Reality Check: City inspectors return to troubled apartments

In March, Deborah Moore invited NBC 15 News into the apartment she is renting at South Haven Apartments on Dauphin Island Parkway… an apartment riddled with problems like a heating and air conditioning unit with a bypassed thermostat.

“You don’t turn it on, here.,” she demonstrated at the time, reaching into a closet. “They’ve rigged up a switch.”

And there were other issues, like loose or ill-fitting doors, electrical problems, a rusting and patched bathtub drain, appliances that need replacing, and carpet so old and stained Deborah put rugs over it to hide it…

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