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Complaint Review: Rodeo Realty/Canon Drive - beverly hills California

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  • Reported By: Kevin Armstrong/Beachwood 2241 — Los Angeles California USA
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  • Rodeo Realty/Canon Drive 202 N,Canon Drive beverly hills, California USA

Rodeo Realty Canon Drive /John Gould/Violet Schmid They have failed to return a $11,800 deposit on my rental property beverly hills California

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I rented a Home in the Hollywood hills,CA from Violet Schmid/Rodeo Realty.3/1/2016

I left a $11,800 refundable deposit.After 2 months of living there and paying $5900 per month in rent.

I had a family tragedy.I had to return to Arizona indefinetly. I told the Agent Violet Schmid.

She told me she would refund my $11,800 deposit if I found another renter. I found a renter within 1 week.

Violet Schmid and rodeo reality will not resopond to any of my calls

Violet e-mailed me recently and said that I should not pursue them or I would be sued for $72,000

the amount of 1 year of the lease.

I Just found out Rodeo realty did the exact same thing to my next door nieghboors who also rented from them.

They kept a $15,000 deposit under the exact same circumstances.They had to leave the country for a family emergency,they rented there home within 1 week..but Violet Schmid also kept there $15,00 deposit.

These people are criminals.Please do not do business with John Gould/Violet Schmid or Any of the Brokers/Agents at Rodeo Realty.They wil lrip you off.

I still have not seen one single penny of my money.

As of 5/20/2016 I was told I was going to recieve an $800 refund ot of my $11,800

But they have not even sent that amount.

Fact.The house was returned to Violet Schmid/Rodeo Realty in perfect condition and I had a friend of mine

sign a 1 year lease and has allready started paying rent (5 days after I vacated)

I have never dealt with such a greedy,unethical bunch of crooks in my life.

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Rodeo Realty/Canon Drive

AUTHOR: Violet Schmid - (USA)

POSTED: Wednesday, June 29, 2016

glad you will be contacting an attorney so you will finally see how your lease is being applied.

 FYI...  EVERYTHING was done in accordance with the CA Law!!
 
Please refer to the Lease Agreement:
 
Page 1 of 6
Paragraph 2 B. TERM:  LEASE: shall terminate on Feb. 28, 2017.  
 
                   3 A. RENT: Tenant agrees to pay $5,900 per month for the term of the agreement. 
 
Paragraph 4 A. SECURITY DEPOSIT: Tenant agrees to pay $11,800 as a security deposit. 
 
                      B. ALL or any portion of the security deposit may be used, as reasonably necessary, to: (i) Cure tenant's default in payment    
                          of rent.
 
Also pg. 4 of 6
 
Paragraph 29:  TENANTS OBLIGATIONS UPON VACATING PREMISES:  (vi) Give written notice to landlord of tenants forwarding address:
                           and (vii) tenants to give landlord 45 days notice.
 
Paragraph 30:  BREACH OF CONTRACT; EARLY TERMINATION: In addition to any obligation established by Paragraph 29, in the event of
                          termination by tenant prior to completion of the original term of the agreement, tenant shall also be responsible for lost rent,
                          rental commissions, advertising expenses, and painting costs necessary to ready premises for re-rental.  Landlord may
                          withhold any such amounts from tenants security deposit.
 
To reiterate previous correspondence the computation is as follows:
 
     Loss of rent equals the difference between the rent you were paying and the rent that is now being paid by new tenants: 
 
You formally relinquished the property at 2241 N Beachwood Dr on May 10, so the computations are as follows:
$900 less rent we now receive per month x 10 months = $9,000 plus 10 days rent from you for May 1-10 = $1,967 for a total of $10,967.  The difference between what you paid for security deposit $11,800 and the deductions for reduction of rent and lost rent is $833.  I told you in my email of May 20 I would send that to you, but you did not provide me with a forwarding address!!
 
Pg. 5 of 6
 
Paragraph 40:  Changes: Neither this agreement nor any provision in it, may be extended, amended, modified, altered, or changed, except
                          in writing! 
 
FYI..... Please refer to my email dated May 15, 2016:
 
Kevin:
 
     Speaking of stress, I can't tell you how much stress you caused me by giving me only 5 days notice to move and dumped 2 empty properties in my lap!!  I had to drastically reduce the rental rates of the properties for Corey by a $1,000/mo on one property, which is $12,000 loss to us per year. It had to be enticing to him and because I was desperate since we were leaving for PA I didn't have much time to work properly on renting both properties. 
 
    A lease is a contract between parties and legally you are responsible to pay rent for the entire term of the lease, but since I rented the property, I am releasing you from paying that money. I have applied your deposit of $11,800 towards the $12,000 deficit that we had to loose to reduce Corey's rent to get him in right away. Furthermore, we also lost 10 days rent in May on both properties.
 
    You had promised to rent the 2nd property at 2239 N. Beachwood Dr. and as a result, I released the 2 ladies who were renting it when they broke their lease, because you said were taking the property. And then you didn't sign the lease and left us in the lurk!  Not a good situation for us.  Even though you had your own problems, that was not a fair way to treat us.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 In addition, I notified you that your SECURITY DEPOSIT IS NON REFUNDABLE and you acknowledged such in your email of May 4:
 
 
 
 
 
 
Hope you received my last email.
I'm sure you are very busy.
Please verify when you terminate my lease.
As you stated before you are not releasing my $11,800 deposit.
I am no longer occupying the residence.
You should have no problem renting the house.
Please consider that the last months rent.
Hope all is well
Kevin.
 
As per your lease, Page 1 of 6,
 
Paragragh 4 SECTION B:  SECURITY DEPOSIT SHALL NOT BE USED BY TENANT IN LIEU OF PAYMENT OF LAST MONTH'S RENT.
 
 
Finally: In my transactions, I am required to disclose that I am a licensed Realtor in California, which I do in the signature section of every email I send.  As you already know, I am an owner of both properties: 2241 and 2239 N. Beachwood Dr.  I am permitted to do business with those properties independently.  The forms I use are designed by the Realtors Association through  Zip Forms but could just as easily be provided by LegalZoom or similar and none of those organizations do anything but supply the generic forms.  I had a "For rent by owner" sign and  you knew EXACTLY that I am the owner of the property and that I am a Realtor for Rodeo Realty, I gave you a couple of my cards!!  I never hid that from you, and also told you that since I was doing this directly with you and we didn't have another agent, I reduced the lease amount from $6,500 to $5,900/month. I even gave you 14 days FREE rent!! You had FULL DISCLORSURE of my position!!
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