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                border-left: 1px solid black;
                padding-left: 5px;
                text-transform: uppercase;
                color: #e20000;
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            .main-container span#loading span {
                position: absolute;
                top: 0;
                left: 0;
                width: 100%;
                height: 100%;
            }
            .main-container span#loading span.trans-50 {
                filter: alpha(opacity=50);
                -moz-opacity:0.5;
                -khtml-opacity: 0.5;
                opacity: 0.5;
                background-color: white;
            }
            .main-container span#loading > span + span {
                background: url("/img/modal_spin_black.gif") no-repeat center center transparent;
            }
            @media only screen and (max-width: 340px) {
                .main-container {
                    padding: 35px 5px 5px;
                }
                .main-container #login input[type=text],
                .main-container #login input[type=password] {
                    width: 273px;
                    margin: 0 0 10px;
                }
                .main-container #login div {
                    margin: 0;
                }
                .main-container #login div label {
                    float: none;
                }
                .main-container #login div button {
                    display: block;
                    margin: 10px auto 5px;
                }
                .main-container #login div a {
                    display: block;
                    margin: 0 auto;
                    width: 190px;
                }
                .main-container #captch input {
                    width: 201px;
                }
            }
        </style>
        <div class="main-container" id='login-modal'>
            <p class="error" id="login-error"></p>
            <form id="login" method="POST">
                <input type="text" id="email" name="email" placeholder="Email"/>
                <input type="password" id="password" name="password" placeholder="Password"/>
                <input type="hidden" id="cid" name="cid" value="hou"/>
                <div class="remember-forgot">
                    <div class="rem"><label for="rememberMe"><input type="checkbox" checked id="rememberMe" name="rememberMe"/> Remember Me</div>
                    <button type="submit">SIGN IN &rsaquo;</button><br/>
                    <a href="javascript:;" id="forgot" tabindex="4" class="city-color">Forgot Password?</a>
                </div>

            </form>

            <div id="social">
                <p>Or sign in with a social account:</p>
                <span data-omni-action="facebook|sid[8|23|]|slider[1]|anon[0]" class="facebook">FACEBOOK</span>
                <span data-omni-action="google|sid[8|23|]|slider[1]|anon[0]" class="google">GOOGLE +</span>
                <span data-omni-action="twitter|sid[8|23|]|slider[1]|anon[0]" class="twitter">TWITTER</span>
                <span data-omni-action="yahoo|sid[8|23|]|slider[1]|anon[0]" class="yahoo">YAHOO!</span>
            </div>
            <div class="line"> </div>
            <div class="footer">
                <p>
                    Don't have an account yet?
                    <span class="mvn-join-button">Sign Up &rsaquo;</span>
                </p>
                            </div>
        </div>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(function(){
                $('#login').on('submit', function(e){
                    $('#login-error').hide();
                    e.preventDefault();
                    var formData = $('#login').serialize();
                    MVN.sso.authUser(formData, function(resp){
                        $.ajax({
                            url: '/profile/authUser',
                            method: 'post',
                            data: formData,
                            success: function(){
                                window.MVN.user = resp.user;
                                location.reload();
                                $.modal.close();
                            }
                        });

                    }, function(e){
                        $('#login-error').html(e.message.error).show();
                    });
                });
                $('#forgot').click(function(){
                    $.ajax({
                        url: '/profile/ajaxForgot',
                        method: 'get'
                    }).done(function(d){
                        $('#login-modal').html(d);
                    })
                })
            });
            function social(network){
                if(ssoWindow)
                    ssoWindow.close();
                var winArr = ['status=0', 'toolbar=0', 'location=0', 'menubar=0', 'resizable=0', 'scrollbars=1'],
                    winW, winH;
                switch(network){
                    case 'yahoo':
                        winW = 500;
                        winH = 525
                        break;
                    case 'google':
                        winW = 875;
                        winH = 500;
                        break;
                    case 'twitter':
                        winW = 620;
                        winH = 675;
                        break;
                    case 'facebook':
                        winW = 640;
                        winH = 350;
                        break;
                    default:
                        return;
                }
                winArr.push('width='+winW, 'height='+winH);
                ssoWindow = window.open('/done.html', 'mvnSsoWin', winArr);
                ssoWindow.blur();
                if(navigator.userAgent.match(/iPad/i) != null){
                    window.parent.focus();
                }
            }
            if (typeof document.createElement("input").placeholder === 'undefined') {
                $(document.body).on('focus', 'input[placeholder]', function () {
                    if (this.value == $(this).attr('placeholder')) {
                        this.value = '';
                    }
                    $(this).removeClass('placeholder');
                }).on('blur', 'input[placeholder]', function () {
                    if (this.value == '') {
                        this.value = $(this).attr('placeholder');
                        $(this).addClass('placeholder');
                    } else {
                        $(this).removeClass('placeholder');
                    }
                });
                $('input[placeholder]').blur();
            }

