It’s a type of ripoff that’s hard to believe: a local property management company we’ve been covering is renting homes that it no longer owns.
A source tells Local 4 News that’s the latest trouble facing Jones Lease Properties.
Local 4 News first heard about these inappropriate rental payments from a source who wants to remain anonymous because of her involvement with the properties, but she said Jones Lease Properties collected as much as $8,000 on foreclosed homes and that money should be going to the bank.
A different woman, Christine Drewery, has lived in a Jones Lease Properties house for more than two years before a bank foreclosed on it. She said someone from Jones Lease Properties called her today looking for payment — a payment Drewery thought was supposed to go to the new property management company that took over when the bank foreclosed on her house.
She still has the letter from the bank that told her any more payments need to be made to the contracted property manager.
“It just really upset me that they were trying to collect money from us that’s already been sent somewhere else,” Drewery said.
It’s only Drewery ‘s latest frustration with Jones Lease Properties.
Her family lived in the house for more than two years and it has problems: the basement floods, there’s a hole in the kitchen ceiling and Drewery said the foundation is weak.
“they’ll send somebody or they’ll give us the run around and since February of this year haven’t really had anything done,” she said.
Drewery is now looking for a new home for her family, but she keeps seeing familiar signs.
“There’s for rent signs,Jones Lease Properties or JP Rentals, and nobody knows what they’re actually getting into,” she said.
She’s warning people like her to stay away.
“It’s a mess. It’s a mess that I wouldn’t wish on anybody,” Drewery said.
Local 4 News spoke with an employee at Jones Lease Properties Monday. He said our stories about the company were one-sided and “gossip.” We told him this was his opportunity to get their side out there, but he ultimately said the company had not comment and did not want to be contacted anymore.
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