SECTION 6 UNINHABITABLE CONDITIONS INTRODUCTION

 

WALLS OF SILENCE

Surviving Don Klyberg

SECTION 6 TITLE 6.2 FAILURE TO PROVIDE FIT PREMISES

 

The property is owned by Donald Kylberg, a mostly absent figure from Coon Rapids, Minnesota. His property management team, led by Anthony Anderson (who now calls himself the "caretaker") and Rick Newmann (the "maintenance man"), are the more prominent figures. When I first moved in, the building was clean, with only a faint odor of cats in one unit, and it seemed like a manageable place. However, as vacant units were filled, conditions worsened, and it became clear that the property violated the Implied Warranty of Habitability. Despite repeated requests for repairs, nothing was done, which I suspect is retaliation for confronting Rick Newmann about sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior.

Subpart 2. Absence of The Property Owner

In my experience, the property management team is central to these issues. I've never seen Mr. Kylberg on-site, which I believe allows the problems to persist unchecked. Rick and Anthony, both close friends, enable each other’s actions. Anthony is dating a tenant, Sandra, whose sister, Margaret, lives below me and is responsible for animal neglect. This has led to uninhabitable conditions, including animal waste in the common areas, biting bugs (likely fleas), and fumes from waste that cause severe health issues in my unit. There is also a massive cockroach infestation.

Subpart 3. Anthony Anderson Is Unresponsive

Anthony seems to support Rick in avoiding accountability, and Rick manipulates situations by sending fake notices, threatening evictions, tampering with mail, surveilling tenants, and posting harassing signs. This has created a hostile living environment, where tenants are intimidated into silence. Requests for repairs are met with hostility or the threat of constructive eviction, leading tenants to feel it's better to rely on their personal support networks than deal with management, who have been involved in sexual harassment and physical battery in the rental office.

Subpart 4. City Officials Are Insincere and Unresponsive

Every professional I've spoken to—pest control specialists, law enforcement, or city officials—are aware of the persistent issues surrounding the building, including the strong smell and troubling activities. Local law enforcement has even stated the city has essentially given up on the property. The conditions reflect this neglect, with trash, drug paraphernalia by my door, and sick animals defecating inside the building, which property management leaves for weeks without addressing. Maintenance is inconsistent at best, and the environment has left me socially isolated, unable to invite guests due to the appalling conditions.

Subpart 5. The Property Management is The Problem onsite

The worst example of the unsanitary living conditions is Rick Newmann’s front door, rick again is the Rental Office and seems to be a source of most issues. Animal waste, filth, sexual harassment, retaliatory stalking, and property damage have made living conditions unbearable.

Subpart 6: Renting Here Due to Reported, Unresolved Federal Fraud.

My situation has been further complicated by housing authority fraud since February 28, 2019, which I am victim to. What’s happened because of that and HUD refusal to correct it,  limits my options now and moving forward.

Subpart 7. Move-Out Hindered by Unresponsive Property Owner

Despite ongoing extermination efforts by Plunket’s Pest Control since August 28, 2024, the roach infestation persists. To prevent the infestation from spreading, I must use special containers for my belongings and leave behind infested furniture. Without proper arrangements, I risk facing an Unlawful Detainer, further jeopardizing my ability to recover nearly $19,000 in losses, due to the racially motivated lack of law and order in Minnesota which has already prevailed—even prior to February 28, 2019.

Subpart 8. Property Has Ignored City Repair Orders

The continued failure to maintain sanitary conditions has severely impacted my ability to care for myself. City inspector Steve Carson has shown no concern, granting leniency to the property despite the toll on my health and well-being. Inspections on September 20, 2024, and November 14, 2024, have resulted in no improvements, leaving the property in clear violation of housing and health codes. Management admits no efforts have been made and city Inspector admits he order the property to make repairs on September 20, 2024,  in documented video "Exhibit 10624A-91" on the website.

