black hills snowmobile rentals

I encourage anyone considering snowmobile rental in the Black Hills SD area to avoid "Black Hills snowmobile rental" at all cost. Myself and 9 family members booked a trip in the summer of 2014 with "Jake" . Before departing for our trip in February 2015 we called "Jake " to make sure there would be enough snow and that the brand new sleds he promised would be ready. Jake assured us that there was a four foot snow base and the sleds were all ready to go.Upon arrival at the rental location we found several old, worn out and poorly maintained snowmobiles. There was also no snow base with the occasional inch or less of packed snow/ice between the rocks and dirt... We expressed our concerns to Jake about the trail conditions and were assured that the trails would get better " just over the hill" . We mentioned to Jake that maybe canceling the rental would be a good idea, but his response was " I have no money but I can give hugs all day"....At this we figured we might as well see what was " over the hill" as Jake was paid months ahead and was keeping the money. We went out to the lot to find the " brand new sleds " Jake had promised us. There where no new sleds, all had been patched together with zippy ties and duct tape. Most where 10 years old or more, 3 were only 5 years old. All had various degrees of damage. Many did not start and all had some sort of issue that took hours to patch together. Mine was the best of the lot with no working reverse, minimal if any braking, zippy tied front clip, bent control arms and a slipping drive belt. Some of the others needed pull started and two of the ones we did leave the rental shop with broke down in less than 25 miles.. Jake had us park the sleds at a different location than where we rented them, then used our truck to shuttle the drivers of the sleds. The next day when we drove the 30 miles to get the sleds , we were met by a disgruntled man instructing us to get all of these sleds off his property and referred to Jake as "a crook".One of the sleds lost a control arm and its drive track in less than 90 miles which stranded that rider. Jake is presently trying to extort money from that rider. Jake was very insistent that we all have insurance on the sleds and asked that we park them along side the road with the keys in them the next night..??? Not sure if this is standard practice but I found it suspicious . At the very kindest I could say Jake, (aka Michael J Rohr), is a fraudulent "businessman" but personally feel he is nothing more than a common criminal. Avoid renting here at all cost