Fraud is a felony and both a criminally and civilly prosecutable offense.
You are very aware of the tactics that Richdale/Slosburg has trained and encouraged you use to deceive: giving past tenants the runaround, using false office hierarchies, making up charges on move out, charging multiple tenants for the same charge without repairing it, pretending that tenants have to sign documents waiving their rights to get their money back while pretending to be helpful and concerned, etc... done to gain an advantage for you and the company.
You are personally liable for your actions whether you realized they were illegal at the time or not and can have felony charges brought against you personally for your participation.
You work for a corrupt company. They are putting you at risk for felony charges of fraud being brought against you, and civil suits from those you have wronged. No job is worth that.
If your supervisor is denying that what you were trained to do is fraud, hire your own attorney to get proper legal advice by someone who isn't involved in the system that is in question.
Even Richdale employees are complaining about how this company is run. Check out what ex-employees are saying...
Pros
Quick promotions from within, they don't have a choice no one stays longer than a year!
Cons
Such a high turn around rate. You never feel like you are working at a stable property. No one will teach you anything. Corporate will make your life a living nightmare they mess so much stuff up.
Richdale is constantly hiring because they're constantly losing their employees.
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can't you get sued for libel?
ReplyDeleteThat's an intelligent question. For them to sue me, they would need to have employees go on sworn record stating that what I'm saying is false. Since I'm speaking truth, what employee would be dumb enough to stick their neck out and add perjury to felony fraud? Right now it's not yet in the courts nor is the DA yet involved. By them pushing the issue, they'd be going from "risk of prosecution" to me counter-suing and guaranteeing it. I'm not concerned. I know what they're doing, what the laws are and am ready to dig in if they come after me. I'm sick of their lies and intimidation tactics. Someone has to take a stand, I'm perfectly fine with that being me.
ReplyDeletewow. I came at this blog from a different perspective. I was going to work here, but Richdale is obviously not the place to do this based on what you've said and what I've seen on other employer-rating sites.
ReplyDeleteI used to work for Richdale. They are manipulative heartless slumlords. I would come home crying every day because of the verbal abuse. Working at Richdale almost ruined my family life. I gained 30 pounds with the stress. It was so bad I had to go to therapy because I wanted to kill myself. I could not sleep at night thinking about the unethical practices and the way they treated other employees. It's been a year since I worked there and I still fear retaliation.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad this blog exists!
I also want to add that yes, they deliberatly use unethical practices on a day to day basis. They call it "just doing business".
ReplyDeleteThe people at the top spy on their employees. One of them always tried to make me lie to other employees to get information from them. I never did and eventually this is why I left. My boss suspected me of not carrying out thier orders and I got tired of this person constantly screaming at me.
They also screw their vendors. How? They get a vendor to do a job like paint or fix an air conditioner and the boss comes in and automatically finds things that are wrong and refuses to pay the vendor. I'd say 9 out of 10 times the vendor did a good or decent job but it doesn't matter because the boss finds some ghost thing. Then Richdale doesn't pay and the vendor calls and calls demanding their money. Richdale threatens to take legal action. The vendor (usually a upstart or small business that can't afford a lawyer) is forced to go away. But the next time Richdale apartments need a fix they go on to the next vendor and do it all over again.
Sadly, this company keeps growing and growing and because of that, they continue to screw their tenants, employees and vendors. They are so cocky about it; it makes me sick!
I could go on and on with examples but they would probably hunt me down and sue me. They are so good at that!
"Nance," please contact me directly, I would love to hear more of what you have from the inside. :D I only dealt with them on one single issue and discovered an unbelievable level of illegal activity, to actually have worked there I'm sure you could write a whole book... I'd love to read that. nuclearspike at hot mail dot com
ReplyDeleteI feel like they are BEGGING to have a class action lawsuit brought against them. lol.
