Hourglass Park Apartments

Landlord is a thief From: returnoftheham Date posted: 7/13/2007 Years at this apartment: 2004 - 2007 2 responses   Sorry but I used poppaham76 previously and I can't remember password. Landlord stole my deposit. When I asked for proof of repairs she doubled the amount of money I owed her. Took her to court and she wouldn't testify. The super testified that he couldn't get the keys from me for over a week after I moved out. Also claimed damage done to the apartment but I have video. Be aggressive, don't take it to small claims judges are complete stupid. I have proof of over 30 broken laws and the video and judge ruled for them even after they contradicted their own evidence. Staff extremely racist to non-whites. Smile in your face but never fix anything and rip you off when you leave. I also wrote the city attorney to make a complaint about how they notify you of your right to final inspection (please see below) Mr. Aguirre, Last week I went to small claims court because I believed that several laws, as many as a dozen, were broken by my former landlord. Despite producing documentation for all my claims and the other party appearing with nothing more than bogus documents the judge ruled in the defendant s favor. I have major reservations about the judge s decision but more importantly I have major concerns over this injustice of the law. I believe that former landlord; Mrs. Cxxxx Fxxxxx has a system in place that is designed to allow her and her maintenance supervisor to steal the deposit money from outgoing tenants. She has been in that position for at least 10 years possibly longer. I believe an investigation is in order. Please allow me to explain this system: Step1. Mrs. Fxxxxx doesn t notify the tenant of the right to request a final inspection. Step2. After the move-out Mrs. Fxxxxx doesn t make contact or return phone calls and makes no attempts to mail checkout summaries or refund deposit money. Step3. If you are fortunate enough to reach Mrs. Fxxxxx she sends a fake summary. Step4. If you question the summary she increases the amount of money from damages backed by fraudulent documents. Step5. If it goes to court she and the maintenance supervisor perjure themselves in court. Assuming you never go through all the steps she waits for an undetermined amount of time before entering into her computer the amount of the deposit that was returned to you enabling her to keep the money. The judge refused to look at the evidence I had. She refused to look at the video which would have proved that Mrs. Fxxxxx had no merit to the damages that she alleged and as far as the ruling, I don t know how a small claim judge can over rule laws decided by the California State Supreme Court. Mr. Aguirre this is a very simple design to see. The unfortunate thing is most of the people that are victims of this probably don t realize they are victims. I lived in Hourglass for 3 years. The tenants mostly fall into three categories: 1. Military (Can t fight for their money because of deployment) 2. Student (Can t fight for their money because they can t afford to) 3. Immigrant (Can t fight for their money because many don t understand English) I m sure this isn t the only shady landlord in San Diego but I assure you she is taking advantage of California s most valuable assets (military, students and immigrants). Please look at the evidence that I have presented to you. Look at the laws that I have researched and please consider one thing above all else: A business has one concern its bottom line If I owed this apartment complex money, Why have I been trying to get in contact to retrieve that money from them for over 3 months with dozens of attempts and they have not made one phone call or sent one letter other than the information that I requested' Mr. Aguirre we have an old expression down South (North Carolina) where there s smoke... there s fire. Allowing this situation to go unchecked would place current and future tenants directly into this system which allows someone that controls the amount of money deposited and the amount of money returned . This isn t and wasn t about my money. It s about doing what is right for people that can t protect themselves. Respectfully, AMA

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