Greystar California Inc Bay Street Apartments Greystar bounced check for a small claims judgment to the tenants Emeryville Nationwide

 We won our second court case with Greystar/Bay St Apartments (small claims case no. RS16810307) for damage to furniture and evacuation costs due to continued water intrusion that led to mold growth throughout our apartment. Even with the judge's ruling they never sent us the payment and we were forced to chase them and make many attempts to try to collect the judgment. Finally Greystar sent us a check to settle the case, this check was returned 10 days later for Refer To Maker and our account was deducted the amount and charged accordingly for a returned check.

We notified Greystar again alerting them that they had violated California Civil Code section 1719 and asked them to include the fees our bank charged for the returned check, the fees to mail the demand letter and that the payment needed to be in certified check or money order or we would continue with criminal prosecution. As Greystars standards goes there was no response and after 2 weeks we had to send them another letter this time certified and again no response. Today, 3 months (!) after the court's ruling we received a new check written on the same account that was originally returned. This place might look like a good place to rent until you run into problems.

Not only will Greystar not fix your issues and problems in your apartment they will look to actively blame you for the issue, harass and bully you until you get so tired you want to give in. They bank on the fact that most tenants don't know their rights or have the time to go after them. When they are held accountable by the court they will look for ways to not pay their debt, come up with ludicrous excuses stating they never received the judgment or pay the debt then stop payment on the check after you deposit it. They do not follow the law, have a staff of lawyers whose job is to harass and bully you and you should stay far far far away from them. Remember we vote in this world with our money and if we continue to give these kind of corporations our money they will continue to do this to people. If you consider yourself a reasonable person look elsewhere.