Complaint Review: RedStone Properties - Gobind S. Ahuja

Just a couple weeks ago I moved out of a house at 83 Liddell Crescent, here in Kingston. I was renting a room in the house, which is "managed" by a company called Red Stone Properties. I am currently a student at St.Lawrence College and was renting a room in the house until my course was complete. On first impression the manager/owner of the
company seems very nice, a pleasant smiling young man who is promoting a safe and comfortable environment for students to live while going to  school. As their website states; "It is important to us that our clients
be impressed by and engaged in our work. We do our best to ensure the job is done right, that  everyones interests are taken care of, and that we can take pride in  the results just as much as our clients do .... Our tenants are  submitted to an application process, and are well looked after; they feel they are receiving value for their rent."

Also on their website is "We are dedicated to our three principal values:
Quality, Integrity, and Positive Client Experience." My experience  renting from Red Stone was nothing close to positive. Once the contract was signed and I was thought to be a secure tenant things took a downhill plunge. The house, which had several hidden safety issues which were discovered post move-in took months to be addressed too and fixed.
Some never changed and likely remain the same today. Room mates can be difficult to live with, but raging parties all through the night when drunken strangers threatening to "beat you up" and you wake up to find the common areas devastated and windows broken is unacceptable. When the RedStone owner (Gobind S. Ahuja) was notified I was informed that there was "nothing he could do", that the situation was out of his control and it was up to us to work it out on our own in the house. This went on for three months, until finally the room-mate who was causing the problems overdosed during one of his parties and was hospitalized, then evicted from the house.

 Everything was then quiet for two weeks with us three remaining tenants, all students at St.Lawrence College, getting along well and cleaning up the aftermath of the last party. Then a "hired" man(David Ward) moves into the house declaring that he is working for Gobind and doing maintenance work on all the houses that are managed by Red Stone. He describes himself as the new property manager at Red Stone and  like to remind tenants that he has the authority to
have them evicted. Shortly after moving in he started going out drinking with Gobind, coming home drunk late. He was improving the house we were living in but he was also very pushy. On several occasions he got upset and would end up yelling and stomping around. The last occasion the Kingston Police were called before the yelling turned in to physical violence, me and another girl who was also living at the house spent the night at a relatives(her cousin) and under the Officers suggestion did not go back or spend another night at the house and the following Monday I was moved.

With many things breached by the landlord on the Lease Contract I had signed, it is now void. He has so far refused to refund my last months and hasn't returned the last remaining post-dated cheques, and at this point I doubt I will ever see them. It seems his game is to suck tenants in to this lease we sign and hold them to it when they figure out their mistakes and want to move out. He then refuses to refund their money and I have heard of him suing.
Take a good look and you'll see that RedStone Properties is a scam, it's all about luring people in and taking their money one way or another.

I want other potential lessees know to stay away from Red Stone. They do not provide safe living conditions and bully their tenants, it is not the situation anyone deserves to endure. My experience living in a Red Stone house was
extremely stressful, although they advertise as student housing it is not the environment a student wants to be in! I do feel as if there was some degree of gender based discrimination as well, the owner of Red Stone most often refused to listen to me or the other female living in the house but when asked to do something by our male room mate it was
done much faster. I don't want other mislead people thinking that Red Stone is a wonderful company and good alternative to Residence, because the reality is - it isn't.