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| - I moved into to a rental reidence that Gary Swallows is the property manager of. I paid well over $3000 upon move in and $2100 per month. After the first month things got not so great, the owners asked a neighbor to tell them every thing about our comings and goings and report everything to management. So because we had people coming to set up cable, internet, landscapers, etc, the neighbor reported back that we had 8 or 9 people living in the home, Swallows Realty called us to do a home inspection, saying "they got numerous calls from the nighbor about all the peope living in the home, etc" They came out inspected the home and could find nothing out of the ordinary except some repairs they had been informed of a month earlier that they still hadnt fixed. The girl "Susan" said she would get on it, of course she never did. a couple months later it is rainging and low and behold one of the cracks my girlfriend mentioned to Susan starts leaking water. My girlfriend beaing unaware of this walks into the home puts her bags down and heads toward the stairs and falls straight to her knees, not knowing what happened she attempts to get up and falls flat on her back her back. We called Swallows and they basically brushed it off, after quite a bit of complaining they finally send a roof guy over to fix the leaking roof, and mind you by now the carpet is ruined from a couple days worth of people walking back and forth with wet shoes. When they do arrive to fix it, all they do is cover the hole from the top they leave the inside looking a mess, they refuse to pay for time off of work, my girlfriend had to take after injuring her rotator cuff, not to mention they mention to her that "she" should trim the lawn before they fine her. Immediately following this situation we notice a large amount of green liquid leaving the home, we email, and call an we dont get any answer (if you have a problem with your home swallows treats you like you are the problem, eve nthough it clearly states in your lease that you have to report it) One morning I get a call at work and my girlfriend says she got up to go to work and couldnt take a shower becaue the water is off, I thought this was strange seeing as how the water bill was paid and no one had said a thing to me. She ended up being late to work and stayed on the phone with the water company as they told her to go outside and look for a switch, when she goes outside she finds men working on the house and ask them waht they are doing. They inform her that Gary sent them and that a pipe in the home broke and the green liquid is mold from inside the home. Now I think to myself well this would explain why my girlfriend and her daughter have been having such extreme allergies, headaches, and asthma like symptoms. I immediately try to get ahold of Gary about turning off our water without speaking to us ahead of time and keeping a problem with the home a secret from us. He does not want to go into those things with me of course. Instead he gets extremely upset he called my girlfriend yelling at her, sent her a very nasty email, then starts harrasing her with fine after fine after fine, and when the AC opens a huge hole in the ceiling that drips water for a week, Gary really starts to dig into us. He tells us we will fix the problems and here is how he does so, he says on Monday be home from 9-5 for the stove on Tuesday be home from 9-5 for the window, on Wednesday be home from 9-5 for the roof, when my girlfriend said this would not work for her he really snapped on her but after cooling off then agreed to get it all done in one day, and of course they didnt get it all done in one day, they really didnt get anything done. Instead of fixing the property he decides to terminate the contract with us, keep the money, our deposit, the rent we paid for a sickly house that caused my girlfriend injuries, and tell us we have 10 days with no money back to find a new place to live. I have never in my life seen such a shameful business or meet a man with little to no ethics. I thought when you paid that kind of money, you deal with quality professionals, I was most definitely wrong!
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