On Thursday, July 2nd, 2009, I woke up to find a large green ‘no parking’ sticker plastered on my driver’s side window. These are the emails that followed. Names have not been censored to protect the innocent.

Hi Lenny:

I gave you a call this morning but I haven’t heard back yet. In
anticipation of any questions you may have I have attached my most recent direct-deposit stub to this email. Please feel free to contact me at this email, or at my work number: (XXX) XXX-XXXX. If you have questions regarding my references, feel free to call my boss Aaron XXXXX, whose number I have provided on the application,
or for any questions regarding this paystub, please contact the 10east office manager, Sue XXXXXXXXX at (XXX) XXX-XXXX, who can also provide reference information.

Regards,
William Hunt

Mr. Hunt-

I am awaiting the background check results, and will be able to submit the application to the screening committee once received. After the committee gets the info it takes between 24 and 48 hours to render a decision. I will need a copy of your driver license as well, if you can scan that and send it or fax it to the number below it will help speed up the process. Thanks,
Lenny Schonfeld III

Hi Lenny:

Tried to send via fax but didn’t get an answer, so here’s a scanned copy. Please let me know if there is anything else.

Regards,
Will

From: Will Hunt
Subject: [Fwd: Re: Residency Application]
To: gshornsby@yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 9:47 AM

This is the current state of things. I have provided Lenny with my drivers license and paystub.

Will

he must have put it in until yesterday; doesn’t take more than 48 hrs to get one back. i know it wasn’t as extensive, but i was able to get yours within 30 mins. i will call gwen tomorrow and see what i can do on my end about speeding up the process.

Re: Residency Application
To: lschonfeld@stellar.net
CC: gshornsby@yahoo.com

I am still waiting for the results of this after 48 hours. I find it totally unacceptable and frankly rude that I am being forced through this system after living at Nature’s Hideaway for over 3 months. I have been renting for 8 years and I have never been in a situation where my candidacy for residency was in question *after* I assumed tenancy. I understand that it was my landlord’s failure to follow your procedures that caused the confusion in the first place, but this has not only inconvenienced her, it has inconvenienced me, and more importantly, it has scared my wife. That is completely unacceptable to me.

Please let me know what the results of this are immediately.

Lenny Schonfeld wrote:
Will

The background check came back this morning, credit was pulled, and the package was sent to the screening committee this afternoon. I’m not sure if I was unclear, but the screening committee has 48 hours from the time when the package is received to render a decision. Unfortunately the company we use to provide background scans can take up to 4 days to return results, and individuals who have lived in multiple states take longer to complete. I am sorry you feel inconvenienced, but this process was in place prior to the execution of your rental agreement and should have been handled prior to your residency in the community. I cannot issue a decision, as I have no authority to do so, but I can tell you that your background check was clean and your credit score was above the minimum requirements so you should be fine. I will send official word as soon as I receive confirmation.

Lenny Schonfeld III

I understand your position and I appreciate the work you’ve done, Lenny, but this situation is completely ridiculous. Suzanne told me when I moved in that she’d have to do a credit and background check and she indicated to me that it had been done and I was all clear. She even said at first she wouldn’t have to, then after “checking” with the housing association, she came back and informed me that it was necessary. Then, when moving in, she took the parking slip registration note that had been slipped into my door and said that she would handle it. I had assumed at that time since someone had come by to put it in my door, that the association knew about me moving in.

To be frank, and I’m saying this to you, personally, without quoting her on this email, but I really am almost hoping you guys decide not to approve me. I really don’t want to have to deal with a landlord who has blatantly lied to me. She told me when I moved in that the couple that lived at the property before I moved in were deadbeats and ruined the refridgerator, had unauthorized pets, and so on. I’m wondering how much of that was even true and how much was an attempt to garner sympathy. I’m not sure what the legal ramifications for me are at this point, however. My boss lives over at the Venetian and someone he knows over there is trying to rent out a very nice loft at the moment. The issue from my end is that I am leasing a condo at which I have not even been authorized to park and that I had to learn this by walking out to my car and finding a big green sticker stuck on my windshield.

I guess the best thing you could do at this point is relay my concerns to the council of elders or whoever it is who is making these administrative decisions. This should never be allowed to happen and I would have rather heard about it a week into my residency when I still had another apartment leased than 3 months later.

Regards,
Will