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Do Not Rent at any of the units owned by a Mike Pinzini on Santa cruz ave. in Ocean Beach. The unit I rented was dirty, and the appliances barely worked the, oven was gross and fell apart, the dishwasher didn’t work and I repaired the garbage disposal a few times.
The location was great, the rent was high, Mike is a d! ck and complained most of the time about the trash, but never came to fix anything. Mike would try to bring over renters to check out the place, while we were living there a huge inconvience. Don’t rent there!!!

4933 Santa Cruz Ave, MIKE PINZINI will steal your money.
We recently rented from Mike Pinzini and lived in the townhouse 4931. While we lived there, we took out the trash and showed the places to prospective renters for him because he «let us park in back without a $ 100/​mo fee» which most places in Ocean Beach don’t charge for a parking spot for a house. We constantly had people coming in and bothering us because mike told them to talk to us to see the place.
In Mike’s ad, the townhouses are from $ 2,000 — 2,400. ACTUALLY he doesn’t rent any of them out for $ 2,000, they are all rented for 2,400 and every single one requires a $ 2,400 deposit. The $ 2,000 is just a ploy to get people to come look.
He states that the units have washer’s and dryers. There is an old set of washers and dryers out back, but they are up against a wall with no plumbing. They arent even plugged in. He just bought the washer and dryer to help sell the places. They do not and will not ever work, I asked and asked him to fix them but how can he if there is no plumbing?
Our only next door neighbor would always come over and complain that Mike Pinzini ripped him off because the ceiling was leaking bathroom water into his little girls room. He had asked and asked Mike to fix it. Mike said he would, but didn’t and for the next four months continued to charge $ 2400 a month until our neighbors had enough and moved away.
I had talked to mike and told him that I was about to get out of the marines, I wasn’t going to have a job in between when I got out and when I was going to go to school. I let him know that I was going to need the full deposit back to help me live for a bit. I told mike that when he did his walk through before we left, I would pay for and repair any damages.
The only damages was a small hole in the wall from where the satelite cable came through into the living room. I told him I would repair it, but he told me not to because the paint would not match. I agreed to let him take what he needed to repair the hole out of the $ 2,400 deposit.
After cleaning the place up and getting all the oil out of the driveway for mike with 7 hours of work and a lot of «cement restore», I left the place spotless and ready for the next renter to move in. I felt I had helped mike out and he too was impressed with the driveway and clean house.
We all were out of the townhouse on the 27^th of March and I asked mike how he would like to take care of the deposit and he told me he would call me on the 1^st of April about it. I called mike on the 29^th to ask him something but he did not pick up. I left a message. I waited til the 1^st of April and did not hear from Mike. I called Mike 2 days later and left another message. Still no reply. I sent mike 3 letters requesting for my $ 2,400 deposit. Still no reply. I sent 2 certified letters to his office and to where we sent our rent money. Still no reply and the letters were sent back as «unclaimed».
We served Mike and tried to take him to court. In California, if the landlord doesnt send the deposit back to the tenant within 21 days of vacancy, the tenant can sue for the deposit plus two times the amount of the deposit. We got our court date and I drove from Colorado to California to show up for court. Mike Pinzini did not show up and we were awarded $ 7,200.
Mike Pinzini still has not contacted us and I have lost over $ 4,000 in cleaning, repairs, traveling for court, court fees and of course our $ 2,400 deposit.
Since Mike will not pay us, the deposit is going to have to be collected by the creditors. If he doesn’t pay the creditors, the creditors will stop bothering mike about it in about 7 years and Mike will have successfully stolen $ 2,400 from us.
He did the same thing to the neighbor who moved out because of leaky ceilings. Mike Pinzini did not return his deposit.
Few landlords will scam people like this but it happens and it works for the landlords.
DO NOT RENT FROM MIKE PINZINI