Landmark Homeowners Demand Justice, Freedom, Safety & Respect
The Issue
Landmark Housing Freedom Petition
A Demand for Investigation, Justice, and an End to the Harm at The Landmark Condominium
Let us be clear about what is happening here. This is an attack on a group of people that are being pushed out of their homes. This is not a routine disagreement between neighbors. This is a community, disproportionately elderly, fixed-income and often powerless against a foreign investment management structure that has been allowed to operate above the law. Seniors are being pushed out of the homes they worked their entire lives to own. We will not be quiet about it, and we will not stop until every agency with the authority to act does their job.
THIS IS A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE
Housing is a human right. Safety is a human right. The right to grow old in the home you paid for, without being harassed, fined into submission, or frightened out the door, is a human right. What has happened at The Landmark is not simply mismanagement. It is a pattern that residents and homeowners have described as unsafe, corrupt and discriminatory against certain homeowners, and it demands a full, independent, and public investigation. Every federal, state, and local agency with jurisdiction, including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Georgia Real Estate Commission, the Georgia Attorney General's office, the Fulton County District Attorney, and the City of Atlanta, must open an investigation into the conduct described in this petition. Homeowners deserve to know, and the public deserves to know, whether civil rights and fair housing laws have been violated in this building.
In a sworn affidavit a homeowner states under oath that property manager Alex Betancur told him he should “never rent to a black person” because, in her words, they were “more trouble than they are worth.”
A LEGACY BEING ERASED
The Landmark has long been home to legacy residents, including long standing African American homeowners and families who bought into this building to build stability, equity, and community in the heart of Atlanta. That legacy is being erased in real time. Deferred maintenance, punitive fines, foreclosure threats, and coercive enforcement do not fall evenly on every homeowner. They fall hardest on those with the fewest resources to fight back, and overwhelmingly, those homeowners are seniors on fixed incomes who cannot afford a legal battle and cannot afford to lose their home. Residents describe a pattern in which African American homeowners in particular have been driven out through forced sale, foreclosure, or coercion, and we are demanding a full public accounting of exactly how many families this building has lost, and why.
This is bigger than one building. When elderly homeowners and Black families are driven out through neglect, financial opacity, and retaliation, an entire community loses the equity and stability that homeownership was supposed to provide. That loss does not get undone. We refuse to let it happen quietly, and we refuse to let it happen without consequence.
A BUILDING THAT HAS BECOME DANGEROUS
Children live in this building. Seniors live in this building. And this building has become dangerous. On July 4, 2026, two women were shot at 215 Piedmont Avenue, the Landmark's own address, in the early morning hours. This is not an isolated data point. It is the predictable result of a building where unpermitted, unfinished construction has sat exposed in the lobby for more than two years under an uncorrected City of Atlanta Stop Work Order, where 24 hour security and concierge staff were removed, and where a near fatal fire in January 2024 traced back to an unauthorized business operating in the lobby was followed by more neglect, not less. Parents should not have to wonder whether their children are safe walking through their own building's lobby. Seniors should not have to wonder whether their front door is secure. Enough is enough.
WHY WE ARE SIGNING THIS PETITION
Every resident of The Landmark deserves a safe, well maintained, and honestly governed home, not fear, not silence, and not a slow financial squeeze designed to push them out. Documented conditions and public filings reveal a building in crisis:
• Unfinished, unpermitted construction in the building lobby. The City of Atlanta issued a Stop Work Order for renovation work performed without required permits, and that order has reportedly gone uncorrected for over two years, leaving exposed wall cavities and an unresolved citation from the City of Atlanta's Office of Buildings.
• Unlicensed property management. Alexandra Betancur has continued to act as the building's de facto property manager, issuing fines, controlling building access, and directing enforcement actions, without the Community Association Manager (CAM) license required by O.C.G.A. § 43-40-8 and by the June 2024 Settlement Agreement. The Georgia Real Estate Commission has confirmed in writing that she is not licensed, despite submitting an application on November 18, 2025. Residents further report that the property manager's office has been relocated off site, undermining any real ability to monitor the building day to day and respond to emergencies.
