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I hired this company, Kings Realty in Brandon, Florida to manage /rent out my house which was only a year old and in mint condition. I had to move out of state for my job.
They sent me a completely bogus bill for over $3000 for repairs. Changed all the light bulbs, fixed things that were not broken. They did not contact me at
all about when I might receive a rent payment after a full month and a half. I paid over $400 to clean all the carpets and even the grout right before I
left (and it barely needed cleaning). They hired someone else to do it again and charged me. They hired someone to trim my trees, but I already have a gardener doing that! So I paid for it twice? The list goes on. When I got the receipt for repairs, they had repaired items that I didn't even have. They charged me $150 to "fix" a sliding screen door, when I never even had one to begin with! Unbelievable crooks at Kings Realty in Brandon. Please do your self a favor and use a different company for property management.
I am currently seeking legal advice. If you are looking for a property manager in Brandon Florida, look elsewhere unless you want to be severely gouged. I am a Veteran and it's outrageous that this business owner Leib is a Veteran as well. He should be reported to the Vet Biz or someone. He gets lots of tax and other breaks because he is a vet, and now he rips off his brothers too. Absolutely Shameful man.
I checked the Better Business Bureau and there is another complaint on there form someone else for the same exact thing. What does it take to stop these people from stealing from hard working people?!
Below is just one photo I took right after the carpets were cleaned. They are not the least bit dirty.
No, they never showed and then I had to leave town. This is the main reason they are taking advantage of me.
All anyone need do is go to the BBB and see for yourself. Complaints about them that are remarkably similar to my own. Do a search in Hillsborough county court records and you will see they are the defendant in MANY lawsuits 2 of which are still currently active. Search the internet about them and you will find many other consumer complaints about this company. What should that tell any consumer thinking of doing business with them? Why all the lawsuits? Why all the complaints? They rip people off, then threaten them with lengthy lawsuits and to destroy their credit!
As for his claim that my dogs attacked him, the insurance investigators contacted me wondering why this guy put in a claim a month and a half after he was supposedly attacked! No police report, no animal control report, no witness, no scratches, no bite marks or even a tiny bruise. Why? BECAUSE it never happened. He only made it up after I started making a fuss about them charging me $3500 for a few minor repairs.
The pictures you are seeing that they posted are the things that I agreed to pay them about $1000 to repair. Then they made up a bogus list of things that they repaired that cost $3500. Like painting the ceiling, almost all the rooms in the house, and many many other things that simply weren't even done! The chewed up trim in the photo was simply painted over. The tenant had to move in and do all the painting themselves. That was one of the main expenses that they were paind to take care of and they didn’t even do it. Kings Realty took all my money, the tenants deposit - withheld any funds from me, putting my mortgage in jeopardy! I FIRED THEM - I REVOKED their power of attorney days before they ever supposedly fired me. That was just them being childish and retaliatory. Like the bogus "Dog Attack" lawsuit. He even threatened to sue me for posting on this very website.
Whatever yard work they are talking about was agreed that I would take care of. I already have a vendor taking care of all the lawn cutting, trees, shrubs, weeding, blowing and on and on. The day before I left I had them plant three beautiful palm trees with flower beds in the front. They were still working on the yard when Kings Realty intruded and started paying some company that has no license or insurance all this money for tree trimming and holes and god knows what else. It even has a clause in the tenants lease that I was taking care of all of this. They had no authority to do any tree trimming or yard work at all. If they had contacted me ONCE about what other repairs they were supposedly doing I could have cleared this up for them.
The pictures he posted of the hallway area and the chewed trim is the repairs that they were supposed to take care of, that we agreed on a price for and IT WAS NOT DONE.
Mr Vosmak (Manager and voice of Kings Realty) has already threatened another lawsuit that I was causing him mental stress, that he would bill me through his attorney. I have made sure a copy of that along with his other email regarding my dogs attacking him was sent to the investigating officer for the insurance company.
Excerpt from email where Leib threatens another bogus lawsuit
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Paul,
...The mental abuse that I am suffering because of your actions might require medical attention, which if required be noticed to you via my attorney.
Leib Vosmak
Kings Realty and Property Management
Sent from my iPad 3G
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Here's the email from my tenant telling me that nothing was done when they moved in, that they had to do it themselves. And I will be refunding the tenants for their costs and labor to fix what KINGS REALTY charged me $3500 to do!
