Friday, May 08, 2009

Lisa Thorp Kumar

Do not rent to Lisa Thorp Kumar from Vermont/Massachusetts/New Jersey.  She was a tenant for 8 months, and they were the worst 8 months I’ve ever had with a tenant.  She knows just enough about tenant/landlord laws to be dangerous - and uses it to her advantage to live rent free.  She moved in on 9/08 and said she was very happy.  When 10/08 rent was due, we got a letter with photocopies of receipts of “work” she had done in the apartment.  Work that 1) didn’t need to be done, and 2) if she wanted done, needed to be run by us as per the rental contract.  Then nothing but complaints month after month of ridiculous things/demands.  Then at the end of April 09, she gives her notice.  Not the 30 days required, but about 7 days, and says the rent is in the mail.  Guess what - no rent check has come.  Also, she destroyed the apartment.  She put tons of holes in the walls - put up all kinds of shelving that was never approved (and done in a very sloppy manner).  She left the place a complete mess, with rotting food in the refrigerator.  All told, we’re about $1,500 out with her, and that’s not including fixing up the apartment to show again.

She’s an extremely nasty person too.  Her husband is Ram Kumar.  She drives a 2003 Honda Civic with NJ registration.  Her last employer (at least it’s who she told us it was) is Anne Britton who lives in Brattleboro, VT.  She claimed she moved to MA to become a nanny, but we never got that information from her.