tenants of their properties as, Hollywood’s biggest slumlord has done it again.

On June 9, 2011 tenants of the Hudson Hollywood apartments were greeted with signs placed at the the front and rear doors saying the gas for the building would be shut off any day now. The notices were placed by the gas company for failure to pay over a thousand dollars in back payments (over 5 months of unpaid bills)

This is a serious problem for tenants as the building supplied gas service is what provides tenants with hot water for showers, dishes, and laundry.

A quick call to the gas company confirmed CIM’s failure to pay on account # 05017882670, as well as the scheduled cut-off date.

Also tenants may have noticed continued vandalism and burglary as someone has stolen that picture of Charlie Chaplin from the first floor hallway.

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LOS ANGELES HOUSING DEPARTMENT

For CIM’s failure to comply with MULTIPLE notices to correct issues directly related to tenant habitability.

Scheduled for May 4, 2011 @ 9:00am

Location:
The Garland Building
1200 W. 7th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90017

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The Hudson Hollywood owners and management, CIM Group attempt to evict tenants with outstanding LAHD violations. This is direct conflict with Los Angeles housing laws.

Apparently they do not believe water poring out of the ceiling in multiple locations is a problem they should be concerned with. Rather then addressing the issue they turned to their Century City attorneys McGuireWoods, which in our opinion serves only to intimidate tenants to abandon the property rather then seeking remedy under the laws and rights afforded tenants in California.

IF YOU HOPE TO BE TREATED ANY BETTER, YOUR IN FOR A SURPRISE! DO NOT MOVE TO THE HUDSON HOLLYWOOD APARTMENTS….

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Violations that directly affected the habitability of the apartment, which was deemed by LAHD to create an uninhabitable sanitary condition for the tenants. The Hudson apartments was subsequently placed into the [REAP] program bringing the apartment under direct supervision of the housing authority of Los Angeles.
CIM is notorious for for using their clout and position with elected officials (such as city counsel president and district representative Eric Garcetti) to skirt tenant rights and city code.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AucWlkh6tQo

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The tenant was represented by Basta, INC. lead counsel Daniel J. Bramzon, who took on the Hollywood real estate giant after a long documented history of building code violations and numerous violation of tenant rights as defined for the RSO and LAHD.

Many residents of the hudson hollywood apartments are still fighting CIM for illegal rent increases (see Rent Control Stabilization Ordinance)

Fighting your landlord is never easy, no matter how right you are (or how wrong they are). Your best bet is to avoid that tenant/landlord relationship all together. Do yourself a favor and look for any other building in the neighborhood instead of the Hudson Hollywood.

Thank you to Curbed LA for covering the plight of these Los Angeles Residents!

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Welcome to convenient upscale living in Hollywood style! Welcome to Jefferson at Hollywood. First-class luxury merges with an address of envy inside this one-of-a-kind community. Spacious one and two bedroom loft-style apartment homes offer room to work and play – all wrapped in modern designer features and finishes. Chef-inspired kitchens boast the latest appliances. Exquisite baths help you melt away everyday stress. Step outside into an urban oasis – a sparkling pool with cabanas, garden courtyard with an outdoor fireplace and grills, as well as exclusive indoor extras like a 24 hour fitness center, a cyber café, a high-tech media theater and a plush clubroom. Take advantage of a host of restaurants located just outside your door. Situated near the red line transit for an ultra convenient commute, and just minutes from the areas hottest destinations, cultural venues, and eclectic nightlife. Jefferson at Hollywood is the ideal state to play out your dream lifestyle. Get a close-up look at luxury living in high style. Get into Jefferson at Hollywood. ***$500 off 1st month if you lease the same day you visit***

See for yourself HERE!

Features Include:

• Now Leasing!!!
• Washer & Dryer Included
• Spacious Patio/Balcony
• Stainless Steel Appliances
• Granite Countertops
• Resort-Style Swimming Pool & Hot Tub
• Fire Pit With Grill & Entertaining Area
• Fabulous Downtown & Hollywood Hill Views
• Hardwood Floors
• Private Assigned Underground Parking
• Hollywood-Style Private Theater
• High-Tech Fitness Center

Pet Policy

Restricted Breeds $300 pet deposit $50 pet rent (6 months free!)

