Mike Mills

My son and his roommates had the misfortune of renting one of the Stonefield townhouses from E&H Acquisitions, Inc. I would NOT under any circumstances deal with this company, especially Mike. When the young men moved in, Mike refused to do a walk through when he gave them their keys. There were a few problems like a hole in wall of my son’s closet and shelf in the fridge held on with duct tape that I wanted the landlord to be aware of so the guys weren’t charged when moving out for the damage. Mike REFUSED to do a walk through or take a «punch list» from us w/​items that needed repair. As we had already paid him quite a bit of money, signed a lease and the truck was loaded outside in the driveway we were pretty much stuck with taking the townhouse now. When moving in, we noticed lots of garbage and things in the garage from both the last tenants and from Mike’s fixing up the townhouse before the students moved in. I asked if he was going to take it putting it in the back of his pickup truck. He flatly refused and said we had to call the garbage company and pay them for their service to come pick it up. It was the items he, Mike, had used to paint and re-​carpet the place as the last tenants had trashed it.
When the young men moved out I personally cleaned the place, there was not one item that was not cleaned. Mike would not do the walk through when I was there but would only do it the next day w/​only one of the students present. At the final walk through the student was told everything is great and you should get your full security deposit back.
Check came in the mail and even though it and the accompanying letter were dated June 10, we didn’t get the check and letter until July for some reason. The students did not get the interest on the security deposit as I believe the law dictates and there were all of a sudden deductions that weren’t mentioned on the final walk through. They deducted a huge carpet cleaning fee. When one of the students called they indicated that since the carpet was a bit matted in one of the bedrooms they wanted to have it professionally cleaned and because the company has a minimum charge to come out they just did the whole place. So the students were charged for a 3 bedroom, 2 story townhouse to have the perfectly good carpets cleaned even though they didn’t need it just because of a little matting in one room. As we just moved a big huge piece of furniture from the carpet less than 24 hours before of course there would be a little matting. As far as I can tell the law says you can’t deduct for normal wear and tear. There wasn’t even wear and tear, a bit of matting where a dresser had just been moved from. Give it a few days for the carpet to come back to life why don’t you.
Mike, of course, refused to speak to me a parent as he said my name wasn’t on the lease. He ripped off these poor young men who certainly couldn’t afford to pay. He was rude and belligerent when I met him and took advantage of these students. Do not, I repeat, do NOT do business with E &H Acquisitions, Inc. of either DeKalb or Sycamore, Illinois. They have 2 addresses one in each town.