We have had a great experience with CJL over the past 4 years. The team is always responsive,…read morefriendly, and happy to help in a timely manner. Shout out to Caren K. who has been a huge help with our lease renewal, always making sure we stay informed and updated throughout the entire process. Overall an excellent team to have as a renter in Massachusetts!

Tim at CJL recently helped us with the sale of our family home. It was an unusual property and he…read moredid a great job of marketing it to the appropriate buyers. He worked very hard throughout the process, keeping us informed every step of the way. We were surprised at how fast things happened, but all for the best. Tim's professional and friendly manner made him a pleasure to work with. I would not hesitate to recommend Tim and CJL!

Horrible to work with! They only have three listings currently and they are all rentals. One of the…read moreemployees there, the one we had to work with has worked there five years but has never sold a house. That speaks volumes!

From the owner: Comprehensive property management solutions at an all-inslusive, straightforward and reasonable…read moreprice!

As for service property management, Bill Kring and his team has been providing timely and great…read moreservices, from small work to major services from tenant's view. You can depend on the Kring Property Management for your property management needs.

Bill Kring is exceptional at property management. He managed a condo I had in Quincy for years and…read moreevery time there was a problem or an issue, Bill was on it. I wouldn't even know about it until after it was fixed in most cases. He took the headache out of being a Landlord. Then we decided to sell the property and the tenant was being difficult about leaving. We would have lost the sale if not for Kring Property using creative thinking to get the job done. We were able to sell the property and move on. I am grateful we had Kring Property Management on our side and I would recommend them to anyone who rents property but wants to remove the headaches.

I called the general Benoit number after receiving an unsolicited text message from a realtor…read morelooking to show my apartment. We had requested that our personal information not be shared with real estate agents and for our property manager to handle communications regarding rental for 9/1 as we are not renewing, but still received a text to both my husband and my cell phone asking to show the unit, with less that 48 hours noticed (required by the city of Somerville). We never consented to playing rental agent on behalf of our property management company and never consented to provide our personal information to offices around town. I called Benoit after receiving the text message asking for our phone numbers to be removed from their records. The person who answered the phone who claimed to the the owner was rude and berated me on the phone, yelling that I did not understand how the rental business worked, after requesting that our personal information be deleted. When I pushed back and asked again, he continued to bark into the phone. Completely unprofessional, unhelpful, and wildly disrespectful of a tenant of 6 years in their current apartment. Would not at all recommend doing business with this organization, they clearly care only about money and don't have any semblance of professionalism, respect, or human decency.

All real estate agencies are a little bit slimy, but his one is particularly bad. In their…read morecontract paperwork it says that they get to keep the broker's fee upon submission of your renting application, regardless of what happens thereafter. That means that even if the landlord refuses your renting application you're still out the equivalent of a month's rent. These guys also made a whole lot of promises that they couldn't keep. They promised that my application would be accepted and that I would get the apartment, but they were dead wrong on both counts. If you choose to work with these guys make sure to fact check everything they say, because they're lying through their teeth most of the time.

I have lived in Green Ocean Property Management buildings for the last eight years. In that time I…read morewent from being a college student to a young professional to now a future husband. And accordingly with my budget, they always had something available to me. They always were able to help anytime I put in Maintance request. You can definitely tell the people care.

Extremely unprofessional experience with Green Ocean Property Management. I had three separate…read moreshowings scheduled, and every single time the appointment was canceled after I had already arrived. There's no excuse for confirming appointments without properly coordinating with tenants first. This shows a complete lack of organization and respect for people's time. After multiple wasted trips, it's clear this is not a one-time mistake but a pattern. I would strongly caution anyone considering working with this company--expect poor communication, unreliable scheduling, and unnecessary inconvenience.

