06/27/09

Absolutely *Ridiculous*

by Thesavagetony

I live in Adams Park in Albany. I had parked in the parking lot assigned to me (that I have a parking permit for) overnight like I always do when I get home and the next morning when I go out to leave for work - my car is gone. After getting down to Osborne Street Garage, the man at the "window" was completely unprofessional and told me it would be $135 to get my car out. I asked him WHY it was towed in the first place and he said I didnt have a permit.

Funny, my permit is hanging in my car's rear view mirror and I can see it from here. Even worse, my car was damaged from being towed - I now can't go in reverse and I have to either fix it for $900 or buy a new car because of these @$$holes.

On top of that, they heard the person I was with talking to my landlord about this place and the owner comes out SCREAMING at him, calling him a f3cking liar.

Don't get me wrong, I understand that these people have a job to do, but towing cars out of a private parking lot JUST BECAUSE THEY FEEL LIKE IT is complete and utter horse sh1t.

• Pros: The owner will DIE one day.
• Cons: Completely unprofessional, broke my car, cursed at me, etc.

05/20/09

Not worth the time

by CSMobileUser

My car got towed while I was in NYC @ school. They charge $35 a day to leave it outside where it can be rained on, snowed on, have a tree fall on it, anything. Then when you call them they give YOU an attitude. There making money when they do nothing.

12/15/08

Abusive towing practices they did at our big apt. complex, City made them stop, then many of our tires got mysteriously slashes shortly after

by CrystalJustice

These guys were so awful about towing cars at our apartment complex. Every night they'd come and charge you like $150 to get your car back. Some of the time they were justified. Some of the time, it just wasn't right. On one of those occasions they said they took pictures and would give it to us and never did! It was also time city and complex told them to stop towing because they were being abusive and they were no longer allowed to tow at our apartment complex like that! I'm sure they were easily making $10g just off our complex (towing several cars a day, times 30 days, times $150). SO they lost a lot of business with the unethical towing. Low and behold, not to long after, 50 or so cars throughout the complex all had their tires flattened. Some of the people we talked to, coincidentally all had their cars tolled at some point, but we weren't all signed to the petition against their abuse to the city. I found it highly suspicious. Three years here and no slashed tires like that, until the apartment people armed together to stop this abusive towing practices.

• Pros: Aggressive, make a lot of money off us, some of the towing is justified
• Cons: They got abusive and did a lot of towing unjustified, never showed pictures, when apt. people complained and they were told not to tow here, many tires were slashed in middle of night