Wednesday, February 29, 2012

CITY OF BROCKTON: RST INVESTMENT GROUP AND LANDLORD CONNECTION AND OTHER LANDLORDS MADE BROCKTON ONE OF WORST CITIES TO LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES

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                              RST V.OFUME ET AL – SUP. ANSWER
                       COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS 

                               BROCKTON DISTRICT TRIAL COURT
       HOUSING DEPARTMENT                     SOUTHEASTERN DIVISION

Plymouth/Bristol, ss.                                            Docket No.____________________
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                                            RST Investment Group & Landlord Connection
                                                                                  Plaintiffs
                                                       v.
                                  
                                                 Phillip Ofume
                                                               Defendants (Pro se)
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DEFENDANTS' SUPPLEMENTAL  ANSWER,  COUNTERCLAIM AND OPPOSITION TO  PLAINTIFFS’ RETALIATORY COURT EVICTION NOTICE TO EVICT DEFENDANTS', MAUREEN/PHILLIP OFUME, TENANTS AT 506 WARREN AVENUE APARTMENT 2 BROCKTON, MA 02301 FOR  CLAIM OF “RENT IS IN ARREARS” WITHOUT RENT IN ARREAR AND RECOGNIZING TENANT’S RIGHTS AND ABUSE OF TENANT’S FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS PURSUANT TO .G.L. CHAPTER 23B, SECTION 30; M.G.L. CHAPTER 186 SEC. 18; M.G.L. CHAPTER 111; COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SANITARY, CODE CHAPTER 11; MINIMUM STANDARDS OF FITNESS FOR HUMAN HABITATION; 105 CMR 410.000; M.G.L. CHAPTER 239, SEC. 8A;  5th and 14th Amendments of the Constitution of the United States and also vested in Bill of Rights; Tenancy with a Lease;
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Lead  Defendant,  Dr. Phillip Chukwuma Ofume on  behalf his family moves this Honourable Court seeking leave to file opposition against Plaintiffs' trump re-emerging QUIT NOTICE without NOTICE TO QUIT and with repeated allegation against Defendants thus, politically organized  to deceive this Honourable Court that defendants are owing them whereas Plaintiffs or landlords are owing Defendants/Tenants and that defendants/tenants are not owing under the Commonwealth of Massachusetts rules and regulations and computation of liability and infraction for the following reason:


A.                     SUPPLEMENTAL STATEMENT OF FACT

 1.     Present NOTICE TO QUIT (EXHIBIT A) is copied verbatim from the first NOTICE TO QUIT (EXHIBIT B) of the Plaintiffs  dated October 27, 2011 with multiple forgeries under oath and it was dismissed because the Notice was fraudulent to the extent that the Claim for Relief claimed to get what does not exist and defendant filed Motion to
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ban Plaintiffs from appearing in this Honourable Court for six months as punitive because this Court is a place where honourable and transparent people to seek justice and justice can not accommodate injustice and fallacies. The intended deterrence would have make good lesson to other landlords because the action of the landlords/Plaintiffs have caused this Court time/money and publicly put this Court in shame. 

2.      The unenforced perjury and related criminal conducts of the Plaintiff carried out under oaths brought the Plaintiffs back to Court to spread greater lies and waste public fund for court to hear lies and misrepresentation and proof of repeated perjury is as follows:

 Defendants (EXHIBIT C) paid   Plaintiffs the months of Augusts through November 2011 excluding  $1,350.00  last month rent and statement of payment :

2.a.1.     PLAINTIFFS’ ANONYMOUS RECEIPT No. 734521   $2,600.00  (08/13/2011) EXHIBIT C.1

2.b. 2.   PLAINTIFFS’ ANONYMOUS RECEIPT No.  734520  $40.00 (08/13/2011)  EXHBIT C.2

2.c.3.      PLAINTIFFS’ ANONYMOUS RECEIPT No. 734743 4  $675.00 (9/16/2011)  EXHIBIT C.3     

2.d.4.      PLAINTIFFS’ ANONYMOUS RECEIPT No. 428788   $1,180.00 (11/1/2011) EXIBIT C.4

2.e.5.      PLAINTIFFS’ ANONYMOUS RECEIPT No.  428794    $170.00 (11/03/2011) EXHIBIT C.5

On December 28, 2011 the sitting Honourable Justice in this Court advised that these receipts are not good and defendants are unsure whether this Court made this suspected duping known to the mass public of America.