            $('[data-omni-action]').on('click', function(){
                var call = $(this).data('omni-action');
                var action = call.split('|').slice(0,1).toString();
                switch(action){
                    case 'facebook':
                    case 'twitter':
                    case 'yahoo':
                    case 'google':
                        MVN_Server.client.action(call);
                        social(action);
                        break;
                    case 'anon':
                        MVN_Server.client.handleResponse({'status':'success', 'anon':true});
                        break;
                    default:
                        MVN_Server.client.action(call);
                        break;
                }
            });
            // updateModal();
        </script>        <style type="text/css">
            .simplemodal-container {
                max-width: 400px !important;
            }

            .simplemodal-wrap a {
                text-decoration: none;
                color: black;
            }
            .simplemodal-wrap .omni-icon-close {
                position: absolute;
                top: 10px;
                right: 12px;
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            .simplemodal-wrap h1 {
                font-size: 22px;
                line-height: 22px;
                text-transform: uppercase;
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            .simplemodal-wrap p.error {
                color: #e40001;
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                padding: 3px 5px;
                clear: both;
                font-weight: bold;
                font-size: 12px;
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            .simplemodal-wrap p.error:before {
                content: "\00D7";
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                padding: 35px 5px 5px;
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                font: 12px/15px Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;
                overflow: hidden;
                background: #fff;
                margin: 0;
                border: 5px solid #000;
                display: none;
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                text-transform: uppercase;
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                width: 400px;
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                font-size: 14px;
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            .simplemodal-wrap .intro img {
                height: 147px;
                width: 263px;
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            .simplemodal-wrap .line {
                border-top: 2px solid #9e9e9e;
                margin: 10px auto;
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            .simplemodal-wrap #join {
                width: 350px;
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            .simplemodal-wrap #join > input[type=text] {
                border: 1px solid #333;
                color: #888;
                margin-bottom: 10px;
                padding: 7px;
                width: 305px;
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                background-color: #e20000;
                border: none;
                color: white;
                cursor: pointer;
                display: inline-block;
                font-size: 16px;
                font-weight: bold;
                margin-left: 20px;
                padding: 5px 10px;
                text-align: left;
                width: 180px;
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            .simplemodal-wrap #join > a {
                display: inline-block;
                width: 80px
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            .simplemodal-wrap #social {
                width: 300px;
                margin: 20px auto 10px;
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            .simplemodal-wrap #social span {
                display: inline-block;
                width: 130px;
                font-size: 16px;
                line-height: 22px;
                margin: 8px;
                text-transform: uppercase;
                cursor: pointer;
                font-weight: bold;
                color: white;
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            .simplemodal-wrap #social span.facebook {
                background-color: #465da0;

            }
            .simplemodal-wrap #social span.google {
                background-color: #d64737;
            }
            .simplemodal-wrap #social span.twitter {
                background-color: #00abf0;
            }
            .simplemodal-wrap #social span.yahoo {
                background-color: #8b1c9c;
            }

            .simplemodal-wrap #captcha {
                display: none;
                margin: 0 auto 10px;
                width: 305px;
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                margin: 0;
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            .simplemodal-wrap #captcha #recaptcha_widget{
                background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FFFFFF;
                color: #000;
                padding: 3px 3px 0;
                margin-bottom: 10px;
                height: 95px;
                display: block;
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            .simplemodal-wrap #captcha table{
                border-collapse: collapse;
                margin: 0 auto;
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            }
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                font-size: 12px;
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            .simplemodal-wrap #captcha input {
                height: 19px;
                width: 218px;
                margin: 0 2px;
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            .simplemodal-wrap p.social {
                font-weight: bold;
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            .simplemodal-wrap .footer p {
                font-size: 14px;
                line-height: 18px;
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            .simplemodal-wrap .footer p span {
                text-transform: uppercase;
                cursor: pointer;
                font-weight: bold;
                border-left: 1px solid black;
                padding-left: 5px;
                color: #e20000;
            }
            .simplemodal-wrap span#loading span {
                position: absolute;
                top: 0;
                left: 0;
                width: 100%;
                height: 100%;
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                filter: alpha(opacity=50);
                -moz-opacity:0.5;
                -khtml-opacity: 0.5;
                opacity: 0.5;
                background-color: white;
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                .simplemodal-wrap .main-container {
                    padding: 35px 5px 5px;
                }
                .simplemodal-wrap .intro img {
                    display: none;
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                .simplemodal-wrap #join > input[type=text] {
                    width: 273px;
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                .simplemodal-wrap #captcha input {
                    width: 201px;
                }
                .simplemodal-wrap #join {
                    width: auto;
                    margin: 0;
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                .simplemodal-wrap .intro p {
                    width: 300px;
                }
            }

