Reasons John Infantino's Ft. Howard Development Lease Was Terminated

The first lease to the Fort Howard, Md., Department of Veterans Affairs property, for the development of a proposed veterans community - John Infantino's bogus Bayside at Fort Howard - on the valuable Chesapeake Bay waterfront was terminated for the reasons below; which come from court records when Infantino sued the United States (every American citizen) as a 'smoke screen' to cover his scams: 

"After several years, the VA became concerned about the status of the project and, starting in February 2009, the VA began sending notices of default to FHSHA (Fort Howard Senior Housing Associates). Ultimately, the VA determined that FHSHA was in default of the Lease and, on August 17, 2009, the VA terminated the Lease for default on the primary grounds that FHSHA had failed to (1) commence construction of the new CBOC (Community Based Outpatient Clinic) such that it would be completed with the timeframe required under the Lease,1 (2) maintain and secure the property, and (3) pay its proportionate share of the utility bills."

"FHSHA filed its initial complaint on August 16, 2010 and an amended complaint on June 29, 2012.2 In its complaint, plaintiff asserts that the VA's termination was wrongful on two main grounds: (1) its failure to build the CBOC was excused by the force majeure (an unexpected event such as war, crime, or earthquake) clause in the Lease, and (2) the government otherwise breached the Lease on various grounds. In its amended answer, the government counterclaimed for breach of the Lease and seeks $313,328.45 as the amount allegedly owed to the government under the Lease."

 "Id. The Termination Notice constituted the designated VA Representative's final decision that the Lease is terminated in its entirety for the following reasons:

1. The defaults identified in the Default Notices constitute a failure to pay Rent, as defined in the Lease. The failure to pay Rent is a material default.

2. FHSHA's failure to maintain the Property and undertake the maintenance required by the Lease at the Property, as described in the Default Notices, are material breaches of the Lease and constitute a failure to pay Rent.

3. FHSHA's failure to secure the Property, as described in Default Notice 2, is a material breach of the Lease and constitutes a failure to pay Rent.

4. FHSHA's failure to maintain insurance on the Property, as described in Default Notice 2, is a material breach of the Lease and constitutes a failure to pay Rent.

5. FHSHA's failure to pay for electrical utilities, as described in Default Notice 1, is a material breach of the Lease.

6. FHSHA has taken no steps to begin the actual development or construction of the Project. FHSHA did not respond to VA's request in Default Notice 2 that FHSHA provide assurances that FHSHA would complete Phase 1 of the Development Plan in accordance with the Lease, including construction and acceptance of the CBOC within thirty-nine (39) months of the Effective Date of the Lease. To date (almost thirty-six (36) months after execution of the Lease), FHSHA has failed to obtain financing for the Project and no lender has been identified and confirmed that it is ready, willing, and able to provide FHSHA the requisite financing to enable FHSHA to construct the CBOC. In addition, no plans have been submitted to VA or the County for review and approval. Further, FHSHA has not started construction of the Project. Accordingly, VA has determined that FHSHA will not be able to meet the deadline of thirty-nine (39) months after the Effective Date of the Lease (December 28, 2009) for construction of the CBOC in accordance with the Lease terms.

Id. at 786-87."

Court report copied from:

https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20150601917

Police Sitting on the Moose Lot are Misunderstood

Many people who see police cars sitting on the parking lot of the Dundalk Moose building declare that the police who park on the lot are not doing anything good. That idea is far from correct, and I figured it out decades ago. The Moose parking lot is a strategic location of high value for good police work. It has been going on for decades. It is like a guard post, where patrols or responses to 911 calls go out from. 

I figured it out long ago that the Moose is a good spot for cops being where they can see and hear things happening behind the middle school, out across the sports fields, up towards the high school and community college, vehicular and foot traffic (mostly school children) on Delvale, and down along the businesses on Merritt Ave.. There are several 24-hr convenience store gas stations within a block, and those type places attract criminal activities. There is plenty of through traffic - with tractor trailers plus school buses included - to and from Merritt Blvd, Peninsula Expressway, Sparrows Point, the Key Bridge, Baltimore City, etc. to monitor.

Fire Station Engine 6 is right across the street, where police can use the bathroom. They can also team right up with the firefighters leaving the firehouse on emergency calls, where police service is needed along with fire service. And that can make the difference between life and death in many situations. If you live in the area, or are in the area, a 911 call for help responded to from the Moose lot may be from you. 

