https://www.facebook.com/741565179037811/

Cumberland Housing - River Bend Court

Home
United States
Cumberland, MD
Cumberland Housing - River Bend Court

Directions

This is a page about River Bend Court in Cumberland Maryland

10/31/2026

In this screen shot you see a post that is in the November newsletter. They will tell you, you do not have to sign up for the rent cafe portal, but if you do not, then you are not going to get the newsletter emailed to you. Then they tell you, you can still read the newsletter on their website every month. That's hard to do if the website is not updated until days into the month. Take November for example, the first is on a Sunday. And of the posting of this, their newsletter is not updated on their website, meaning it will be until Monday the 2nd at the earliest that it is updated. I've seen once where they scheduled maintenance inspections for the first day of the month, and the newsletters were not received until the second or third of the month. That is a concern, and a violation of state law.

I find it oddly moronic they want tenants to follow the law/rules, while they ignore them. Typical government, rules for thee but not for me.

They also tell you, the rules are not part of the lease, but if you break any of the rules, you are in violation of your lease.

I am still the bee!

10/24/2026

These trees are on the hill on the Lamont Street side of River Bend Court. The one is dead. They cut down and or removed roughly 15 trees from the property during the remodel. You don't have to be an arborist to know, if you remove too many trees, it could cause remaining trees to suffer and in some cases, die. The dead tree you see here has already lost several branches that have fallen to the ground. Looking at the dead tree in this picture, to the left are about four stumps of trees that were cut down. There is growth on those stumps, but the trees are gone, and one of those stumps is from another tree that died from those that were removed.

Tomorrow I will post a picture of an area where a car that was pulled over by the cops, and the driver decided to run, then drove through the yard and between two buildings. Just by chance no one was hurt. It could have been avoided if the fencing was still intact.

10/16/2026

Attention CHG Management:

If you see me moving stuff out of my unit and loading it into my vehicle, don't get excited, I am not moving out, I am just moving stuff into a storage unit in preparation for when I do decide to move out.

10/16/2026

This memo was passed out recently here at River Bend Court. If you take notice at the bottom of the page it shows the dates this work is being done. While technically it is a written notice delivered to the door, this notice is still not in compliance with House Bill 1076 Chapter 564, that law says the written notice must state the exact date of entry, however they did narrow it down to two days, which is a far cry better than their usual MO, which was "One day over the next five days, sometime between 8am-4pm." These people just cannot get their shnit together, they have to walk the legal line. A letter of intent with a list of demands is currently being drafted (they know what that means, don't you CHG?)

Note:
You do not have to let anyone in your unit unless they gave you a written notice of the exact date they plan to enter your unit, this applies to contractors as well. However, if you refuse entry, you can expect some push back from housing. They may write you up, threaten you with a lease violation, or even file a breach of lease and attempt to evict you, but the law is on your side.

Cumberland Housing has about a 50/50 win/loss record in breach of lease cases, and almost all of their wins come because the tenant doesn't show up for court. Even then the judge stays the eviction for 30 days because the tenant has a right to appeal. If you are actually paying rent, you can file papers to have a hearing to put rent in escrow until housing follows the law.

How many times do your rights have to be violated before enough is enough?

How long does their government boot have to be pressed against your neck before enough is enough?

