Anybody can throw some insight about Bridgehouse America validity
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Anybody can throw some insight about Bridgehouse America validity
My name is Rick Stewart and If you contact me via social media, I can give you court documents and my attorney's information to verify that after THREE MONTHS of receiving zero rent, we had to forcefully evict (unlawful detainer) the tenant that Mario/Bridgehouse screened and moved in. Tenant moved in April 1, 2019. Mario served 3-day pay or quit on June 1, 2019, but did not follow up with the unlawful detainer, but kept telling us via text, that "he was working on it". Finally, we served the 3-day pay or quit on July 8, 2019, went to mediation Aug 20, 2019, trial Aug 22, 2019.
Despite the contract clearly stating that Bridgehouse would pay us rent regardless of whether tenant pays them, Bridgehouse taking care of all damages to property....we have not received any money from Bridgehouse. Despite Mario claiming that "we are waiting for court date because tenant is contesting"....we had to get the court date and forceful removal in 36 days.
We wondered how did we got a court date and unlawful detainer BEFORE Mario could get a court date when we started our 3-day pay or quit a MONTH AFTER Mario served the tenant? Because, as our attorney found out through court documents, Mario/Bridgehouse NEVER filed the paperwork to evict the tenant. If we would not have filed our paperwork, our tenant would still be sitting in our house and not paying rent.
So it is pretty obvious that Mario was lying to us. He never did the court paperwork. Never filed for a court date. He took $5,995 from the tenant and now has went silent. I have not heard from Mario in over 2 months. Nobody ever answers the numbers listed on their website and of course he doesn't answer his cell phone.
This is suprising to us because Mario is very nice on the phone. A person who comes off as someone you can trust. He is a very smooth talker....
Again, I have proof of all this and we have a pretty large contact list of others who have been scammed. I am a high school teacher, not a landlord. We just wanted to sell our house, but now is completely damaged and will need thousands in repairs. We are also out 4 months of rent.
Through our internet research, we have found several others who have been scammed and are hoping that we can form a large enough group to file a class action suit. Better Business Bureau, along with state attorney general office in Colorado, have also been notified by our group.
Just google them. You will find their website URL and see that they have went out of business.
After 24 days of not hearing from him, he finally replied to our text me after reading my complaint on Better Business Bureau. (Aug 10, 2019), His initial response was "I thought she moved out 3 weeks ago"...then I told her that she was still in there and if you though she moved out, then why not contact us to tell us she moved out? His response: "I had no idea, I am sorry". (email me....I have copies of all these text messages)
I asked him why he told me 8 times that "they were working on it" and "there would be a court date"...of course no answer.
His text this morning (Aug 11, 2019) was to call me a racist and to never contact him again. My wife's name is Cruzita Avila, daughter of a hispanic field worker born in Mexico. We are 100% not racist. Look us up on Facebook.
NEVER CONTACT HIM? The tenant that he moved into our house has lived rent free for 3 months and our house is damaged. We have a contract with Bridgehouse that says they will pay for damages. We had to evict her....but now Mario says NEVER CONTACT HIM? smh.
His reason for calling me racist is based on the information I posted on another thread on this website about the warrant for a guy in Colorado with the same name and same phone number. You can read it and judge for yourself how that is a racist comment.
There is nothing racist about what I posted.
This is his way of getting out of paying us the $4,200 in back rent, plus damages to our house, plus court and attorney fees.
UPDATE: Mario from Bridgehouse and I talked over the phone this morning. (Aug 11, 2019). It showed me professionalism that he answered my phone call on a Sunday morning.
Although I do not agree that I was being racist, it has never been my practice nor intention to get into a name calling incident, so that post he found offensive was removed. I do not believe that he is connected with anyone in Colorado.
His website that is on BBB is www.bridgehouseamerica.com.
That site is no longer active, so I was correct in my statement.
His company has relocated from AZ to CA and is now www.bridgehouseinvestors.com
He verbally agreed to pay me June rent tomorrow (Mon Aug 12, 2019) and stated to send him repairs for damages the tenant caused.
Here is hope that this can be resolved amicably.
I will update this post once I receive the money we are owed.
Do not do business with Mario from Bridgehouse America. I’ve had to deal with lawyers and courts since I’ve met this man. He is a smooth talker, but once he has your money, good luck retrieving it. He doesn’t follow through with his promises. I’ve had to file a complaint with the DA and filed a civil suit against him. No surprise he didn’t respond to the civil suit and it will be a judgment by default. I’ve never worked with a company/person that is as deceitful as Bridgehouse. Save yourself the headache, potential lawsuits and money by not doing any business with them. I tried to do my due diligence by researching this company. I couldn’t find anything derogatory at the time, reading all these posts now, I’m not surprised I’m not the only that was scammed after experiencing all I did with Mario. My guess is that he is probably packing up in AZ and starting in CA with new unsuspecting clients.
UPDATE: Mario from Bridgehouse and I are communicating on a daily basis and he asked that I post this update:
As of Mon Aug 26, he has verbally agreed to pay our handyman bill of $185, the June rent of $1,400, and the damages to our home caused by the tenant. No money has been paid nor received yet since the tenant is still in the home.
We had to pay out of our pocket the $500 to evict and another $500 for a real estate attorney. On Aug 22, 2019 we got a judgement against the tenant for July, Aug, & half of Sept rent. The tenant must move out Sept 15, 2019. The judge allowed the tenant to pay $250 monthly payments until the $3,500 in back rent is paid up.
Mario from Bridgehouse has verbally agreed to schedule & pay for the contractors to go in an repair our damaged home once the tenant moves out on Sept 15. He does not want to pay the June rent until we are sure how much the damages are to the house.
Obviously we are going to be out the rest of Sept rent due to the repairs. We are out $1,000 in attorney & court fees. And we won't see June rent until end of Sept and the back rent will not be paid up until Nov, 2020.
We are not landlords. This was the home we raised our children in and have held on to it to avoid capital gains tax. But after this episode we are going to sell the house and get out of the rental business.