        </style>
        <div class="main-container" id='join-modal'>
        <span class="omni-icon-close"></span>
        <div id="join-step1">
            <div class="intro">
                <h1>Connect. Discover. Share.</h1>
                                <img title="Connect. Discover. Share." src="/img/mvn/1.jpg"/>
                                <p>
                    Get the most out of your experience with a personalized all-access pass to everything local on events, music, restaurants, news and more.
                </p>
            </div>
            <div class="line"></div>
            <p class="social">Enter your email or sign up with a social account to get started</p>
            <div id="social">
                <span data-omni-action="facebook|sid[8|23|]|slider[1]|anon[0]" class="facebook">FACEBOOK</span>
                <span data-omni-action="twitter|sid[8|23|]|slider[1]|anon[0]" class="twitter">TWITTER</span>
                <span data-omni-action="google|sid[8|23|]|slider[1]|anon[0]" class="google">GOOGLE+</span>
                <span data-omni-action="yahoo|sid[8|23|]|slider[1]|anon[0]" class="yahoo">YAHOO!</span>
            </div>
            <div class="login">
                <p class="error" id="join-error"></p>
                <form id="join" method="post">
                    <input type="text" placeholder="Enter Your Email" id="join-email" name="email">
                    <input type="hidden" value="hou" name="cid"/>
                    <input type="hidden" value="8|23|" name="sid"/>
                    <div id="captcha">
                        <div id="join-recaptcha" data-key="6LcMCwgTAAAAAM86pPA6G1eIFDlL7iaeT3Y81A0Q"></div>
                    </div>
                    <a href="/about/privacyPolicy/" target="_top">Privacy Policy</a>
                    <button type="submit" >SIGN UP &rsaquo;</button>

