Video shows chaos seniors faced during Oasis Living Quarters conversion to Waterview Rental in Fort Lauderdale

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A witness’s video served arsenic grounds of the chaos down a spot conversion successful Fort Lauderdale with links to infamous New York City slumlords and a grieving attorney’s ongoing litigation connected behalf of seniors and their families.

Advertised arsenic “warm and supportive,” the Oasis Living Quarters, on West Commercial Boulevard, had areas to supply services to seniors successful request of representation care, assisted living, and autarkic living.

Residents person accused Steven Gottlieb, the installation administrator, of the opposite. First, residents said they were forced to determination retired of the Oasis Living Quarters autarkic surviving area.

The residents said they were misled to deliberation it was for a “renovation,” but it was for a conversion to The Waterview Rental, a leasing assemblage --- advertised to person “lavish amenities” and “palatial” apartments.

In March, susceptible Oasis Living Quarters residents successful the assisted surviving installation country had paid their month’s rent erstwhile they attended a “mandatory” gathering a fewer days aboriginal to speech astir a determination owed to “upgrades.”

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The gathering descended into chaos. A witnesser shared a video of it. Some were successful tears. There was choler and mistrust. A pistillate fired questions: “Why don’t you conscionable accidental you are shutting down the place?” and “Are you going to adjacent assisted surviving and representation care, yes oregon no?”

The tragic country had respective connections to New York and New Jersey.

Rema Comras, a erstwhile Miami Beach nonmigratory calved successful Queens, was among those affected. She had moved determination aft her husband, Jose Simonet, an migration justice calved successful Manhattan, died successful 2021.

In 2022, authorities records amusement Mark Tress, besides known arsenic Moshe Tress from New Jersey, became the rubric manager of Florida constricted liability companies Lauderdale Commercial Blvd Partners and Oasis Living Quarters.

New York City’s nationalist advocator included Tress, who has an arrest record with the Jackson Township Police Department successful New Jersey, successful the “Worst Landlords of 2024″ watchlist -- ranking him 20th for implicit 645 unfastened lodging violations.

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In June, authorities records amusement Sharon Olson became the rubric authorized subordinate of the Waterview Residences LLC, registered to the aforesaid New Jersey code utilized for Lauderdale Commercial Blvd Partners and Oasis Living Quarters.

Records amusement the address, 150 Airport Road, Lakewood, Suite 900, is besides location to respective businesses including the Cedar Development Group and the Cedar Health Group.

Records besides amusement Olson is the rubric manager of SPV Realty, a Florida constricted institution associated with the eviction ungraded astatine the Design Place successful Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood.

SPV Realty is registered successful Florida to a penthouse astatine the Ameritania, a edifice successful Times Square linked to Olson’s husband, Jay Podolsky, who developed a estimation arsenic an force of lodging activists successful New York City.

Podolsky, a convicted felon, was connected probation aft a expansive larceny and coercion lawsuit allegedly progressive “professional vacators” that operated arsenic a pack arsenic portion of his father‘s existent property tactics successful the 80s.

In 2013, The New York Magazine reported that the lawsuit had included a pistillate who had “died of pneumonia successful an unheated room” and described however the Podolsky household had “created the stateless proviso and profited from the structure demand.”

In a much caller suit successful Broward County court, Comras’s nephew, David Comras, claimed determination was a Florida instrumentality usurpation erstwhile heartless spot owners forced his aunt and different Oasis Living Quarters residents to vacate -- without written announcement and successful little than 45 days.

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Most recently, David Comras, a Fort Lauderdale-based attorney, besides claimed that determination was fraud erstwhile opposing counsel produced “fabricated evidence” of a January written announcement and Oasis Living Quarters employees’ grounds to the contrary.

A representation haunts David Comras. Before she died, helium said helium saw the interest successful his aunt’s eyes successful March aft she had learned she had to determination out. He blames the spot owners’ greed for her decease aft she moved retired from the Oasis Living Quarters ALF. The U.S. Army Special Services seasoned was 88.

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