Aster Apartments

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I don't live here but have family that does. It is not "the worst place to live". What makes it not the nicest place to live are the other tenents who are nosey and spend their time spreading rumers and gossip. It is not dirty and maybe it was just that persons apartment that was filthy with roaches and rats. And everyone needs to follow the rules or face eviction.

This is one of the worst places to live and one of the worst managed properties I have ever seen. Apartments are dirty, maintanence is horrible, property is not well kept up, and security is next to nothing. Cockroaches run wild throughout the apartments along with spiders and mice.



How are they going to threaten eviction to a guy that stands up for what he believes in? This country was formed on the American Flag, if he wants to display it, then he can this is a free country. I think the property manager should be slapped and fired and kicked out of this country for lack of patriotism. He could care less about the men and women who have died defending freedom and the freedom that they have provided for us. He goes homw everyday to his nice house and family and never once even thinks about those men and women. He is not a real American, he needs to leave this country and never come back. Not a true American.

THIS IS NOT THE PLACE I WOULD WANT TO LIVE!!!



SPRINGFIELD, Ore. - Take the flag down and follow the rules - or you will be evicted.



That was the message sent to Edward Zivica in a letter he received from his apartment management company, St. Vincent de Paul, on Oct. 27.



Zivica, a Navy veteran, said he's been hanging his American Flag outside in a common area of his Aster Apartment complex for at least a year on special holiday's like Memorial Day and Labor Day.



"They said nothing about it and so I figured, well, maybe they understand now that I'm only putting it up on special days," said Zivica.



But when he hung it up on Oct. 27 for Navy Day, his landlord took it down and served him with an eviction notice.



"The notice was for hanging something outside the building without permission," said St. Vincent de Paul CEO Terry McDonald.



McDonald said they've tried to work with Zivica and other vets in the building, even putting up a lit flag pole outside the building.



"We want to honor our country and honor our tenants, so we put up the pole," said McDonald. "It was requested by the tenants to leave it up for a permanent presence, which we did."



McDonald said they even asked the tenants if they'd like to manage it, but they declined.



Zivica said the pole doesn't have a pulley system to get the flag up and down, so it's permanently left up. He said he started getting frustrated because you can't lower the flag to half mast, so instead he went back to hanging his flag on the building.



"I'm not doing something so terrible," he said.



But McDonald said rules are rules, and Zivica is in clear violation of them.



"Landlord tenant law is very specific. If you're going to live in a situation where there's lots of other tenants, you need to follow the rules that are set up," McDonald said.



According to the notice of termination of his lease, Zivica has until midnight on Nov. 29 to move out - or to agree to follow the rules.