Corteen Apts

Corteen Apts / Brighton Capital LLC Noel Aviles, mgr inhabital living conditions, no return security deposit, harrassment by manager and wife Valley V

1st of May, 2011 by User520528

I lived there three and a half years and this is the epitomy of impoverished apartments. The new manager Noel Aviles, as of Aug 2010, is gang-affiliated. When someone moves out, his gang family moves in, and tenants get beat up. Management does not want to deal with problems and will tell you to stop calling him. His wife is the most ego-tistical person that will get in your face and call you vulgar ugly names, just because she feels like it. She will stand outside your kitchen window, which is on the walkway, and listen to any conversations going on inside your apartment, and then one day walk up to you and call you names because she doesnt agree with what you said. She follows you to your car, to the mailbox, and records everything you do. When I told her to get out of my face, her husband Noel started doing the same. They would tag team you with one in front and one in back as you walked to your parking space to leave in your car. The lease gives you until the end of the business dya on the third of the month to pay your rent, and yet on the morning of the third I recieved pay or leave notices taped to my door. Then Noel and his wife refuse to take anything but money, and refuse to give you a receipt. I was located on the top floor and had water coming into my bedroom in three places in the ceiling. I had long white worms, ab 3" long, on my kitchen floor about once every 4-5 months, and management refused to acknowledge this. When they finally sprayed once, after 3 years of complaining, they sprayed for termites, even tho I told them they were carpenter ant larvae. After they sprayed, the larvae came back double. Eventually the floor started getting soft spots and you would sink in when you walked on it. There were also holes the size of my fist were the larvae would crawl out from, and the sand color shavings would pile up every morning. There was constant mold on my windowsill and along the wall the entire length of the windowsill for three years. I reported this to the department of public health, and the day they came for an inspection, I was home waiting and heard John Ryder, then manager, tell them that no one lived in my apartment and that there was no use in them looking since the problem had been fixed, and they believed him. This was the result of all the water that ran down the wall every time it rained. I continued to complain and the remedy to the water coming inside my aprtment thru the windows was to put a huge sheet of plastic from the roof down over my window, which meant no sun, no air. When I said enough, they removed the plastic and then the water started coming back into my apartment thru the ceiling and walls, and window. The furnace had so much dust, and dirt, and sticky stuff oozing out of the pipes that it was unusable, and therefore I had no heat for three years. The gas company came out, wrote a report, and tht was the end of it. Under the sink, which dripped water constantly, there were electrical wires that were exposed. They were capped only with electrical caps, no tape, no covering, and the water constantly dripped on these live wires. The stove was encrusted with food from the previous owner. Inside, outside, the burners did not work, and management refused to replace. So for 3 years I also had no stove on which to cook. The porcelain in the only bathtub started to peel up almost immediately after we moved in there and we were told that "we" had to pay for a motel while the tub was repaired, even after admitting that they forgot to porcelain the tub prior to our occupancy. The floors and walls were so thin that you could hear the neighbor down below you using the bathroom, their snoring woke me up at night, and their sons midnight screams were left unattended by the tenants. I could hear everything anybody said on phone calls, whether they were on either side or below me. Once a week the water was turned off for "repairs" This went on for the entire three years. One pipe burst over my car, and the constant water dripping discolored the paint on my car. I told the original landlord John Ryder that I would like my car fixed and was told I would be evicted if I pressed the issue. The little bathroom in my apartment started to leak into the bathroom of the apartment below me so the entire bathroom was gutted. Cement, supplies, etc were stacked on the carpet in my living room as well as in my bedroom, and the workers constantly trapsed back and forth for four weeks, the time it took to repair. No compensation was given. When I asked, I was told I would be evicted if I asked again. I have many many photos to back my claims. Why didnt we move sooner? Because the landlord, John Ryder, threatened us with blemishing our credit, our rental history, and whatever else he could if we moved out. Then in Aug of 2010 John Ryder moved rather immediately from the US to foreign soil, and Noel Aviles, gang affiliated new manager, took over. After a neighor jumped me one night, I was told by Matt at Brighton Capital that I needed to move because Noel was fearful that I would retaliate against the person that jumped me. I could have beaten her up but chose not to. She threw herself thru my front wondow and Noel claims I have to pay for it. The Corteen bill is $150, and Noel refuses to show me the actual repair bill. I did speak with Matt at Brighton Capital, LLC, the landlord, and explained my frustrations to him, and he told me that I should make better decisions next time before I moved into a place. He said I could move, without the 30 day notice, and that I would get all of my security deposit back. When I moved out I gave notice to Noel, with a date for a walk thru inspection and a a letter asking for my security deposit to be mailed to the current address due to the post office holding my mail, which legally I am entitled to do for 30 days. Noel never showed up for the walk-thru inspection. My lease also states that the security deposits would be refunded within 21 days, as well as a California law stating such. It has been over 60 days and I still have heard nothing about my security deposit.

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