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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Oregon
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North Bend, No Name for Legal Reasons, I rented from this landlord for 13 months.
The rental (a 2 story guest house) had fleas for the first month due to landlord's pets being allowed into rental before taking possession. The landlord would not use an exterminator, only provided some (not all) of the flea bombs needed to address issue. I heard loud squeaking at 3 am first weekend in rental, and I told landlord I suspected rodent problems and she claimed it was just squirrels. Eventually had to purchase snapping rat traps and live cages-once I began catching live rats and had to kill them, the landlord still refused to hire an exterminator. 9 months into the rental the water tank from the well sprang a leak and flooded half of the first floor of the rental. The landlord was out of town, had no dedicated or contracted repairmen for repairs, so she called her boyfriend (at the time); an unlicensed, unbonded person to repair it. I went 2 days without running water/toilets/shower. Once problem was repaired, landlord took no steps to address damaged carpet. The 'repairmen' used my mini shop vac to clean up their initial mess, but I had to pull the stinkying carpet out myself. Landlord eventually asked me if I was going to finish pulling the carpet up so it could be replaced-told her I was busy with work. I ended up spending the remaining 4 months of my time in that rental with no carpet/subfloor in the rental-just bare mortar floor with mildewed tack strips.
About 5 weeks before I terminated my residence with her I found rat feces in the kitchen, and finally submitted a written request for repairs and insisted on an exterminator being called. She refused, and took no steps to correct the flooring. When I finally couldn't stand it anymore an I moved out, she took nearly all of my $500 damage deposit to pay for new carpeting and blamed me for the rat feces being in the kitchen, saying that I had left dirty dishes in the kitchen that attracted rats.
When I moved my property out of the rental I found mold growing on items that had been resting in understair storage on the carpet. It appears the understair storage carpet had moisture from the floodig and was growing mold.
Throughout the duration of my rental she also invaded my privacy (entered the rental premises several times for non-emergency reasons without asking while I was gone and did not explain herself) and she dispensed personal information (my cellphone number) to strangers without my permission.
If you are in North Bend or Coos Bay, Oregon and are looking for a rental, please avoid this landlord. She also rents out a beach house in Charleston and has a 5 unit rental property in Coos Bay.
Please, for the sake of your own health and well-being, do not rent from this landlord. She has no subcontractor or supers hired to manage her properties, only herself. She is frequently unavailable for any issues, does not conduct annual inspections to catch problems, and is a skin-flint: she attempts to do both electrical and plumbing repairs herself to save money despite the fact that she is not qualified. Please exercise due caution when finding a rental in this area: do a thorough walk through before committing to a rental, make sure to smell for mold and mildew, and make sure your property manager is qualified and has references.
She is awful. Awful enough to say she is like "god" because she can pick and choose which tenants get to live here. That was my first clue, but it was the only place we could afford. I'll make this as short as I can. She delayed us three weeks from our move in date for various reasons all not told to us until the day before or the day of move in; I had to call her. When we finally did get to move in there were no doors and old carpeting and no outlet coverings. She said they would have it fixed in no time; it took three months and she did two other apartments before ours. She said she had to redo the kitchen cabinets...she slapped more paint on them which made them sticky for weeks and put new hinges on; she also left a corner of the cabinet door broken and then taped up. Said we got a new stove; it had a scratch and the inside was dirty. So was the fridge. Nothing was cleaned prior to us moving in. Then she had the audacity to take out the small fixtures she was going to put in and blatantly said these will go nice in so and so apartment,and walked out the door; it was a bathroom faucet and towel holders She has literally shown up twice to the "appointments" she or the repair man Todd have made with me. Instead they seek me out,make the appointment,and then never show until a few days later or I track them down. They don't even apologize. I've told them all you have to is say you can't make it and i have asked for written statements for appointments and I just get the run around. The excuse is always 'oh we have so much going don't. Like: her wedding, honeymoon, vacation, buying a new house, remodeling the house,and buying a boat!! None of this had to do with doing their actual job. On top of all this they are drunks with DUI's. The repairman todd, her husband, got a DUI the weekend we were suppose to move in. That whole summer he walked around with a beer in his hand. He would come over to put in the doors drunk; I could smell the alcohol and he was stumbling. On top of all this she writes notes about things people are not allowed to do such as: parking in other people's spots,parking in front of the fire lane or no parking sign, letting children run around the parking lot near everyone's cars; just to name a few. All of these she has threatened to evict whoever is breaking the rules...people do all of these things still and she sees them doing it. But what's really worse is they act like the tenants are an inconvenience. She already has a bad mark against her on BBB for lying to a police officer and allowing a man who threatened another tenant with a machete to stay even though she told the threatened tenant and the police he was getting evicted. Stay away from them!!!! The rundown apartments are not worth having them as management. If the owner put some money into fixing the place instead of allowing them to bring in used items that need constant repair, got rid of tessa this place would be really nice. I have had nothing but anxiety living here. And as soon as I can move I will. Unfortunately the inflated prices around here make it difficult.
