Praise the Lord.
Now, chomp on their butts like you've been doing. 
Posted on 06/25/2021 3:39:46 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
My son-in-law is in the 82nd Airborne Division and living on base at Ft. Bragg. He lives in a property with my daughter and grandson that is managed by Corvias Property Management. My grandson has been ill since their moving to Bragg last year. (It was an entirely different problem for them to get there during the Plandemic.)
The property has been tested for lead (Pb) and those tests are positive. I highly doubt that is the source of my grandson's continued illness. There is also a mold problem, which would explain a lot. Mold is in the crawl space beneath the residence. Corvias has not fixed this situation. To make matters worse, my family is paying to live in this property.
Apparently there are other properties that are substandard at Bragg. I have done some investigation and have found this isn't an isolated problem. It is also a problem at Ft. Polk, where Corvias also manages properties. I suspect it is a broader problem. There is even a Military Housing Advocacy Network setup to address these and many other issues.
I spend part of my Father's Day writing my congressman about this issue. He is Gen. Scott Perry, a member of the Freedom Caucus. I expected a response, but all I received was a form e-mail. I asked to be contacted by his office and I provided my son-in-law's contact information.
My son-in-law is concerned about rocking the boat will affect his military career. I can understand his desire to go through chain of command. That is exactly what he his doing. However, understanding how the military works, I fully suspect that the contract with Corvias is "taken care of" from the Pentagon all the way down to local bases.
Evil Mold , it’s a tough fight
My daughter and son-in-law lived on base at Camp Pendleton and housing was horrible. It was also managed by a 3rd party.
Any experience with Corvias? Ping.
A friend who is junior enlisted lives there. They are buying their own small house off post. Makes sense to me. If post is broken, the use your own initiative.
See #5
The more I research this the more I find. Congress passed sort of a bill of rights on this issue about a year ago. There are glaring holes in it. For instance, you cannot get maintenance records on properties. That would prove if a property management company was doing its job. My daughter tried to obtain those records and was denied.
I would make sure you have some other privately owned rental property priced out with a good idea of availability. Getting out to the base housing lease will be a legal battle that if you win may need a prompt alternate living space. The planning as to how to deal with the cost and the move is where you can help.
There are complex dispute resolution processes that should be followed.
Thanks. I had to do the same at Eielson AFB. Rented an off base house after about a year of poor service by them.
Makes sense to me too. It is a matter of affordability. My daughter and SIL have planned all along to move off base. However, it is not reasonable to expect military families to live in substandard housing when it is promoted as an option. We spend hundreds of billions on our military each year. We should demand excellence. (Not McMansions, just a decent place to live.)
Do what you have to do to get him out of that hole.
Been done. It is now a matter of fixing the problem.
As retired Army I can only agree with comments here. I only lived in Government quarters once while in the states. The housing in Germany was superior to what we have here in the states. At Fort Campbell back in the 1970s there was a lot of the housing declared substandard because of its condition and the troops who chose to live in those quarters were not required to give up all of their Basic Allowance of Quarters (BAQ) to live there. Married soldiers get, according to rank, an amount of BAQ, say $350 each month to use to live in off post quarters. As long as you live off post you draw the BAQ. However once you move into Gov Qtrs you give up the BAQ because you get quarters on post, near work, safer neighborhoods, on base schools, plus you do not pay for electricity, water, sewer, etc. That is all included with the quarters. That is the basis of how it works. Sounds like these quarters are very substandard and these people deserve better than this. Send messages to congressman, both Senators. Don’t stop. Call them up and raise cain. Don’t let the stinking government mistreat them.
I heard a rumor, so I am not 100% sure this happened, but it sounds so typical, I believe it could be. When Mather closed, the base housing was then used for homeless housing. I heard the city was sued, saying the housing was substandard and not good enough for the homeless. I don’t know for sure about this, but it sounds like it could be.
When Fort Ord in California closed, the bureaucrats wouldn’t allow homeless to live there. All of us who’ve worn a uniform know prisoners, homeless and welfare folks have more advocates and funding. That’s why I cringe whenever some dip mouths the obligatory TYFYS.
Praise the Lord.
Now, chomp on their butts like you've been doing.
I have always believed that too.
Move them off base .
Fayetteville has a nasty climate .
Very moist .
Contact a rheumatologist.
Sounds like could be a Autoimmune issue .
“When Mather closed, the base housing was then used for homeless housing. I heard the city was sued, saying the housing was substandard and not good enough for the homeless. I don’t know for sure about this, but it sounds like it could be.” The same thing happened to Griffiss AFB in NY. But it never was used for the homeless because it was considered substandard.
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