Essam Schedid, who goes by “Sam” has quite a reputation in town, mainly for his disgusting, rotten business acumen.

Today a Facebook friend posted, beneath a complaint about his nasty renters, that Sam is the owner of the Sam’s Coventry Diner on Schuylkill Rd.  Sam once owned the Classic V Grille at 1390 N. Charlotte St. and The Cup on Charlotte St.

Sam owns a slum rental and a slum boarding house that keeps popping up on everyone’s radar for the fact that they are Nuisance properties.

377 Charlotte St. is housing a well known Nuisance tenant.

You could say Sam is acting like a good ol’ Pottstown poverty pimp…

            377 N. Charlotte St. houses a woman named Tracy Accor 

Tracey Accor was the subject of a blog post, last year, when she took a good landlord to the cleaners, and surrounding neighbors lost their sanity.  

Tracey laughed all the way to her next rental property at 377 Charlotte St., while the previous landlord had to repair the purposeful destruction of his property.  

But Sam Schedid didn’t call her former landlord to check up and ask if she’d been a thoughtful, kind tenant, nope – he probably didn’t even check police reports – he just moved her in for the substantial government rent money.

The former landlord filed a complaint with Montgomery County Housing Authority, he tried to save future neighbors from this mess, he was pretty certain Tracey Accor would find a slumlord to rent to her, but …

Apparently, they were busy pickin’  lint from their belly buttons –  because the Voucher Housing Office did zip/zero to put the skids to this diabolical renter.  Obviously, they didn’t take his complaint seriously.

I saw the destruction to his property, first hand. when the landlord invited me to see what Tracey and her pack of miserable misfits had done to his nice rental home.  It was beyond disgusting.  Clik to read that post>>> Tracy Accor 

Right after Tracey moved her clan into Sam’s House of Fun, someone in the house started a cooking oil fire that displaced 11 people, including the family in the twin next door, here’s the Mercury article about that event clik>>>

Kitchen Fire Displaces  11 in Pottstown

The only thing is…..

The neighbors aren’t having any fun and Sam is collecting a big fat government check to house a woman and her family that have used and abused the services of law enforcement, fire co’s, sheriff’s department, codes = dude didn’t bother to shovel his walks like the law and consideration for his neighborhood dictate.

Another FB commenter put up a photo of Sam’s boarding house/residence at 170 Manatawny St. with this comment:

“…check out the jaw dropping fix he made to his collapsing railroad tie wall last year lol .. nice cars though!”

On closer examination it looks like Sam put kitchen linoleum around the railroad ties.  Now, I’ve seen it all, right here the land of Potts.

 Is it any wonder the borough clings to solvency??   Our taxes keep going up and up but our return on investment in this community is tanking and tanking fast.

The really big losers are the homeowners and other good neighbors that have no choice but to live near Tracey Accor in Sam’s ghetto house.  They are paying in aces for Accor’s devil-may-care behavior…

It’s like pouring salt in a wound.

Is it any wonder then, a neighbor of Tracey Accor left this message on Facebook yesterday, (one of many messages left on FB about this legendary welfare leech), **we KNOW there are good voucher tenants** and,

Tracey Accor is not one of them…

“Good evening GC. Can you please tell me the name of the slumlord who owns the property at 377 N. Charlotte Street? I know you gave his/her name before but I lost it. I had to call the police earlier this evening about the section 8 residents living at this address and I want to call the slumlord as well. I’m going to keep calling this bastard until he removes these people from the property. I’m sick of their behavior and their ‘don’t give a shit about any neighbors’ attitude. Thanks in advance.”  

SO SAM’S COVENTY DINER IS OWNED AND OPERATED BY A  SLUMLORD…WHO’S PROUD ENOUGH TO HAVE HIS NAME ON IT

  Here’s a sample comment about why Sam’s Coventry Diner gets 2 stars out of a possible 5 on Yelp’s rate the dining site.  If I can get my hands on the restaurant inspection later on, I’ll post it here:

“STAY AWAY. Food is gross, rotten and spoiled. Dead serious. And they don’t care. Even waitress advised against eating it. Can I do zero stars?”

Read reviews on YELP <<<clik

Ethics and business acumen do not appear to be on this guys list of priorities.   Here’s the complete list of property’s currently owned by Essam Schedid in Pottstown:

16 Beech St. – 377 N. Charlotte St. – 22 Chestnut St. – 170 Manatawny St. – 460 Spruce St. – 71 N. York St.

update:  NEWS FLASH – THIS JUST IN – SAM’S COVENTRY DINER IS NO MORE, According to sources on FB who say nobody ate there any more.  Now you just have to wonder where Sam will surface next?

SCRAP THE UPDATE ABOVE!!  SAM IS STILL IN BUSINESS – SAME LOCATION DIFFERNENT NAME – THE DINER IS NOW KNOWN AS – CLASSIC GRILL VI – smh.  

-BOYCOTT SAM’S COVENTRY DINER/CLASSIC GRILL VI (or whatever it will be called tomorrow)…

- Spend your money with businesses that share your values and have respect for the Pottstown taxpayers.   

Why give this shyster a single penny more of your hard earned $$ while he screws Pottstown.  Yet, he affords to drive around in his slick corvette and little Cadillac wagon on the taxpayers dime….like pharaoh’s on the Nile.