Vision and Beyond

Residents at the Kirby Apartments have struggled for months with sewage leaks, collapsing ceilings, infestations, and other issues. Their court-appointed temporary landlord recently filed for permission to sell the complex.

Hamilton County Judge Christian Jenkins ruled Wednesday that court-appointed receiver Prodigy Properties should be removed as receiver at two dozen former Vision & Beyond properties.

Mayor Aftab Pureval recently met with tenants from four buildings abandoned by the real estate investment group. A hearing July 9 in Hamilton County Courts could set a new property manager for some of the former Vision & Beyond properties.

The $400,000 in funding will go to fix chronic sewage leaks at Kirby Apartments and keep the building from needing to be vacated. But conditions at that property and several others remain dire months after they were abandoned by Vision & Beyond.

A building inspector for the city of Cincinnati told a judge last week that sewage has leaked into units at the Kirby Apartments in Mt. Airy more than 100 times in the last decade.

A sewage leak and other ongoing issues have prompted the city of Cincinnati to make emergency repairs.

Roughly a dozen tenants of former Vision & Beyond properties and housing activists delivered a petition to the company tasked with temporary property management asking for better conditions and other demands.

Vision & Beyond cofounder Stas Grinberg is currently being held at a federal detention center in Houston on fraud charges.

On Cincinnati Edition, we discuss the details of the legal battle over the properties.

Residents report extended periods without heat, ceilings falling down and water leaks. But help might be coming soon.