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1. Rip-off in Omaha


Beware! This house is in a high-crime area and is not secure. The owner, Keith Briggs, refused to divulge the address until the rent and deposit had been paid knowing that I was from Omaha and could identify the location. Also not divulged on his VRBO listing is a tenant who lives in the basement of the house and is very strange. He lurks around and made me feel very nervous with my young children around. The house itself is not secure as sliding glass doors have no curtains and are only made secure by a wooden stick in the gliders. The door handle of the door used to go into the house from outside is hanging by a screw and it seems as if the house has already been broken into. The patio furniture you see in the pictures on VRBO is all broken and filthy. The pictures of the interior of the house are pretty accurate and it was clearly a lovely home in its day, but Keith Briggs lives in Evergreen, Colorado and could not care less about this property. Mr. Briggs also does not provide a rental agreement and will not refund you your deposit. I had reserved and paid for the rental of his house more than 3 months in advance. He double-booked the house and then asked us the day before our vacation began to help him out by finding another place to stay. When I told him we couldn't do that he punished us by keeping our deposit on a bogus excuse. We left this house in better condition than the way we found it but Mr. Briggs now refuses to refund our deposit. I would like to warn anyone considering renting any properties from Keith Briggs to look elsewhere. He also rents properties in Evergreen, Colorado. This guy is a liar and a cheat.
Category:   United States > Nebraska
United States > Colorado

Date Added: Sep 4, 2009
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2. Another Keith A. Briggs-owned Evergreen, CO house


Keith A. Briggs is the owner of this vacation rental - I see he has other complaints on this website on other homes he owns in Omaha,NE and Evergreen, CO. He also took OUR deposit for various untrue accusations - we broke 3 drinking glasses (worth about 50 cents each) and, while we were there, a bowl fell off the wall because the hanger was the wrong size for it and the hanger nail was loose in the wall - we actually did not break it - this bowl might be worth $20 or so (I know my so-called "antiques" values). He accused us of staining the carpet (stains were already there), marking a couch cushion (don't know anything about that - it was probably there too), leaving the hot tub a "cesspool", which was not true (+ his wife had told us that the filter did not work in it), checking in early (no one came into the house until his 4pm time), leaving "spoiled" food in the pantry - not true - actually, the refrigerator was so jammed with jars of peanut butter, jelley, etc. etc. that we virtually had no room for our food, and did not want to use someone else's previously-opened food, so we just took out anything that did not need to be refrigerated and put it in the pantry. We did throw away any of these that had an expired date of several years! (Mr. Briggs seems to think that we are to do all his housework, cleaning, etc. for him.) We also left the house much cleaner than when we found it - tried even to clean the smelly toaster oven, the totally greased-up cooktop filter (to no avail), and the full-of-grease bar-b-que - what a mess.
Mr. Briggs uses all the excuses, and others that are even more ridiculous, to keep deposits. Avoid his listings at all costs, as he is a scam artist, knowing that most people who rent these homes are from out-of-state that will not come back to Colorado just to go to court to get their deposit back.
Something DOES need to be done about his kind!
Category:   United States > Colorado

Date Added: Aug 12, 2010
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