Review of Stephen (Steve) Ross by Anonymous

“Stephen (Steve) Ross is the worst landlord I’ve ever had. He will make up his own rules despite the lease. Ultimately he evicted us because he ‘never liked us’ but really it was because we often didn’t put up with his bullshit. Some of the biggest problems with him included:

• He deposited our check 2 weeks late (despite the lease stating everything had to be squared away by the 5th). Due to this, it over drafted our account by $4. He then waited another week to notify us, but charged us a daily late fee for the full 3 weeks before notifying us. If he had deposited our check within those 5 days, the account would not have been over drafted. He was unwilling to acknowledge his own actions in this, and threatened it wouldn’t be good for us if we didn’t pay the fee. He said it was ‘hard to get to the bank on time’ despite him picking up rent a day before the 1st of the month. After we paid this additional fee, is when he evicted us.
• Showing up unannounced
• Insisting that he has to enter your apartment to pick up rent
• Unwilling to fix things like a dishwasher that never worked, and a fence in the back that is falling apart.
• The heat constantly went out in the winter
• After we had been renting for well over 2 years, he went into our attic where we had storage, and tried to claim that we had to get a storage unit and that we couldn’t store anything beyond luggage and a Christmas tree up there. (despite 1/3 of the stuff up there being his own lumber)
• When we moved in he evicted someone in the neighboring building for racist suspicions that the tenant was dealing drugs. Despite not having any evidence other than ‘people hanging around’.
• I’ve heard multiple stories of him sexually propositioning tenants.”