Monday, February 28, 2011

Catherine Constantine

Do not rent to this woman. She knows how to use the system. She will try to defraud you, she will not pay, and will try to start building a case against you as soon as she moves in. It took me 9 months in court to have her evicted, at a great cost to me, and she is not collectable. She is cold and calculating, but doesn’t seem that way when you meet her. I rented to her a favor to a friend who now feels terrible for asking me to consider her. They no longer speek with her.

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Linda and David Brown

Money greedy, intolerable landlords.

Linda and David Brown (moreso Linda Brown, but David is involved too) are Landlords out of Northern Idaho who rent out houses to people who otherwise cannot qualify for houses (bad credit, etc).  We were in such a need back in 2008.

They decided to ‘rent to own’ a house to us, with $3,000 down and $1,400+ a month.  However, the company they used to do the lease was sued by Idaho for illegal business practices, and our lease with the Browns expired. 

In 2008 (October of that year), i was extremly ill, in the hospital for a month in ICU.  Had a very long recovery time, unfortunately.  Because of this, we couldn’t pay on our monthly rent.  They, at the time, did allow us to prorate that rent onto the next payment, which was nice, but therein ends all the niceities.

Because of the medical bills, the price / month for the house was too much for us, and we had to go to the local food back and services for help.  Upon hearing who our landlords were, the services department let us know that previos tennants at the same address, with the same landlords also used the foodbank, etc.  They even gave us the rent amounts. 

These scum landlords have been charging people hellishly expensive prices:

2 Tennants ago:  1500+ a month
1 Tennant ago:  1200+ a month
Me:  1400+ a month
NOW:  AND CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS:  975/month.

You have got to be kidding me.  For nearly 3 years, we were FORCED to pay rent on a place that they are willing to take only $975/month for NOW?  And now, they are forcing us to keep paying them money we owe them for back rent (due to me being sick), even after we have moved out.

These people are USING people, are money hungry, and will not be kind to anyone.  I personally have refused to pay them a penny more.  I mean honestly, from $1400+ a month down to $975?! And prevoius tennants being ripped off by them?

What’s the point.  DO NOT USE THESE PEOPLE!

Monday, January 31, 2011

BEWARE - Cliff and Karen Kearsley

Do NOT rent from these people!  They come onto the rental property all the time without notice, not to fix things, but to talk about personal issues with tenants.  Seriously, they’ll just come in and knock on your bedroom door wondering who is with you.  There is NO privacy here.  And stay on their good side, because otherwise you aren’t allowed to have guests at all!  What right-minded adult wants to live like this?  On top of that, recently there has been a motorhome in the backyard, and they have a guy living in it who is there to maintain their marijuana plants for sale.  It’s not right that the seven paying tenants in the house have to deal with that guy and these new borderline-illegal business deals between him and the landlord.  This place is just super sketchy.  You can do better!

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.