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Old 08-05-2012, 09:16 AM
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Yes, we wonder about the maid. In fact, while my daughter and I were there, I went to write thank you and invite to our new home in the welcome book which we had been remiss in doing. The maid started screaming something and called her superior to say we were writing nasty things in the book about her. My daughter was a bit apprehensive with the erratic behavior. We left totally rattled by this very peculiar person. When we got in to the meeting with "owner" Joe Cozensa (sp?), he said the maid told him my daughter shoved her niece. We were speechless...for about 3 seconds. My daughter is demure, stands 5'2" and is a 0-2. At this point, nothing was surprising us anymore. We do wonder if she took those things and, to bolster her position, she invented that story. Or she was so angry about cleaning, she wanted to make us pay for it? We don't know but the response "Joe" had was, "That's why we don't like clients to be there when the cleaning people are there."
We didn't rent from thevillages4rent.com because we thought we had a relationship with TV and they were building our house. We were looking for a seamless move. We had rented one house for two weeks (BTW: the sheets were dirty and had to be washed when we moved in and we got a big ...aww that's too bad from the company about that) and then moved for two months to this one. It seemed logical to go with a company that was operated by TV. Had we known it really isn't TV standing behind this ...although they pretend it is them...we would have rented directly with a home owner. I hope others, after reading this, will recognize the benefit to rent directly. Chances are if someone owns a house in TV, they are a relatively nice person because TV attracts nice residents. This franchise Villages Hometown Property Management is apparently trumping up charges on both renters and home owners. Not nice.