• A management structure that has operated with no accountability. The building is managed in connection with Lulu Homes and controlled by individuals including Yali Lu, who serves as Board President, and Kenneth Kraften, who serves as Board Treasurer. Many of the investor owners tied to this management structure do not live in Atlanta and have no daily stake in the safety or wellbeing of the people who do.
• Building resources allegedly diverted to management's and board members' personal business ventures, including short term rental operations and affiliated services such as cleaning and turnover businesses, in apparent violation of the Court's 30 day minimum rental restriction and the building's governing documents, profit extracted from a building that homeowners are told there is no money to repair.
• Retaliation against homeowners who raise concerns, including excessive and selective fines, foreclosure threats based on liens that Fulton County records do not reflect, deactivation of building access credentials without notice or due process, and interference with mail access, tactics that pressure vulnerable, elderly, and long term owners to simply give up and sell.
• Refusal to produce financial records. Despite multiple homeowner requests, the Board and management have not produced assessment ledgers, accounts receivable records, or permitted an independent forensic audit, even as dues have risen sharply and the building's insurance premium reportedly increased from roughly $94,000 to $520,000 in a single year.
• A near fatal fire on January 17, 2024, that originated in an unauthorized short term rental related office operating in the building lobby, a use never approved under the Declaration, followed by an insurer's lawsuit alleging fraud and material misrepresentation in connection with the resulting claim.
• A real and recent act of gun violence at the building's own address on July 4, 2026, in which two women were shot, underscoring how far basic safety and security have deteriorated for every resident, including the children and seniors who call this building home.
OUR DEMANDS
• Immediate, full investigation by all federal, state, and local agencies with jurisdiction, including but not limited to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Georgia Real Estate Commission, the Georgia Attorney General, the Fulton County District Attorney, and the City of Atlanta, into the conduct of Landmark management and the Board of Directors.
• A dedicated civil rights and fair housing investigation into the discrimination allegations raised by a homeowner that mentioned the he was told not to rent to black people. Many African American homeowners have been targeted for retaliatory enforcement, foreclosure threats, or coerced displacement.
• A mediated court order mandated a cease and desist order under O.C.G.A. § 43-40-30 barring Alexandra Betancur from performing any further licensable property management functions until she is properly licensed.
• Immediate cease and desist of retaliatory enforcement, including selective fines, unsupported lien and foreclosure threats, and denial of building access, directed at homeowners who raise concerns or request records.
• Full compliance with the City of Atlanta Stop Work Order, including submission of a compliant permit application and correction of the open wall condition that has persisted for more than two years, and resolution of the related citation.
• An independent, board approved forensic audit of Association finances, including assessment ledgers, delinquency and write off records, reserve account withdrawals, and insurance proceeds handling, responsive to the multiple homeowner requests for an audit that have so far been refused.
• A full accounting of any Association resources, common elements, or staff time used to support board members' or management's personal short term rental, cleaning, or other business ventures, and reimbursement to the Association where appropriate.
• A transparent, public accounting of homeowner turnover at The Landmark, including how many long term and African American homeowners have sold, been foreclosed upon, or otherwise left the building since 2020, and whether financial distress caused by mismanagement contributed to that turnover.
• A full security review of the building, including restoration of adequate on site staffing and monitoring, in direct response to the July 4, 2026 shooting at this address and the building's history of unaddressed safety hazards.
• Restoration of transparent governance consistent with the June 2024 Settlement Agreement, including quarterly financial disclosures, dual signature expenditure controls, and prompt notice of major decisions to all unit owners.
We are not asking for special treatment. We are demanding what every homeowner, every senior, every parent, and every family in this building is entitled to: a safe home, honest management, and a government that will not look away. Silence has not protected this building. Accountability will. We are done waiting.
This petition is a statement of community concern and a request for accountability. It is not a legal filing and does not replace or substitute for the formal complaints and court petitions already submitted by individual homeowners to the Georgia Real Estate Commission and the Fulton County Superior Court. By adding your name below, you are standing with the residents of The Landmark, and against the displacement of the families who call it home.
215 Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta GA
ADD YOUR NAME
This is a virtual petition. Share this document and ask everyone who reads it to add their name, email, and city or state of residence in support below, or through the online link provided by the organizers.
