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  • Report:  #1484887

Complaint Review: B&B Acquisitions - scottsdale Arizona

Reported By:
James - United States
Submitted:
Updated:

B&B Acquisitions
10115 East Bell Road # 107 scottsdale, 85260 Arizona, United States
Phone:
602 570 9318
Web:
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B&B Acquisitions is an LLC founded by one Bradley J Bendy who goes by Brad. Mr Bendy has also formed Reo Properties LLC which is listed on the Maricopa County Assessor's website as the owner of ten different houses in Maricopa County Arizona.

The Background

Since the year 1996 my grandmother has been a model tenant of one of Mr Bendy's properties, always paying the rent on time. She is currently eighty-four years old and is living on a fixed income with $1,100 in monthly social security payments. Her husband who used to also recieved social security has passed away and she recently was hospitalized with a hairline fracture in her hip. Starting in January of 2019 Mr Bendy upped her monthy rent to $1245 a month. Suffice to say my grandmother's savings were began to run out rapidly.

Through the years she spent at Mr. Bendy's property she asked him to paint and to install a new air conditioner and fence which was in violation of rule 3 of (A.R.S.§ 33-1324): Maintain the residence. From what I ascertained Mr. Bendy never once put money into the property other then to trim the tree in the backyard when the nextdoor neihbor complained.

My grandmother found and rented a new home in Globe Arizona for a similar price. However she had lots of stuff to move and needed to leave Mr Bendy's property by September 1st. But she had little availible help and was forced to stay into the month of September. Mr. Bendy agreed as long as my grandmother agreed to pay him about $40 a day in rent. However on the morning of Friday September 6th he showed up to the house out of the blue as my grandmother and brother were packing and said if she was not out by the next day he would go to court and have her evicted. 

Panicking, my grandmother and brother had to work until 4am the next morning filling up her mini van and a 26 foot U-Haul truck. Sadly she had to leave behind her dining room table, copy machine, microwave and many other items. She was not expecting Mr. Bendy to change his mind out of the blue like that. 

I find it especially outrageous given my grandmothers age, his knowledge of her lack of help and because of her track record of twenty-three years as an outstanding tenant. She painted and when her late husband was still alive they ran an air conditioning business and put a new A/C on Mr Bendy's property. Now only after my grandmother is moving out is he planning to give it the house it's first renovations since the mid 1990's.

The purpose of this review is to warn potential customers about the type of landlord Brad Bendy really is and what one can expect to get when they do business with him. It is a disgrace he would treat a customer of 23 years with this kind of petty and passive agressive behavior. Please do not rent property from this man! 



5 Updates & Rebuttals

James

Arizona,
United States
Ok now I know you are trolling Jim

#2Author of original report

Tue, September 17, 2019

I have explained my side of events about what happened about my grandmother. This was done only to provide the public with information about Mr Bendy and the disgraceful and disrespectful way he conducts business. If you don't like it I invite you to rent one of Mr Bendy's properties and to enjoy the passive agressive way he deals with tennants who have the audacity to decide to move out. 


Jim

Beverly Hills,
California,
United States
Doesn't Clarify Anything

#3Consumer Comment

Mon, September 16, 2019

If you really had an actionable item, you would have gone to court and enforce the violation.  But you didn't and won't because of course (a) you're too cheap, and (b) it isn't something for which you can obtain a remedy for.  The simple fact is this:

You decided to complain because your mom couldn't move out.  You made up some BS excuse nobody gives a d**n about because you couldn't break open your wallet to help mom.  I'll bet when you open your wallet, your one dollar bills have sunglasses over George Washington's eyes because your money hasn't see the light of day in years.  You're a pathetic excuse for a son.

Now, go away.  As a member of the public who comments on ROR, I find this whole complaint and responses from you both ridiculous and stupid.


James

Arizona,
United States
Update in responce to Jim's comment

#4Author of original report

Sat, September 14, 2019

Update (9-14-19)

In responce to what Jim said in the comment section...

