Jerome Smartt doesn't mince words when describing what it's like at Kirby Apartments in Mount Airy.

"It's been hell living here," he says as he walks his dog around the property.

An investment group called Vision and Beyond owned the 116-unit complex until about a year ago. That's when the company simply abandoned it and roughly 70 others around Greater Cincinnati, leaving more than 600 units of housing without property management.

The company's founders are accused of fleeing the country with millions from fraudulent mortgages. One, Stas Grinberg, currently sits in Butler County Jail awaiting an indictment on federal fraud charges.

Since last November, Smartt and others living at Kirby have dealt with an almost surreal list of emergency issues.

Sewage that wouldn't stop flooding into

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