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The Issue
Landmark Housing Freedom Petition
A Demand for Investigation, Justice, and an End to the Harm at The Landmark Condominium
Let us be clear about what is happening here. This is an attack on a group of people that are being pushed out of their homes. This is not a routine disagreement between neighbors. This is a community, disproportionately elderly, fixed-income and often powerless against a foreign investment management structure that has been allowed to operate above the law. Seniors are being pushed out of the homes they worked their entire lives to own. We will not be quiet about it, and we will not stop until every agency with the authority to act does their job.
THIS IS A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE
Housing is a human right. Safety is a human right. The right to grow old in the home you paid for, without being harassed, fined into submission, or frightened out the door, is a human right. What has happened at The Landmark is not simply mismanagement. It is a pattern that residents and homeowners have described as unsafe, corrupt and discriminatory against certain homeowners, and it demands a full, independent, and public investigation. Every federal, state, and local agency with jurisdiction, including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Georgia Real Estate Commission, the Georgia Attorney General's office, the Fulton County District Attorney, and the City of Atlanta, must open an investigation into the conduct described in this petition. Homeowners deserve to know, and the public deserves to know, whether civil rights and fair housing laws have been violated in this building.
In a sworn affidavit a homeowner states under oath that property manager Alex Betancur told him he should “never rent to a black person” because, in her words, they were “more trouble than they are worth.”
A LEGACY BEING ERASED
The Landmark has long been home to legacy residents, including long standing African American homeowners and families who bought into this building to build stability, equity, and community in the heart of Atlanta. That legacy is being erased in real time. Deferred maintenance, punitive fines, foreclosure threats, and coercive enforcement do not fall evenly on every homeowner. They fall hardest on those with the fewest resources to fight back, and overwhelmingly, those homeowners are seniors on fixed incomes who cannot afford a legal battle and cannot afford to lose their home. Residents describe a pattern in which African American homeowners in particular have been driven out through forced sale, foreclosure, or coercion, and we are demanding a full public accounting of exactly how many families this building has lost, and why.
This is bigger than one building. When elderly homeowners and Black families are driven out through neglect, financial opacity, and retaliation, an entire community loses the equity and stability that homeownership was supposed to provide. That loss does not get undone. We refuse to let it happen quietly, and we refuse to let it happen without consequence.
A BUILDING THAT HAS BECOME DANGEROUS
Children live in this building. Seniors live in this building. And this building has become dangerous. On July 4, 2026, two women were shot at 215 Piedmont Avenue, the Landmark's own address, in the early morning hours. This is not an isolated data point. It is the predictable result of a building where unpermitted, unfinished construction has sat exposed in the lobby for more than two years under an uncorrected City of Atlanta Stop Work Order, where 24 hour security and concierge staff were removed, and where a near fatal fire in January 2024 traced back to an unauthorized business operating in the lobby was followed by more neglect, not less. Parents should not have to wonder whether their children are safe walking through their own building's lobby. Seniors should not have to wonder whether their front door is secure. Enough is enough.
WHY WE ARE SIGNING THIS PETITION
Every resident of The Landmark deserves a safe, well maintained, and honestly governed home, not fear, not silence, and not a slow financial squeeze designed to push them out. Documented conditions and public filings reveal a building in crisis:
• Unfinished, unpermitted construction in the building lobby. The City of Atlanta issued a Stop Work Order for renovation work performed without required permits, and that order has reportedly gone uncorrected for over two years, leaving exposed wall cavities and an unresolved citation from the City of Atlanta's Office of Buildings.
• Unlicensed property management. Alexandra Betancur has continued to act as the building's de facto property manager, issuing fines, controlling building access, and directing enforcement actions, without the Community Association Manager (CAM) license required by O.C.G.A. § 43-40-8 and by the June 2024 Settlement Agreement. The Georgia Real Estate Commission has confirmed in writing that she is not licensed, despite submitting an application on November 18, 2025. Residents further report that the property manager's office has been relocated off site, undermining any real ability to monitor the building day to day and respond to emergencies.