3.     On before January 4, 2011 there was measurement of the rooms, re-inspection of the entire apartment and Fitness Inspectors also came to the apartment. The two reports and two Certificate of fitness  (EXHIBITS D,  E, F & G   ) were horrible and the apartment  was declared unfit for Defendant's family. A family of 8 persons is forced to reside in an  apartment  measured below in breach of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Regulation, 105 CMR 410.400  (A) and/or  in addition to several inhabitable citations of clusters of defects issued by the BOARD OF HEALTH  to the severe fitness deficiency that the apartment (506 Warren Avenue Apt. #2 Brockton, MA) lacks of CERTIFICATE OF FITNESS and  has been found to be unfit  because mold and grossly under size rooms

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for a large family 8 (Eight) and of six children and two parents with adult and minor children.  This fitness discovery was brought to the attention of the landlord and before these liars (HOUSING SPECIALISTS ) came the Plaintiffs and their  Attorney had agreed to relocate Defendants to better, sizeable and habitable apartment. Due to mistreatment of tenants several tenants are not ready to consult the plaintiffs for rental and mortgage housing including rent and owe program. The courage given to the Plaintiffs/Landlords by the Court’s HOUSING SPECIALISTS made the landlords/Plaintiff to continue to ride higher and higher above the law including refusing to relocate Defendants/Tenants to livable apartment.

4.    Because  some other inspectors of the Board are also corrupt because several defects were swept under the rug , Defendants  petitioned federal and state agencies and defendants suspect that federal and states queries were issued and  health and fitness inspections were carried out with several omissions unreported. The reports were not respected because all the major and minor defects cited have not been fixed.  Based on this lawful inspections, Plaintiffs were overwhelmed with anger and  retaliatorily, on January 30, 2012, the Plaintiffs proceeded to this Court to file similar NOTICE OF EVICTION and claim rents already paid by the defendants without issuing formal NOTICE TO QUIT on the Tenants/Defendants in respect to the term lease. 

5.    SIZE AND OUTCOME  OF THE MEASUREMENT OF THE ENTIRE APARTMENT : FAILING STATUTORY REGULATORY FITNESS (105 CMR 410.400) IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

Plaintiff and his family are large family of eight (8) people (now four adults and four children) and 506 Warren Avenue, Apartment #2 Brockton, MA 02301 is under size two bedroom for "each additional occupants" purusant to 105 CMR 410.400. In accordance with Commonwealth of Massachusetts Regulation, 105 CMR 410.400  (A) the entire  rooms failed the fitness test because the Minimum Square Footage  for large occupants is 150 Square Feet of the Floor Space for its first occupant, and at least 100 Square Feet for each additional occupant, the Floor Space to be calculated on the basis of total habitable room area."


 Measurement of Rooms (506 Warren Avenue Apt. #2 Brockton, Massachusetts 02301)


1st Room:     First Occupant or Master Bedroom: 12ft 10Inches x 9ft.11Inches  = 117ft . 9Inches failed test because Minimum Square Footage  for large occupants is 150 Square Feet of the Floor Space for its first occupant or master bedroom

2nd Room:  Additional Occupant : 12ft 8Inches x 9ft  = 108ft . 8Inches passed test because Minimum Square Footage  for each additional occupants is 100 Square Feet of

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the Floor Space for its first occupant or master bedroom

3rd Room:  Additional Occupant : 9ft.7 Inches x 7ft 8Inches = 64ft . 3Inches failed test because Minimum Square Footage  for each additional occupants is 100 Square Feet of the Floor Space for its first occupant or master bedroom

4th Room: Additional Occupant : 12ft.2 Inches x 7ft 8Inches = 84ft . 10Inches failed test because Minimum Square Footage  for each additional occupants is 100 Square Feet of the Floor Space for its first occupant or master bedroom

