March 22, 2024
There is so much fraud and scam going on in Arizona, that the email address for the volunteer from the Arizona Attorney General office is [email protected]. Cindy comes to the Sun City West owners and rentals association every Monday to meet with victims. Here is the rest of the story.
We decided to celebrate my brother Geoff’s 70th birthday at my sister’s house in Sun City West. Last December, brother Bill booked a house in Sun City West. He booked it through VRBO. On Wednesday, March 6th, Bill tried time after time to get the instructions for entry to the house. Voice mail and texting only lead to more text messages in response, but no code. We rented a car at the airport and arrived at the house about 6:30. We were met in the driveway by a fellow whom we assumed to be the host. He quickly corrected us and said something about his wife was in the adjoining unit crying. They had a lot of trouble getting into their side of the house. He showed me a piece of paper with two four-digit codes. Neither one worked for the house, but 7890 did work for the outside door to the shared laundry room. We still needed a key to enter the house. Without any four-digit code for the key box, we had to call sister Kathie and told her we would have to spend the night at her place.
That evening Bill received a message from VRBO that the key box must have been broken and it would be fixed by Thursday morning. We still had not received a four-digit code from the house owner, but I tried the 7890 code for the house and the key box opened. We were upset about not being able to get in on Wednesday, but we were finally in. I decided to take a nap before we would go grocery shopping. When I got up from my nap, Bill told me that we were being evicted. To make a long story short, the very fine print in the rental agreement stated that we had to check in by text between noon and 4pm MST. We were in the airplane most of that time frame, so we were not in compliance. The owner is a scam artist. One story we heard was of a 90-year-old man losing $8,000. We at least had a place to stay. Bill did have to sleep on the couch. Others, coming later for the party, had to book hotel rooms. We hope to get VRBO to remove this property from their approved rental list. Please be careful out there.
St. John’s Prep Theater is presenting “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” at the Paramount Center for the Arts, opening tonight. My granddaughter’s company Zygoatian LLC is one of the sponsors of show.
If you need t-shirts or any other promotional material, go to www.zygoatian.com I hope to see you there.
“Manure Occureth”
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