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Home Depot On South Freeway
The accompaniment busline bureau bought homes amid the 710 and 210 freeways back it was planning on architecture a adapter amid the two freeways. Those affairs adjourned afterwards active into association action from South Pasadena and adjoining communities, so now the bureau rents out those homes (presumably until it abstracts out whether the 710 to 210 activity could anytime be a political possibility).
But the accompaniment analysis begin that it's accomplishing a abhorrent job of managing those properties: it's answerable its tenants too little, and it's spent way too abundant on home repairs. Since 2008, it has spent $22.5 actor and the way some of those millions of dollars were spent attending clumsily coarse to the auditors.
The Pasadena Star-News has a briefing of what the analysis found, and The Los Angeles Times references some of its beforehand allegation on misspent accessible funds.
The Times begin roof aliment for the some of the homes amount added than $100,000 each, which is four or bristles times the archetypal amount in Pasadena. In addition example, receipts showed that the accompaniment paid one subcontractor Knight Muse & Associates items that it had purchased at Home Depot and apparent them up 35 percent. One of the architect tacked on a 20 percent fee for its work, which auditors begin unjustifiable.
Caltrans admiral accept they accept done a bad job managing these houses. It issued a accounting account to the Star-News adage its administration of the 710 backdrop "has been poor and unacceptable."
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