Eighteen years ago, I was helping raise my sister's grandson, in my house 4 blocks from the Moose. The little fellow swallowed a penny, and I called 911. I thought he was going to choke to death. Then in 3 or 4 minutes a police officer was at my door and came striding in - with deep concern written all over him - into my home carrying an obviously First Aid Bag with equipment for saving the child's life. The cop feared the boy was choking to death. That officer was relieved to find no kid dying, and the EMS who then arrived were advised by their emergency room contact that kids often swallow pennies, and then harmlessly pass them out in few days. I don't care where that officer was when he took the call, but if it was on the Moose lot that would be a 3 or 4 minute response.   

Police officers there at the Moose can quickly respond to 911 calls coming from all directions. Officers can quickly respond to criminal problems, medical emergencies, and fires occurring by heading up Delvale and out past it towards Eastern Ave; or quickly to Stanbrook, Inverness and out further that way towards Berkshire and Eastpoint, and even to North Point Village, or out the beltway or to Essex for backup calls. They can easily head down Peninsula Expressway towards Sparrows Point/Edgemere, or up Sollers Point Rd. to all the neighborhoods off of Sollers, then Watersedge and Turner Station; up to Dundalk Village Shopping Center, St. Helena, Old Dundalk, Dundalk Marine Terminal area; also down Dunmanway to Logan Elementary, Merritt Point Park, etc.

They sit on the lot filling out their endless, necessary (at least mandated) paperwork, do investigative research online and over cell phones. They eat. They talk with each other about criminal cases, public safety weaknesses and strengths in the patrol area, and proper police procedure; about people passing by whom one officer has never seen but another there knows that the person is a good citizen or a criminal. Pedestrians and drivers who know cops may be there, or happen to see patrol cars there, can go over and alert them to crimes, accidents, fires, medical emergencies, etc.

Police cannot be expected to drive around and around on their shift, looking to stop, prevent and solve crimes and not stop driving till they do. There is a huge difference between police patrol driving and all other types - police steadily remain tensed a bit, as they anticipate how to respond to criminal activities, road accidents, medical emergencies, etc; they study various public safety aspects in the area, always having to wonder if their death or other injuries by criminals or accident will occur. A good patrol officer must be aware of as much of their surroundings as possible, listening for sounds of problems while glancing or looking intently here and there in different directions. Also for odors, including fire, gas, chemicals, dead bodies, etc..  

I've worked driving taxis for Dundalk companies, and in busy times driven around the community, and into and out of it for hours on end. As much as 6 to 8 hours before stopping to take a break. Driving long hours makes a person tired. Cabbies suffer fears of crime, also, but taxi drivers avoid trouble, while police look to stop and/or prevent other peoples' trouble. Police remain prepared to jump out and go at trouble, knowing they sometimes encounter hostile, angry, scared and/or psychotic people with weapons. That intensity wears a person down, and inflicts lifelong negative effects of PTSD on officers' lives. Along with their loved ones' lives. 

I have lived more of my life in those areas that the Moose lot affords good police access to and from than anywhere else. I graduated from Dundalk High School in '68, and have attended many classes at the community college next to DHS. I've visited relatives and friends all over those areas. I have shopped, worked, ridden and driven in the areas. Taken Sunday rides. Gone to many celebratory events. All for sixty-some-years.

I have walked past that Moose a thousand times, day and night, in all kinds of weather. In the 70's, two police cars did a stop and ID check plus a wants & warrants thing on me, when I was walking home between the Middle School and Moose from a girlfriend's apartment late at night there. I didn't like being stopped like that, but appreciate that they could have been nabbing a guy with heavy warrants out on him and kept that criminal from committing more crime in my neighborhood. I ain't angry at the law, but at the bad guys causing fears.

Walking can be very scary at times, and I have avoided being a victim of crimes then by strategic thinking and actions. Including right there in that lot when no police were present. They aren't there more than being there, and should not be there the majority of the time. I sure wish they'd a been there, because I scared the perpetrator away and he went on to be arrested a few hours later as he was committing serious crimes against others. Thirty-five years in the penitentiary worth of repeat crimes, and he had recently been released from decades in prison for the previous ones. And while those new crimes were happening, I had gone right to a friend's place a few blocks away to borrow a pistol to go hunt that #*****#~~~ criminal down, but the gun owner was out. Yes indeed.

