O.K. Santa Cruz County landlords... you win.

Santa Cruz County Landlords:

You win! After a grueling 4 month search for a suitable home for our family, we give up. We have been to open houses before everyone else even arrives, completed application packet in hand, only to be turned down. We've been first to immediately respond to your CL ad, only to be ignored. We've dealt with unpleasant property management companies who were all too happy to take our app fees, but then not even bother processing our app. In fact, one didn't even have the courtesy to let us know what had happened with our app. Repeated voicemails & emails went ignored. We later found out, though she was happy to take our $60, she never even processed our app (we were the first to apply). The place went to someone else.

We don't smoke, we don't have pets, we have a pile of character reference letters. We have the income & when $3200 p/mo cannot get you a decent home somewhere in this area, I find that pretty sad.

It's not just sad for us though. It's sad for the community. My husband grew up here. We owned a home here. We own a business here & though when the economy crashed we eventually lost almost everything, we managed to hang onto our business. We're still here. We're building back. We contribute greatly to the local economy. We are decent & kind & good people who have been treated very badly during the process of just trying to find a nice home to raise our family in.

The rents are outrageous & the behavior I have witnessed from my fellow man has been pathetic. To see my children become so excited over a place, only to be disappointed repeatedly, is probably the worst of all.

I know this is happening to many other families out there, I just felt it was high time someone said, "Shame on you."

~~Disgusted in SC County


[Originally published at: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/scz/apa/5110455669.html]