I find it very odd someone would have found this review so quick after I posted it as well as taken the time to write out such a long piece trying to pick apart everything I wrote. I would like to know if you work for or are friends of Mr Bendy. You did not clairify that.

Let me clairify who I am. I am the tennants grandson not her son. Also she was not renting an apartment from Mr Bendy. She was renting a house from him. In responce to the claim that I didn't help my grandmother move...I'm very curious to know if you even read my entire post or just parts of it?  I wrote in the post only my brother was availible t help her on a full time basis as me, my cousins and her son have "lives of our own" which is a popular expression for time consuming life events such as jobs, school and family obligations. My brother has a life of his own as well. It's just that he was the only one who did not have to go to work on both that Friday and Saturday.

What did I do? That Friday I had a doctors apointment in the early afternoon in Scottsdale. Because I did not have a car I had to take public transportation all the way to Glendale. I stayed and helped pack and find my grandma new boxes as she was running out. I helped my brother lift matresses and other heavy furniture and boxes into that Uhaul. I took a large pile of wood my brother's friends left in the front yard and put it in the backyard so Mr Bendy would not be fined by the city of Glendale for having that out there.

My problem was the buses stop running in the city of Glendale around 8:30 and I had to leave then because I did not have the money to Uber back to my apartment in central Phoenix.  I didn't want to leave but I have a new job and I cannot afford to stay up late and run the risk of not getting to work on time. I certainly did not have the money to afford to hire a moving company for my grandma as Two Men & A Truck costs $65 an hour as I live paycheck to paycheck.

I certainly believe this post is justified because Mr Bendy violated Arizona real estate laws by not providing proper notice of eviction (I was told you need to do this 30 days in advance) and by not providing proper upkeep and maintenence on the home in my grandma's 23 years there. Furthermore I believe her age is certainly relevent. She is elderly and I believe it was very rude and disturbing that Mr Bendy would treat an eighty-four year old women like this. Especially given the fact she was his customer for 23 years and always paid the rent on time and the fact she paid out of pocket to do things that were his responsibility such as repairing the gate, painting rooms and things such as maintenencing the HVAC and plumbing. Mr Bendy did not compensate her for this to my knowledge.

Mr Bendy has not even called my grandmother and offered to let her pick up any of the items she left at the home. The night of the 6th he even called her son and daughter in law and threatened that he would go to the police if they did not make sure my grandmother got out of there that night! Would you or anyone want to still rent from a landlord like this knowing this information? 

So Jim I hope my update clairifies the situation for you and for anyone else out there who had confusion of the content of this story. If you still think what Mr Bendy did was ethical I don't know how to convince you otherwise. 


James

Arizona,
United States
In responce to Jim from the OP

#5Author of original report

Sat, September 14, 2019

Hi Jim. I was suprised by the quickness of the reply and the length of time you took to write your comment to my report against Brad Bendy's real estate business. You got many things wrong and assumed some things. First I made it clear in my report it was a house not an apartment. Second I am not the son but a grandson.

Third I did help but I was very limited in the time I could dedicate to helping my grandmother move because I work a job and take public transportation. Glendale Arizona bus service shuts off earlier than Phoenix bus service so I had to leave around 8:15pm the night of the 6th. Its a new job and all new employees are on probation. Her son could not help and neither could her other grandsons.

Please dont accuse me of not helping. I lived with her from July 28th until August 31st when I moved into my apartment. I helped pack and lift tons of boxes. I helped her clean out the outdoor storage closet and put out the stuff for bulk trash. I even bought the ice and the Mountain Dew to put in my grandma's cooler for my cousin when he agreed to go up with my grandma to Globe in August so my grandma wouldn't have to stop off at Walmart. The only reason I could not help at the same extent as my brother was because I had to get a job so I could afford an apartment and save myself from ending up homeless on the streets. 

She also could not afford a moving company as 2 Men and a Truck is $65 an hour. 

I want to make it clear that yes you are right having everything in writing is practical. But that was not what this post was about. It was about exposing Mr. Bendy's business practices which I believe are unethical. In 23 years he did not obey the law in Arizona in terms of the required maintenence a landlord is expected to provide a tenant on the property. And the fact that not ony did he lie about the $40 a day in the month in September thing but he treated a long term customer who always obeyed his rules and never missed a payment so callously. Especially when they are an eighty-four year old grandmother. 