                </form>
            </div>
            <div class="footer">
                <p>Already registered? <span class="mvn-login-button">Login &rsaquo;</span></p>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div id="join-step2">
        <style type="text/css">
    #demo {
        font: 12px/15px Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        overflow: hidden;
        background: transparent;
        max-width: 400px;
    }
    #demo a {
        cursor: pointer;
        color: #e40001;
        text-decoration: none;
    }
    #demo a:hover {
        text-decoration: underline;
    }
    #demo p {
        margin: 10px 0 0;
    }
    #demo p.error {
        color: red;
        background-color: #D6D6D6;
        padding: 3px 5px;
        clear: both;
        font-weight: bold;
        font-size: 12px;
        text-align: left;
    }
    #demo p.error:before {
        content: "\00D7";
        padding: 0 10px 0 5px;
    }
    #modal-demofields {
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        display: inline-block;
    }
    #modal-demofields > ul {
        text-align: right;
        list-style-type: none;
        margin: auto 5px;
        padding: 0;
        display: block;
    }
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        float: left;
        padding-top: 10px;
        display: list-item;
    }
    #modal-demofields > ul > li label{
        clear: left;
        display: block;
        float: left;
        margin-right: 15px;
        padding-top: 5px;
        text-align: right;
        font: normal 14px/15px avalonWeb, sans-serif;
    }
    #modal-demofields > ul > li label > span{
        font-size: 16px;
        font-weight: bold;
        margin-right: 2px;
    }
    #modal-demofields > ul > li input[type=text],
    #modal-demofields > ul > li input[type=password]{
        clear: right;
        margin-bottom: 15px;
        width: calc(100% - 100px);
        border: 1px solid #444444;
        padding: 5px;
    }
    #modal-demofields > ul > li input[type=text].half {
        width: calc(50% - 52px);
    }
    #modal-demofields > ul > li input[type=image]{
        height: 24px;
    }
    #demo span#loading span {
        position: absolute;
        top: 0;
        left: 0;
        width: 100%;
        height: 100%;
    }
    #demo span#loading span.trans-50 {
        filter: alpha(opacity=50);
        -moz-opacity:0.5;
        -khtml-opacity: 0.5;
        opacity: 0.5;
        background-color: white;
    }
    #demo span#loading > span + span {
        background: url("/img/modal_spin_black.gif") no-repeat center center transparent;
    }
    #demo button {
        font: normal 14px/15px avalonWeb, sans-serif;
        display: block;
        width: 180px;
        background-color: #666;
        margin: 8px auto;
        color: white;
        border: none;
        cursor: pointer;
        text-align: center;
    }
    #modal-demoError{
        display:none;
    }
</style>
<div id="demo">
<form id="modal-demofields" method="post">
    <ul>
        <li>
            <div id="modal-demoError"></div>
            <label>*Email</label>
            <input type="text" id="modal-demofields-email" name="email" readonly="readonly" value="" disabled="disabled"/><br/>
            <input type="hidden" name="uid" id="modal-demofields-uid"/>
            <label for="username">*Username</label>
            <input type="text" id="modal-demofields-username" name="username" value="" maxlength="20"/><br/>
            <label for="password">*Password</label>
            <input type="password" id="modal-demofields-password" name="password" maxlength="64"/><br/>
            <label for="name">Name</label>
            <input type="text" id="modal-demofields-fname" name="f_name" placeholder="first name" value="" maxlength="45" class="half"/>
            <input type="text" id="modal-demofields-lname" name="l_name" placeholder="last name" value="" maxlength="45" class="half"/><br/>
            <label for="zipcode">*Zipcode</label>
            <input type="text" id="modal-demofields-zipcode" name="zipcode" value="" maxlength="5"/>
            <button type="submit">DONE</button>
        </li>
    </ul>
</form>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
	$(function(){
		window.MVN.queue(function(){
			if (typeof window.MVN.user !== 'undefined'){
				$.ajax({
					url: '/profile/ajaxRequestFullUser',
					data: {uid: window.MVN.user.id},
					method: 'POST',
					success: function(r){
						var user = r.data;
						$('#modal-demofields-uid').val(user.User.id);
						$('#modal-demofields-email').val(user.User.email);
						$('#modal-demofields-username').val(user.User.username);
						$('#modal-demofields-fname').val(user.UserDemographic.f_name);
						$('#modal-demofields-lname').val(user.UserDemographic.l_name);
						$('#modal-demofields-zipcode').val(user.UserDemographic.zipcode);
					}
				});
			}
			$('#modal-demofields').submit(function(e){
				e.preventDefault();
                $('#modal-demofields-email').attr('disabled', false);
				var formfields = $('#modal-demofields').serialize();
				MVN.sso.settings(formfields, function(r){
                    $.ajax({
                        url: '/profile/regSailThru',
                        data: formfields,
                        method: 'post'
                    }).success(function(e){
                        $('#modal-demoError').text('Registration is complete!').show();
                        $.modal.close();
                        window.location = "http://"+window.location.hostname+"/profile";
                    })
				}, function(r){
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				})
			})
		})
	});
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            $(function(){
                VMG.captchaQueue.queue(function(){
                    grecaptcha.render('join-recaptcha',{
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                    })
                })
                $('#join-modal').on('click', '.omni-icon-close', function(){
                    $.modal.close();
                })
                $('#join-modal').on('focus', '#join-email',function(){
                    $('#captcha').show();
                });
                $('#join').submit(function(e){
                    $('#join-error').hide();
                    e.preventDefault();
                    var formData = $('#join').serialize();
                    MVN.sso.authUser(formData, function(r){
                        $.ajax({
                            url: '/profile/authUser',
                            method: 'post',
                            data: formData
                        });
                        $('#join-step1').toggle();
                        $('#join-step2').toggle();
                        $('.omni-icon-close').toggle();
                        window.MVN.user = r.user;
                        $('#modal-demofields-uid').val(r.user.id);
                        $('#modal-demofields-email').val(r.user.email);
                        $('#modal-demofields-username').val(r.user.username);
                        // location.reload();
                        // $.modal.close();
                    }, function(r){
                        $('#join-error').html(r.message.error).show();
                    });
                });
            })
        </script>

