TRURO — David Delgizzi of Weston, the owner of numerous dilapidated rental properties on the Outer Cape, has once again run afoul of the Truro Health Dept., this time for conditions at one of the 10 units he rents out at 4 Moses Way.

Delgizzi, who has a long history of health code violations that have led to actions including the forced closure and acquisition by the town of the Truro Motor Inn and the eviction of all its tenants, was cited following an inspection at the property.

The problems listed by inspectors included mouse droppings in the kitchen, a bathroom sink drain that doesn’t function, and water damage around a window and door.

Some of the existing issues date back more than year, but health dept. records show complaints at 4 Moses Way going back to the 1980s. In recent years, Delgizzi has built a rental property empire despite owing millions of dollars in local, state, and federal taxes and constantly evading government enforcement efforts.

Unlike on previous occasions, when town officials acted following Delgizzi’s failure to make repairs, this time they were called after he showed up to do them himself. Tenant Jillian Howard contacted the health dept. after a tense faceoff with Delgizzi at her apartment on May 31.

Howard pays $1,000 a month for the 396-square-foot apartment she has been renting from Delgizzi for the past eight years. Delgizzi turned up with his brother and son but began yelling in her face, she said, when she called him out for not finishing the job.

“He kept saying you can leave if you don’t like the conditions,” Howard said, adding that when she refused to use mouse poison because of her dog, Delgizzi replied: “Oh, you don’t like mice?”

Howard, whose brother, Harlen, also witnessed the scene, said she had put off calling in authorities “because of what happened at the Truro Motor Inn,” but contacted the health dept. a few days later.

Truro Health Agent Emily Beebe, accompanied by a member of the building dept., inspected Howard’s unit on June 6 and sent a notice, delivered by a constable to Delgizzi’s Weston home, listing several violations of state laws related to minimum standards of fitness for human habitation.

While the building has 10 units, Beebe said she could inspect only the unit connected to the complaint. Other tenants may contact her office to get their units inspected.

Delgizzi was given 30 days from the date the notice was delivered to address the violations. It was unclear what the consequences of ignoring the notice would be.

“When I first came in, he was great,” Howard said of Delgizzi. “A few years later, that all ended.”

Issues she has been battling for a year or more include a broken screen door that won’t latch. “I had to tie it to a screw in the door frame with a shoelace to keep it from flapping in the wind,” she said.

“When the fridge broke, he told me, ‘I don’t do fridges,’ ” Howard said. She said she not only paid for a new refrigerator but had to pay to have Delgizzi’s broken one hauled away.

Recently, she said, water from a toilet in an upstairs unit had been leaking into her apartment, which damaged the smoke detector and ruined a dresser. That leak was addressed, and Delgizzi replaced the smoke detector when he did some minor repairs in early June.

The source of the leak around Howard’s window, which has left stains and caused the drywall to bubble, was the roof. “He just grabbed some shingles off the Truro Motor Inn to patch it,” Howard said. She watched him work with his brother and son as she sat in her car with her dog. “For the door, he just grabbed a screen off another door,” she said.

Delgizzi told Howard he was leaving for a trip to Greece, so other repairs, such as the front door leak, were once again put on hold. Delgizzi’s advice was to just open the doors and windows to dry out the apartment, Howard said.

“I get very overwhelmed because I only have so much energy,” said Howard, who is disabled. “Then all this stuff has caused me to go into a new flare up.”

The situation at 4 Moses Way is nothing new. Records at the health dept. show complaints related to Moses Way from the late 1980s, when Delgizzi owned the property with his father, Daniel, who died a few years ago. In April 1988, neighbors complained that the house was abandoned “and open to birds, rats, mice and other wildlife.” They also said it was a fire hazard.

Another neighbor wrote that it was clear Delgizzi doesn’t care about the neighborhood, “but the town of Truro could at least show us some concern.”

Acting on those complaints, the town building commissioner ordered the Delgizzis to seal the Moses Way building and another of their abandoned buildings on Priest Road.

The Delgizzis renovated the Moses Way property and reactivated the rentals in 1991. Complaints continued. In March 2003, there is record of a court action against Delgizzi for building violations. The town won, but Delgizzi failed to do the work and did not pay the $40,000 judgment to the town. More complaints and violations were cited in 2007.

Currently, Delgizzi owes the town just under $107,000 in real estate taxes on 4 Moses Way, as he hasn’t paid the property tax bill since 2012.

The town is investigating whether it can recover the money as part of the town’s acquisition of the Truro Motor Inn.

Delgizzi did not respond to a voicemail seeking comment. His wife, Carolyn Delgizzi, answered the phone when contacted but hung up on a reporter. A second call was not answered.

The Delgizzis are also facing penalties in Eastham. The select board voted unanimously last month to deny them food and liquor licenses for the Lobster Shanty restaurant on Route 6 until they pay $70,000 in delinquent real estate taxes owed on their eight Eastham properties.

An article in the June 6 edition of the Independent said the town plans to foreclose on all eight of the Delgizzi properties in August if the taxes remain unpaid.

Delgizzi also owes more than $2 million in state and federal income taxes and is being pursued by the Internal Revenue Service in federal court.

The IRS seized two of Delgizzi’s properties in Orleans and recently sold them at auction.

“He’s gotten himself in so deep, he just doesn’t want to deal with it,” said Jillian Howard. “What he’s doing is ruining his housing properties. I wasn’t going to do this until he got in my face and in my brother’s face.”

In spite of his unpaid debts and questionable financial maneuvers, as the Independent reported on June 6, the Delgizzis bought a $900,000 home in May at 52 Captain Baker Road in Brewster.