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ReplyDeleteI was a previous tenant on a Richdale property and have had a horrible experience living there. I have lots of documentation and a filmed video clip to show the mental harrassment I have been put through while I lived there. Due to this reason, I broke my lease and left .for this they are charging me in excess of 2000 USD (multiple hidden costs not mentioned in the contract) along with 825$ of a security deposit that they already have. I am really upset and if they do not revoke this amount I am planning for legal action as I feel I have good documentation and proof of the horrible way things are run there. Can someone please guide me on how to go about this? do I have any chance of recovering my deposit. I would prefer to do this without having a lawsuit but am willing to go to that extent if required.
If there is anyone currently fighting for return of security deposit please email me at milipete@hotmail.com. I am going through exactly the same thing in iowa.
ReplyDeleteAnybody out there interested in a class action suit, please post a comment. I am in a good position to make this happen if there are enough people, evidence and interest. I will be posting more later.
ReplyDeleteHere is a new site to spread the word, and may very well be the first of many more to come. It is a simple start at the moment, could grow to be a much larger network of sites, and I'm just getting started. I do this for a living, and get paid very well for it...in other words, they messed up.
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Hey Paul. Thanks for putting this up. They just charged me $245 for a security deposit, and I didn't think much of it. But the main office here in Dallas told me maybe one other person was interested and when I called Omaha they told me 10 - 15 people had applied! Hell no. Now that's ridiculous. I want my money back and I'm not living there.
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ReplyDeleteI am being accused of about $500 worth of carpet and pad damage, plus resealing the floor from what they are saying is dog urine damage. I was there at a Richdale property for a year with NO DOG. When I try to explain this, I am argued with by a man named Christie at the corporate office. I told him no one at the property: office staff, maintenance men who entered my apartment, a person that inspected all the apartments, a pest guy who came in a few times for the whole building, ever saw a dog, or evidence of a dog because I had no dog. Now I am concerned about the apparent unsanitary conditions I was moved into and breathed in for a year. We noticed an odor in one of the bedrooms after moving in, but odor neutralizing spray several times took care of it. The man said they found these stains with a blacklight. Carpet looked clean and free of stains when I moved in and then out. Looking into legal counsel. AVOID RICHDALE apartments. I was a stellar tenant. I can't believe they are that desperate for money. Class action lawsuit anyone? I have also contacted Six Online in Omaha if anyone else wants to go that route. They had done a previous story on a lady at a Richdale property with rolly polies in her apartment that they weren't taking care of until the news got involved. Not right. Not how you take care of your people that put their trust in you.
ReplyDeleteRichdale employees are soulless and incompetent. Just do not sign the check they send you until it contains the full amount you deserve. By signing the check, you're waiving your rights. They'll tell you "oh just go ahead and sign it and then we'll get the rest" but the back of the check states you're accepting that check as payment in full. DO NOT CASH THE CHECK until it's the right amount or you're screwing yourself. Don't trust one word from their lying mouths.
Delete...and get the BBB involved. They take it over and once they're involved it'll get resolved pretty quickly.
DeleteThey are NO BETTER at the properties here in Houston. FILED EVICTION on the 20th day of current month as if I hadn't paid anything (they held and didn't post). Went to pay April in full they rejected. Went to court as if nothing was paid and decided to take it all AFTER court date, but wanted an IMMEDIATE MOVE OUT. 2 months later, I get a bill for 7k. Corporate states...we terminated your lease because you paid your rent late.
ReplyDeleteI had the same situation as the previous poster. I dropped off a check less than 10 days late. The office took the check and also allowed me to give them a check to rent a garage. A week later I got court notification of evication. Went to court and the judge ordered them to get new eviction documents which they did the following day while having the sheriff change the locks on the apartment. Fast forward to when I received a bill for $10,000!!! I submitted a dispute which they never responded to. Now I am unable to rent another apartment because of the eviction!!! Do not rent from Richdale or you will LITERALLY PAY!!!!
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