Amenities

• • Air Conditioning
• • Alarm System
• • Apartment
• • Broadband Internet Access
• • Business Center Onsite
• • Carpet
• • Cats Allowed
• • Ceiling Fan
• • Club House
• • Controlled Access
• • Corporate Housing
• • Courtyard
• • Disability Access
• • Dishwasher
• • Elevator
• • Extra Storage
• • Fireplace
• • Fitness Center
• • Freeway Access
• • Garages
• • Garbage Disposal
• • Hardwood Floor
• • Internet Access
• • Large Dogs
• • Loft
• • Microwave
• • Mid Rise
• • Mid Rise
• • Mixed Use
• • Mixed Use
• • New Construction
• • Patio or Balcony
• • Pets Allowed
• • Pool
• • Public Transportation
• • Small Dogs Allowed
• • Spa
• • Studio
• • Tile Floors
• • Vaulted Ceiling
• • View
• • Walk In Closets
• • Washer Dryer In Unit
• • Window Covering

Additional Information

Year Built: 2010
Apartments in Community: 270

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With complaints to management falling on deaf ears, tenants have taken it upon themselves for protection.

Chasity James (once an extra on TV show “The Game”) was recently arrested again (see image above) at the Hudson apartments. This time Chasity James was arrested for a felony of criminal threats against other tenants.

Hollywood PD must now have quite a large file of criminal complaints received from tenants at the Hudson apartments in Hollywood (formerly the Hillview Hollywood Apartments).

The list of criminal complaints include but are not limited to:

1. MURDER
2. CRIMINAL THREATS
3. BURGLARY
4. SEXUAL ASSAULT
5. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
6. CRIMINAL TRESPASSING
7. PROPERTY DAMAGE
8. PROSTITUTION
9. PIMPING/PANDERING
10. WHITE SLAVERY
11. GRAND THEFT AUTO
12. THEFT

The LA Times has a pretty useful tool for searching crime reports. That tool (seen above in screen-shot) can be found HERE!

Photoed above are reported crimes for just the last 72 hrs.

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As reported by Elizabeth Espinosa of KTLA Paul Allee entered a plea of NOT GUILTY in Los Angeles criminal court to charges that he murdered his fiance Enedine Vigil in the 3rd Floor hallway of the Hudson Hollywood apartment building.

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It is a very sad time at the Hudson apartments following the murder of a beloved tenant and civil rights activist Enedine Vigil.

After hundreds of complains had been lodged to management (CIM) by Ms. Vigil in regards to her safety on the property, she was planning to move out in the spring. Unfortunately her dreams were cut short, as she was murdered in the early morning on January 4th, 2011 in the hallway just outside of her apartment at the Hudson Hollywood apartments.

CIM GROUP (Hudson Property Management) is so insensitive, that they continue to throw in the garbage (literally) the memorial poster (seen above) in the trash, when it is placed in the common area by other tenants still mourning this tragic event. CIM Group intentions and motivations are clear, and they should be ashamed of themselves.

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Swat teams have evacuated the building and a stand-off ensues while the suspect has barricaded himself inside a 3rd floor apartment.

Prosecutors charged Paul with murder Thursday in connection with the slaying of Enedine at their apartment building in the early hours of January 4, 2011. Leaving her body in the 3rd floor hallway and then barricading himself inside to resist police and swat teams.

Paul Matthew Allee, who is being held in lieu of $2 million bail, is scheduled to make his first court appearance Thursday at the downtown Criminal Courts Building.

He is expected to plead not guilty to one count of murder with the special allegation that he personally and intentionally discharged a firearm causing great bodily injury and death to the victim.

For the Full Story as reported by the visitor of a Hudson Tenant  please click HERE!

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Hollywood has MANY options for apartments that are much better than “The Hudson” apartments (formerly The Hillview).

First and foremost two better/safer apartment buildings include the Alta and The Jefferson both located on McCadden (1blk east of Highland).

Click HERE and see for yourself!

