TROY — In March of 2014, Haris Hussain purchased a three-story apartment building near the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus for $10,000.

What followed was a steady stream of building code violations issued by the City of Troy against the property, located off Congress Street at 72 Thirteenth St.

Although Hussain has nothing to do with the criminal case against his younger brother, Nauman Hussain, related to the Schoharie limousine crash, the Hussain brothers and their father Shahed Hussain have a long history of neglecting properties and racking up code violations.

The latest example was the family-owned motel on Route 9 in Wilton, the Crest Inn Suites & Cottages, which the town and the state Department of Health shut down last month after years of neglect and recent inspections that found serious health and safety code violations.

Prestige Limousine was launched in 2012 by Shahed Hussain, who initially operated out of the parking lot of the motel and then moved the limousines to other locations after town officials complained.

Nauman, 29, was operating his father's limo company at the time of the Oct. 6, 2018, crash in which 20 people died. He has been charged with 20 counts of second-degree manslaughter and 20 counts of criminally negligent homicide in connection with the crash.

Prestige also attracted numerous violations from the state Department of Transportation, which twice ordered the company's 31-foot-long Ford Excursion off the road in the months leading up to the crash, the worst highway transportation disaster in the U.S. in more than a decade.

When State Police arrested Nauman four days after the crash, they found numerous notices of violations issued against the Hussain family's various Capital Region properties, as well as receipts from Unity House, the Troy social services nonprofit that offers housing and financial aid to domestic violence victims.

Officials at the Unity House said that they contracted with the Hussains for housing for several years ending in 2016. After that, some of the women that it worked with lived independently at at least one Hussain property in Troy, although the names of the tenants and the exact locations were withheld from the Times Union for privacy reasons.

The Hussains have deeded many of their properties under the name Hasy Properties. (Nauman operated Prestige Limousine at times under the name Hasy Limousine.)

A recent Freedom of Information Law request by the Times Union for documents related to the Thirteenth Street property found that the city's bureau of code enforcement has issued at least seven notices of violation against Haris and Hasy Properties, a limited liability company that the brothers use as a holding company for their properties, which have received building loans from a Menands company called Mako International.

The first violation was issued in June 2015, when Haris Hussain was cited for failing to obtain a work permit for demolition and construction at the property.

"STOP ANY WORK in progress immediately," the notice of violation states.

The letter, sent to the Crest Inn Suites, says that the city also wanted to see an engineer's report on the "stability and safety" of the property.

Attorney Marc Kaim, who has been representing the Hussains in civil cases brought by the families of limo crash victims, said he does not represent them "with respect to any individual properties and cannot make any further comments while litigation is pending,”

Kaim was hired by the Long Island company that insured Prestige Limousine.

The head of the Troy code enforcement bureau was not available to comment.

The latest notice of violation on the Thirteenth Street property was issued against Hasy Properties on June 25 of this year.

The violations included loose or defective ceiling that needed to be repaired, improper installation of plumbing equipment, leaking water pipes, lack of smoke detectors, improper location of a hot water tank, loose or defective flooring, and kitchen sink drain lines not connected properly.