Excerpt from Tenants email to me:
"... I am willing to take pictures of every room and wall in your home to show you what is done and not done as they said they were. Yes there was trash in the garage when we moved in. We painted the front room and the whole kicthin and the master bedroom along with the master bathroom. None of the ceiling where painted, nor the 3 back rooms and bathroom.The house was not cleaned at all before the walk around. There was something as simple what looks to have been a vomit spot in front of the sliding glass window from a animal that was still on the floor .We have emails of proof that the cleaning was not done before move in. The lady did come and cleaned the bathrooms and behind the stove and under fridge and sliding glass door only. The one door frame that had teeth marks from your dogs, where only painted over. not fixed.. I must say that we where very disappointed when we came to do the walk around only 2 hours before we where going to move in. BUT we loved the house so much, that we just decided to take in a pond our selves to make things right because of the house and you allowing 2 larger dogs..."
If Mr Vosmak is in any way implicating me with whatever that thing is Denise Schaller (property manager) is holding then he will be answering to that in court. In a way I guess it is kind of good that he did this publicly. It does show quite a bit about his character. It seems to me that someone was in there doing something they weren't supposed to be doing. The tenant said there was puke on the tile floor too. I left after the entire floor was cleaned, grout and all. I left in the afternoon and drove through the night to Baltimore. I have photos, receipts and witnesses to prove this. What I see in the photo is Denise Schaller doing drugs.
Leib Vosmak is a convicted Felon. He was convicted of fraud for writing bad checks. And he said in deposition that he didn't recall if he had other convictions. Need I say more?
He should not be running a real estate office. Only places like McDonald's and Walmart hire convicts. This, along with the court records and transcripts will be given to the Division of Consumer Services, the BBB, and the Florida Department of Business and professional Regulation. It will also be turned over to the district attorney's office for possible criminal fraud charges. Had I known Mr. Vitaliy Vosmak was a convicted felon for fraud, I NEVER would have done business with him or Kings Realty and Property Management.
I have been contacted by several people who are also suing Kings Realty and Property Management.
I will not reveal the name, but recently got this email in response to this website.
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"I am writing to talk to you about your complaint again Kings Realty. I have just gotten an attorney that is going to pursue them in a civil court. I had printed off your complaint and that from several others through which the attorney said this is a criminal offense. Please contact me so that I can get information from you if you are willing to allow my attorney to contact you. Thank you very much"
Of course I contacted this other victim and told the person everything I know and gave my attorney's name and number.
I too had bad dealings with Leib "Vitaly" Vosmak. I am a current customer of Kings and the only reason I still am is because I was advised of his termination back sometime in May of this year. The idiot must have stolen their client list because a friend of mine that also uses their services and myself were emailed by the idiot trying to solicit us to go to another company. when I contacted Kings about the email, I was told he was terminated in the last week of May 2011. The new management I can honestly say has bent over backwards to accomadate all of my concerns and really has gone the extra mile to try to make up for their mistake of employing Leib Vosmak and Denise Schaller. Since both of their departures from Kings, I and I'm sure all of their clients are very very happy now.
PS: Beware of solictation emails from either one of them. apparently they are both now employed by a Tampa based company called "Home Encounter'. Obviously, they didn't do their resaerch via the web or past employment, before hiring these 2 idiots.
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Official company response is at /URL removed/
Instead of writing a work of fiction we will simply respond with facts, and they are as follows. The house was not a year old (it was built in 2007 as per the tax records), the house was far from a mint condition and we have video and picture proof of the condition that the owner left the house in (there was dog pee on the floor, huge holes in the backyard that were dug by the two Rottweiler’s that the owner had, trash all over the house, what looked and smelled like illegal substance, and much more). The bill was not for $3, 000 but rather all the bills for the repairs that were required was as follows: Carpet cleaning $150.00, Interior Cleaning $145.00, HVAC service $49.95, Fire Extinguisher $45.00, Trash left behind by the owner removal $150.00, Garage door repair $103.00, General Repairs (molding repair from dog damage, interior painting, a/c filter replacement (2), blinds repairs and replacements, closet door repairs, screen door in the patio repair, holes in the walls repair, garbage disposal stuck, trim palm trees, door stoppers install, fix holes in the backyard dug up by the dogs) $2, 231.81. For a total of $2874.76. The owner was contacted and even sent money to us for the repairs, so to claim that he was not aware is ludicrous. We have terminated our relationship with this owner and will be seeking legal action against him as well as placing his account with a collections company for fees owed to us. Mr. Gregory has contacted our vendors and used foul language with them, as well as cursed at our office staff. Furthermore, he has on numerous occasions said one thing, did another, and wrote something completely opposite. We have proof of all our actions as well as the actions of Mr. Gregory, and have never witnesses someone who changes facts (as they see them) to suit their needs. Lastly, it is convenient that Mr. Gregory omitted the fact that his two “friendly” Rottweiler’s attacked and injured one of our employees while he was visiting the property. If you wish to contact us in regards to this case please e-mail us at leib@kings-realty.com.