The property company once run by Jared Kushner - and now run by his family - has been blasted by its tenants for failing to repair its buildings while viciously litigating anyone who falls behind on rent.

In one stomach-churning story, Jasmine Cox of the Cove Village complex complained of maggots emerging from her carpet and raw sewage flowing out of her kitchen sink.

'It sounded like someone turned a pool upside down,' Cox told Pro Publica. 'I got out of bed and the sink is black and gray, it's pooling out of the sink and the house smells terrible.'

When she moved out, the company invoiced her $600 for a new carpet and other repairs.

Poor residents of homes belonging to the Kushner Companies (such as the Carroll Park complex in Baltimore) say their homes are crumbling and maintenance is delayed

The Kushner Companies bought low-income properties under the leadership of Jared Kushner (seen today) as a source of regular cash, in addition to its more famous skyscraper investments

Cox's is the most startling tale, but it's far from the only one.

And residents of the properties, which are owned by JK2 Westminster LLC, a subsidiary of Kushner Companies, are displeased with their landlords, to put it mildly.

Alishia Jamesson, 30, who pays $842 per month to live in the Highland Village complex with her fiancee and two children, had a litany of problems.

Among them were a gap in the bathroom skylight that let in rain and snow; black mold around the bathtub and three holes in the wall of her living room.

She paid $150 to have the holes fixed in October and is still waiting, she said: 'Every time I ask about drywall they say, "Oh, well, we only have one drywall person."'

Elsewhere in Highland Village, the walls of a unit that had burned down months ago were still left standing, covered in tarp.

Marquita Parmely, a truck driver who lives in Essex Park, said that her daughter, 12, had woken up to find a mouse in her bed: One of many from a nasty infestation.

Parmely has to vacuum twice a day to clean up the droppings, as they trigger her two-year-old's asthma.

Renee Cook was waiting for repairs to her ceiling, which had collapsed, and mold in her carpet, due to a leaky washing machine illicitly installed in an upstairs apartment.

Mike McHargue, a private investigator who lives at a Carroll Park complex with his girlfriend, told Pro Publica that JK" were 'nothing but slumlords.'

'They take everyone’s money,' he added.

When told that Kushner's name was behind the company, he responded: 'Oh, really? Oh, really. And I’m a Trump supporter.'

Kushner is no longer chief of the company, but still has $600m of stock in it. One resident said their kitchen sink flooded with raw sewage; she ws charged $600 for repairs when she left

Kushner quit as chief executive of the company to enter the White House, but retains an estimated $600 million stake in it.

Cook's ceiling was repaired shortly after Pro Publica contacted Kushner Companies, which said it follows industry standards for maintenance staffing and exterminator visits.

It said $10 million had been invested in upgrades across the complexes, but that 'Despite those improvements, issues still arise, given the age of the properties.'

But many of these older properties were never built by the Kushner Companies in the first place: They were bought up, from 2011 onward, by Jared Kushner precisely because they were old and cheap.

Called 'distress-ridden, Class B' housing, they are typically older, worn and populated by residents who are struggling to get by.

Ironically, the Kushner Companies - founded by Kushner's grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, was built on small, low-income properties.

But his father, Charles, sold most of them off in the mid-2000s. Jared Kushner reversed that after taking over, starting in 2011.

Kushner - whose company was, and is, best known for its high-profile New York skyscrapers - said he saw them not as investments, but as a consistent flow of cash.

'Our goal is to keep buying and incrementally growing - they’re good markets where you can get yield,' he said in October 2011.

One of the ways the company gets its money's worth is by pursuing its tenants through courts for overdue rent, even when they are desperate.

The homes are largely rented by poor people in Baltimore - some of whom are pursued aggressively for late rent, including one woman who was hounded on her death bed

Joan Beverly signed a lease for her daughter, Lennettea, for a unit at the Dutch Village complex in 2009.

Leannettea moved out a year later, several months before her lease was to finish - and more than two years before Kushner Companies bought up the property.

In December 2012, JK2 Westminster Beverly filed a suit against Beverly, seeking $3,810.16 in missed rent and around $1,000 in repairs.

Two months later Leannettea presented a document in court that proved her mom was dying of pancreatic cancer in a hospice and was unable to work.

JK2 pressed on with court hearings anyway. A district judge found in favor of the company to the tune of $5,500.

Joan died two weeks later. A court denied her husband's request to dismiss the judgement.

'This tenant owned the landlord $3,819.16,' a Kushner Companies spokeswoman said. 'As property manager, it's our job to collect rent payments.'

Charles Kushner (center, in 2005), Jared's father, sold off the low-income properties that made his dad's company, but Jared started buying them up again in the 2010s.

Kamiia Warren left Cove Village before her contract was up too, after a neighbor began behaving distruptively. She was using a Section 8 subsidy to help pay the rent.

She gave two months' notice and obtained a note from the on-site manager that read 'The tenant gave notice in accordance with the lease.'

Nevertheless, three years later JK2 came after her for not paying the remaining rent, and because she couldn't find the note, the judge demanded she pay the money, as well as court costs, attorney's fees and interest.

That left Warren, who has three children and was working as a home health aide after putting herself through college, with a $4,984.37 to pay.

She found the note and filed a motion to dismiss, but didn't attach proof of the note to the motion - something she didn't know she had to do - and lost.

JK2 then began to take money directly from her wages and, later, her bank account.

Her account dropped from $900 to zero. She had to borrow money from family just to support her kids.

A return to court with the note and a plea to stop them taking her money was dismissed without explanation.

JK2 Westminster has 548 cases in which it is the plaintiff, Pro Publica reported, not including hundreds more filed in the names of its complexes.

It has won nine out of every ten judgements - some for just a couple of thousand dollars.

Jared Kushner's sister, Nicole Kushner Meyer (center) is trying to raise cash from the Chinese to begin a $12b revelopment of the company's 666 Fifth Avenue skyscraper. Meanwhile, Kushner Companies' poor Baltimore tenants say they are suffering

Matthew Hertz, a lawyer whose company represents both landlords and tenants in these cases, said the cheap cost of finding someone makes it worth pursuing for companis.

Just a phone number and a name is all it takes sometimes, he said - and a social security number makes it easier.

'If you buy someone's properties, you're buying their debts, not just their assets,' he said. 'You take the good with the bad, and try to collect on the bad.

'Even if you only get back five per cent, you're making something,' he added. 'It's, "I'm buying up this property and if I can collect anything, it’s gravy on top."'

And he said aggressively pursuing money owed - even when it's owed by a poor mother with three children, or a dying woman - is used to instill 'fear' in other tenants.

'They know tenants are going to talk to each other. If they say, "He's going to come after you,’ it's deterrence."'

The Kushner Companies says it has an obligation to pursue all the money owed to it - even when that debt is years old and was accrued under the properties' original owners

Kushner Companies’ chief financial officer, Jennifer McLean, said that the company has a 'fiduciary obligation' to its ownership partners to take in as much money as it can.

'Westminster Management only takes legal action against a tenant when absolutely necessary,' she added.

'If legal action is pursued, however, the company follows guidelines consistent with industry standards.

'While taking a tenant to court is far from an ideal outcome, that option - and clear rules governing it - must exist as a last resort.'

But the tenants, who have considerably less than the Kushners' estimated $1.8 billion to their name, are not pleased.

And they were even less delighted to find out who owns their property.

On being told that her property was owned by Kushner Companies, Jasmine Cox - the woman whose home was filled with maggots and sewage - had little to say.

'Get that [expletive] out of here,' she said.