When I learned that perpetrator had been arrested, I went up to the police station and told them I can witness that he was in the area if that helps. I said, "He walked past me holding his hands out from his sides a bit (like challenged gunslingers in movies), which kept his writs from rubbing against a weapon tucked under his shirt into his pants, and his shirt tail was out and helping conceal the weapon, which I suspect is a knife." An officer in the station walked past holding a large kitchen knife and told me that that is what I had accurately perceived was there. My life experiences of seeing or not seeing police cars on the Moose lot have been that intense. 

I have military experience, plus have done civilian security patrol work. I am experienced at searching for and guarding against criminals and our nation's enemies. At all times of day and night in all kinds of weather. And, like most kids, I grew up feeling and thinking protectively of my family, community & country. 

Consequently, I thought all these things over a few decades ago. Because, like many other people, I did not appreciate the cops sitting there, until I thought it through and realized how well that location for parked patrol cars serves my hometown.

And, you know, many folks in the general public prefer police sitting in their vehicles where cops can be seen on duty and also there's a chance of errant, or overworked, officers being discovered if napping. Or worse.

That Moose parking lot is a good strategic location of high value for police work and public safety concerns. Unappreciative people need to face those facts and appreciate them. 

Many other people do.

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Fairly Recent Video of The Fort Howard VAMC

The video is appropriately a year-and-a-half old, from early 2018. I did not shoot it, but it is one of the most recent videos and is one of many videos shot of the old VA hospital property, then published online. I chose this one to use because it has drone aerial footage plus ground level footage shot inside the buildings, which gives us a clear view of the horrible mess the Fort Howard VAMC property has been deteriorating into for more than a decade. The video's narrator says that there is a vigilant security guard on duty, which must mean that the video shooting guys snuck in some way, because they sure should not have been given permission to enter that deteriorating, heavily vandalized property with its hazardous hospital building. You'll see many of the dangerous hazards in the video, but we can't see the various airborne dangers, like mold spores, that are probably contaminating the airs throughout all the buildings. 

Baltimore's Abandoned Military Complex


At 00.18, you see arson damage to the top part of one of the hundred-and-some-year old, old-time-craftsmen built, luxury homes originally occupied by army officers and their families. Later, the VA housed doctors and their families in those houses.

At 00.53, in the upper right corner, you see what is left of an arsoned house - the rear, white wall & chimney. There had been a similar house on each side of that destroyed one's only wall left standing, but those two beautiful and very valuable waterfront homes were arson burned to the ground.

At 3:51, you see fire damage in the main hospital building, which is from the first arson fire at the Ft. Howard VA property.

At 5:06, you look straight down the stairwell where - too many - hospitalized nets jumped to commit suicide. The heavy screening you see was installed to completely block anyone from getting over the railing to jump. I don't know when that screening was installed, but it must have been shortly after the hospital opened in 1943 - when mostly seriously wounded World War Two vets filled the hospital. John David Infantino may either be a sociopath or psychopath, because he does not care about the mass of suffering experienced by patients, and their loved ones, during the years of Ft. Howard being a veterans hospital. All us veterans' service to the United States has paid to have that VA property be used to our advantage.

At 5:58, you see the area where the lease holder's workers sat dumpsters, when they were cleaning out some of the junk from the hospital building.

Back in 2004, had the VA not chosen scam artist John D. Infantino as the Ft. Howard developer but had chosen an actual developer who possesses a proven record of successes in real estate redevelopment, similar to what the current lease holder & developer Sam Himmelrich has, I may very likely have been living in an apartment there for about a decade. That plus the facts: my paternal grandparents met there during World War One; I've had friends and relatives in the area all my life; I was a patient in that VA hospital three times; plus I have participated in community volunteer works alongside many other people in the county park next to the VA property, all make development of a veterans community on Ft. Howard, or it's failure, something that creates powerful effects upon my life. I love the place & people and cherish their, my and our histories of Fort Howard, Maryland.

The VA's Enhanced-Use Lease Program Is Working but Not At Ft. Howard

The video and list below shows us that some of the Department of Veterans Affairs Enhanced-Use Lease deals have been successful - all over America. Through this (EUL) program, VA out-leases underutilized real estate under its jurisdiction or control to the private sector for up to 75 years for the purpose of developing supportive housing for homeless and at risk Veterans and their families. But the VA's EUL for the Fort Howard, Maryland VAMC property has yet to create any homes for veterans, or anyone else. 

