Karl’s Kleanout & Removal Service

I moved into a new apartment in Philadelphia, and Karr’s removal service had been contracted to remove a piece of furniture left behind by the previous tenant. Unfortunately, he also removed all of the belongings we had already moved into the apartment, including wedding gifts worth around $ 1200.
When I contacted Karl, I was met with a remarkable series of lies. On the phone, he always claimed he would immediately pay us back the full amount owed, but then would do nothing. It became increasingly difficult to reach him on the phone: when I called from my cell phone, he would not answer; calling from a different phone number would get him to pick up the phone. He would tell me that he was just stepping out of the car, and would call me back in a couple of minutes: no return call. He claimed that he was not receiving the emails I was sending him (to the email address on his business card). After a two-​week silence, he claimed that a friend of his had died, and that he would now immediately send the check. No check arrived.
I got my real-​estate management company (Allan Domb Real Estate) involved, and on the phone, he would tell them every day that he would immediately contact me and send payment, but he never contacted me. Finally after a month, they put enough pressure on him that he wrote a check for $ 700 (just a little more than half of what he owed me). But I stopped fighting at this point because it was no longer worth my time. The result is I get back half of what I lost, and Allan Domb real estate will not do business with Karl Karr any more. I strongly advise that nobody else do business with Karl Karr either; he is blatantly dishonest, and on top of that, appears to run an inept removal service. I have never before encountered someone with such a total lack of shame.