How Not to Run an Apartment Building

On January 18, 2008, a Los Angeles jury socked a Burbank, CA landlord and property management company for $10.8 million dollars for hiring a felon and registered sex offender to be a maintenance man in the apartment building. Apparently, in 2004, the "Super" raped and killed one of the tenants of the building, and then stuffed her body into a car trunk and left the car in Chinatown. Then, in 2005, he was also convicted of sexual battery and burglary involving another tenant in the same building (the Scott Villa Courtyard Apartments). Had the management company done a proper background check, they would have found that the maintenance man had been convicted of sexual battery in 1996 and burglary in 1999. I'm all for giving second chances to convicted felons who have served their time, but maybe it's not such a good idea for a property management company to give sex offenders and burglars keys to everyone's apartments.