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Property manager Malika Joi Davis said it best during a recent resident tour of the Hudson Hollywood (formerly Hillview Hollywood) apartments.

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Drain flies (also known as “moth flies” or “filter flies”) are a common nuisance in/around homes and commercial buildings, including sewage treatment plants. Adult flies may become so numerous indoors that they congregate at windows, around light fixtures, and around showers, bathtubs, sinks and floor drains. They can annoy people sitting indoors or outdoors. Since these flies often originate in unsanitary conditions, there is the possibility of disease transmission that can affect human health.

Adult drain flies are small (1/6 to 1/5 inch long), fuzzy, dark colored insects with the body and wings densely covered with hairs. Their wings appear large for their body, are held roof-like over the body when at rest, giving them a mothlike appearance. They are weak fliers and fly only a few feet at a time. Larvae are legless, about 3/8 inch long, wormlike and gray, with both ends somewhat darker.

Drain flies breed in polluted, shallow water or highly moist organic solids. You will find the eggs, larvae and pupae in the muck, slime, or gelatinous film often accumulating on the sides of drains and condensate pipes for air conditioners, in the sewage filtration tanks, septic tanks and moist compost. Other breeding sites include dirty garbage containers, rain barrels and tree holes or in low-lying areas adjacent to buildings where storm-water collects and algae or mold grows. The female flies deposit laid eggs in irregular masses of 10 to 200 directly in/on moist organic debris. These eggs usually hatch in less than 2 days and the larvae feed on the decaying organic matter, microorganisms, algae and sediment in the debris and mature in 9 to 15 days. Larvae pupate in/on the surface of this material and new adults emerge in 1 to 2 days.

The key to solving a drain fly problem is to find and eliminate the source, i.e., find the areas of excess moisture and a buildup of organic debris.

Outdoors - Areas that are likely to be a source of moth fly infestations outdoors include:

* Damaged or faulty septic lines
* Areas where rainwater tends to pool or where air conditioning condensate lines drain, particularly if the area is shaded and algae or mold is growing on the soil or foundation.
* For commercial buildings – check the area (usually a concrete or gravel covered) beneath air condition cooling units on roofs or adjoining the building.

If a local source of the flies cannot be found, it is possible that the flies are being carried on wind currents from a nearby sewage treatment plant or another faulty septic system.

Indoors - Floor drain Areas that are likely to be a source of moth fly infestations indoors include:

* Toilets (particularly if they are not used frequently). Be sure to check the toilet tank, as well.
* Sink and bathtub/shower drains
* Floor drains in commercial buildings and basements
* Condensate lines for icemakers
* Loose ceramic floor tiles where water may collect

One way to determine if the flies are coming from a particular drain is to cover the drains with glue boards (elevated on cardboard “collars” to keep them from sticking to the floor or drain. There is also a simple method that you can use at home. Take a translucent container (e.g., a margarine container) and coat the inside with a thin layer of petroleum jelly. Place the container upside down over the drain and leave it in place overnight or for a few days, but check it daily. Emerging flies should be trapped in the petroleum jelly. In commercial buildings, the source of the problem may be more difficult to identify. Pest control companies often use blacklight traps indoors to determine areas where the flies are most numerous and then proceed with a thorough inspection of the area.

The most effective method to correct (or to prevent) drain fly problems is to clean toilets, drainpipes and traps to eliminate any gelatinous rotting, organic matter, thereby eliminating the larval food source. Many of the commercially-available drain and toilet bowl cleaners can be used for this purpose. Many of these cleaners are biodegradable and pose less of a hazard to the environment. If you have a septic system, read the product labels carefully to make sure that the product is compatible with the system (i.e., will not disrupt the microbial action in the septic tank). Routine cleaning of floor and sink drains is important particularly in commercial establishments.

Alternative methods include cleaning pipes and traps with a good, stiff, long-handled brush. It is best to remove the drain trap and use a plumber’s “snake” in clogged drains to dislodge the gelatinous material in the drains. If you use mechanical cleaning methods, you should also flush the lines with boiling water and bleach to remove any material left behind. Caustic drain cleaners may also be used, although they are not necessarily as effective as other cleaning methods. IMPORTANT: NEVER rinse a drain with bleach after using a caustic drain cleaner. Mixing of these two chemicals in the drain line may produce chlorine gas, which is extremely hazardous to anyone who inhales it.

