Phoenix, Arizona

created by: 2Aslan78 04/06/2009 09:27PM

I write this as a fair warning to those of you thinking about moving to Phoenix, Arizona- specifically the area of Goodyear, a small suburb of that city. I am a member of the United States military. I returned to Phoenix, AZ after a three month deployment in August of 2007. When I looked for a place to stay, I considered a number of factors- appearance of the house/apartment, attitude of the landlord/manager, and the financial stability of the homeowner/company in charge. The last thing I wanted to do was to agree to a lease with a person or company that would go bankrupt in short order. When I moved in to a house on Edgemont Avenue in Goodyear, Arizona I believed that the homeowner (who incidentally was quick to mention at least seven times during the first half hour we knew eachother that he was a "licensed" real estate agent and therefore knew the market inside and out) was financially secure. I felt as if I had found a nice home in a safe neighborhood and that the homeowner was quite mature. That is, until the end of the first week of my residence. At the end of the third day, I found a Holy Bible with a set of house rules included inside the cover: Dan's House Rules 1) No alcohol in this house at any time. Failure to abide by this rule results in eviction. 2) No people of the opposite sex in this house past nine PM. Failure to abide by this rule results in eviction. 3) Tenants are expected to attend Bible Study at seven AM Sunday morning or to participate in some sort of community service to be determined by the landlord. (It should be noted here that bible studies were begun at six in the morning and went on for four hours. The beginnings of these featured Daniel screaming each tenants' name before pounding on doors. 4) No swearing or taking the lord's name in vain (to this he later added a rule where each of the tenants was to have at least one piece of religious propaganda to be approved by himself, or tenants would of course risk eviction). 5) Landlord reserves the right to arrive at the house at any time (this is a direct violation of AZ law, and was met with severe aggression on Daniel's part, not to mention eviction of any person who would bring it up.) My first summer at the place was horrible, as the AC didn't work for the entirety of the summer season- five months, to be exact. Each of the tenants threatened to move out if the AC was not maintained (it was often 95 degrees or better in the house). After three tenants escaped the Edgemont religulous asylum and penitentiary, Daniel grudgingly fixed the AC units- I discovered later that the total cost of the repairs was a whopping $50. During the gas crunch (when a gallon of gas surged past $4), Daniel began to show a great deal of anxiety up until the middle of the month when magically, his anxiety evolved into unbridled beligerence- each time I or any other tenant would ask a simple question (such as whether or not he wanted the rugs in the house shampooed), Daniel would immediately begin screaming and shouting, declaring that the person asking the question "had no right" to carry out such actions, that "all driveby salepeople were to go to hell" and that if he were to see any tenants talking to salespeople they would immediately be evicted and the police would be contacted. It was shortly after Daniel passed down this edict that I discovered he had spent three thousand dollars of tenant rent money on a steam engine for his panel delivery truck. The purpose of this steam engine was to boost the fuel economy of his truck to more than fifty miles per gallon. After a failed attempt to force a tenant to install said engine booster at his "store" (which quite frankly was lucky to pass ny public health inspections as it was downright filthy) in downtown Phoenix he did, in fact install it himself...and blew out the headgasket of his truck's engine, which cost him another five hundred dollars to fix. In the mean time, his mortgage (a grand total of $250,000 for three houses which he had somehow been approved for on a $15/hr tortilla delivery route) began to fall behind. And so after five months(in other words, by Feb 2009), banks started leaving little notices on the door. And in the mail. And staked into the ground. Each time, Daniel would pull them up and throw them out. When asked if everything was copacetic, I received a curtly worded response which, in not so many words, alluded to the fact that tenants at the house on Edgemont were now a liability which he could not have been more inconvenienced by. By the middle of February 2009, Chevy Chase bank left a note on the door, which stated “to whom it may concern: Be advised that Chevy Chase Bank is now the owner of this home. Please call xxx-xxx-xxxx to discuss your move-out date. Owner may offer cash for keys.” And so, I called Daniel to discuss the matter