Tuesday, August 17, 2010

do not rent at 3884 west campbell avenue, Campbell CA 95008 from Alex and Natalia Kozubov

The shadiest landlord’s I have met. Horrible people overall not just as landlord’s. Very nosy, people like this should not rent their place out. 

Friday, July 09, 2010

James Bernhardt - Cotton Lake

My family rented our lake house on Cotton Lake to James (Jim) Bernhardt.  Within the first couple months rent checks started to arrive late.  Late checks transitioned to NSF checks followed by non-payment of rent.  Attempts to workout payment terms with Jim failed because he would promise payment and the check would never arrive.  Unfortunatally we had no choice but to seek legal counsel.

Friday, July 02, 2010

EVELYN BENSON--BAD LANDLORD

Hi, I am a mother to five beautiful children, so what I am about to tell you is the TRUTH!!! Well this is my second post, my first as erased by my two year old, by the touch of the mouse. So long story short, This woman likes to file for eviction after eviction. It does not matter if you are one day late on rent or five. We tried to pay rent in February on the third, and she had already filed for eviction. That was not the first time. Every time that we have gone to court, she has lost. Also, she does not fix things. When we first got here, June of 2009, the entire heating system did not work. We found this out when we tried to use it in October. She refused to fix it. Thank, God, that my husband is a licensed contractor. The total job, if priced out right, would be about 500 dollars. Have it priced. Never took a dime off rent. The total amount that it cost to fix things here so we could live came to roughly 805 dollars. Never a reimbursement. Bottom line, if you do not pay your rent on the first, she WILL file for an eviction. Every single month. Our lives have been a living He-- because of this woman. She does not repair anything, she will not reimburse you if you do the work, She will knock on your door, even Sunday, at 8 in the morning. This woman does not care. No heart or respect even for small children. This house here in Trenton, NJ, also has bugs. We noticed a bad ant problem right off the bat, they tend to die down about November, that is when you see the roaches. YES ROACHES. She refused to exterminate, so we did the best we could. Then come, April, bad fly problem. So bad, that I actually called the police because I thought someone had died next door. So horrible. Try living with this. They told us to call department of Health. In the process of all that now. Our lease is up now, it is July 2. We can not move into our new place until the 15, so offered the landlord here over and above the cost of rent so we could stay because of the kids, she refused. So I am waiting for warrant of removal. Two can play this game. Then I will go to court and the judge will once again be on our side, and she can kiss my a--. Do not rent from this woman no matter how bad your situation is. It is NOT worth it. OH, I almost forgot, she likes to spit on her tenants, and also likes to have her brother, (who was just released from prison from robbing and beating an old woman), come over here with his shirt off to threaten the tenants. BEWARE FELLOW RENTERS IN TRENTON, NJ of EVELYN BENSON and her HUSBAND> God Bless

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Peter Bernhardt - DO NOT RENT FROM HIM

Do not be deceived by him.

Sunday, November 08, 2009

Nearly 3 Years of Constant Problems from Bronx Landlord

My husband and I moved into an apartment located at 740 Revere Avenue in the Bronx, NY in June of 2007. When we initially viewed the apartment it needed a lot of work and we were told that everything would be fixed by our move in date. Upon moving in we realized nothing had been done to fix the apartment. Over the last 2 1/2 years we have repaired the apartment ourselves. The appliances were broken and when we asked the landlord to replace them we were given the run around and then finally sent a “repair tech” who knew absolutely nothing about kitchen appliances. We fixed these ourselves as well. The same with a leaky kitchen pipe and broken toilet. Every time we brought a concern to the landlord, Mario, he called us liars and refused to resolve the issue. Many times he slammed doors in our faces or threatened to kick us out over complaints that should have been taken care of before we moved in. Although he can not fix our apartment he has been able to do major renovations on is own apartment below ours. We are often woken up at 5 or 6am to banging, power tools and yelling. We often times do not have clean running water. The final straw was the heat. Since we have moved in the landlord only turns the heat on when he is home. All day during the week and most weekends we are left without heat throughout the winter. We have been getting by with electric heaters. We confronted him about the heat and dirty water once again late in October, and were met with screaming and door slamming. He called us liars even though we had samples of the dirty water and record of the tempature in the apartment.  He threatened to evict us again and tired of the problems we found a new apartment days later. When we told him of our impending move he threatened to sue us for moving. We have no lease and are current on our rent. He is currently refusing to return security deposits made because he is angry, even though the apartment is in pristine consition.

All in all this apartment has been a nightmare from day one. We have had nothing but problems from the landlord for basic things. He refuses to provide heat or clean water as mandated by law, he is childlike and petty when attempting to resolve a problem. I recommend anyone to stay away from this building if you are looking for a clean, hassle-free rental. We have been good, quiet tenants who always pay our rent on time and have never had problems with a landlord before. Upon signing a lease elsewhere we had a huge feeling of relief knowing that we will be leaving all of this behind.