Chemical Control

Indoors, aerosol sprays of pyrethrins (or other “flying insect” sprays) will kill adult drain flies, giving temporary control, but they are not a real fix for the problem. If the drain flies are coming from an outdoor source, exterior applications of any common residual sprays for flies can be made around windows for temporary relief until the source of the infestation can be found and eliminated. Examples of such pesticides can be found in the NC Agricultural Chemicals Manual .The insect growth regulator methoprene (Strike®) is registered for use in municipal wastewater treatment facilties to control midges and drain (filter) flies. Always read the label and follow directions and safety precautions.

Department of Entomology

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New residents should really use caution when considering moving into the property!

Failure to maintain habitable room(s) free from dampness. Section 17920.3(a)11 H.&SC.
6535 W HOLLYWOOD BLVD

HEATING AND VENTILATION
Failure to provide and maintain the required central or individual room heating appliance in good repair and operable. Sections 91.8104.11; 95.0104.4 L.A.M.C.; 17920.3.a.6 H.&S.C.
6535 W HOLLYWOOD BLVD

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Back in July 2010 on the night prior to her employment reassignment Malika Joi Davis was caught placing a letter on tenants doors. She was intoxicated and the letter beyond demeaning/hostile.

This issue was NEVER addressed, with the tenants whose names were included in this heinous letter by incoming management CIM. It was explicitly brought to their attention.

This followed 2 months later by a battery of another tenant while walking to their car, they were attacked by a woman who according to CIM representative “Tamra” is squatting with Steven Tyler in a 1st floor apartment at the Hudson.

Police records will document the arrest of a Ms. Chasity James on September 20, 2010 for assault. A temporary restraining order was issued that day.

Chasity was also charged and arrested for stalking and making criminal threats to an urban blogger who has his offices located at the Hudson apartments.

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LA Weekly – It’s amazing what persistence, a YouTube video and some well-timed postings on a well-read blog can do these days for neighborhood activists tired of being ignored by City Hall and a very rich, very powerful North American real estate company. Meet Cindy DuHaime and Ziggy Kruse, two women who live in Hollywood, never give up and stick it to the man.

For more than a year, DuHaime has been locked in a battle with CIM group, a real estate investment firm worth more than $1 billion with headquarters in Los Angeles; it owns the Hollywood & Highland shopping center — but also owns derelict, Third World slum–style properties on the northwest corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Western Avenue, including an empty motel known as the Bon-Air and a small apartment building, both of which look bombed-out.

DuHaime lives on a lot behind these filthy, hazardous, broken-down structures that appear to have been struck by a hurricane. She’s been trying to get CIM to board up and secure the properties, and then to finally demolish them.

CIM does not lack the money to handle such a small expenditure, with properties in several major cities. It was co-founded by Richard Ressler, a former cigarette-company executive, Ivy League–educated lawyer and investment banker, and two Israeli-Americans, Shaul Kuba and Avi Shemesh, who struck up a friendship with Ressler years ago when chatting with him about his lawn.

CIM developed much of the Third Street Promenade and is now a major landlord in Hollywood, owning more than 1.7 million square feet there. It now owns the long-disappointing Hollywood & Highland shopping center, which houses the Kodak Theatre. Despite endless assurances by City Councilman Eric Garcetti and his predecessor, Jackie Goldberg, the development has soaked up vast sums of public money and enjoys a key location at a crossroads for global tourism, yet has never delivered as promised to taxpayers.

At Hollywood and Western, by contrast, homeless kids and prostitutes regularly crawl into the abandoned motel slum to camp inside. But Hollywood’s politicians have repeatedly looked the other way, and recently rewarded CIM with key help in securing a public loan of $30 million to bring Cirque du Soleil to Hollywood & Highland, several blocks away. Pushed by Garcetti, the unanimous vote of the Los Angeles City Council to hand CIM such riches has enraged many.

