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Laguna Niguel,#2Consumer Comment
Fri, May 18, 2018
You are not the first person to have this story about Sequoia Equities. Mine is very similar. We will be going to court, but I have a feeling this is going to be very different from your case. The truth has really started coming out and will keep coming.
My advise:
1. Always communicate in writing. This is your proof.
2. Look at your lease. Sequoia packs it with illegal clauses that mean absolutely nothing. Although, these clauses can be used against them.
3. Some of these clauses may actually be covering up other illegal activity that Sequoia is committing.
4. As you are disabled, if you asked them to comply with reasonable things because of your disability, then you should have looked into HUD or DFEH. File a Fair Housing Complaint. Sequoia can't hide behind this because the state prosecutes. They have their ways, but so do we.
5. When you find the other illegal activity being committed by Sequoia that you haven't discovered, yet; be sure to report it. The District attorney, Hud, FTC, etc.
6. Unfortunately, I think Sequoia preys on those who have financial issues, etc. They do this because they can control these people by telling them to move out if they complain. People, then, give good reviews to suck up to the manager and then keep their mouth shut. Then the new people move in only to find the truth about the apartments and Sequoia Equities.
Good Luck to you!
Robert
Irvine,#3Consumer Comment
Sat, June 25, 2011
Help us out as to exactly what the RipOff is here.
First off most of your "stress" seems to be related to your daughter leaving. That is what you led with, and talk quite a bit about. But while it may be tough for you it has nothing to do with the Apartment Complex.
Another issue is the 30 day notice. You had given them 30 day notice already, as that means that you were planning to move out. It is often not as simple as just saying..nope I really didn't mean it. Now, they did allow you to stay but you had to give another 30 days. On the surface that seems as if it would be fairly standard. It also seems that you burned through that notice and they want you out.
But it is confusing as to if you want to leave or not. On one hand you complain about just about everything(The neighbors, the maintenance, the condition of the units, the staff, the rent), but on the other you are upset that they are evicting you. This started in March..it is now June(going into July). Just how long should they give you to find another place.
Putting this as nice of a way as possible, if it is this bad for you why hasn't your daughter and/or brother come to help you?
Marie
Mission Viejo,#4Author of original report
Fri, June 24, 2011
This company continues to ignore any correspondence. The final total with the min of $2400 picketing costs is $15,520.00 This is for the hell they are putting me through, the rent overcharges for the non upgraded apartment (this doesn't include any of the months that we dealt with the upstairs nieghbors etc. So I have to use the little time I have left here to proceed to picket. This has taken so many hours out of my home search.
I got home late last night after viewing 11 places. Granted half of them were nixed just from driving down the street in a really rough neighborhood. It is impossible to know all of these areas in so many different towns so I end up wasting time and effort on places that are too good to be true for the price. None of them are within 10 miles of here so the areas are vastly different. It takes hours online to search because you have to search at least 3 different websites to get all or most of them, and I do this every single day, where is the time to finish packing?
For anyone to find a home in the lower income bracket is hard, but then to find one that has living quarters on the first floor, then the last hurdle is if they allow a dog. Time is not on my side. This is why losing that last place because of the bad reference was so damaging. It takes much longer than a normal home search without these requirements. I found perfect places that don't accept pets. I have never had such a long drawn out search as this has been, but then again I have more obstacles to overcome than previously such as a dog. Not keeping her isn't an option, she is the only thing that gets me through the days since my daughter moved out.
I was half way home when it really hit me that I am going to be homeless in a couple of days. Everything will have to go to storage if I can find a company to deliver the storage containers on such short notice. Harder to do than reserving a moving truck which I had already done. This would have qualified for a stay of eviction due to the extreme hardship but Fair Housing has agreed with me that there isn't enough time to accomplish this. It is hard to take that you can be steamrolled like this just because they can get away with it until you have your day in court to stop it. I ciried the rest of the way home and found myself really wishing I was with my family that lives thousands of miles away. I just found out that my 22 year old son admitted himself for treatment for a couple of months because he can't get relief from his depression for the past 16 months. It's hard to be helpful to either of my kids when I am dealing with this load myself. My daughter doesn't like living where she is and she is there because she could not live in this complex after what they did to us and I don't blame her.
Being raised in the Midwest, I have always been a closet idealist that wanted to believe that most people are good at the core. That is wishful thinking in this situation. This year has been difficult. But if it saves one person from going through the same thing, then it is worth it.
Marie
Mission Viejo,#5Author of original report
Wed, June 22, 2011
Management allows handicap parking space abuse (their office is in the background) and this ice craem truk was given permission to park here for a birthday party! It was there for several hours.
Photo of the stove is what I have had to use while living here. It works very poorly and it is very old. Upon move in, the oven was coated with oven cleaner, left for me to clean! My rent was increased $210 in January...the cost of an upgraded unit but I still have a non upgraded apartment. There are tenants who pay less than I do and they have new appliances and interiors.
Bathroom stains were there when I moved in. The cost of my move was doubled when I had to put everything in storage containers for 3 days instead of a moving truck, because they said they needed more time to paint and carpet, they could not have painted and left these stains on the ceiling behind.
They also refused to paint the "free" accent wall for me, stating they didn't have time to do it.
Marie
Ladera Ranch,#6Author of original report
Wed, June 22, 2011
Today I was served a Notice to Vacate. You can't image how it feels to be treated like a criminal when you have done nothing to deserve this action. I pay my bills and housing was always first so this was something I knew would never happen to me because I am responsible.
The report above is not formatted correctly because I wrote it in an office application for editing and time purposes and pasted it here.