Real Property Management Commonwealth is one of the most pathetic property managers I have ever…read moredealt with in my decade of living in the Boston area. The landlord hired RPM-C after we first moved into our apartment (within days) because of multiple issues - including Central AC needing to be replaced, pipes leaking, and washer/dryer leaking and broken. Over 3 months later, none of the above issues were fully addressed. Specifically the Central HVAC needing to be replaced (above upstairs bathroom). All the while, communication was horrible. Contractors were showing up at 7 AM unannounced, property manager nowhere to be found, texts messages unanswered. We were forced to manage the property and manage the project, all the while without access to an upstairs bathroom and AC during hottest months of the year. We eventually ended our lease early due to the ongoing feud with landlord (landlord refused to discount; was likely fed false information from the property manager). Upon exodus, the property management group had the audacity to blame us, the tenants, for all of the issues, byproducts of the issues that we inherited upon entering the lease only 3 months prior. They covered themselves by blaming us, and we did not received our security deposit. You are better off managing a property yourself than employing this pathetic excuse for an organization.

I am renting my condo for September 1. I wanted to get everything done and finalized for a lease…read morefor the tenants I found and REAL Property did an amazing job about making the process sooo easy for me. They created a very professional lease, they honestly take care of everything! They answered all of my questions and were very, very informative when it came to things that I was unsure about. I was lucky to have found my own tenants, but they can provide candidates as well. They really do everything. I worked with Bud and Glyn. Both super nice guys. They definitely know what they're doing. They got back to me so fast and everything was done within 24 hours. Quite impressive. If you want to rent your place or make sure that it's in good hands, use this company. They won't let you down. Reasonable prices and now I can kick back and be an absent landlord:) Thanks REAL!!!

My experience renting from this company was god awful. They never answer their phones or follow up…read moreif you leave a voicemail, and they kept 400 dollars from my security deposit for breaking one of the blinds in my room, only there were no blinds to begin with, I BOUGHT them. When asked calmly about negotiating that price the owner of the company said, "take me to court!" completely unprofessional, do NOT rent from here!!

I felt like I had to write this so that the next tenants to rent from them would have a better…read moreexperience. I just left an apartment that was managed by this realty company. I loved the apartment from the basement to the balconies it was great. What I didn't appreciate was the experience with Edge. First incident: My roommate and I lived there for 2 years and we didn't have window screens so mosquitos and flies were flying into the apartment by the masses. We sent a request to have them added in the Summer. It never happened. My roommate and I logged into the portal we use with them and saw our request was canceled. We never requested that. Yet somehow months later in the WINTER, maintenance, who came to replace a door for us that had a hole in it, came to check the windows as well for screens... We said that would have to wait for the warm weather again because we had to insulate the windows which was recommended since the apartment had drafts from everywhere and had poor insulation. Yet they never came back. And according to "Section 410.551 - Screens for Windows The owner shall provide screens for all windows designed to be opened on the first four floors opening directly to the outside from any dwelling unit or room unit provided, that in an owner-occupied unit, the owner need provide screens for only those windows used for ventilation." We have been like that for two years... Second incident: I reached out through their portal and called their emergency number when a faulty smoke alarm was triggering all the alarms in my apartment. It was a wired alarm and didn't know what to do. When reaching out to the two emergency options (a phone number to call or a message in the portal to submit), no one replied until the next day. The faulty alarm kept going on for hours into the night and I didn't want to break it and be liable for something that isn't mine. My question is why have an emergency contact number and portal if they don't work? And judging from the other comment on this page it seems someone had a similar issue of no response. Last incident: When we were about to move from that place we had some realtors notifying us via text that they would be taking pictures of the apartment. The thing is they texted my roommate and another number that wasn't mine. I never got that notification and my roommate was traveling at the time. So while using the restroom, two women were walking around the apartment and knocked on my BATHROOM door. I was both shocked and embarrassed. After discussing it they realized the mistake and apologized although I must admit they didn't seem to care about it all that much. I was upset but mistakes happen so I brushed it off. But in the upcoming weeks my roommate texted me two more times on different days telling me that they had texted the wrong number again to show off the apartment. Do they not have the information correct in their system or are they that careless with it? She had to text them back stating they were texting the wrong number. When they finally got it right, I was exchanging messages with one realtor who asked if they could come in at 1130 AM one day. I agreed on the time, yet they walked into the apartment at 1105. I was upset because I was working from home and had important information out. So I brought up the time and she stated that she was correct. But after checking her texts she saw she made the mistake. I am giving it two stars just because the portal feature was great, but I've moved around Boston and this was my least favorite experience on management. Part of me feels it was because the apartment was located in an area filled with college students and brushed it off as just other kids coming and going. But hopefully, this may provide some insight into the areas that need work.