More Reasons Not to rent from Deer Park

In case you were looking for more information on the sneaky, underhanded ways of Bess Courtney and her friends at Deer Park Management in Bloomington, Indiana, here’s the latest in the goings on:

I was contacted by another person having some issues with Deer Park last week. It turns out that this person’s son was duped into signing a lease. He was told “Oh, all of the floorplans are the same as the one we just showed you” and then he was assigned a different apartment. Turns out, the one he was assigned was not only very different, but much worse. Now Bess & Co. are trying to hold him to a lease that he was mislead into signing. Not surprising.

After months of threatening legal action, Deer Park decided they couldn’t sustain it and, instead, submitted the ridiculous debt to a collections agency. I’m going through the process of disputing the debt, but I’m pretty sure I’m actually going to have to file suit to make it go away.

Since last we spoke about the crappy landlords at Deer Park Management, some things have happened with respect to the carpet charges. Originally they wanted me to pay for the carpet replacement. If you recall, the problem with this was that a) the carpet, per our move in walk-through, was supposed to be replaced during our tenancy and b) the carpet was never replaced.

After insisting (several times) that I was not going to pay for carpet replacement they credited my account for three or four years worth of depreciation. Now, tell me… why would you depreciate a carpet that you’re claiming is brand new? After calling this absurdity to their attention, they removed the carpet charges entirely.

They’re still trying to make me pay for a whole mess of repairs, but they refuse to tell me what (specifically) was repaired. One guess as to why they’re being so hush-hush about it is that they’re trying to get me to pay for things that they should’ve fixed before I moved in or while we lived there, and it’s my opinion that they try to soak the tenants on move-out to pay for future improvements.

Don’t rent from Deer Park Management. Deer Park Sucks.