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454 Carlton Ave. Bethlehem, Pa. Hyoung Joon Park
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Carlton Horror 11/10/2010 12:18AM
There is so much to say about this horrid slumlord (Hyoung Joon Park aka Leo)it is much easier to list my experience: 1. He signed a lease with me (family with small children)even though he currently had a lease with the current renters of 454 Carlton Ave. The day before we were to move I visited the rental and was shocked to see people living in it who had no idea they were moving. 2. The night before he meets with us and tells us the current renters would not relocate. Note: he was trying to force them to move even though they had a lease with them that did not expire for four months. 3. Our family was forced to move into one of his other properties (located in a junkyard)as we had no other place to go and had to be out of our old apartment. 4. The house was infected by bedbugs; all of us were covered with sores. 5. He came to spray the house and proceeded to spray all of our clothing, bedding and furniture with pesticide. He told me it was safe, later I found out it was toxic to humans and was a general pesticide. 6. After a month went by, I negotiated with the current tenets of the apartment and got them to agree to move - they were Lehigh students and felt bad for my family. 7. I paid $800 for professional movers, he refused to reimburse me but, insisted he would use his van to move my family of four belongings - I had no choice so I agreed. He damaged our items, took days to do it and some of our furniture is missing. 8. He told us the new place did not have bedbugs but, once my family moved in we got infested again. The previous renters later told us that in fact the house too was infested. I had to pay for the exterminator to come and spray. This is when we were told the white powder all over the house was severely toxic and was used for bedbugs in small cracks. My whole family had the powder all over them for days. 9. The heat was double of what he told us and at times has been broken for weeks. 10. Severe leaks were never fixed and sinks were shut off in the bathroom. 11. My son put his leg through the rotted front porch which Hyoung Joon Park promised to fix over a year ago. 12. He refused to give us a water bill for 1.5 years and then demanded 1100 within 48 hours. When asked to fix the leaks and take a $100 off for the wasted water pouring from the facets he told us to move. 13. He signed a contract promising to move us to our new home and as of this evening he is refusing to do so which leaves us with the bill once again. I have never met such a dishonest man in my life. He will lie to your face time and time again. He rents to Lehigh University Students which he takes advantage of constantly. There is nothing more to say....