Cloverleaf Apartments officially closed amid considerable violations
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Cloverleaf Apartments in Kansas City now sit empty, less than a week after a KCFD investigation found a slew of issues. Last Wednesday, residents were given a 48-hour notice to evacuate.
“This was an annual inspection,” said Battalion Chief Michael Hopkins, a PIO for KCFD. “We had made several attempts for the past several weeks, but we were getting no response. When we came out, there was a notice on the door of the office that said the Leumas Group/HUD was having a meeting about getting all the residents out of here due to the lack of property management and ownership. That obviously threw a lot of red flags for us.”
Leumas Residential is the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Relocation Contractor. Flyers for a meeting the group was organizing could be seen posted across the complex. During its inspection, KCFD said it discovered the property manager had been incarcerated for reasons beyond their knowledge, leaving property management personnel without payment and residents on their own. Property management eventually left, leaving problems to pile up.
“For this particular complex, there was so much damage to the buildings,” said Hopkins. “Without the property management team here, through this last freeze that we had, when it thawed there were busted water pipes throughout the structure allowing water down through the walls and over the active electrical systems, which is obviously a fire hazard. Busted sprinkler pipes, the fire alarm systems were not working, there are multiple areas throughout all the buildings that have downed drywall and sheetrock, which is a fire code violation. There were a lot of fire code violations that came to our attention along with the overall conditions of the building.”
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Hopkins said other issues included up to two feet and a half of water in the first floors and basements of some of the buildings due to busted water pipes, mold on windows and walls, broken windows, siding coming off the exterior of buildings and more. He says KCFD has never seen something like this in recent history.
“Not on this scale,” said Hopkins. “Virtually every building out here had issues.”
Cloverleaf Apartment residents were given assistance by HUD, a majority of which accepted help getting into other temporary or permanent housing. Hopkins says there were several who preferred to find a new place to live on their own.
On Monday, KD did a building-by-building sweep of the property to make sure every building is empty. All utilities to the property have been shut off, the property now considered closed and uninhabitable.
KCFD conducts thousands of inspections every year. It has two types of inspections: annual and complaint-based. When problems are found, KCFD typically gives time to fix them, then comes back to check to see if the issues have been remedied. Due to the severity of the conditions and other circumstances, that wasn’t possible for Cloverleaf Apartments. Hopkins says if you would like to schedule a complaint-based inspection, you can call KCFD’s Fire Prevention Office at 816-513-4645.
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