6.      Only one room passed the statutory fitness and another one room could be used by one child and the other two rooms can not contain bed and other bedroom furniture. The apartment is one bedroom for 17-year child and one bedroom for one 8-year child. Two Parents and two adult children and two children have no bedroom to sleep and live. What the Plaintiff rented out for large sum amount of money ($1350.00) is one bedroom and small bedroom for 8-year child.  This Court empowered the landlords/plaintiffs to mistreat the Defendants because when the so called housing specialist came to tell lies that major part of the defects have been fixed whereas majority of the major defects has not been fixed, then the landlord decided to disobey the reports of the BOARD OF HEALTH. interview to interview in the City of Brockton, LIMPT, INC. (Education and Workforce Project) and others said that the housing specialists in this court are very corrupt and Defendants experiences in and out of mediation show that they are more corrupt than the Northeast Housing Court, Lawrence, MA (Lynn Session) which Defendant and association had articled for four straight years.

7.    Because of paragraph 1 to 6 above, Plaintiff January 2012 and February 2012  rents were in part withheld and part was paid by check but the landlord as usual refused check payment. They (Plaintiffs/landlords) want cash and illegal payment receipts to elude rapt of taxmasters. 


B.         PRESENT CONDITIONS IN THE APARTMENT:     PROOF OF ILLEGIBILITY TO RECEIPT OF RENT AND REASON THE TENANTS  OR COUNTERCLAIM DEFENDANTS REFUSED TO PAY FURTHER RENT PENDING THE DETERMINATION OF THIS ACTION.

                  Horrifying Conditions in the Apartment

8.   The Ofume family moved in  August 17, 2011 about 11.00 p.m.. Letters and personal meetings were made to request landlords to fix defect but plea remain unheeded. The Plaintiffs agreed to relocate defendants to better and seizeable apartment made for  a large family of 8 persons but when the Court sent corrupt housing specialist, the ball game revised and the landlords became resistant to the reports of the BOARD OF HEALTH and others. Housing Specialist is not health inspectors and can not overrule

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order of court.  

9.    All the defects stated below and few that were fixed were inherited under rushed  and nowhere to live occupancy. Oral and written Complaints put to the landlords but they refused to fix the following major defects: 

9.1.  Ofume family lives in apartment #2 and each time tenants in apartment #3 are bathing or using water there is pool of water coming down from the roof and flooding the Ofume family’s apartment particularly washroom and other spots of the apartment.

9.2.  Complainant or Ofume family is unable to bring in  furniture, rugs and other goods and  properties because of water drilling, failed statutory regulatory fitness and something that looks like slime mold or fungus are in some part of the apartment and because the other parts were not treated as mold the molds are resurfacing in parts where non-mold treatment paint was used. The painter  said that the landlords did not inform him that there was mold in the apartment.

9.3     Some windows are unserviceable and prone to fall and one went down two day when the family moved into the apartment. 

9.4.  The family is in-charge of all utilities but there is no heat in apartment because 100% of the ancient transformers powered by gas are unserviceable and not working. Gas has been paid in full from month to month.  In part fixed on December 19, 2011 and partial heat was brought but the landlords refused to pay bills and there are notices of DISCONNECTION and Plaintiff continues to pay for heat.          
                                           
9.5. .  Some doors have cracks and unserviceable including the front entrance door which requires new keys.
9.6.   Majority of the fire alarms and carbon dioxide detector are not working;

9.7.  There are several bugs, cockroaches, rats, mice, and other animals. The conditions to enable the terminators do their work have not been implemented; 

9.8.  Some of the transformers are unserviceable to the extent that they produce electrocution if touched.

9.9.    Refrigerator is leaking and produces water which the family must clean from time to time.


9.10.  Several electric sockets are unserviceable and damaged for several years and with open current which could harm children and adult.

9.11.  Because of the horrible moldy conditions of the  majority of the rooms  of the


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apartment  including the living room, the family abandoned major part of the apartment.  

9.12.    Several occasion, the Ofume family has pleaded orally and in writing that the landlord find livable apartment for them but its plea remain unheeded by the landlord.  
etc.

C.                        QUESTION IN ISSUE

5.   Consideration of the Reports  of the BOARD OF HEALTH and EXHIBIT C. above, forced to occupy unhabitable apartment for children and parents (506 Warren Avenue #2 Brockton, MA) different from the habitable apartment negotiated ( 96 Walnut Street Brockton, MA), etc, whether  “RENT IS IN ARREARS” as claimed by heartless landlords who love money and big life and reject tenants’ rights or Constitution of the United States and Bill of Rights..