North Bend, No Name for Legal Reasons, I rented from this landlord for 13 months.
ReplyDeleteThe rental (a 2 story guest house) had fleas for the first month due to landlord's pets being allowed into rental before taking possession. The landlord would not use an exterminator, only provided some (not all) of the flea bombs needed to address issue. I heard loud squeaking at 3 am first weekend in rental, and I told landlord I suspected rodent problems and she claimed it was just squirrels. Eventually had to purchase snapping rat traps and live cages-once I began catching live rats and had to kill them, the landlord still refused to hire an exterminator. 9 months into the rental the water tank from the well sprang a leak and flooded half of the first floor of the rental. The landlord was out of town, had no dedicated or contracted repairmen for repairs, so she called her boyfriend (at the time); an unlicensed, unbonded person to repair it. I went 2 days without running water/toilets/shower. Once problem was repaired, landlord took no steps to address damaged carpet. The 'repairmen' used my mini shop vac to clean up their initial mess, but I had to pull the stinkying carpet out myself. Landlord eventually asked me if I was going to finish pulling the carpet up so it could be replaced-told her I was busy with work. I ended up spending the remaining 4 months of my time in that rental with no carpet/subfloor in the rental-just bare mortar floor with mildewed tack strips.
About 5 weeks before I terminated my residence with her I found rat feces in the kitchen, and finally submitted a written request for repairs and insisted on an exterminator being called. She refused, and took no steps to correct the flooring. When I finally couldn't stand it anymore an I moved out, she took nearly all of my $500 damage deposit to pay for new carpeting and blamed me for the rat feces being in the kitchen, saying that I had left dirty dishes in the kitchen that attracted rats.
When I moved my property out of the rental I found mold growing on items that had been resting in understair storage on the carpet. It appears the understair storage carpet had moisture from the floodig and was growing mold.
Throughout the duration of my rental she also invaded my privacy (entered the rental premises several times for non-emergency reasons without asking while I was gone and did not explain herself) and she dispensed personal information (my cellphone number) to strangers without my permission.
If you are in North Bend or Coos Bay, Oregon and are looking for a rental, please avoid this landlord. She also rents out a beach house in Charleston and has a 5 unit rental property in Coos Bay.
Please, for the sake of your own health and well-being, do not rent from this landlord. She has no subcontractor or supers hired to manage her properties, only herself. She is frequently unavailable for any issues, does not conduct annual inspections to catch problems, and is a skin-flint: she attempts to do both electrical and plumbing repairs herself to save money despite the fact that she is not qualified. Please exercise due caution when finding a rental in this area: do a thorough walk through before committing to a rental, make sure to smell for mold and mildew, and make sure your property manager is qualified and has references.
Tess-Hillsboro- west main at the park.
ReplyDeleteShe is awful. Awful enough to say she is like "god" because she can pick and choose which tenants get to live here. That was my first clue, but it was the only place we could afford. I'll make this as short as I can.
She delayed us three weeks from our move in date for various reasons all not told to us until the day before or the day of move in; I had to call her. When we finally did get to move in there were no doors and old carpeting and no outlet coverings. She said they would have it fixed in no time; it took three months and she did two other apartments before ours. She said she had to redo the kitchen cabinets...she slapped more paint on them which made them sticky for weeks and put new hinges on; she also left a corner of the cabinet door broken and then taped up. Said we got a new stove; it had a scratch and the inside was dirty. So was the fridge. Nothing was cleaned prior to us moving in. Then she had the audacity to take out the small fixtures she was going to put in and blatantly said these will go nice in so and so apartment,and walked out the door; it was a bathroom faucet and towel holders
She has literally shown up twice to the "appointments" she or the repair man Todd have made with me. Instead they seek me out,make the appointment,and then never show until a few days later or I track them down. They don't even apologize. I've told them all you have to is say you can't make it and i have asked for written statements for appointments and I just get the run around. The excuse is always 'oh we have so much going don't. Like: her wedding, honeymoon, vacation, buying a new house, remodeling the house,and buying a boat!! None of this had to do with doing their actual job.
On top of all this they are drunks with DUI's. The repairman todd, her husband, got a DUI the weekend we were suppose to move in. That whole summer he walked around with a beer in his hand. He would come over to put in the doors drunk; I could smell the alcohol and he was stumbling.
On top of all this she writes notes about things people are not allowed to do such as: parking in other people's spots,parking in front of the fire lane or no parking sign, letting children run around the parking lot near everyone's cars; just to name a few. All of these she has threatened to evict whoever is breaking the rules...people do all of these things still and she sees them doing it.
But what's really worse is they act like the tenants are an inconvenience. She already has a bad mark against her on BBB for lying to a police officer and allowing a man who threatened another tenant with a machete to stay even though she told the threatened tenant and the police he was getting evicted. Stay away from them!!!! The rundown apartments are not worth having them as management. If the owner put some money into fixing the place instead of allowing them to bring in used items that need constant repair, got rid of tessa this place would be really nice. I have had nothing but anxiety living here. And as soon as I can move I will. Unfortunately the inflated prices around here make it difficult.