Buffalo landlord’s problem properties

Andre Foster’s track record as property owner includes numerous building code violations and 911 calls and unpaid taxes and user fees. Authorities haven’t done much to rein him in.

In March Buffalo police shot and killed a knife-wielding, mentally ill man living in an unlicensed boarding house, in a makeshift bedroom city inspectors deemed “unfit for human occupancy.”

Andre Foster, the property owner, has 12 rental properties in Buffalo, including the shooting scene at 54 Minnesota Ave. Many of his apartments are a danger to tenants, according to interviews with them and public records…

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