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Judge Puts Temporary Stop to Eviction of Drexel Arms and Georgian Tenants
Residents of the two Central Avenue hotels/rooming houses received 30-day eviction notices on Sept. 15.
A Superior Court judge on Tuesday prohibited an Ocean City landlord from evicting two tenants from the Drexel Arms and hotels on the 1100 block of Central Avenue.
About 100 long-term tenants of the aging hotel properties received letters Sept. 15 saying the properties will be sold and giving them 30 days to vacate.
Two tenants, Peter Andren and Charlotte Jester, are that argues the eviction on such short notice is unlawful because the properties operate more like a rooming house or apartment than a hotel.
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Judge Daryl F. Todd Sr. issued a temporary order, preventing Michael Scanlon and MSS Georgian LLC from evicting the tenants, closing the buildings or turning off utilities in an attempt to get the tenants to leave.
Todd ordered the defendants to appear in court on Nov. 15 to explain why the temporary order should not be extended until a final disposition on the plaintiffs' claims is made.
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Kenneth Goldman, an attorney for South Jersey Legal Services, which is representing the low-income tenants for free, said Wednesday that the court date may be sooner than Nov. 15, but he had not yet heard from any legal representative of the defendants.
Scanlon could not be reached for comment on Thursday morning.
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