Subpart 9. Property Condition Is Gender-Based Discrimination Retaliation—Sexual Harassment

This supports my position that Filth, Infestation and Broken Appliances are retaliatory acts for blocking property manager Rick Newmann’s attempts to sexually groom me, the subsequent sexual advance in the rental office and refusal to respond to Newmann at all outside of official residential business. This is a case rooted in gender-based discrimination. The conditions are a punishment from a man who would have to have a history of sexual and domestic violence based on his behavior with me a tenant and complete stranger.

Subpart 10. Afraid of Aggressive Property Manager

I firmly believe Rick Newmann is a dangerous individual, based on his interactions with me and his behavior toward women on the property. This is reflected in the condition of the hallways and common areas, where I’ve repeatedly found drug paraphernalia—such as wrappers—left directly outside my door, despite there being four units on the floor.

Subpart 11. Drug Paraphernalia Left Near My Door

Additionally, Sarah, Rick's girlfriend, frequently lingers outside my door or nearby instead of staying in her own apartment, often with the resident across the hallway. Whether this is negligence after Sarah’s drug use or an attempt to implicate me in drug activity by a retaliatory property manager, the impact is the same. I simply walk around the mess and move on rather than engage management, though it remains distressing. There are overhead surveillance cameras to see who’s responsible. In every scenario where management and their guest are the actual culprits, they’ve claimed the camera saw nothing. This leads me to believe the two are responsible.

Subpart 12. Battery In Rental Office, Stalking

Sarah, as a guest of Rick, has also physically assaulted me in the rental office on January 30, 2024, leaving me feeling unsafe and unable to assertively address the building’s conditions, infestations, and broken appliances. During the attack, I didn’t feel safe defending myself, which only emboldened her to invade my personal space further. Property owner Don Kylberg and Rick Newmann were aware of Sarah’s stalking prior to assault and negligently refused to enforce the Residential Lease Agreement which could have prevented the physical assault. This is a Hostile Living Environment.

Subpart 13. Call To Action

Please consider this evidence carefully and share it widely. My hope is that you’ll not only read this but also help spread awareness. If you feel inclined, a donation would allow me to leave these dangerous jurisdictions. The more people who see the undeniable truth, the harder it will be for those involved to continue scheming in the shadows. Increased scrutiny may finally compel them to enforce the law properly and legally.

Subpart 14. Lies Made This Effort Necessary

Their actions against me are rooted in lies. My response is to present the truth—through evidence and testimony—louder and clearer than ever before, in a way they cannot suppress or manipulate. Only then might I finally achieve justice and begin to rebuild my life, starting with holding this real estate property accountable for its wrongs.

GRAPHIC PHOTO EVIDENCE

Drug paraphernalia found alarmingly close to my door. I suspect it is methamphetamine, a powerful stimulant that affects the central nervous system, as there is no scent or residue present. 

Drug paraphernalia left directly by my door—again, as if to imply it belongs to me. These items are never found elsewhere in the building.

Illicit Drugs

Illicit drug use constitutes a violation of the residential lease. According to Number 23, SECTION 3 TITLE 3.0, this property is under continuous video surveillance. Whoever used or discarded this paraphernalia was therefore captured on camera. Yet no lease violations were issued.

This is discriminatory conduct by absentee owner Don Klyberg, as Rick Newmann—who is both a tenant and the property manager—is not subjected to the same terms of tenancy that I, and other tenants, are held to.

This creates a hostile environment in which those willing to remain in Rick Newmann’s good graces are allowed to run amok as nuisances throughout the property. Tenants are pressured to protect Newmann and anyone aligned with him.

According to not only my own experience since April 2024, but also the testimony of a victim on November 28, 2024, Rick Newmann has been allowed to demand sexual favors in exchange for repairs and continued tenancy—a practice that has allegedly continued for years. 

And yet, here I remain—trapped in what can only be described as a living hell—enduring relentless suffering while trying to protect my dignity. Despite the clear illegality of this retaliation, the city continues to shield drug users, public nuisances, and slumlords solely because they are white—while I, the victim, am Black.

