Video shows chaos seniors during the changeover of the Oasis residential quarters to “Luxury” WaterView rental in Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – A video of a witness served as proof of the chaos behind a real estate conversion in Fort Lauderdale with left to infamous New York Slumlords and a grieving legal dispute on behalf of seniors and their families.

Advertised as “warm and supportive”, the Oasis residential quarters at the West Commercial Boulevard in areas to provide senior services that need memory care, assisted life and an independent life.

The residents have accused Steven Gottlieb, the facility administrator. First of all, the residents said that they were forced to take off the independent living area of ​​the OASIS.

The residents said they were misleading to believe that it was a “renovation”, but it was for a conversion to the WaterView rental, a leasing community, to have “complex amenities” and “palatic” apartments.

In March, in need of protecting residents of Oasi's residential quarters in the Assisted Living Facility region paid their rent of the month when they took part in an “mandatory” meeting a few days later to talk about moving due to “upgrades”.

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The meeting went into chaos. A witness shared a video of it. Some were in tears. There was anger and distrust. A woman fired questions: “Why don't you just say that you close the place?” And “will you close the residential and memory care, yes or no?”

The tragic scene had several connections to New York and New Jersey.

Rema comras, a former Miami Beach born in Queens, was one of those affected. After her husband Jose Simonet, an immigration judge born in Manhattan, she had died in 2021.

In 2022, state records show that Mark Tress, also known as Moshe Tress from New Jersey, title manager of Florida limited liability company Lauderdale Commercial BLVD Partners and Oasis Living Quarter.

The public lawyer of New York City comprised Tress, who has a cord of arrests at the Jackson Township police authority in New Jersey in the “worst landlords of 2024” – and took 20th place for over 645 open apartment injuries.

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In June, the state records show that Sharon Olson became a member of the WaterView Residences LLC, which was registered in the same address in New Jersey for Lauderdale Commercial BLVD Partners and Oasis Living Quarters.

Records show that the address 150 Airport Road, Lakewood, Suite 900, also houses several companies, including the Cedar Development Group and the Cedar Health Group.

Records also show that Olson is the title manager of SpV Realty, a Florida Limited Company that is connected to the evacuation scandal in Design Place in Miamis Little Haiti district.

SPV Realty is registered in Florida in a penthouse in Ameritania, a hotel on Times Square, who is connected to Olson's husband Jay Podolsky, who developed a reputation as an enemy of the housing activists in New York City.

Podolsky, a convicted criminal, was on probation after a great theft and compulsory case were allegedly involved “professional vacators”, which acted as part of his father's real estate tactics in the 1980s.

In 2013, the New York Magazine reported that the case had described a woman who had “died of pneumonia in an unheated room”, as the Podolsky family “created the homeless offer and benefited from the demand for protection”.

In a newer complaint on the Broward County Court, the nephew of Comras, David Comras, claimed that there was a law in Florida, as a heartless owner of his aunt and other dormitories from Oasis – without a written message and in less than 45 days.

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Most recently, David Comras, a lawyer based in Fort Lauderdale, claimed that there was fraud when the opposing lawyer “invented evidence” presented a written notice in January and the opposite statements of the employees of Oasis employees.

David comras follows a memory. Before she died, he said, he saw the concern in the eyes of his aunt in March after she had learned that she had to move out. He accuses the greed of the owners for their death after moving out of the Oasis Living Quarter Alf. The veteran of the US Army Special Services was 88.