(Newswire.net — December 29, 2013) Idaho Springs, CO. — “I was just trying to finish up my college studies using the last of my GI bill, and with so little money coming in from the VA for my Iraq war disabilities I had to take what I could get as far as a rental house,” the disabled war veteren explained. “When Kamalesh Patel, known as Kim Patel, and running under the company name Breton Highlands, offered me the ability to make a small amount of money managing the storage units and storefront that are attached to the rental home at 2712 Colorado Blvd. Idaho Springs, CO. 80452 I jumped at the chance. This arrangement was perfect, I could finish college, have a place to live, and make a little money to offset the un-believably high rent of $1,250 for the rental home in Idaho Springs, Co. If it were not for the commissions from the storage units I would have never been able to afford a place of my own.”
“This perfect opportunity began to slowly deteriorate over the past year, even though I raised all the rent on the storage units plus renting the empty units greatly increasing Kamalesh Patel’s profit. I guess I should have had a clue when I told him the phone for the storage units stopped working and he left to buy new ones, and after an hour returned with 2 broken old wall phones that looked to be 30 years old and an old answering machine he said he just got from a garage sale,” the disabled Iraq war vet reported.
The war vet continued his sad story, “Then things began to go bad in the home, like the 40 year old hot water heater that was in the small crawl space under the house stopped working because the entire bottom rusted out. When I reported this to Kamalesh Patel, he said he wanted me to purchase a new thermocoupler to fix it, however with the entire bottom rusted out and seperated from the hot water heater that was impossible. He was not happy that he had to purchase a new one because he just wanted to repair the old rusted one, but he finally agreed to buy a new one if I would drive down to Home Depot that was 20 miles down the mountain and pick it up, plus install it myself which was very difficult since the old one was buried 3 feet into the ground under the crawl space. After using my truck and my own gas, then spending 2 days trying to get the old one out and the new one down into that small dug out space, plus going 5 days with no hot water before he purchased the new one, Kamalesh Patel grew very angry when I asked for a measly $10 per hour to compensate for my time to install the new one. He told me it was totally un-justified and since I lived there I shoud fix it for nothing since he bought the new hot water heater.”
The experience for the disabled war veteran goes downhill from there, and over the course of the next few months, the oven stopped working, the plumbing backed up several times which the war vet had to fix himself with Kamalesh Patel reimbursing for parts only, the refrigerator stopped working, and most of the electrical outlets did not work. The war veteran said, “Kamalesh Patel repeatedly asked me to repair these things, so I bought a new refrigerator myself and was never re-imbursed for. I could not fix the electrical problems because the breakers were so old Home Depot said they had not even been manufactured for over 40 years, so I had to live with the other issues that Kamalesh Patel refused to fix.”
The story ended in a tragic way, and is un-believable that our war veterans are treated this way. “Finally when the very old boiler stopped working from being overloaded because it had to heat not only the home but the store that is being rented by someone else, and I had to pay the gas bill for the heat with no re-imbursement either. It just could not take the repeated 20 below zero temperatures. I knew I had to finally move which would be very hard in the below zero temperatures and keep up my college studies. I also did not have any extra money except the $1,250 deposit I had on the home and the last months commissions that Kamalesh Patel owed me, however, Kamalesh Patel refuses to return my $1,250 deposit along with the commissions he owes me! I did not even get to take the refrigerator I bought because I have nowhere to take it or any of the furniture I had collected, all I could take are my few personal things since I am out on the streets. Thanks for taking away what little bit of dream I did have at a life after the war Kamalesh Patel, even though I fought for your rights! Now I can’t even finish college because I can’t find a new place in the area, all because Kamalesh Patel refuses to do the right thing.”
This is an outrage America, and this reporter is trying to do something about it by exposing this slumlord so he does not take advantage of anyone else. This is a public outcry for a boycott on Breton Highland storage units and rental properties owned by Kamalesh Patel in Idaho Springs, CO.