If there is anything else you want clairification on I would be more than happy to assist. But I hope you understand now the point of my post is to expose Bendy as the untrustworthy landlord he is. Not to whine and cry for attention. If I wanted to do that I would be running a youtube or twitch channel making videos with my face all over the and not typing up complaints anonymously on review sites. 


Jim

Beverly Hills,
United States
Yeah...Well....I Don't Think So...

#6Consumer Comment

Thu, September 12, 2019

Her age and the number of years she lived there are irrelevant.  They were brought up for sympathy purposes.  There is no sympathy here.  So now that we have that out of the way, let's look at this:

My grandmother found and rented a new home in Globe Arizona for a similar price. However she had lots of stuff to move and needed to leave Mr Bendy's property by September 1st.  So she provided the requisite notification that she would end her lease with the landlord on September 1st.  That would mean she would have needed to leave the place she rented on that date.  If she accumulated that much stuff, then the responsible thing for her to do was to hire movers and have them move her and her belongings to her new apartment, and I would have expected both you and your brother to pay for it if she could not afford it.  It only would have cost you about $1,000 or so....maybe a little more.

But she had little availible help and was forced to stay into the month of September....  There is simply no excuse for that.  End of story.  Now the landlord said she could stay provided she could pay $40/day in rent.  I would never have done something like that.  It's why there are contracts and they're done in writing, so that there are no misunderstandings.  The landlord probably assumed that some people would come to move her out, and he would get the apartment back within a day or so.  Friday the 6th represented one additional week Mom was in that space.  That's not acceptable...at all.  Since your Mom no longer had a lease, he was within his right to say no more on the 7th.

Panicking, my grandmother and brother had to work until 4am the next morning filling up her mini van and a 26 foot U-Haul truck. Sadly she had to leave behind her dining room table, copy machine, microwave and many other items.  That would not be the landlord's fault either.  That's on Mom.  If her belongings filled up a 26 foot rental, and she's by herself, then she had way too much stuff.  When Dad died, you three should have gone through stuff and thin out her belongings.  Toss stuff she doesn't need.  If she did that, and still had enough stuff to fill a 26' truck, then she still had too much stuff.

However, if you really want to understand the overall stupidity of this complaint - it's with all of the stuff that was left behind.  How much was all that stuff worth?  Maybe $1,000?  Maybe $2,000?  Perhaps more?  How much would you have spent to hire movers to get her out?  About the same amount, maybe less, and none of the stuff gets left behind.  You complain about the fact that stuff got left behind, yet for the cost of the items that were left behind, you could have hired movers to get her out - and on the date she needed to be.

I find it especially outrageous given my grandmothers age, his knowledge of her lack of help and because of her track record of twenty-three years as an outstanding tenant.  I find it outrageous you were not one of the people who was helping your mom move, or that you chose not to break out your checkbook to pay for a mover.  As far as Mom's track record, it's irrelevant.  She provided notification that she would be ending her lease and moving on a certain date.  She was no longer a tenant and she wasn't out on that date.  Why is this so difficult for you to get?

Now only after my grandmother is moving out is he planning to give it the house it's first renovations since the mid 1990's.  Your mom was there for 23 years, since of course the mid-1990's when the apartment was last vacant, right?  Pretty standard stuff.  Or were you expecting the landlord to kick mom out of her apartment to perform renovations?

Seriously, you decide you aren't going to help your Mom, expected your brother to move everything whe she had enough crap to fill a 26' truck and then some.  I mean how pathetic are you?  Not even a professional mover would try to do something like this alone - it would take 2-3 guys and a truck at least 2 trips, but it would get done.  At least your brother was there to help - all you did was type your fake outrage over the fact your Mom was stuck in her place because you two couldn't hire a mover.  The whole sordid story you tell is ridiculous.  You may not like the landlord, but you caused this situation - not the landlord.

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