RK Properties

Since when does a Property Management is allowed NOT to give receipts to their tenants when they make a payment? Why do people, who have never missed a single payment, have to go the extra step of having to certify their rent payments in order to have proof that they made their payment… Why is it that YOU have to prove that you made that payment and THEY don’t have to prove that they received it…

I am one of their reluctant tenants by acquisition. One of their agents, John Freeborn, purchased my building in January of 2014. In June 2014 I was informed by company letter that the x Apt manager, A real piece of work by the name of Raoul Morales, was no longer authorized to receive rent payments and was no longer the on site manager. The very next month, July 2014, I started going to their office to deliver my rent in the form of a check from my bank, J. P Morgan Chase, and get a receipt for financial instrument delivered to facilitate payment transaction. Everything was going fine until June 2015 at which time Ameridis Moore, the previous front office secretary/​receptionist and the current manager, off-​site, of my building quit the front office job around 5−29−15, a Friday. Then things started getting strange. Around that time they took the receipt book away from the new front office secretary/​receptionist and told her to stop issuing receipts for checks delivered in payment of rent to tenants of my building. In June 2015 Lisa made a receipt out for me, in July I waited, after expressing my unease at their insistence that I just give them my rent check with no receipt in return, until Mr Freeborn himself came down and made me out a receipt himself. And this month, August 2015, a nice lady named Denise who works there had to track down the receipt book to make me out a receipt.
Now it gets even MORE strange, These last few weeks, Since August 10^th, I have been corresponding with Ameridis by email and now they want me to start giving my rent to Mr Morales again. I told her that I was going to confer with the Long Beach office of the Los Angeles Legal Aid Foundation to see what my legal options are. That was on August 20, 2015. Then silence until yesterday, Friday 8-​28-​2015, at which time I received an email from Mr Freeborn thanking me for my email to Ameridis and that he has read it carefully and felt that a personal response is appropriate and so is sending me a letter by certified mail. Legal Aid informed me to send my rent check by priority mail right before the first every month.
Now if all of this isn’t bad enough, Mr Freeborn lost my rent check in March of 2015 and I had to issue a stop payment with my bank, which costs 30 dollars, get the cash and deliver to the office. Mr Freeborn reimbursed me, to his credit, for the stop payment fee that my bank charged me for his ineptitude of losing my check.
They are deliberately trying to cause confusion. If you are so foolish as to want to rent from them then don’t be surprised when it starts getting strange. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. STAY AWAY. MDK 8−29−15.