How to Evict Your Landlord, part 1: Who is David Tomblin?

You may have heard that one of Milwaukee’s largest landlords is in big legal trouble. David Tomblin, founder of Highgrove Holdings Management LLC, owns over 200 rental properties in Milwaukee. But lawsuits brought by the city and major lenders could ultimately take those properties away. These lawsuits are not the beginning of this story. They follow a years-long campaign by Common Ground, a nonpartisan advocacy organization, that united Tomblin’s tenants against him. WUWM’s Jimmy Gutierrez and Sam Woods spent a few months with Common Ground and some of Tomblin’s tenants to learn about him, what he represents and how tenants took back their power. This is part one of, “How to Evict Your Landlord.”