<script type="text/javascript">
	$(function(){
		$(".mvn-login-button").click(function(){
			$.modal.close();
			$("#login-modal").modal({focus: false});
		});
		$(".mvn-join-button").click(function(){
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			$("#join-modal").modal({focus: false});
		});
	});
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    <div class="story-body"><!-- /.img-box --><p>The management ripped out the sinks when they ripped out the walls. </p><div class="ads centered middle placeholder" data-vmg-ad="Middle" data-vmg-format="lazy"></div><p>Inside the Legacy Apartments, on Lockwood Drive in Fifth Ward, there is no such thing as privacy or even real rooms on the lower-floor units. In James Jackson's unit, you can see from the kitchen straight into the bathroom. In Joyce Powell's bathroom, she has wedged a towel in a hole in her bathroom wall &mdash; stripped down to wood panels and bare pipes &mdash; so that the neighbors wouldn't accidentally see her undressing. And in Thomas Babineaux and Julie McGee's unit, like most residents, they had been washing their dishes in the bathtub before they got their sink back. Others washed them in the bathroom sink because the management took their tub, too.</p><p>It is in these conditions that the residents of Legacy Apartments say they have been paying rent for the past two months, waiting and waiting on repairs &mdash; or at least just walls. Last week, they finally got their sinks back, after the Houston Health Department ordered management to reinstall them. But now the first-floor residents have been hit with another blow: Exactly two months after Harvey made landfall in Texas, the property owner is kicking them out. On October 25, they were given five days to remove their belongings and leave.</p><div id="ym_927391772937231496" class="ads centered yieldmo ym" data-vmg-ad="Yieldmo" data-yieldmo-id="927391772937231496"></div><div class='mobile-fold ex-fold'><p>"We ain't got nowhere to go. Nowhere," McGee said. "The only thing they did for us was tear off the walls, and that was it."</p><div class="img-box ">
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</script><p>Some of the tenants at the Legacy Apartments recently became members of the Texas Organizing Project, and donned teal TOP shirts while sitting in lawn chairs with neighbors in the front parking lot, sharing bad stories about a loved one's trip to the hospital because of asthma and mold or about how they have just been using their microwave to cook, because for a while their stove was disconnected. This is far from the first time TOP has organized after major floods when tenants feel they have been mistreated, said TOP's communication director, Mary Moreno. </p><p>"It seems we have to have this fight after every flood, when there's a delay in repairs but the law doesn't really give guidance about what needs to be done in the time between when the damage occurs and when the apartments are repaired," she said. "We just can't keep doing this at every single apartment complex. There's so many."</p><p>According to the generic letters stuck to residents' doors, the property owner decided to declare that the damage to the units is "so extensive that your unit has become totally unusable as a practical matter for residential purposes." Under Texas rental laws, landlords can issue the five-day notices only when apartments are totally uninhabitable &mdash; but if they're only partially uninhabitable, then residents have the right to ask for a break on rent and compel the landlords to do the repairs through writing by proving the problems are threatening their health and safety. They also have to be current on rent. </p><p>Still, Rich Tomlinson, director of litigation for Lone Star Legal Aid, said that in this specific case, the fact that residents have been living in the apartments for two months could be used against the owners legally if tenants, for financial or other reasons, are unable to leave and want to challenge the evictions. "If they were accepting rent, then that&rsquo;s pretty strong evidence that they thought the place was habitable to some extent," Tomlinson said.</p><p>Tomlinson, whose organization has won seven temporary restraining orders against landlords who have issued notices to vacate to tenants since Harvey, said that this is the latest he has seen property owners asking people to leave.</p><p>The <i>Houston Press</i> contacted the owner of the apartments, Mark Hurley, who is the registered agent for Lockwood-Legacy Apartments LLC, based in San Antonio. The general operations manager, Michael Rust, returned our call. </p><div class="ads middle placeholder" data-vmg-ad="Middle" data-vmg-format="lazy"></div><p>Rust said that it took two months for management to issue the five-day notices to vacate because, in the meantime, management was trying to get repairs done but it turned out to be too difficult with residents still living in the units. Rust maintained that management was flexible with rent over the past couple of months (Joyce Powell did tell the <i>Press</i> that management allowed her to pay what she could afford), and that tenants who wanted out of their leases were allowed to move and get their deposits back.</p><p>Still, asked about how people possibly could have been expected to pay anything to live in apartments without sinks for up to a month and without tubs, in those cases, for several days, Rust said the plumbing removals were the result of a miscommunication with the contractors who were removing the walls and drywall. He said it was fixed after being brought to upper management's attention &mdash; although a citation posted on the front door of the management office shows it was an October 5 order from the city to "install all plumbing fixtures" in the units that apparently prompted the repairs within the next couple of weeks.</p><p>"It was a mistake; [the sinks] shouldn't have been ripped out as part of the demo. But again, that just speaks to the difficulty of trying to do repairs like this while people are still in the unit," Rust said. "Maybe we should have given the five-day notice right after the hurricane and not tried to work with people. I don't know. But we're doing the best we can." </p><div class="img-box ">
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