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Renter beware! This place is run by scammers, and they will steal your money. When I went to pick up the car - a Mazda CX-9 SUV - I noticed extensive damage to the car. When I mentioned it to an employee nearby, she told me that I should go ahead and take it, have the security guard at the exit note all of the damage, and I wouldn't have to worry about anything. A gut feeling told me I would regret this, but I was running late to where I need to go, so I went ahead and did that. Before I did though, I walked around taking photos of the damage to the vehicle. There was also a smell inside the vehicle that was nearly identical to that of a college dorm room - you know the smell. 18 years old, forgot to clean your sheets for half the semester, dirty clothes piled up somewhere, and the smell of hangover sweat. Oh, and a bunch of sand in places that I honestly don't know how the previous driver got sand into. In retrospect, I should have returned the car and asked for my money back. Instead, I went ahead and drove off after the security guard circled the damage. When I returned the car, I made sure the person I gave the car back to was aware of the various issues with the car. His abrupt and very rude reply was almost like he immediately dismissed me and acted like my existing was offensive to him. He snapped "it looks like normal wear and tear to me." and then refused to acknowledge my existence afterwards. Fast forward a month. A letter came in the mail telling me they were charging me $119 for damages done to the car, which, honestly, I'm impressed they could find only $90 in damages, and the $29 admin fee seemed a bit steep since I don't think the people who handle most of the admin side of things are US based. This means it likely cost them about $0.25 plus postage - twice - and they pocketed the rest. I sent an email to Budget letting them know I believed this to be incorrect and that they should not be taking the money out. I asked for photos of the damage and an explanation, and instead I got an email back that more or less told me to get lost. The explanation was that since I didn't buy the damage waiver, I had no rights, and they didn't take photos of small claim damages. Basically, they punished me for their poor maintenance practices, and then furthermore decided that since I didn't buy their damage waiver, they would find a way to force me to pay for that anyway. If visible damages exist like this, how bad is the maintenance on the engine, etc? Do not rent from here unless you wish to be forced to pay for their neglect.
Nate WertNate Wert
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The pickup was horrible. The person at the counter, Julio, was very rude and didn’t know the meaning of customer service. I asked if I could get a small size car. He snapped at me and said, “you will get what you reserved”. Yes, I understand that, but I reserved a manager’s special or manager’s choice or something like that so it didn’t tell me what I would get. I tried explaining this to him and he just looked at me and said, “then you will get whatever I choose”. I asked again if I could have a smaller car, and he said no, you get what I choose. You don’t get to choose. He made a couple snarky remarks and gave us the car keys, we went upstairs to find that he gave us a car we couldn’t get to, as there were 3 rows of parked cars in front of it and a car behind it. There was no one from Budget in the area so we asked the person working the gate booth and he walked over to the car and said sorry, you’re not getting that out. They need to give you a different car. We walked all the way back to the counter, waited in another 20 min long line to tell Julio he gave us a car that we can’t get to. He started complaining about his team, how they didn’t tell him and that they should have marked that row off. He finally gave us keys to a different car. Stay clear of this location. What should have taken 15-20 mins, took about an hour with a very unfriendly and rude employee.
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2501 N Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505
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