The Ft. Howard EUL got off to a bad beginning, in 2004, when the VA signed a memorandum of understanding with (fake) property developer John D. Infantino. In 2006, Infantino signed a VA lease to the Ft Howard property. In 2009, the VA cancelled that lease, due to John Infantino not doing anything to make the development project happen. For John David Infantino, it is all about making it appear that he has the intent, ways and means to complete a project, so he can scam investors into giving him investment money for doing the project. He lives well on what he bilks from those investors. Infantino has never done any actual property development.

Infantino's scam against the VA's Enhanced-Use Lease of the Fort Howard VAMC property is still instrumental in the delay of the veterans community development proposed for that Ft. Howard property. That fraud crippled the momentum of the project, because too much of the public and the governments no longer believe a veterans community is possible on Ft. Howard. That property rots from the natural elements and suffers further destruction by a mass of vandalism. Although other VA properties around the country have been completed by true developers, and the VA had declared Ft. Howard to be the first to be done plus an example of how the others were to be done.

A second lease to the Ft Howard VA was signed with the VA by Tim Munshell and Carl Williams, in 2012, but neither had ever done such a development project. Williams had lied to Munshell and everyone about having $50,000,000 to bring to the project. And due to that lie & more, Williams was removed from, or left, the Ft. Howard EUL deal, and it became all up to Tim Munshell to acquire all funding. Carl Williams not living up to his promises made it tougher for Munshell, but Tim Munshell's abilities to earn honest money have always been as a middle-man between the VA, investors, a fully capable developer, and to work with the head contractor. Tim is well reputed to be very good at helping contractors secure investment funding and being of solid value in certain capacities on a construction project, but not as the head of one. Tim eventually managed to turn the lease over to Sam Himmelrich. Then Himmelrich employed Munshell on the FT. Howard project, because Tim had studied the property well and knows how to help where his skills and experience are useful. Sam Himmelrich has a proven record of completing successful property developments.

All of us veterans' service to the United States has paid to have that VA property be used to our advantage.




Here is the latest list of EUL's from https://www.va.gov/assetmanagement/ :

