Steve and Stephen Hagerman: Featured Vultures
Stephen, the father, is CEO of Brick Home Management; Steve, the son, is manager. They were featured in the recent Vice News video that showed them in their West Bloomfield home bidding on line in the 2017 Detroit tax foreclosure auction. By Steve Sr’s account, they spent $3 million.
*These are the provisional findings on the Hagermans that we have found so far. More to come……
Number of Detroit properties owned: 847
Known Hagerman Companies Buying /Renting /Selling in Detroit (Year formed, Address):
Brick Home Management (2001/2015, 5660 Putnam Dr., W. Bloomfield) 1
Hillbubb Acquisitions (2003, 5660 Putnam Dr., W. Bloomfield) 2
Brick Home Rentals (2010, 5660 Putnam Dr., W. Bloomfield)
Westside Brick (2010, 5660 Putnam Dr., W. Bloomfield)
Unique Home Rentals (2014, 5660 Putnam Dr., W. Bloomfield)
MoTown Rentals (2015, 5660 Putnam Dr., W. Bloomfield)
MLC Rentals (2017, 5660 Putnam Dr., W. Bloomfield)
1 Filings for Brick Home Management listed under “S.H. & A.H. Enterprises.” Initial address was 5941 Eastman Blvd., W. Bloomfield. Change of address to Putnam Dr. in 2007. Certificate of Assumed name, Brick Home Mgt., in 2015.
2 Last filing with state was in 2007. Address in court records was 2431 Fourth St., Detroit
Number of properties bought in recent tax foreclosure auctions:
2017: 308 quit claim deeds from Wayne County to MLC Rentals
2016: 284 quit claim deeds from Wayne County to MoTown Rentals
2015: 6 quit claim deeds from Wayne County to MoTown Rentals
2014: 232 quit claim deeds from Wayne County to Unique Home Rentals
2013: 174 quit claim deeds from Wayne County to Westside Brick
Office Addresses:
East Side, Brick Home Management, 18438 Morang
West Side, Brick Home Management, 15900 W. McNichols
Number of Entries in 36th District Court, Registry of Actions:
Cases:
Stephen A. Hagerman (Sr & Jr) 24 14 old evictions, 4 traffic, 6 recent blight cases
Steve Hagerman 406 Spot check indicates most are evictions
Unique Home Rentals 465
Westside Brick 485
Brick Home Rentals 217 (Need to confirm these aren’t duplicates with
MoTown Rentals 400 Hagerman. Spot check suggests no…)
MLC Rentals 202
Hillbubb Limited 312
Number of outstanding blight tickets:
Number of Properties Number of Tickets
Hagerman: 18 53
Westside Brick: 34 58
Unique Home Rentals: 21 48
Hillbubb Acquisitions: 23 49
MoTown Rentals: 8 24
Brick Home Rentals: 12 28
MLC Rentals: 4 7
Totals : 120 267
Properties in tax foreclosure process (County Registry, searched LLC by category):
Brick Home Rentals 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Total
Forfeiture 1 2 11 0 2 2 18
Redemption 1 0 9 0 0 0 10
Foreclosure 1 0 2 0 0 2* 5
Westside Brick 2015 2016 2017 Total
Forfeiture 29 13 4 46
Redemption 25 11 3 39
Foreclosure 0 5* 0 5
Motown Rentals 2015 2016 2017 Total
Forfeiture 0 0 1 1
Redemption 0 0 1 1
Foreclosure 0 0 0 0
Unique Home Rentals 2016 2017 Total
Forfeiture 33 17 50
Redemption 22 5 27
Foreclosure 0 6* 6
Total 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Total
Forfeiture 1 2 11 29 48 24 115
Redemption 1 0 9 25 33 9 77
Foreclosure 1 0 2 0 5* 8* 16
*All in September. Cleaning house before auction…?
No entries for MLC Rentals and Brick Home Management. Hillbubb, a few for 2007-2012
Attorneys (last known yr. listed):
Sheldon B. Kohn (2014), De Vine & Kohn PLLC, 29800 Telegraph, Southfield
Frederick Coleman (2017), eviction cases, Redford Mi, (313) 965-5448
Dennis Flessland (2018), Huntington Woods, 248-547-6379
Allen Dyer (2017), Berkley
