POTENTIAL TENANT BEWARE: Misleading of the intent of a holding deposit. I recently applied for a home to rent through Parker properties. I was approved and was asked to put a holding deposit down until they could draw up the lease. The Holding Deposit (because my move in date was so soon- 1st Months rent and Security Deposit) totaling $7,390. I dropped off the cashiers check and was told to sign the Holding deposit Receipt. I was NOT provided any explanation or details. I signed it without reading because I was in a hurry and on my lunch hour and understood Holding Deposits to be a charge for the days the property was removed and held off the market by the potential tenant. I received the lease 3 days later and couldn't comply because there were many restrictions listed that were not normal and it was not a California Association of Realtors lease. I declined the rental. Sadly after, I was told I would be charged $120 a day until the home was re-rented up to 30 days not for just the 3 days the property was taken off the market. They held my entire deposit. I called and spoke with the owner and Broker Teri Parker to discuss it and she didn't budge nor care. She even warned me not to sue (without me mentioning it) because she's been sued in the past on this and won every time. Yet she hasn't changed this policy and still doesn't disclose the restrictions or rules nor explain their Holding Deposits receipt. After 30 days of holding my money, I was charged $2,640 for 22 days at $120 per day despite the property being marketed online for 19 of those days and many people viewing the home. It should not be the applicants responsibility to pay for a property they never agreed to lease. This is bad business and I'm not aware of any other property mgmt company doing this! The point of this post is to warn any future renter about this company's intent to make a potential applicant financially responsible for a rental property under the guise of a holding deposit! It was called a Holding Deposit Receipt and should absolutely be ONLY for the days the property was taken off the market and held by the applicant. Don't make my mistake and trust the title of the document and not fully read it. You are agreeing to pay a per diem equivalent to the rent of the property until it is re rented not for holding it. That should have been explained especially if she's been sued for it already in the past. Please beware and insist on seeing the lease first. Don't sign that receipt until you have. This is not what the law intended a holding deposit to be and it is not standard for a management company to use it in this way. read more

This is by far the worst property company I've ever dealt with please be careful they promise a lot of things but it's all a lie. I don't think that they give equal opportunity to other people trying to live in California. They are definitely helping people leave this state. read more

Parker Properties handled the sale of my house and then located a rental for me to move into. Very professional and very happy with their services. read more

Thank you Teri, Both you and your staff has been very helpful, friendly and accommodating, and truly appreciate Garry D read more

I've contacted this company 4 times, including today, to view a rental listing and have not heard back from them as of yet. Do they even get the messages for viewing requests? When I talked with the answering service, I'm assured my requests have been submitted...... I received the call from the company today apologizing for not being contacted about this property due to two persons with the same name. Unfortunately, the property was shown yesterday and now has three applicants. I understand the mistake, but maybe a better screening process for messages would be better for future business. I really liked the outside look of the home as well as the interior and wonder if I had gotten a return contact sooner, I may have been one of those applicants. It's hard to find homes that we really like in this neighborhood and I hate missing out on this one. read more

I've had my rental house with Parker Properties for almost 15 years, and they have always brought me excellent tenants, very quickly. They have always attended to all those fix-it details quickly, and provided a choice of contractors at reasonable prices, and were still open to me using my regular contractors as needed. Teri and Taylor have their pulse on the market and are very knowledgeable in real estate matters-- I am a real estate Broker myself, and there are only a handful of agents out there that I would write a glowing review for. You will feel very relieved to have Parker Properties on your team, especially during this time when tenant/landlord laws keep tightening up, it takes a property management company who really knows their stuff. I highly recommend Teri and Taylor, and have referred them to many of landlords. read more

We just bought our new house last month, mid April. Right before our wedding. If we didn't have Andrew helping us, there is no way we would have our awesome house right now. Andrew was there every step of the way, he answered every question we had, gave us amazing advice while looking at houses, things we had no idea would help or hurt us in the future. Andrew made dealing with the crazy sellers agent perfect. He helped us close super fast and get into an amazing house in an amazing neighborhood for an awesome price. He beat out two other higher offers because he offered them value and new what to do. His years of experience were sooooo worth it. I just want to say thank you so much to Andrew and Parker Properties, because they worked as an amazing team to get us the keys a couple days early before our wedding. You guys made everything awesome. read more