Location State EUL Type
Housing Type Lease Awarded Status  
1 Albany NY Parking 8/5/2009 Active  
2 Atlanta GA Office 12/18/1997 Active  
3 Barbers Point HI Permanent and Transitional 3/17/2003 Active
4 Batavia NY Transitional 5/24/2002 Active
5 Batavia NY Senior 12/22/2008 Active  
6 Battle Creek MI Transitional 12/22/2008 Active  
7 Bedford MA Permanent 9/10/2004 Active  
8 Bedford MA Permanent and Transitional 12/27/2011 Active  
9 Brockton MA Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
10 Butler PA Mental Health Facility 12/18/2003 Active  
11 Butler PA Transitional 4/17/2007 Active  
12 Canandaigua NY Permanent and Transitional 12/27/2011 Active  
13 Charleston/MUSC SC Driveway 5/18/2004 Active  
14 Chicago (Westside) IL Office 4/22/2002 Active  
15 Chicago (Westside) IL Energy 8/12/2002 Active  
16 Chillicothe OH Mixed Use 12/22/2008 Active  
17 Chillicothe OH Permanent 12/30/2011 Active  
18 Cleveland OH Mixed Use 10/1/2009 Active  
19 Columbia SC Mixed Use 11/19/2007 Active  
20 Dallas TX Child Development Center 12/20/1999 Active  
21 Danville IL Senior 4/27/1999 Active  
22 Danville IL Permanent 12/30/2011 Active  
23 Dayton OH Permanent 12/30/2004 Active  
24 Dayton OH Child Development Center 12/30/2004 Active  
25 Dayton OH Transitional 4/19/2007 Active  
26 Dayton OH Transitional 11/5/2008 Active  
27 Dayton OH Senior 12/30/2011 Active  
28 Durham NC Mixed Use 1/3/2002 Active  
29 Grand Island NE Permanent 12/30/2011 Active  
30 Hines IL Transitional 8/22/2003 Active  
31 Hines IL Senior 7/30/2004 Active  
32 Hines IL Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
33 Houston TX Mixed Use 8/23/1993 Active  
34 Indianapolis IN Mixed Use 9/23/1996 Active  
35 Kerrville TX Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
36 Leavenworth KS Permanent 8/5/2005 Active  
37 Lincoln NE Permanent 12/30/2011 Active  
38 Lyons NJ Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
39 Memphis I TN Parking 12/30/2011 Active  
40 Menlo Park CA Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
41 Milwaukee WI Office 7/17/2003 Active  
42 Minneapolis MN Credit Union 8/17/2004 Active  
43 Minneapolis MN Permanent 9/1/2005 Active  
44 Minneapolis MN Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
45 Minneapolis II MN Permanent 6/2/2016 Active  
46 Mound City IL Office 11/6/2003 Active  
47 Mountain Home TN Medical School 12/17/1998 Active  
48 Mountain Home TN Energy 12/2/1999 Active  
49 Newington CT Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
50 North Chicago IL Energy 5/21/2002 Active  
51 Northampton MA Permanent and Transitional 12/27/2011 Active  
52 Pershing Hall, Paris* FR Hotel 10/16/1998 Active  
53 Portland OR Crisis Triage Center 2/13/2004 Active  
54 Roseburg OR Transitional 8/1/2000 Active  
55 Roseburg OR Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
56 Salt Lake City UT Office 5/9/2001 Active  
57 Salt Lake City UT Transitional 8/30/2011 Active  
58 Salt Lake City II UT Mixed Use 9/20/2006 Active  
59 Sepulveda CA Permanent 12/21/2007 Active  
60 Sepulveda CA Permanent 12/21/2007 Active  
61 Sioux Falls SD Parking 4/1/1999 Active  
62 Somerville NJ Mixed Use 9/5/2003 Active  
63 St. Cloud MN Golf Course 7/28/1997 Active  
64 St. Cloud MN Permanent 5/24/2005 Active  
65 St. Cloud MN Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
66 Tuscaloosa AL Hospice 9/19/2002 Active  
67 Tuscaloosa AL Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
68 Vancouver WA Permanent 7/14/1998 Active  
69 Vancouver WA Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
70 Viera FL Assisted Living 12/13/2011 Active  
71 Walla Walla WA Permanent 12/30/2011 Active  
72 Washington DC Child Development Center 4/20/1993 Active  
73 West LA CA Permanent 5/18/2017 Active  
74 West Palm Beach FL Office 11/14/1994 Active  
75 Augusta I GA Permanent 12/27/2011 Construction  
76 Augusta II GA Permanent 12/30/2011 Construction  
77 Fort Harrison MT Permanent 12/27/2011 Construction  
78 Fort Howard MD Permanent 12/27/2011 Construction  
79 Perry Point MD Permanent 12/30/2011 Construction  
80 Togus ME Permanent 12/27/2011 Construction  
81 Newington CT Assisted Living 12/27/2011 Development  
82 Northport NY Permanent and Transitional 12/27/2011 Development  
83 Alexandria LA Terminated 12/27/2011 Terminated  
84 Batavia NY Terminated 5/24/2002 Terminated  
85 Bath NY Terminated 12/27/2011 Terminated  
86 Bay Pines FL Terminated 5/22/1997 Terminated  
87 Big Spring TX Terminated 3/8/1996 Terminated  
88 Cheyenne WY Terminated 12/30/2011 Terminated  
89 Chicago (Lakeside) IL Terminated 1/18/2005 Terminated  
90 Dayton II OH Terminated 12/30/2011 Terminated  
91 Fort Howard MD Terminated 9/28/2006 Terminated  
92 Knoxville IA Terminated 12/27/2011 Terminated  
93 Memphis II TN Terminated 12/30/2011 Terminated  
94 North Chicago IL Terminated 4/10/2002 Terminated  
95 North Little Rock AR Golf Course 10/1/1998 Terminated  
96 Sacramento CA Terminated 12/27/2011 Terminated  
97 Salem VA Terminated 12/30/2011 Terminated  
98 Topeka KS Terminated 12/30/2011 Terminated  
99 West Haven CT Terminated 12/1/1994 Terminated

John Infantino Scammed Ft. Howard Veterans Affairs Medical Center & Still Scams Worldwide

The world is committing great wrongs by allowing John David Infantino to remain unpunished for the devastating scams he's run, and to allow Infantino to go on running scams worldwide. He may either be a sociopath or psychopath, because he does not care about the mass of suffering experienced by his millions of scam victims worldwide. John D. Infantino runs scams all over the globe, always claiming to be bringing hundreds-of-millions of dollars of investment funding to proposed property development projects. After John Infantino was chosen to be the property developer of (30, 40 or more) planned projects, he never does anything to fulfill his obligations, and most (possibly all) of those projects never, ever, got going at all. Infantino drained the momentum out of those projects, which killed them. 