10/15/2026

On Tuesday October 13th., 2026 Cumberland Housing took someone to court for breach of lease. If you would have heard only Housing's side as presented by their attorney, you'd want to drag the tenant out yourself, but alas, there is/was another side to be presented. Of course under direct, the witness (property manager) was on her A game, spitting answers as if they were right there, inside her mouth just waiting for the question mark. And then there was the cross. When the defense attorney presented paperwork to the witness for review, the attorney made a power move, she stood next to the witness as she questioned the manager about the paperwork. During direct, the manager made a lot of claims of disrespect, cursing, arguing and name calling by the tenant. Under cross, the defense attorney asked the manager if she had even been disrespectful or cursed at tenants. The manager lied and said no. I know for a fact the manager lied, because she has cursed at me, argued with me, gotten smart and disrespectful toward me. This same manager has cursed at and gotten ignorant with another tenant, even telling the tenant's son they may get evicted, and the tenant's son is only 9 or 10 years old. The judge admonished Housing, telling them their policies, house rules and lease are poorly worded. Housing attempted to cite every write up as a lease violation, creating a record of poor behavior by the tenant. The judge, referring to a portion in the policies as being ambiguous, saying in that instance, he must lean in favor of the tenant, basically telling housing they have the burden to clearly state policies to make sure tenants clearly understand things, and cannot just expect tenants to understand everything, because of how poorly things are worded. Housing has already started their retaliation against the tenant, commenting before even leaving the building about this not being the end. The manager even went to the extent (before court) asking another tenant if the defendant might have warrants, (not sure what that was about). The manager even went as far to tell that other tenant that I myself do not know what I am talking about, I just laughed. Like I said in another thread on this page, they treat this place like a prison, they even hired a former prison employee to manage the inmates here. Well, anyhoot, this is another win for the little guy against tyranny.

10/07/2026

Let's discuss BULLETIN BOARDS at site offices. Here at River Bend Court, there is a bulletin board, however, it is on the inside of the space limited foyer of the office. Access to the office is restricted and limited, however, the bulletin board cannot be seen from the outside or window on the door, you have to ring the door bell, and even then you may not get a reply. And, if you do get a reply, if the manager affectionately known as the ticket master answers the door, she immediately begins getting smart with you, questioning you as if you're applying for a job with the CIA. I'm not sure what her problem is, maybe it's training, her former job with the prisons, her contempt for poor people, or she is naturally like this, I don't know, but it's getting ridiculous. The CEO is completely detached from the everyday happenings with the management and tenants, it's wild. The CEO doesn't seem to care any more than the rest of their team.

Back after covid settled down, I wanted to look into starting another resident council board here at River Bend Court. Though I personally was not going to be involved, just hold a tenant meeting to discuss getting one formed. When I mentioned this to manager Krys Avers, she kind of dismissed the idea. Then a few weeks later, management passed out notices, informing tenants there was going to be a meeting in the community room to discuss a resident council. I thought that was odd, because when it was my idea, it was ignored. So, I asked manager Krys why all of a sudden they want to arrange a tenant meeting on the subject, her response was, she was approached by a few tenants interested in their help to get a resident council formed. I asked, ok, who are these tenants, she said she could not tell me. Well I found out who they were, and asked them, and they told me that manager Krys went to them, asking if they'd be interested in forming a resident council. The thing is, resident councils are supposed to be tenant formed, and housing is not to be involved with the formation in any way, unless the tenants ack for assistance. Manager Krys knew this, and she knew that I know this, that's why she lied. Manager Krys told me, she practically had to drag the CEO (Michele Bender) to that tenant meeting, saying the CEO had no plans to attend, but manager Krys told her it would look good on her part. Who really knows.

10/07/2026

Let's talk about Open Meeting Compliance:

The Board of Commissioners meet the third Wednesday of every other month at 12:30pm at the Central office. Cumber Housing has been out of compliance with the open meetings compliance for years. There are several housing authorities across the state that have been determined or found to be non compliant. I will explain in this post how Cumberland Housing is non compliant, then I will list a few of the authorities that have also been found non compliant.

The Cumberland Housing Authority is out of compliance in the following way/s.

They do not inform the general public of the meetings, dates or location of the Board of Commissioners meetings, they instead rely on the city of Cumberland to post that information on their government website (which is ok, if they let the public know where to get the information)., additionally, they do not properly inform the public if/when they cancel a meeting for lack of agenda items/business. They also do not post an agenda anywhere. They are supposed to post an agenda either in their main office and or site offices on the bulletin board, which as far as I know has not been done for the last ten years. The CEO (Michele Bender) is responsible for contacting the City of Cumberland when there are changes and or cancellations. And, according to the City, that has never been done.