• A management structure that has operated with no accountability. The building is managed in connection with Lulu Homes and controlled by individuals including Yali Lu, who serves as Board President, and Kenneth Kraften, who serves as Board Treasurer. Many of the investor owners tied to this management structure do not live in Atlanta and have no daily stake in the safety or wellbeing of the people who do.
• Building resources allegedly diverted to management's and board members' personal business ventures, including short term rental operations and affiliated services such as cleaning and turnover businesses, in apparent violation of the Court's 30 day minimum rental restriction and the building's governing documents, profit extracted from a building that homeowners are told there is no money to repair.
• Retaliation against homeowners who raise concerns, including excessive and selective fines, foreclosure threats based on liens that Fulton County records do not reflect, deactivation of building access credentials without notice or due process, and interference with mail access, tactics that pressure vulnerable, elderly, and long term owners to simply give up and sell.
• Refusal to produce financial records. Despite multiple homeowner requests, the Board and management have not produced assessment ledgers, accounts receivable records, or permitted an independent forensic audit, even as dues have risen sharply and the building's insurance premium reportedly increased from roughly $94,000 to $520,000 in a single year.
• A near fatal fire on January 17, 2024, that originated in an unauthorized short term rental related office operating in the building lobby, a use never approved under the Declaration, followed by an insurer's lawsuit alleging fraud and material misrepresentation in connection with the resulting claim.
• A real and recent act of gun violence at the building's own address on July 4, 2026, in which two women were shot, underscoring how far basic safety and security have deteriorated for every resident, including the children and seniors who call this building home.
OUR DEMANDS
• Immediate, full investigation by all federal, state, and local agencies with jurisdiction, including but not limited to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Georgia Real Estate Commission, the Georgia Attorney General, the Fulton County District Attorney, and the City of Atlanta, into the conduct of Landmark management and the Board of Directors.
• A dedicated civil rights and fair housing investigation into the discrimination allegations raised by a homeowner that mentioned the he was told not to rent to black people. Many African American homeowners have been targeted for retaliatory enforcement, foreclosure threats, or coerced displacement.
• A mediated court order mandated a cease and desist order under O.C.G.A. § 43-40-30 barring Alexandra Betancur from performing any further licensable property management functions until she is properly licensed.
• Immediate cease and desist of retaliatory enforcement, including selective fines, unsupported lien and foreclosure threats, and denial of building access, directed at homeowners who raise concerns or request records.
• Full compliance with the City of Atlanta Stop Work Order, including submission of a compliant permit application and correction of the open wall condition that has persisted for more than two years, and resolution of the related citation.
• An independent, board approved forensic audit of Association finances, including assessment ledgers, delinquency and write off records, reserve account withdrawals, and insurance proceeds handling, responsive to the multiple homeowner requests for an audit that have so far been refused.
• A full accounting of any Association resources, common elements, or staff time used to support board members' or management's personal short term rental, cleaning, or other business ventures, and reimbursement to the Association where appropriate.
• A transparent, public accounting of homeowner turnover at The Landmark, including how many long term and African American homeowners have sold, been foreclosed upon, or otherwise left the building since 2020, and whether financial distress caused by mismanagement contributed to that turnover.
• A full security review of the building, including restoration of adequate on site staffing and monitoring, in direct response to the July 4, 2026 shooting at this address and the building's history of unaddressed safety hazards.
• Restoration of transparent governance consistent with the June 2024 Settlement Agreement, including quarterly financial disclosures, dual signature expenditure controls, and prompt notice of major decisions to all unit owners.
We are not asking for special treatment. We are demanding what every homeowner, every senior, every parent, and every family in this building is entitled to: a safe home, honest management, and a government that will not look away. Silence has not protected this building. Accountability will. We are done waiting.
This petition is a statement of community concern and a request for accountability. It is not a legal filing and does not replace or substitute for the formal complaints and court petitions already submitted by individual homeowners to the Georgia Real Estate Commission and the Fulton County Superior Court. By adding your name below, you are standing with the residents of The Landmark, and against the displacement of the families who call it home.
215 Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta GA
ADD YOUR NAME
This is a virtual petition. Share this document and ask everyone who reads it to add their name, email, and city or state of residence in support below, or through the online link provided by the organizers.
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Petition created on August 17, 2026