Make Note, by Visual Evidence—that this is the Minnesota Nice you rarely hear about; this is the truth of what lurking behind the Minnesota Paradox.

This creates conditions that violate the guarantees provided to me in the Residential Lease Contract. 

This is likely because the individual consistently loitering just outside my door—where the paraphernalia is routinely found—is Rick Newmann’s invitee, believed to be his girlfriend. Aside from her, only property management personnel access the top floor. When Sarah spends hours outside my door “hosting a party,” it is typically in the company of the neighbor directly across the hall.

Refer to Section 3, Title 3.1: Rick Newmann explicitly stated that I was "caught on camera" in the warning issued to me—confirming not only that the surveillance system is operational, but that it is actively monitored. 

However, I was not “caught” on camera; rather, I was seen—just as the system is designed to do—defending myself against ongoing harassment by Newmann and his invitee (his girlfriend). The harassment stemmed from my refusal to engage with their inebriated social advances by Sarah during the initial 8 weeks of stalking which I rejected by simply ignoring them, which ended in her physically attacking me in the rental office (Newmann's Residence) for refusing to entertain her and Newmann, and from a prior incident in which Newmann was corrected after tampering with my mail. As someone who projects strong male entitlement, Newmann reacted abusively—lashing out after being challenged by a woman acting in an official and lawful capacity by continuously scratching out my name from my mailbox in a retaliatory, intimidating attempt to have me ejected from the Address Confidentiality Program for telling him not to handle my personal mail—a right of every Minnesota Renter.

This is the bottom floor leading to the laundry room and rear parking lot, where the dumpster is located. The apartment manager and "rental office" are to the left, and Anthony Anderson’s (the other property manager), Newmann’s his best friend's girlfriend’s sister Margret, is to the right. This area is relatively clean compared to the daily conditions I’ve witnessed.

This is property manager Rick Newmann’s apartment and rental office. You can see the white stuff that is scattered all over the building on his rug; it’s coming from his unit.

Newmann’s Spy Cameras

The object—what appears to be a simple can of oil—may, in fact, be something far more disturbing: a concealed surveillance device. Rick Newmann places this bottle in the exact same spot near my apartment nearly every day, only to retrieve it days later. Given how calculated this behavior is, it seems less like coincidence and more like one of his covert routines—acts he carries out when he believes no one is watching.

Despite claiming to suffer from chronic back pain and limited mobility, Newmann appears entirely unhindered when it comes to positioning or retrieving this object. I’ve never approached it myself, so I can’t confirm its function. Perhaps it is just an oil can. But the small hole in the label has led me to suspect it might be housing a camera lens.

What troubles me more than the object itself is the psychology behind it. Newmann strikes me as the kind of perverse, voyeuristic individual who finds pleasure in secrecy—in the belief that he’s outsmarting everyone. His satisfaction seems tied not just to the act, but to the idea that “no one knows.” That’s what makes it dangerous. That’s what makes him dangerous.

So yes, I keep my eye on him—because he watches me. Not because I’m curious, and certainly not because I want to. He’s the last person I wish to see or think about. But I refuse to be caught off guard. Everything in me warns that this man is not just intrusive or abusive—he is a high-risk predator.

And if he isn’t capable of committing a deadly act, then why do I feel like I’m guarding my life every single day? Why does this go far beyond sexual harassment and enter the realm of survival?

This is Margaret’s door, with the mess leading to her unit. The building’s management is responsible for maintaining these conditions. If this is how they handle the hallways, imagine what’s happening inside the units. It will be a long time, if ever, before the bug infestation is eliminated from a property like this. I need to be reimbursed for hundreds of dollars spent on chemicals to combat smells and infestations inside my apartment coming from these tenant’s areas.

These are wet animal stains from tenants allowing their animals to use the common areas.

An animal has urinated on the steps, and on the third-to-last step, it has also defecated. Again they just leave  it set—this can go on days, weeks, the smell just dominating! Even inside your apartment, they don’t care—management included. Property manager Rick Newmann is comfortable in this environment he walks barefoot through it most of the time. It’s a carpeted litter box. You can’t get in or out without being subjected to it.