a total of seven times to gain a level of clarity on the issue, to no avail. He did, however, send a text demanding an immediate full payment for the months of february and a pre-payment for the month of march- from me and from another tenant, to total two thousand dollars. I deferred on this, espousing the belief that since he no longer owned the house, I was not about to pay him. I let him know about this and, much to my chagrin, found a note on my room door stating “I’ve taken the bed out of your room. Animals like you should sleep nowhere but on the floor.” The day after I received this note, I called the number listed on the note from Chevy Chase and inquired as to how long the mortgage had gone unpaid and was given an approximate time window of eight months. As there had been at least two tenants residing in the house during that time, Daniel was receiving over $16,000 in rent, not one penny of which went to paying his mortgage. When asked where the money was, Daniel would mention the fact that his “nine mill was looking real friendly” and that “there were plenty of spots in the desert to ditch slimebag tenants.” This man, who at the beginning of my tenancy at this place was extolling the virtues of God was now threatening my life. Around this time, Daniel was also making statements against the government, the most notable was a slew of ignorance that was uttered over the phone: “this nation is a desecration obamanation. Obama is a tyrant who must be stopped by any and all means necessary. If you (meaning me) call yourself a Christian, you must rise up and stop this insanity. We , all good christians must recall our senators, abolish all forms of secular government and secede from the union. Thomas Jefferson once said that the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants, and obama is a tyrant.” As soon as he uttered the word “tyrant”, I tuned out for the most part. I did hear him, mind you, claim that military members are “mindless zombies of an oppressive regime” who would serve as “collateral damage” in the creation of a “more perfect union.” I hung up shortly thereafter and called the Department of Homeland Security. I write this for no other reason than to confide in you the belief that Daniel Lee Heins is a psychopath, liar, scam artist, hypocrite, and a thief in the purest form. Refused to remit housing deposit. Allowed black widows, scorpions and wolf spiders to reside in house, refusing to kill them stating that they are "gods creatures". Windows,doors, patio sliding entrance covered in black widow spider webs. Lied to tenants about mortgage situation and embezzled rent rather than pay mortgage. Property is covered in weeds. Refused to provide hot water. Garbage disposal broken, never repaired. Neglected animals at property, refused to feed or properly see to their well being. Walked in on tenants without proper warning (az state law requires 24 hours notice, often only gave two minutes' notice) Often shouted and screamed at tenants when they refused to agree with his points of view on various issues. Threatened eviction if tenants didn't declare loyalty to God and religion. Attempted to collect rent on property he didn't own- house was foreclosed and his name removed from the title deed, but he still attempted to collect rent without legal right to do so. Attempted to steal personal belongings from rooms when tenants are out of the house or out of town. Offers to reimburse tenants for cerain expenses but then fails to follow through. When tenants departed the house on Edgemont Ave, we were afforded the opportunity to be reimbursed for the cost of our moving expenses. On the day the lender did a walk through before officially putting the house back on the market, it was found that Daniel Heins left 1500 pounds of useless junk in the garage- a broken pinball machine. Old rugs which wreaked of cat urine. a moldy washing machine. bags of kitty litter filled with cat feces. Rubberized foam squares that can be used to cover a floor. Empty crates of expired home cleaning materials, vehicle fluids, dishware (cups, plates, bowls) and so on. On the outside of the house, He also allowed an additional 250 pounds of rotting wood to remain at the house. All told, this useless junk cost both of his former tenants more than $300 to remove. Further piles of cat feces were strewn throughought various parts of the yard. Daniel owns a large white panel truck and trailer that could have been used to haul those materials to the dump, but here again Daniel chose to force his tenants (whom he attempted to scam out of two month's rent when he didn't even own the property) to pay to clean up his messes. Potential tenant beware. This man not only lies through his teeth every chance he gets, but he also attempts to use his tenants as his own personal piggy bank. When such tactics don't work, he simply threatens their safety.