Marty Higgins Libertine of debauchery or a curmudgeon being entrenched in impropriety

I have been tracking tenant Landlord issues for years, in the Bay Area, as well as national, and international. I have observed a nefarious individual who has been gaining notoriety throughout the various platforms in media. This person is a symptom a society dissociated from humanity and focused on mercenary and avaricious pursuits. This selfish ethical frameworking has manifested people who practice mendacious and odious conduct to fulfill their distorted dreams. In 2016 with historically low interest rates and low yielding bonds, along with many diminution of business regulations, and unsustainable speculation has produced unfettered inequity testing the fabrics of society. Marty Higgins is becoming the poster child of what is inciting a movement on both the left and right wing of politics, circumvented around an accelerated income inequality primarily due to speculation ushering in fascism. This is a contradiction of free market enterprise, and rather a corporate takeover which lacks any sense of moral hazard, and a product of 40 plus years of policies eroding a stable monetary system. The poster child of our modern day crisis represents what will usher in an entirely new monetary system, and forever change how people live their lives.

Marty Higgins is a real estate broker, who graduated from Arizona State with a bachelors degree in business. He would go on to be a sales associate at Arroyo and Coates, where he was mentored in the direction of becoming an entrepreneur. According to his Linked In page as of 2/14/2016, he is a serial entrepreneur with a passion to change the world. Martin J Higgins his true name founded and was the president of a non profit organization " City of dreams ". This non profit organizations purpose was to help low income housing communities build a brighter future. The organization was located in San Francisco, where the IRS Government accountability office and the Franchise tax board performed an audit; this was circumvented around misappropriations of funds being funneled into for profit investment accounts. Martin Higgins would soon step down as the President of this 501 (c) 3 non profit organization.

In the real estate equity market, Martin would become the founder of a brokerage real estate company called, "The Apartment Group", which was Bayarea wide and bolstered about having a meger 18 units in acquisition. The concept was to convert class C and D buildings into Class A buildings with a large upside and a profit yield projection of 30 % or more for participating investors. Martin would claim that building was in his DNA, but this too would come to a dramatic end. The Franchise tax board and the secretary of State would suspend this entities license indefinitely, due to the fact that while these properties were being advertised and solicited there was no valid real estate brokerage license. This is a prime example of an entrepreneur whose primary goal is to get rich quick, rather than progressively gain wealth and build an empire.

There were little if no problems at Hendrick Berkadia real estate brokerage firm, primarily due to the fact that he was the Senior Vice president, and did not make the fundamental and vital judgement calls for the operations and organization of this institution. Now that he is the CEO of Cosecha it will be interesting to observe whether or not this business will have an almost inevitable deleterious fait. He seems to destroy everything he controls as he refuses to focus on good rapport and building a solid foundation to form a business with a good reputation.

In Oakland Martin Higgins has gained a notorious reputation as being a nefarious property investor, who evades the city planning permit process to both expedite renovation projects and evade the cost of doing business in a municipality. In North Oakland there were horrific News publication of a young woman by the name of Melissa Hennings, whose life was placed in danger in order for TP Partners the property management group for First Class Lodi LLC, who Martin is the principal for. There were financing issues that 1 or more banking institutions did not desire to be included in, as a growing stock of North Oakland buildings undergo illegal rehabilitation and renovations. Buildings with asbestos and lead did not undergo the specific remediation processes mandated by the EPA. Construction companies were not under the parameters of following OSHA compliancy. This included contractors that were not bonded, insured or licensed by the CA state contractors licensing board.

In downtown Oakland an older class C structure was immediately rehabilitated, and it incited over 33 units of tenants in a 66 unit building, to assert their tenant rights to protect themselves from construction hazards, and safety issues involving improper protocols for dealing with post 1978 building surrounding the issue of lead. These chemical agents not only impact residents in the buildings vicinity, but they also negatively impact the surrounding environments and ecosystems. Many community leaders claimed this was being allowed through bribery practices, incentivizing government agencies turning a blind eye. In the city of Oakland which is entrenched in political corruption, this is a plausible allegation considering the concurrent abhorrent practices imposed onto tenants by these entities. Given the fact that the federal reserves 8 year repression promoting record low interest rates, this becomes a desired industry to park large sums of debt and cashflow. Sadly security rental backed loans, credit default swaps, and default debt obligations will lead to a major and disastrous global correction; which will change the fabric of how millions of people live out their lives permanently.

At the current time, Martin has branched out to the medical marijuana dispensary industry. Initially this would sound innocent and as just another entrepreneur branching out into the growing industry of marijuana, however you would be gravely misinformed. In SanFrancisco you have to gain approval for entitlements by the planning commission to set up a dispensary, but also you need to obtain a medical cannabis dispensary permit from the San Francisco department of public health. The directors hearing by the department of public health, and the planning commission to change entitlements to approve a medical marijuana dispensary could take over a year. Instead of going through this process Marty has chosen to buy buildings holding marijuana dispensaries to evict the cannabis clubs and do a pay out to transfer over permits. This becomes problematic as the city of San Francisco is seeing an increase in dispensaries. The Hemp center at 4811 Geary Boulevard and Bernal Heights collective at 33 29th street, are now nearing the point of admonishment and injunctive actions by the city.

These corrupt and unethical practices are not a benefit to the community, as revenue is lost from the city, while these companies gain revenue that is not reported. In the end people are provided unsafe and dangerous housing that only appears aesthetically pleasing. Do you want your children and grandchildren to live and accept such conditions? There has to be oversight by the public to demand probes for growing drug distribution, and solicitation of sex in the vicinity of these new renovated buildings. Furthermore there has to be regular audits to make sure the cost benefits are received by the city for maintenance of roads, parks, and other vital services. In addition many tenants should furthermore at the point of sell acquistion their multifamily residence under a community land trust, and control their own living spaces. The interest of these investors is completely invested in fiat currency, and not the people they serve, when today's currencies are supplanted what good will this structure of property ownership serve?

Marty Higgins is no exception to the rule, however his narcissistic and myopic character traits have made him become a reference point in a time of growing corruption. The tragedy is he believes that being a white collar anglican family oriented man somehow insulates him from the ramifications and culpability he has generated through his own devices. A man whose only value in life is monetary gains will continue to pursue the storage of wealth, while never fulfilling the empty void within that is seeking true substance. Generating wealth and retaining resources is one thing, but becoming a slave to a medium of exchange that will never fulfill your insufficiencies is a mind encapsulated in a self induced cage. A person that does not have true vision and goals outside of generating capital, is a person that will spend the rest of their days in paranoia and in a psychosis of delusions of grandeur. People such as Marty remain prevalent, because the people who morally oppose remain quiet and apathetic. The composition and makeup of your society, and communities will directly follow the effort the citizens take to shape their environment.


Cited source references for Marty Higgins / Martin J Higgins

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/02/20/18768831.php?show_comments=1
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/when-landlords-harass-tenants/Content?oid=4235905
https://sites.google.com/site/oaklandtenantsunited/bay-apartment-advisors/investors-owners-and-managers/martin-higgins
http://sanfrancisco.marijuanainvestorsummit.com/2016/speaker/marty-higgins-2/
http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/news-marijuana-cannabis-legalization-medical-marijuana-cannabis-industry-harvest-harvest-on-geary-marty-higgins/Content?oid=4313552
https://sites.google.com/site/oaklandtenantsunited/bay-apartment-advisors/investors-owners-and-managers/the-apartment-group-inc
http://www.loopnet.com/broker/Marty-Higgins/258785/