The registered owner of Brookfall Dev, and Westchester Real Estate Dev LLC is…read moreJames R. Scher, Warren, Ohio. As of June 2024
Your property managers are Matthew Pugh, Beth Reitz, or Mark Ringold. The CEO of Westchester R.E.D. is Eric Diehl. The owner hides in Englewood NJ and is named Issak Voladarsky.
Sued them in court for my deposit back. They withheld $30 after 17 yr tenancy for "cleaning the oven." I disputed, they show up with a CEO and a lawyer to waste 2 hours and just paid me $95 for costs and doubling the $30.
From move out to full refunding of deposit was 5 months 13 days. The apartment was spotless, re rented with a coat of paint in 1 month.
Don't EVER RENT from corporate landlords, they will raise your rent yearly, withhold and cut services, downgrade tenant requirements. You will be hammered here 10% of your rent if more than days late, spelled out like effective 12:01 on day 5, which will make you late next month accumulating until they use their swift eviction process. Putting a RED PAPER on your door complete with full names of tenants to shame you to your neighbors.
They will nickle and dime you on everything and that will apply to your deposit on move out.
Lease outlines two awful things in addition to being all for them, very little for you. 1) Air conditioner not working will not be considered an emergency. 2) You will clean the carpet or pay us $90 on move out. Clean will not be clean enough, you will pay $90 anyway.
They let horse sized dogs in one bedroom apartments. If your upstairs neighbor has a dog and plastic flooring, click, click goes dog nails on the floor all night.
Loud thumping rap music in the parking lot, a ton of disrespectful 20-30 year olds, parties, noise, trash around the dumpsters, dog crap on the ground, halls not vaccuumed in months, stained carpets are just everywhere. Trees falling and crashing to the ground are the amenities.
I asked Matthew Pugh who was begging me to sign their nasty lease from October - March, what is in it for me? He said, "A ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD." Not good enough of even an attempt at an answer. After 17 yr tenancy, no late pays, I turned in my notice and keys.
They have ignored requests to repair and wedged open an electromagnetic fire door which should close by fire alarm. Water cascades over clogged gutters causing damage in the basement units. There were two full evacuation fires in my building between Dec '23 to Mar '24.
There have been major drug busts out in my building and a woman (Imoni Hackett) held a kid hostage by gunpoint in 2022 while the front building was evacuated in the summer roasting heat. That required multiple police jurisdictions, even FBI for the hostage situation and the woman posted it live on social media she took her kid hostage was dead soon after the police left the apartments. Both articles and or video can be found in the Youngstown news. Vindy and WKBN. https://www.wkbn.com/video/police-swat-fbi-presence-at-westchester-square-apartments-in-austintown/7846793/
Heres the Hackett shooting video;
https://youtu.be/aQJnzIElefg?si=LaUlcsnyNUfqYwp8
Look them up on The Mahoning County Integrated Justice System by the name above. You will see multiple eviction suits.
But, if you want all in, rent and utilities and want to put up with these things then sign up but read the lease carefully, it is almost FORTY pages long. Remember, once you are in, you are at the disadvantage.