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Page 4of 6 those tenants are in a lease, and you can't just break In March 2009, Huber was transferred to a lease. ... But even if you could, it's not easy to Charleswood in Burnsville. move. It's a lot of money. You might lose your security deposit. You risk having an eviction filed "Lines of residents formed outside my office door against you." daily, and residents would complain to me about the neglect of their units by management," she wrote in EVEN MANAGERS FURIOUS an affidavit. Caught in the middle of the angry tenants, frustrated Instead of ponying up money to deal with the city officials and stubborn landlords are the problems, the Jaweeds told Huber to let the property managers the Jaweeds hired to run each complaining tenants out of their lease, Huber's building.affidavit says. Paramark Corp., a professional management "When I did so, I was instructed to immediately company, agreed to run the Center Pointe complex prepare eviction documents which were later used in Brooklyn Center after a January 2008 court- in legal proceedings to extract more money from the ordered agreement between the city and the Jaweeds former tenants," Huber said. regarding how the property should be maintained. She quit after five months, no longer wanting to be In the four months that followed, Michael Busch of "a part of the Jaweeds' disgusting operation," she Paramark had trouble getting money from the said. She's also in the midst of a sexual-harassment Jaweeds to pay utility and other bills, according to employment lawsuit against the brothers. court documents. Other employees said they were asked to lie. "Everyone is knocking on the door for payment. We need to get cash in every account THIS WEEK to takeJerome Aderman, a tenant at Peters Place in care of fires," Busch wrote in an e-mail to Asgher Ali Columbia Heights who was paid $50 a month to act on Jan. 16, 2008. as caretaker, said the Jaweeds told him in November to tell the Pioneer Press that there were no problems On March 21, 2008, Busch wrote: "Are you still despite a pending inspector visit that day. He did, alive? Please call me." and then sent the reporter off the premises, as the Jaweeds ordered him to. The next month, Paramark's contract was terminated, according to court records. The next management "I didn't want to," Aderman said in a January company quit in July. interview, just days after he quit. "I was the one that called the fire marshal in the first place." At other properties, the Jaweeds hired individuals to advertisement oversee day-to-day operations, and several of them told of similar frustrations in court affidavits. Amy Huber, who worked for the Jaweeds as a property manager from November 2008 to April 2009 in Forest Lake and Burnsville, said there were times she used her own money for repairs after the Jaweeds refused to pay because of a tenant's ethnicity, according to a November 2009 affidavit. Huber said that anytime she requested money to do maintenance on a unit, the brothers would first ask about the resident's ethnicity. "If I'd confirm that the resident happened to be Hispanic, the Jaweeds denied me funding to do the repair and say, 'Why should we replace it? The (racial slur) will just ruin it again anyway,' " the affidavit said. htt://www.twincities.com/fdc?uniue=131842747276410/12/2011 ppq