So, today (10-07-2026) I will be visiting the Central Office for Housing to see if they have any of this information posted on their bulletin board. If not, I will be contacting the Open Meetings Compliance Board to possibly file a formal complaint for what I know to be current and past violations.

Additionally, when the term/s for the Board of Commissioners expire, the City of Cumberland Mayor and Council are supposed to vote on appointments to that board in a open public meeting. And, as far as I am aware, that has not been done since forever. So, I am going back through meeting minutes to see if the subject has even been on their agenda.

I am told the way this is suppose to work is, the Cumberland Housing Authority send names to be nominated to the board over to the city, then the Mayor and Council in a public meeting vote to appoint those nominated.

However, I am told the way it actually works is, the Cumberland Housing Authority decides who they want on the Board of Commissioners, sends those names over to the City, the City then rubber stamps those names and they become Board of Commissioner members, no official vote.

Cumberland Housing wants YES people on that board, and they got them, one is in the form of a housing tenant. I have been trying for nearly five years now to find out how many times, if any have the Board of Commissioners voted not to approve changes submitted to them for vote by the Cumberland Housing Authority, and thus far they have refused to answer that question.

10/07/2026

It has come to my attention that management from the top down is telling people and other tenants that things, information and comments posted on this page are mere rumors. I can assure you, nothing posted here are rumors, everything is fact, and can be easily verified with just a little research. If it wasn't factual, or if I couldn't prove it, I wouldn't post it. There are so many more things I could be posting, but I cannot independently verify them, as they actually fall into the rumor category. However, I believe them to be true, I just want more proof, and I am working on that.

If our overlords believe these things to be false and rumor driven, they can sue me and get that information through discovery. However, for discovery to be sought, they'd have to make the suit amount to enough that takes it to circuit, because a simple small claims case does not open it to discovery.

They are also spreading around that this page has been created by and because of a disgruntled tenant/s. If you are being or have been treated by the Cumberland Housing Group in a way that most are, you'd be disgruntled as well. Personally I match their energy, I treat them the way they treat me, get smart with me, I get smart with you, it's as simple as that. But it's getting quite tiring being the BEE.

10/02/2026

PICTURES AND FIXTURES
All items you wish to hang in your apartment MUST BE HUNG BY OUR MAINTENANCE
DEPARTMENT.

If it is discovered that you have hung your own items instead of having Maintenance do so, charges will be assessed for any damages. You may call in a Work Order Request to have our
Maintenance staff hang your desired items using no damage type of devices, at no cost to you. There is a
limit of how many items can be mounted per room/rental unit.

They want to charge you for damage caused by you hanging your own pictures, but if your property is damaged as a result of them hanging your pictures, they tell you tough, they aren't responsible. That is some seriously flawed country logic.

Within a week of moving into my unit, I made a maintenance request to have them hang pictures. They made me wait several days before they came out. And, within that first year, the pictures they hung started falling off the walls, ripping the wall, and breaking the glass in my pictures. Their response was oh well, we aren't responsible.

10/02/2026

GROUNDS – Family Developments

Rear Patio or Assigned Area

No grills are allowed on the property, according to
CHG’s insurance carrier.

I actually talked to an insurance carrier, who insures these type of properties. These insurance companies are specialty types of companies, CHG could also be part of what they call, self insured. Kind of like a co-op, or timeshare if you will. The flat out prohibition of grill anywhere on the property is almost unheard of in the business. These companies will usually have a set back clause, like 10-20 feet from a structure or your unit. They have also permitted the development to set aside a plot of ground to be used as a grill area. They have even approved the type of grills they use in public parks, where they are basically planted in the ground on a post.

CHG has the ability to incorporate these ideas without being out of compliance with insurance requirements. They know this, they just think no one else does.

Address

50 Lamont Street
Cumberland, MD
21502

Website

facebook.com

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Cumberland Housing - River Bend Court posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.