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Victoria Park's building turned into a ghetto - where's the owner?
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One of the most beautiful and quiet areas of Ft. Lauderdale - Victoria Park - is not everywhere the same. A building 1180 NE 1st Street, 33301 has many problems. The problem with ACs was eventually solved, but another still there - it is the most noisy place in whole Victoria Park. Neighbours complains they cannot sleep at night. Some tenants leave their dogs alone in apartments and this poor animals barking all night, waking up neighbours families and building's tenants.
Night on June 17, a dog was barking several hours on 2nd floor till 1:30 am. After it was over, and we thought we can sleep, some people went out on the street and have started to whistle...
Next morning people from buildings around have to go work...
Person, who suppose to maintain this building doesn't speak English and practically cannot communicate proper and perform his work. He is bringing the ghetto's culture to the building, trying to rule the local community of this building, bothering tenants for no reason, knocking to their doors... People who maintain building should know what they should do and how to do this important job not disturbing tenants.
Date Added: Jun 21, 2010
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They never will leave you - they too addicted to your money...
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I rented an average studio apt at 209 North Ft. Lauderdale Beach Blvd, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33304 nine years ago. It was very bad time for US - when 9/11 happened. I rented it from David Shwaery and Clifford Cone (on 11 floor)- for7 months and all 7 months payed top dollar for their empty, average, with dirty wall studio, when no one could pay no rent - economy went dramatically down and people lost their jobs...
Next door, in same building, people were renting marble floor, with great furniture apts for twice less than I payed to these guys - I was sending them every month to RI checks, issued by JPMorgan Chase Bank.
What happened next... When after 7 months I was moving out, I, practically was robbed by these guys. I left in apt series of big expensive canvases/ paintings (with an agreement to sign and send to me) so D. Shwaery could put them on display in his hair salon in RI (this is what he said we'd like to do).
When I called after couple of weeks, asking where paintings are, Clifford Cone said that they were demolished by workers who came to repair this apt after I left. Imaging my feelings...
And this is not all... I had many friends in that building, but doorman didn't let me come inside to the building after I moved out - my ex-landlords asked him not to.
Reason: these guys-Shwaery and Cone- after they performed their crime, decided to destroy me emotionally and make me look like a bad person in front of others, so I couldn't fight for my rights. And it almost happened.
As an active artist, I cannot function without my work.When I said to Shwaery that I will sue him for what he did, he said that he will tell to police that I didn't pay him rent, this is why he got paintings. (Rent was payed by checks and it is fact,)
Eventually, after many-many months of calling and askinng other people to talk to Shwaery, I got my paintings back. But damage had made. Emotional and physical.
I would never go back to this old story, if these crooks - or how to name them? (then they were around 65, and now over 70) didn't remind me about themselves. Before, in 2004, I was receiving from Shwaery lots of spam - emails, infected with spyware, he also did other damaging stuff online. After was a break for about 2 years, and now again this person bothers me with his spam and otherthing. I do not want to be bothered!
WARNING other people who going to rent property from those guys... They are never give up their bad activities (and you maybe even won't know it) and you risking stuck with them for many-many years even you won't remember their names - because they remember yours. Dangerous and nasty people, who use internet for their bad purposes.
Date Added: Jul 29, 2010
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Another Keith A. Briggs-owned Evergreen, CO house
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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!
Date Added: Aug 12, 2010
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