Weichert is still trying to steal money from its tenets
Weichert received my invoice for work done on 8/19/2019 and they did not honor it until December 2019, the entire time applying one late fee after another from the time they received the invoice until they honored the invoice. I owe Weichert no fees. Weichert continues to add late fees illegally. This is the second time I have received a three day notice towards an eviction from Weichert as a threat to pay Weichert money I do not owe them. Weichert does not credit me for work I had to do on this property for the sanitary functioning of the bathrooms. I have asked Weichert representatives repeatedly for over a year to address the rotting walls and have been ignored. Weichert would not respond to my requests, even though Weichert representatives observed the hole in the wall and promised repeatedly to address the issue. I did not ask Weichert to fix the bathrooms as they wouldn’t fix the hole in the wall or the septic leak on the Weichert property next to me.
The managers of Weichert are threatening me because I turned them into the department of health, as they would not address the septic leak at the property I worked on for Weichert, 4442 Ruthann Court. Weichert, just now, as of this date 1/10/2020 finished repairing the septic at 4442 Ruthann Court...it has been over a year since they knew.
The biggest problem Weichert has is the criminal insanity that their management suffers from. The management fired Nicole Brigalli, the Weichert employee that offered me the job working for Weichert and then for months the Weichert management refused to pay me and apply my invoice for my hard work towards my rent as Nicole had indicated they would. Now, after years of letting tenet’s children living at 4442 Ruthann Court play in the sewage leak Weichert refused to repair, Weichert management thinks that their criminality, fraud, dishonesty and abuse of their tenets is rendered invisible. They smile and pretend no one can notice.
My feeling is that Weichert management feels that they can absolve themselves of any culpability by simply firing Nicole and pretending that firing Nicole might imply that Weichert does not have a policy of hiring and cheating unlicensed workers as their business model when it does just that. Weichert managers encouraged Nicole to continue their tradition of using Florida law to cheat hard working people out of their money, one after another. Nicole asked me to do the work; she was following Weichert policy in doing so and the management at Weichert persists in behaving as if they aren’t responsible the behavior of one of their own employees who was doing what she was told to do.
As of January 10, 2020 I owe Weichert no money. The rent for January was paid on the first and not one of the Weichert fees is legitimate. We will do the math at the eviction hearing, subpoena Nicole and see if she lies and if she does lie, we will see how well she lies.
Note: the condition of the home at 4442 when I worked there past July, was run down beyond belief and NOT because of the tenets. Windows had been broken out for months, the guest bath tub had rusted though and there was no AC in the master bedroom or bathroom. It takes a truly rotten company to leave people to suffer in properties like this; the same kind of unethical people that would fraudulently blame tenets for a landlord’s criminality and threaten the tenet with homelessness in an attempt to steal from the tenet.
To: Weichert Reality and Property Owner
1) AC system: The added bedroom and bathroom (where the middle carport was) receive less than adequate air flow. The compressor and air handler are good but the duct-work is the original duct-board and it was installed with little concern for efficiency. Flex duct was added to this old duct-work to supply the added bedroom and bathroom.
I rerouted the bedroom duct and removed the kinks from it, also I spread existing blown insulation over an area about 5’x5’ above the bedroom where the drywall was left bare and uninsulated. It improved the flow somewhat and the bedroom does cool better. However, if the problem still exists A) the bedroom flex should be attached to the end of the main trunk. B) The bathroom flex is too short, taught, kinked and is not connected at the main trunk and should be lengthened, unkinked and reattached. C) If these two things are fixed and the cooling inadequacy still exists, the only other modification I’d suggest is adding a return in the bedroom placed across the room from the supply and near the closet; use 4” flex and connect the flex to the intake side of the plenum. The room would cycle more frequently.
2) Roof shingles, roof plywood, fascia board, soffit and gutter: Gutters would be great for the tenant along the front entry and above the rear lanais and over the living room closet slab projection beyond the footer. During rain the runoff at the rear lanai makes the lanai space almost unusable from dirty spatter created by run off. Gutters, however can’t be installed in the front until the rotted fascia board is replaced. The roof plywood is also rotted in a couple of places above the front eaves along with the soffit below it. I was in the attic repeatedly and saw no indication of any water stain or rot in the roof plywood or trusses. The roof plywood rot, was as far as I could tell only in two places in the front and over the soffit. Often, as shingles begin to fail there is roof rot at this spot as the drip edge is no longer mated securely with the membrane and, water gets under it, leaks develop and rot begins and what you have here is the result. It will get worse. The shingles also are old and brittle and this creates the question as to what is the best way to deal with this, repair or reroof?
3) Exterior sheathing: The exterior sheathing on this unit is a wood product and is rotted in many places on the north and east sides of the unit and likely elsewhere. Use hardy board (fiberglass and concrete material) when replacing.
4) Septic System: There is a broken septic line from the unit to the septic tank. While I was there working it rained so profusely that both toilets filled to the top when flushed, and almost spilled over. There was a gentle flow coming up from the ground just outside the front door and a few feet beyond the PVC clean out in the sidewalk. The smell of sewage was very apparent. I would guess the line is broken somewhere between the cleanout and the driveway. Within hours after the rain stopped the toilets worked properly.
5) Windows: All of the windows are very close to being past repair and they have annealed glass, which shatters into large shards if broken. I’d suggest finding a distributor who sells the windows stock in the sizes that are already installed in the unit.
6) Cantilevered Slab: At the NE rear corner of the unit the concrete slab, which is the floor of the living room “closet” extends unsupported beyond the footer as most of the soil is washed out from under it. It might possibly snap off. I’d suggest the property needs rain gutters here to avoid the washout.
7) Guest Bath Tub: This heavy gauge steel tub sits in a pool of rusty water. It is rusting out from its underside. The leak could be from a cracked drain pipe or it could be from a very slow pressure leak. There is old water damage to the adjoining bedroom drywall. I say it is old as, it is dry and the unit does not stink. I’d suggest replacing it with a shower/tub combo like the unit in the master bathroom and coming through the adjoining bedroom wall to install it. Do not buy a single piece tub/shower unit. Get a four-piece unit that can be can be carried in the adjoining bedroom, remove drywall and a few studs from the wall between the bedroom and bathroom and one can install the new shower/tub easily. This wall between the guest bed and guest bath is not a structural wall.