SOME TIMELINE INSIGHT

I want to be absolutely clear: these photos do not represent the condition of the premises before I contacted animal control, exterminators, or City Inspector Steve Carson. There was no cleanup ordered to make the premises fit prior to their arrival—none whatsoever. The following cellular screenshots show that both the exterminators, who began on August 28, 2024, and the City Inspector, who began on September 20, 2024, walked directly through these filthy common areas without addressing them. Instead, they made baseless, racially charged micro-aggressions, insinuating that I was the cause of the unfit conditions—despite the fact that I’m the one who called county animal control in an effort to escape them.

Even the guilty party—property manager Rick Newmann—admitted on camera that I made the report. And yet, nothing came of it. No support, no repairs—only months of humiliation, attempted intimidation, outright lies, and persistent micro-aggressions. In the end, the property was awarded a renewed Certificate of Occupancy—in direct violation of its actual condition.

This photo is crucial evidence supporting my claim that apartment manager Rick Newmann’s "notes" are not about property matters but are instead personal attacks and threats meant to intimidate, harass, and coerce. Newmann targeted me with months of abusive behavior after I rejected his sexual advances in the rental office, which made me feel unsafe. He followed up with two months of inappropriate, unsolicited, and sexually harassing text messages disguised as "romantic" but were demeaning and controlling.

When I refused to engage, Newmann escalated his harassment by using emergency property keys to open my federal mailbox, leaving an intimidating letter accusing me of misconduct. This act sabotaged my housing security while continuing his pattern of harassment, which included stealing and destroying my grill, taunting me outside my window, and stuffing my mailbox to jeopardize my address confidentiality status—all in retaliation for ignoring his unwanted advances.

When I wrote "Stop" on the letter, Newmann issued an eviction notice that same day. The photos clearly show the filthy state of the building, proving the note had nothing to do with trash or property management and everything to do with a sexual predator abusing his position to retaliate against me for refusing his advances.

The exterminators have been coming every two weeks since August 28th, but it's been completely ineffective—because Rick Newmann refuses to clean anything. It feels like a form of retaliation, not unlike when he was told not to tamper with my personal mail. He acts as though no one has the right to correct him, no matter how far over the line he goes or how much damage his actions cause. Roach extermination is pointless while he continues feeding them with garbage left in the common areas.

When I first reported roaches in my unit back in February, he immediately deflected blame onto the units across the hall from him, when it was clearly him. His behavior is a clear attempt to conceal the truth. 

If prospective tenants saw the real conditions of this property, they wouldn’t sign a lease. Instead, he crafted a false image just long enough to secure mine—profiting $9,100 off of the conditions he refuses to fix.

This photo was taken on September 25, 2024, five days after the City Inspector allegedly inspected the property for code violations. As you can see, it remains filthy, as property manager Rick Newmann clearly wasn’t expecting another government official to visit. On City Inspection day, the building was clean, and Newmann was especially friendly, just as he was when I applied, signed my lease, and during the HUD inspection. But when no one is watching, he’s a completely different person—the moment the 'alleged' inspector left, he returned to who he truthfully is.

Here we see the primary source of the urination and defecation stains, made evident by their heavy concentration leading up to the door. This is Margaret’s apartment—she is the sister of Sandra, who is property manager Anthony Anderson’s girlfriend. This connection explains why no lease violations are issued, no calls are made to animal control, and no efforts are taken to stop animals from using the common areas as a bathroom. The stench of decomposing flesh fills both the shared spaces and individual units due to this ongoing, “protected” lease violation. Meanwhile, two fraudulent and retaliatory warnings were posted to my Black door for proving the camera's work when Newmann was (and still is) vandalizing my mailbox and telling him to stop harassing me  in stark contrast.

Now that you've seen the Unfit Premises, take a closer look at the Unsanitary Conditions—specifically, the ongoing issue of animal abuse and animal waste in the common areas.