There are many ways to get scammed in this world especially if you are desperate, it's sad but yup it's easy to get got! Hubby & I had just moved from Santa Monica to midtown California. We were staying with one of hubby's other friends who just happened to be on section 8, so if course he was nervous about us being there too long. He let us stay for two months, November till January.
The whole time we were there we were looking for a place, I mean at this point we could've rented a room for all I cared & that's just what we found a room with our own bathroom and a pretty fresh patio, the tub in the bathroom tho, now that, that was a confusing lil set up. The spot was located at the bottom of Beverly hills for $2200 a month. The woman we met sd that she would take our money in payments of $800 to move in on 12/31/22 $300 on 1/06/23 $800 on 1/15/23 & $300 on 1/30/23 to cover the first month.
It was extremely expensive but we took it because it was easy to pay it that way. We paid all the way up to $1,800 & we owed her $300 on the 30th to cover the month of January & were told on the 17th of January that we wouldn't be able to pay for February the way we paid for January & that we would have to leave 2/1/23 if we didn't have the $2200 in full😩 We couldn't believe what we were hearing. Two days later the woman called back & stated that there was a law suit going on & that we should not speak to the owners of the building & that we could stay & we don't have to pay anymore. The crazy thing was when we moved in we would see her all the time, they even had a New Years Eve party in the lobby.
After she told us this tid bit of news she sd know your rights & that she had a lawyer & we never saw her again. She kept texting weird things but would not clearly explain what was going on, & what she had the lawyer 4; that's when we met Joe, the "property owner" and his constituents. There was no reason to not talk with him especially since the woman wasn't communicating properly. Upon talking to them we found out that, that the woman who moved us in was fired a couple weeks ago & that she was still moving people in as if she worked there & was stealing their money!
Again we were just flabbergasted 🤦🏾♀️ So here we are with the last $300 & no more money for rent for two weeks. We explain what happened to the owners & showed them the proof of our situation. Joe asked us how much we could afford a month. We clearly told him more than once, because he asked more than once; no more than $2000, they said they will help us because we were communicating with them & that they were going to bring a law suit against the ones that weren't, because the whole thing was illegally put together by this woman. They tell us that we can finish the rest of the month out at one of their other properties & that they will cover the cost which was 11 days & we can talk about a plan around day 10 because they had to first figure out what they were going 2 do about the woman & the others who refused to leave the property.
We stayed the remaining 11 days at a studio apartment located across the street from Beverly Hills High. Now we knew that it was $3000 a month or more to live literally in Beverly Hills & we weren't about to do that, I mean really who wants to be paying $3,000 for rent in a studio apartment? If you do then do you but it won't be me! We didn't end up discussing anything until day 11, and Joe tried to claim, in my face that he didn't tell me that he would cover the cost for the 11 days. We had all of $800 to get us until payday and if he was offering to let us live there we would've given it to him. That's not what Joe did tho, he tried to charge us $1,100 for the 11 days then say that we could live in the apartment for $3000 a month. It took everything in the new me to stop the old me from punching this man in the face.
First for calling me a liar, in my face about something he said! Second for trying to play us. I did not punch him tho, I politely cussed him out, called a Lyft Hubby packed our things & to the Wilshire Orange hotel we went. It is now May 2023 & Joe still has a nerve to text & call my Husband from time to time talking about we were wrong and he would like his money. How Joe how? We were scammed by your people, we cooperated with you, you moved us and said you would cover the cost because it's another one of your properties & you tried to charge us a crazy fee when we told you twice how much we could afford🤦🏾♀️
If anything I feel like he was trying to take advantage of us.
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