Though Infanitno's scams are well documented online (mostly by me) and well known by most of his many victims and their communities, the world refuses to do anything about Infantino's fraud; with people either disbelieving all I have online about Infantino or not caring what he has done and continues to do. It is time for the disbelievers and the uncaring, along with those of you who know Infantino is a scam artist, to join me in stopping his con games and seeing him legally punished. The scam he ran that hits closest to me is when he took out a lease to the Ft. Howard VA Hospital property - under the Department of Veterans Affairs Enhanced-Use Lease Program - falsely claiming he is a property developer with national & international successes in property development. The VA's EUL Program is designed to help homeless veterans obtain affordable, safe and stable housing. John Infantino takes monies from investors who believe he is going to do a development project, and that is all he does on any project. He lives well on what he bilks from those investors.

All us veterans' service to the United States has paid to have that VA property be used to our advantage.

If Infantino was an actual developer and had lived up to his legal agreement and promises for Ft. Howard, I may very likely have been living in an apartment there for at least a decade. That plus the facts: my grandparents met there during World War One; I was a patient in that hospital three times; I have had relatives in the area all my life; plus I have participated in community volunteer works along with many other people in the county park next to the VA property; all make it something that has drastic effects on me.

All of my online works about John D. Infantino are here:
https://davidrobertcrews.blogspot.com/search?q=infantino

A Couple of Actions That Made Me A Good Resident at Hanover Square Apartments

There is a history of homeless people sneaking into and sleeping in common areas of the Hanover Square apartment building at 1 W. Conway St. in Baltimore. When I was a resident there, I came home one evening and before I entered the building I saw that down the hall in the elevator lobby there were two homeless men trying to sleep there. One was on a small wooden bench and the other on the floor. A female resident was walking past and getting on the elevator. I called 911 on the homeless guys.

A cop came, I unlocked the front door, we walked in and I walked against the wall so that the homeless could not see me. I was concerned about them seeing me on the street on a later day and causing me trouble, so I left the police officer's side and walked upstairs to the third floor, where there is a small outside patio over looking the area out in front of the building. The cop checked them for wants and warrants, then let them leave. The officer and homeless guys were calm and polite with each other, and the outcome was fair.

It is easy for anyone to slip in behind residents who unlock the front door and come in, due to many residents being very old and frail. I was not the first to see the homeless in our lobby, others had passed by and not called police, and if I had not called 911 there probably would have been other residents who saw but said nothing. That's the way it is there.

On another day, there was a young homeless man overdosed and dead on steps - to a public area that is sort of a little cement and brick city park attached to the Hanover Square property - on one evening as I walked up to the Hanover Square apartment building I lived in at 1 W. Conway St. in Baltimore. It is the main entrance and exit for pedestrians from Hanover Square and the neighborhood there. I called 911, then administered a shot of naloxone narcotic reversal agent that I carried just for such an event. It had no effect. I then attempted to get the OD'd guy into a position where I could begin chest compressions, but he was too heavy for my old & disabled body to move. 

EMS was there within a few minutes of the 911 call, and they took over. They pointed out to me that the OD'd man's skin was already turning blue, which is a bad sign. They tried hard to revive the OD's guy for ten to fifteen minutes, but could not.  

I had seen several residents pass by before and during the incident before EMS got there, but no one else helped.    

Water On The Apartment House Hallway Floor I Call In The Emergency The Maintenance Man Shows Only Hostility Towards Me

The first time I experienced hostility from Keith the maintenance man for the apartment building I lived in had to do with when I came in the front door late one evening and saw that the first floor hallway ladies room had water pouring out from under its door. This was at Hanover Square Apartments, 1 W. Conway St. in Baltimore, Md.. I had immediately been concerned that a woman had fallen onto a toilet flusher or something or maybe one had slipped on the water and was in there on the floor, so I knocked on the door then opened it and shouted in then looked in. No one was there. So I called the emergency maintenance number.

I suspect that I was not the first to see the water damages in action, because of the water being so far out in the hallways and because of the way many people who live there are.