In October 2011 under Tenancy with a Lease,  thus  when Plaintiffs (landlords) proceeded to Court to file EVICTION NOTICE without preliminary QUIT NOTICE and in January 2012  when Plaintiffs (landlords) proceeded to Court to re-file EVICTION NOTICE without preliminary QUIT NOTICE and again and again in February 2012  when Plaintiffs (landlords) proceeded to Court to re-file EVICTION NOTICE without preliminary QUIT NOTICE there were no rents in arrears as bogusly claimed under retaliation because of the action of the BOARD OF HEALTH, and paid political animosity.  When the poor conditions in the apartment remain unfixed, Defendants withheld part of January and February 2012 rents and  Plaintiffs continue to rejected payment by check, bank draft and credit card and demanded for only cash suspected as intention to invade payment of taxes to IRS.

Because of Plaintiffs’ mistreatment of the Defendants including blatant  refusal to fix any of the several severe and minor defects (EXHIBITS B & C) across disputed apartment,  Defendants decided to withhold the part rents mentioned above and  further rents payment will be based on the  determination of this Court and reports of the  BOARD OF HEALTH,  

a.  Landlord:

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that when a landlord fails to maintain a dwelling in habitable condition, a tenant may properly withhold a portion of the rent from the date the landlord has notice of this breach of warrant of habit-ability.”

b.  Tenant

“As a tenant, you have a legal responsibility to pay your landlord for the use of a place that is in decent condition. Massachusetts law also provides you with rights that protect the payments you make to the landlord (M.G.L. c. 186, § 15B)”

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6.     Plaintiffs are corporate body and incorporated in the Commonwealth State of Massachusetts but they don’t receive money with their own name and OFFICIAL RECEIPTS, BANK CHECK, BANK DRAFT,  CREDIT CARD and related government approved legal mechanism. Without legal reason, Plaintiffs allow only PAYMENT BY CASH and receipt issued is ANONYMOUS RECEIPT (EXHIBIT E).  CounterClaim Defendants relocated to the City of Brockton from Lynn and their bank accounts are in Lynn and their banks allow external cash withdrawal of small amount.
Payment history summarized:  August 13, 2011 through October 2011    

a.      PLAINTIFFS’ ANONYMOUS RECEIPT No. 734521   $2,600.00  (08/13/2011) EXHIBIT F

b.      PLAINTIFFS’ ANONYMOUS RECEIPT No.  734520  $40.00 (08/13/2011)  EXHBIT G

c.      PLAINTIFFS’ ANONYMOUS RECEIPT No. 734743 4  $675.00 (9/16/2011)  EXHIBIT H     
d.      PLAINTIFFS’ ANONYMOUS RECEIPT No. 428788   $1,180.00 (11/1/2011) EXIBIT I

e.    PLAINTIFFS’ ANONYMOUS RECEIPT No.  428794    $170.00 (11/03/2011) EXHIBIT
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 Plaintiffs rejected check issued by a popular US base  Italian Restaurant (Carrabbas, Peabody, MA) and  Defendants have to travel to deposit the check into their own bank account off  jurisdiction.  History of Defendants’ payment shows that the Plaintiffs jumped into Court Eviction without reason and forged amount owing to steer sympathy before this honourable Court.

7.   Whether there is sufficient Notice in accordance with 5th and 14th Amendments of the Constitution of the United States and  Bill of Rights and Tenancy with a Lease. The type of tenancy entered into between Plaintiffs and Defendants  is “A Tenant with a Lease.” This Lease has its own rule.


D.                                ARGUMENT

Actions of the Plaintiffs such as anger because Defendants followed the right channel to redress the violation of the Plaintiffs by writing letters to the Landlords or Plaintiffs to relocate Defendants and their family to livable apartment particularly for family of 8 persons, fix multiple defects in the apartment, and when they defaulted Defendants contacted the BOARD OF HEALTH and thereafter the Plaintiffs retaliated by filing EVICTION NOTICE with this Court, failed to pay heat, hot/cold water bills, buy oil for heating , ignored the reports of the BOARD OF HEALTH, etc that these actions of the Plaintiff/landlord are in breach of the G.L. CHAPTER 23B, SECTION 30; M.G.L. CHAPTER 186 SEC. 18; M.G.L. CHAPTER 111; COMMONWEALTH OF
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MASSACHUSETTS SANITARY, CODE CHAPTER 11; MINIMUM STANDARDS OF FITNESS FOR HUMAN HABITATION; 105 CMR 410.000; M.G.L. CHAPTER 239, SEC. 8A;  5th and 14th Amendments of the Constitution of the United States and also vested in Bill of Rights; Tenancy with a Lease; etc.


