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Complaint Review: Arizona Tenants Advocates - Tempe Arizona

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  • Arizona Tenants Advocates 1200 W. 6th Tempe, Arizona USA

Arizona Tenants Advocates Ken Volk Kenneth Volk Arizona Tenants Advocates is a scam Tempe Arizona

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 Arizona Tenants Advocates is a complete waste of time and money. They are worse than doing nothing. I paid them over $700 and all I got out of it was to get sued by my landlord. I had to hire an attorney ($550) to get me out of the lawsuit. In fact, the landlord and her lawyer sued me because Ken Volk was such a troublemaker. (Here is my advice to you to "Break Yer Lease": just go hire a real lawyer.) Before you pay them anything, go to his "office" for the "Free Consultation". You won't believe your eyes. Check it out for yerself - just don't pay anything until you do. I really needed to get out of a lease (I had ten months to go) to move in with my boyfriend. The Arizona Tenants Advocates is a shabby old rent house in Tempe. The first thing you see is that the front yard is weeds and dead grass and piles of dog turds. There is filthy old furniture stacked on the front porch. The windows have never been cleaned, Then, just wait until you lay eyes on the owner of Arizona Tenants Advocates!!! His name is Ken Volk. He is this shabby old hippy with hair down to his butt. He meets you wearing ragged out shorts, a dirty tee shirt and flip flops. His "office" is NOT an office. It is a dusty and cluttered living room CROWDED with stacks of broken office equipment, old furniture, piles of old papers (some falling over), dirty dishes, split upholstery, stained carpet, and dirt, dirt, dirt everywhere. It looks like a cross between a crack house and a junk shop. I am positive the Ken Volk gets his "office" furniture by prowling the alleys and gathering the junk people throw out into the alleys to be hauled away.

It is so cluttered you can barely move around. I was afraid to touch anything. Then he wants you to sit down on his nasty, filthy, old couch and wait for him while he talks to people on the telephone, cooks food for himself, plays with his dogs, etc. He has files just sitting there in open piles with his customers names and addresses on them. You can easily read about his customers personal business. There is no confidentiality at all. Ken Volk will make you wait as long as he wants. There is nothing to do while you are waiting except listen to his workers talk to his customers and tell to each other about peoples personal problems and landlord complaints. After a half an hour, I told Ken Volk that I had to get going and he finally sat down to talk to me. This guy is really old looking and extremely creepy. He has really red eyes like he has been smoking pot. He comes across as a "dirty old man". He makes sexually suggestive jokes. I came right out and told him I was there to talk about the lease and that had a boyfriend, he said "So do you have a sister?" He thought that was real clever. Ken Volk looked at my lease and told me that he could help me break the lease because of an addendum that was illegal. He told me that a lawyer would probably cost me $1200-$2000. He said he could send this letter and that letter and all these promises and blahty blahty blah.

I had a very bad feeling but I thought I could save some money., so I paid him. In the next few days and weeks, Ken Volk started telling me all the things he could not do. All he did was write a bunch of letters. Every time he wrote a letter, I had to go back to that dirty creepy house and waste HOURS waiting on him. I asked him, Can't we just do this over the telephone? but he had all these reasons why he wanted me sitting there. The second time I took my boyfriend along who came right out and told him that we could not wait for him and Ken got an attitude right off (but he also hurried up). I had to go back twice more after that. Make a long story short: I got a letter from my landlord's lawyer informing me that I was going togo to court if I didn't pay the lease in full. But I spent $700+ on Arizona Tenants Advocates!!!! So I was short $220 and I GOT SUED. After that Ken Volk didn't want anything to do with me. I had to hire a lawyer and pay him $550 and pay the $220 OR ELSE....

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