The water was coming down from the ceiling, not from a toilet or sink as I had excepted to find. After notifying the emergency maintenance number, my immediate concern became whether the water was coming from the apartment above, where my good neighbor Donald lived. I was afraid he was stuck in his overflowing tub or something like that, so I went upstairs and checked for water in that hallway then listened at Donald's door for the sound of water moving. Nothing there indicated he was in trouble with water overflowing.

So I hustled on back downstairs to make sure none of our visually impaired residents walked onto the watery floor, and to let anyone else around know I had called the emergency in.

The live in maintenance man Keith came walking fast from his apartment past me to go to his first floor maintenance shop for tools. As he approached and passed I informed him that I had checked upstairs on Donald and found that the water was not likely coming from his place. Keith abruptly said, "I can't talk now, I've got to fix this."

I never expected him to stop and talk, as if no emergency was happening and I wanted to get his opinion on the latest ballgame or something. I just wanted to say I checked the second floor and it's OK.

He came back and I went upstairs - leaving him to deal with any visually impaired residents who may slip on the wet floor.

Keith never thanked me for calling it in and saving the building from further water damage and saving him from more difficult repair work.

Previously, I had had several brief, nice, verbal interactions with Keith, but this was the first of his later hostilities towards me. Later, he acted as if he had viewed video from the security cameras and saw that I had walked past and never called the emergency in.

I Cooperated with The Window Replacement Crew But Management & Maintenance Saw It Differently

During the time I lived at 1 W. Conway St. Hanover Square Apartments for seniors in Baltimore, the windows were replaced. Four months prior to the project beginning, all residents were given flyers stating that the project was to begin, and on the day before each residents' windows were to be removed and replaced management will notify the residents for next day's prep of their apartments. The window replacement workers required the areas near the windows to be free of residents' furnishings and other possessions for designated areas. Management never gave any residents that one day warning, and some residents had their possessions moved away from their windows for months. That was very inconvenient for those residents. 

On the day prior to my windows being replaced, I knew it was about to happen so I asked the work crew boss if I needed to clear the areas for them. He said mine would be done the next day. I cleared the bedroom area that evening, because it was the most challenging with the heavy bed to be lifted up and out of the way. I have degenerative back disease and arthritis, and could not do the living room that evening, too. 

The following morning, at 9:30 am, Keith the maintenance man came down my hallway banging on doors and saying, "LET'S GO, LET'S GO, OPEN UP YOUR DOORS!!"He was acting like a drill sergeant waking up trainees. 

I was awake but still laying on my sofa, so I got up and opened up my door then sat down to let my old and worn body loosen up like every other morning. I was looking where I could place everything I had to move away from the window, when Keith came back by the open door. He said something about me getting the furnishings moved, and I replied that, "I AM! I have to figure out where to move the stuff. And I already have the bedroom done."

Like, in a flash, Maggie the apartment manager was at my open door, and angrily looking in at me. She said, "Mr. Crews, why you not have that done?  

I relied, "I've got the bedroom done! I just need to let my body loosen up while I figure out how to make the living room stuff fit over there (while pointing to the area clear of the designated work space)." 

Maggie brutally replied, "YOU HAD FOUR MONTHS TO DO IT IN!!"

It was wrong to expect us residents to have our homes disarranged for four months. It was also contrary to the flyers Maggie had created and distributed four months earlier saying that residents will be notified on the day before their windows would be replaced.

Maggie then comes out with, "You dumped a TV outside, we have you on video!"

I said,"No, I looked at the chair the TV was set on, to see if I could use it. That was all." 

The apartment has a large closet with double doors right inside from the apartment door. Maggie steps up to where I had some small items temporarily moved from the bedroom and bulging out of the closet's nearly closed doors. She took out her cellphone and photographed that, with an expression on her face of, "I got you on this one." It was very rude and ignorant of her to do so. 

We living at Hanover Square are all older and not as able as we used to be. And when my sciatica is flared up and painfully crippling, I cannot move my stuff out of the way for the workers. Maggie should have come up and first asked if I was alright, can I move the stuff. But she is too cold hearted to care.

The workers were not on my apartment's outside corridor yet, and I had the living room area cleared in time for them. 

The thing is, with Maggie and Keith, they would continue to treat me and probably talk about me among management like I had at first refused to move my stuff for the workers. They maintained a negative attitude about me. The same as with the other residents.