Where do I begin?
My boyfriend and I were couch surfing when…read moreone of our friends called us and said he had found a 3 bedroom house that was decently close to campus. We decided to check it out with him. When we toured the house there was an insane amount of rat feces in the kitchen as well as rat poison in the garage. There were cracks in the walls and holes that had been covered up with some shitty putty and then painted over with a color that did not match the walls at all. We were desperate so we said, "screw it" and decided to sign the lease. When I brought up the rat feces, they said they had no record of rats at the premises. Um, okay, but there ARE rats there. The feces is everywhere! They also had no idea that a washer and dryer were on the premises as well. They obviously did not do a walk through after the previous tenants left and were just letting prospective tenants see this shit hole. Also, the backyard was a complete wreck. There was a "compost pile" that blackberries were growing out of, everything was overgrown, and they told us it was OUR responsibility to take care of the jungle. So, because we were essentially homeless, we moved into this place. When my roommate tried to get on the lease, he had no rental references, so they kicked him out. Apparently, just living in the dorms isn't a rental reference to them. Next, during the terrible flooding that happened during this past winter, our heater (which was located UNDER the house in a crawl space no bigger than 5 feet wide and 6 feet deep), broke. We went without heat for over 2 months, IN THE DEAD OF WINTER. We put in MULTIPLE maintenance requests and called them daily to no avail. They said they had to get in touch with the home owners, who apparently lived in Germany, to get the insurance papers from them. I'm sorry, but aren't you a rental agency? Shouldn't you ALREADY have that insurance ON HAND? Nope. They offered us space heaters which are completely inefficient and are a fire hazard, but never said they would incur the cost of the electric bill. After the long months of waiting, two men showed up on my door step and said they were there to fix the heater. Kampfer did not warn me that repair men were coming, so I had to stay home all day and consequently miss all of my classes. Even after the men worked on the heater for 8 hours, they still weren't done, and had to come back the next day to finish it. I WILL say that the men were extremely nice, because they were not from Kampfer. After we moved out, we cleaned for 15 hours, scrubbing the walls, washing curtains, and scraping anything and everything. When they returned our security deposit, they said that we owed THEM money for not cleaning a place that was never cleaned to begin with!
One thing I will mention though is Larry Kampfer is a very nice and sincere man. The women that work for him however have NEVER said a nice thing to me. They were ALWAYS rude and NEVER gave me a decent tone. Honestly, they were straight up bitches.
BOTTOM LINE! DO NOT RENT FROM KAMPFER. THEY WILL SCREW YOU OVER AND TAKE YOUR MONEY. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT MAKING YOU HAPPY AND GIVING YOU A HOME. THEY ARE JUST MONEY HUNGRY SCUM. Except for Larry Kampfer who is quite nice.