The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation (YNDC) is fed up with Vision Property Management.
It says the South Carolina housing company that owns houses in Youngstown is taking advantage of people.
“They have no real regard for our city, for our neighborhoods,” said Ian Beniston, executive director of YNDC.
Beniston said Vision buys houses in the city at a cheap price. He said the company then charges inflated interest rates through their rent-to-own contracts and sells homes that aren’t up to code.
That’s what Shirin and Franklin Moorehart said they found when they moved into their Vision home.
They said they agreed to the contract because they didn’t have much money and couldn’t afford pet deposits. To read the full story from WYTV, click here.