Pappas Tenant Association

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Louis Pappas, Pappas Real Estate Trust Company

Louis Pappas has full rights to respond with rebuttals

Pappas Ordered by Judge
to Repay Tenants

The Honorable Judge Karen Henenberg
of the Arlington District Court
orders Pappas to return $1275 in security deposits
he attempted to keep, to two young lady tenants

  September 25, 2001

Affiliated with the

  National Association for Renters Rights  

Pappas Stalls on Deposit Return
as Friedlander breaks promise

Another deposit was not returned as promised - even for months after tenant moved out.   A landlord should simply send the security deposit to the tenant within a week of the move out date.   

But the tenant had to make repeated requests and start pursuing legal action to get his promised funds.  This was difficult as he had moved over 1000 miles away.  The time and trouble to get his funds was more than the deposit itself.

This is often the case, when tenants cannot afford the funds or time off from work to pursue justice.  Meanwhile, landlords have the luxury of time, money, and may even purchase special considerations.

Millionaire Pappas has taken up hundreds of  hours and public funds
from the Arlington Commonwealth Attorney and Police Departments
for serving his tenant matters rather than the Public.  Pappas made
unfounded accusations and contradictory statements under oath.
These accusations did not stand up in court.  Pappas offered
no physical evidence, and only his inconsistent testimonies.
It took precious resources away from the War on Terrorism,
unsolved murders (click) and finding missing persons.

Would Pappas get such attention if he was a pauper?
EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW - ?

Bad Karma - Stealing from the Saintly

From 1990-1993, the properties at 505 24th Street and 2320 South Eads next door provided meeting rooms for a Transcendental Meditation Center.

The meditators were ideal tenants. They naturally fulfilled all tenant responsibilities, generously made improvements at their own expense, and left the house in pefect condition.

Nevertheless, in 1993 Pappas refused to return the TM Center's $1000 security deposit.  In the interests of peace, they transcended the issue.  They did not pursue legal action. 
Yet, Pappas was left to the universal Law of Karma.

2320 South Eads Street, Arlington VA
former TM Group Program Facility,
headquarters for the Natural Law Party of Northern Virginia

Fire at 2320 South Eads
What happened in 1997?

• Pappas' handy man Marvin had been advising him for years from 1994 - 1997 to fix electrical wiring at 2320 South Eads. 

• Pappas' negligence finally leads to a fire in May 25, 1997.  

• Pappas knowlingly withheld this information (and Marvin's existence) from Fire Investigator Kenneth Kent

• Pappas seeks maximum payment from Fire Insurance Company for repair of his house.

• Pappas receives increase in property value to his house of over $57,500 without paying for the repairs.

Pappas Tenants, including PTA founder Shaddock,
speak at Arlington County Zoning Hearing 
against rezoning of Pappas properties from Residential to Commercial.

October 2, 1995 R1 to C2 request

October 14, 1995 R1 to C1 request

28 November 1995

8 July 1998 

• Mission

• Your Rights as a Tenant in Virginia

• Your 15 Common Rights as a Tenant by Sally Anderson

• How to go to Small Claims Court - from Arlington VA Court Web Site

• How to Collect Your Deposit

• Tenant Handbook

• Proposed Virginia House or Senate Bills - for the protection of tenants

• Successes

• Current Efforts

• Virginia Code - Search your rights. References to: Tenant, Landlord

• Standard Lease

• Members - properties

• Guest/Comments Book

• Links to other relevant sites

• Link to Aurora Hills Civic Association

  has opposed Pappas on zoning issues