Meanwhile, “We have to live with this,” says DuHaime, standing outside the Bon-Air Motel.

After pleading with CIM Vice President John Given, the Department of Building and Safety and Councilman Tom LaBonge (the slum buildings are in LaBonge’s half of Hollywood, while Garcetti’s district office is about 400 feet away), DuHaime called Ziggy Kruse, whom she met at a public meeting about Hollywood redevelopment.

“After I contacted her,” DuHaime says, “everything took off. She wouldn’t stop talking about it.”

Yet Kruse didn’t get much of a response from either the city or the landowner. “You’re going to hear from the city and CIM that they’ve been ‘working with the community,’ ” says Kruse, standing with DuHaime near the Bon-Air Motel, “but it’s just not the case.”

LaBonge, for example, tells L.A. Weekly he’s been “anxious to see those buildings demolished,” but then he claims the national “economic tsunami” somehow made it difficult for CIM to handle the tear-down — an extremely tough excuse for Hollywood residents to buy.

Then there’s City Council President Garcetti, whose desk in his Hollywood district office at Western Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard looks directly down on the ravaged Bon-Air Motel. But according to his spokeswoman, Julie Wong, Garcetti decided to stay out of the controversy since the buildings are actually in LaBonge’s district.

It is this very mindset — passing the buck — that Kruse and DuHaime are fighting. They dramatically ramped up their tactics against City Hall after August 4, when Garcetti and the City Council earned themselves less-than-glowing headlines by approving a federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) loan application that, in the midst of desperate times for small businesses in Los Angeles, will hand the giant CIM about $30 million in public money to retrofit the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland — for a new Cirque du Soleil production.

The deal came under intense criticism from bloggers, city residents and the Los Angeles Times, which wrote in an editorial that “city leaders are unable to support their optimistic claims about the CIM loan with anything but the flimsiest of evidence.”

Kruse and DuHaime jumped in. “People heard that CIM got the loan for the theater,” says DuHaime, “but they don’t know that CIM is also a slumlord. This [repair of local slum buildings] is where HUD money should go.”

(via LA Weekly)

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Residents were given notice back in August regarding the transfer of ownership to CIM group along with an update that the property manager would now be CIM employee Hisako Uyeda.

This would have been great news for the building which was showing many signs of distress due to the management style (or should I say LACK of management style) by Robert Warren, IPS, Malika Joi Davis, and Sergio Caliz.

Unfortunately, Ms. Uyeda has been seen at the property only a handful of times by a few residents and never by many others over the last 3 months. During that time there has been building vandalism and tenants assaulted and battered by some of the crazy people out in the streets early morning (yeah, just like the guy digging through the dumpster every morning).

The back patio lights are out, garbage is constantly strewn around, the lobby chair was vandalized, the Hudson side of the building is now most often used as a toilet for persons to relieve themselves through-out the day. Most recently you could find a pile of vomit by the side entrance of the Hillview for 5 days straight.

Apartments have uninhabitable conditions, leaking pipes and air conditions. There are numerous Los Angeles Housing Department complaints and citations many of which are not even being addressed.

For several months now garbage has remained strewn along the roof-top, bottles, banana peels, cigarette butts, and empty bags.

The building and apartments are infested with drain flies (GROSS).

Anyone who is located on the Hudson, or facing Hollywood can attest to the noise issues. They exceed habitable levels and most residents have received double pane windows to help correct this. They do a very good job of reducing the noise. but they only work if management installs them. Some residents have attested that previous management (before Malika) had started to install the double pane windows but in some instances they didn’t complete or never even started. Many residents received rent concessions just to satisfy the dealing with the GREAT amount of noise coming from Hollywood/Hudson.

All of this and not only is Hisako not on site to address these issues, but if you try and call the Hillview management number you are only greeted with a voice-mail that sends you to a host of other voice-mails. NONE actually get you to a live person. In addition when these issues have been brought up to Hisako perhaps by email, a response is never received and the issues never addressed.

So I ask, Where is My Property Manager Hisako Uyeda.

They should bring Jimmy back ASAP!!!

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