UNLIKELY GUARDIAN
ANGEL
Brock Cvijanovich, the owner of a New York-based property management company, became the unlikely guardian of a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor after saving her life last year.
It
was a turn of events that no one, including Cvijanovich, had expected.
In September 2021, Cvijanovich, CEO of KOmanage and KORgroup, made a deal to buy one of his first apartment buildings in Binghamton, in upstate New York.
The deal, however, came with an unusual condition. He had to take care of a 93-year-old building resident named Alice Schuman.
Cvijanovich said he was outbid by someone else
willing to pay $100,000 more for the property.
However, the prior owner told Cvijanovich that he would take $50,000 off the price — as long as Cvijanovich agreed to the specific term.
"He took a $50,000 haircut to make sure this woman is being taken care of," he said.
Eventually he learned that the former property owner, who was looking to retire, had been escorting Schuman to the bank, to
her doctor and to the grocery store once a month.
He was also undercharging her drastically for her rent.
He was charging her about $200 a month, while the same units in the building were going for around $2,000.
For over 60 years Schuman had been living there — and the previous owner never had the heart to raise her rent, Cvijanovich said.
So neither did he...READ MORE + PIX
