Imagine the shocking news to the neighbors,  that must have accompanied the recent arrest of a Grandmother accused of chaining down her grandson for three years to a bed.   It is unbelievable  how this tragedy went unnoticed by the neighbors and of course how our bedroom community where the city claims it is the best place to work and raise a family becomes violated.

The house was not owned by her, but , according to property records, by the Nachman's living in Eagle Trace ( click here for Broward Property Record).  The alleged child abuser grandmother  is obviously renting the house.

How does this happen? I am sure many will simply say it was a simple incident occurring in our city ...can happen anywhere.  However, if you listen to the Police Scanner on our website, and really take note of how many crimes are being committed, and the domestic violence is occurring, you will be mad as hell that we cannot do anything about it.

Location of House Rented by  Grandmother Abused Her Grandson Click on To Enlarge

The reason  all of this is occurring in our neighborhoods has to do with  many single family homeowners who have left their houses are renting them out...in many cases without doing any background checks.  In these times all  is needed is simply a lot of cash on hand, and presto ..here are the keys and to hell with the neighborhood.

Most famous for this was the owner of  Tara Gardens on Atlantic, when one  Mohammed Atta , the mastermind and terrorist behind the 9/11  tragedy was living in an apartment in his building on the ground floor.   Atta left his apartment two days before to travel to Boston where he hijacked a plane and flew it into one of the buildings at the world trade centre in New York.   The owner , who rented out the apartment as a hotel without a hotel licenses, took cash up front and gave him the keys.

It is not only the terrorist and the sadistic grandmother that are a problem, it is the cost of the services the Police now have to provide to this city, as the riff raff enter living in our once safe neighborhoods, unchecked until a tragedy happens.  The Coral Springs Police will tell you they get more calls from the rental facilities around out city then they normally due any of the signal family dwellings. They will also not tell you  renters are the biggest problem in this city.  The transient nature does little to improve our neighborhoods while at the same time landlords with no responsibility as corporate citizens rent to whomever has the money in the hand.  Cash makes up for bad credit or no references.

What we need in this city is an ordinance that limits single family neighborhoods to yearly rentals, a requirement for  background checks and a fee paid to the city by the landlords for each dwelling rented to offset the increase costs in services.  This way at least when someone leaves a neighborhood and rents out their house to Child Abusers and Terrorists,  the city has some cash in hand to pay our police force.


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