In October 2011 under Tenancy with a Lease,  thus  when Plaintiffs (landlords) proceeded to Court to file EVICTION NOTICE without preliminary QUIT NOTICE and in January 2012  when Plaintiffs (landlords) proceeded to Court to re-file EVICTION NOTICE without preliminary QUIT NOTICE and again and again in February 2012  when Plaintiffs (landlords) proceeded to Court to re-file EVICTION NOTICE without preliminary QUIT NOTICE there were no rents in arrears as bogusly claimed under retaliation because of the action of the BOARD OF HEALTH, and paid political animosity and that the retaliatory NOTICE TO QUIT with prejudice must be dismissed in full with prejudice and costs.  

When the poor conditions in the apartment remain unfixed, Defendants withheld part of January and February 2012 rents and  Plaintiffs continue to reject payment by check, bank draft and credit card and demanded for only cash suspected as intention to invade payment of taxes to IRS.

Because of Plaintiffs’ mistreatment of the Defendants including blatant  refusal to fix several major defects (EXHIBITS B & C) across disputed apartment,  Defendants decided to withhold part of the  rents mentioned above and  further rents payment will be based on the  determination of this Court and reports of the  BOARD OF HEALTH,  

a.  Landlord:

“The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that when a landlord fails to maintain a dwelling in habitable condition, a tenant may properly withhold a portion of the rent from the date the landlord has notice of this breach of warrant of habit-ability.”

b.  Tenant

“As a tenant, you have a legal responsibility to pay your landlord for the use of a place that is in decent condition. Massachusetts law also provides you with rights that protect the payments you make to the landlord (M.G.L. c. 186, § 15B)”

     Plaintiffs are corporate body and incorporated in the Commonwealth State of Massachusetts but they don’t receive money with their own name and OFFICIAL RECEIPTS, BANK CHECK, BANK DRAFT,  CREDIT CARD and related government approved legal mechanism. Without legal reason, Plaintiffs allow only PAYMENT BY CASH and receipt issued is ANONYMOUS RECEIPT (EXHIBIT E).  CounterClaim Defendants relocated to the City of Brockton from Lynn and their bank accounts are in


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Lynn and their banks allow external cash withdrawal of small amount.
In this Court on before December 28, 2011 The Presiding Honourable Justice said, "this not a good payment receipt...do you have another receipt to show me....?".  Defendants have written to this Court and appeared in person to request for this and other order all of which are appealable but the Clerk/Magistrates neglected, refused, and failed to issue and deliver these Orders to enable Defendants file appeal.


E.                    CONCLUSION/RELIEF

RELIANT ON THE FOREGOING, Plaintiffs’ Retaliatory Multiple Eviction Notices and falsified monetized claim against  Defendants and their  family, eviction notice without prior notice to quit, etc action must be dismissed with prejudice and  costs  limited to refund of all the rents which CounterClaim Defendants paid to Plaintiffs, August 13, 2011 through present and relocation of the family to 96 Walnut Street Brockton, MA or six months apartment search without rent payment to Plaintiffs to enable Defendants and his family find alternative apartment and vacate the disputed apartment and other damages within the jurisdiction of this Court including the amount stated in para A of the Lease to the defendants  and their family because by proceeding to the first, second and third times without cause, as to breach of lease, the lease must be enforced in full against the Plaintiffs/Tenants.

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Dr. Phillip C. Ofume & Co.
 P.O. Box 2416                                                                                                                                          Lynn, MA 01903
Tel. (781) 479-9027,                                                                                                                                                         E-mail: limptintinc@gamail.com

cc.   Service on Mr. Troy Lewis for RST Investment Group and Landlord Connection 561 Main Street, Brockton 02301
                                                     
            

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