Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Rip Off Artist/ Landlord David Anthony
Rents Studio Apartment knowing full well that the structure is water challenged and prone to excessive amounts of Mold during the winter months…
David Anthony is an Artist operating his own Studio/Gallery in Gardiner Oregon, 2 miles north of Reedsport. He has a website:http://www.davidanthony.com if you wish to see some of his work. He has 3 small apartments on his property he rents and has been on this location in Gardiner for more than 5 years. The last unit, Unit 3 is one he extensively remodeled and prepared for rental. He does beautiful finish work but as expected, has little or no knowledge of engineering that goes into construction or operation of living spaces. He does know how to make things look good, but operate poorly. To top it off, he is a depressed/ paranoid personality and can turn on you very quickly and for no apparent reason. I spent $2000.00 moving in only to find, when the rains came, he knowingly had a water infiltration problem on all outside facing walls and in the bathroom of the Unit. The leaks in the Bath was so severe that I had to mop it 5 times a day. He admitted that the same thing happened the year before… I approached him many times to fix the 12 leaks (documented with photo’s and written letters to him), but after the few feeble attempts he made, he just decide to ignore the problems. His reliable income is from the 3 rentals, so he has little or no money to take care of issues that come up in the course of normal wear and tear. If a unit’s plumbing or electrical malfunctions, he can only call on his inexperience and lack of knowledge to fix the problems, and when they aren’t successful, and the tenant needs to have the things fixed, either the tenant must pay for the repairs or the tenant is verbally asked to move. If it is to his advantage, David will unlawfully break the lease, but dishonestly blame the Tenant for the lease breach, however, not being able to produce proof of the breach except in his own head. He operates without consideration of his Tenants when things don’t go smoothly. He just doesn’t care. He has no sympathy for others. Many of my things received mold damage, some beyond repair… An example of his ongoing dishonesty: I loaned him my $100.00 Seville chrome rack system to use when I moved in. I made it clear it was a LOAN. He unlawfully sold it to another after I had complained of the water leaking problems, fully knowing it was a temporary loan and not his to sell. Now that I have moved after living there for 11 months, he is cosmetically fixing the apartment up again, raising the rent by $15 dollars and allowing another innocent tenant to move in, not knowing what is waiting for them when the Oregon Coast Rains begin in earnest… He is a mentally sick individual… His behavior in my view is extremely Dishonest, Sociopathic, Psychotic, and in short, Criminal… PS: He related to me after I was living there for several weeks, that all his life he had been abducted by aliens and subjected to medical experiments… Now that tells me more about him, and the way he operates, than I gave it credit then… Renters… Beware of this one…




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