Nothing against Parker Properties. However, please beware of a realtor named Melissa associated with this firm. I was in a sell and buy at the same time situation - a contingency! She listed my property for sale too high and I had to eat $15k. She did not properly negotiate the offering bid on the buy side and I again ate another $10k! She still got her full commission. Not so much as an offer to reduce. HOME INSPECTION: She hand selects (I'll take care of everything she said) the home inspector (American Dream Home Inspection Services) and sides with him in lying about issues brought out during inspection. LIES! Don't pay 6% commission to be fed lies! Items that were to be repaired before close of escrow were not done. She claims to be San Diego's horse property realtor yet failed to point out to her client (me, overwhelmed with the whole sell/buy nightmare) that the horse shelter was rotting and even stated that it was safe to use chain link fencing for a horse enclosure. I regret being too polite and not pointing it out. Yeah, right, was she going to pay for the vet bill associated with that mistake? Anything for a sale. I quickly learned that realtors and lawyers no matter the outcome always get paid. During the home inspection she was negatively discussing the rather lovely pool right in front of me! Not cool or professional when one is under your employ. She had also stated that real estate was just a side business, her family didn't really need the money, its just extra...so why then did she let her client struggle during the escrow process. Greed. Anything for a sale. As a person she is polite and has good communication skills, but as a realtor, not so much. Take away: pick your OWN home inspector, one the realtor does not know. read more

Teri Parker and Andrew Bloom with Parker Properties are top notch! I couldn't think of better people to help me buy my first home. The entire experience can be daunting for a first time home buyer but they put me at ease and were super helpful throughout the whole process. I would definitely recommend them to anyone looking to buy or sell property. You can't go wrong with Parker Properties. read more

I have used Parker Properties for both buying and selling over many years, both Teri Parker and Andrew Bloom. My experience has been absolutely consistent: timely, courteous, and on target. For both buying and selling Teri and Andrew gave great feedback and recommendations and brought in the results I hoped for. I don't particularly care for buying and selling homes, but have always used Parker Properties because they make things as efficient and pleasant as possible for a wide variety of situations, all the way from my daughter's first condo to my parents' home of half a century. I give Parker Properties my highest recommendation without reservation! read more

Taylor is very responsive, kind, and on too of things! Always grateful to communicate with her.

Teri Parker with Parker Properties is a phenomenal agent! She met all of our needs as first time buyers and made the whole process very clear and understandable. She is extremely knowledgeable and got us into the perfect home. She was very personable, while also honest. Would strongly recommend using her for all of your buying and selling needs! read more

Teri was a pleasure to work with. We had the hard task of selling our childhood home and Terri and her staff at Parker Properties were sensitive to our situation. She helped guide us through pricing the property to closing the sale. I would recommend Terri to anyone who is looking to buy or sale a property. read more

I only gave a 1 because i cant give a 0. He will say he will fix issues but doesn't. Will charge you for those same issues when u move out. Not a people person at all. Not a trustworthy person. Please run away from this man/company at all cost. Just take the time to read his reviews. Plenty more people have the same to say about this man. Just search threw google. Sad individual.... read more

Been using Parker Properties as Property Manager for my rental property over the past 2 years and I couldn't be more satisfied. They have stayed on top of everything at all times and have always responded to any question or need rapidly, accurately and professionally. Both my rentals have stay occupied with fantastic tenants...always a way to keep an owner happy! On top of that, they handle any issues or problems with minimal involvement from me allowing me to enjoy my retirement without being hassled by all those little things which arise when being a landlord. I highly recommend you consider using Parker Properties! read more

When putting in my 30 days notice, I exercised my right to a pre-inspection on the house that I was about to vacate after living there for almost 4 never-late-on-rent years. I had my inspection on Oct 21 2011. Tricia told me everything looked good, and that I had to pay approx. $200.00 to get the house cleaned and possibly a little more for the windows (Verbal agreement...oops). I was ok with that. She also told me that the termite infested patio beam that was rotting away wouldn't be my responsibility. She also stated that legally they have 3 weeks to pay back my deposit of $1595.00. I thought that was kind of long, but didn't sweat it. I wait two weeks and call Tricia on Tuesday Nov 8th and she told me I might get my entire deposit back because the owner was thinking about selling the place, but she would have my check out to me right away. 3 days latter I receive my check for $850.00 with $745.00 taken out of my deposit. $200.00 for cleaning the carpet when there is less than 700 sqft of carpet in the house as the entire lower level is hard wood. $300.00 for general cleaning, $100.00 for a damaged door that wasn't broken by me, or mentioned in the inspection, yet came up long after I turned the keys over and $45.00 for the above mentioned termite infested patio beam Tricia claimed the owner needed to take care of. $100.00 for trash removal? The owner left a bunch of wood at the house when he re-did the drive way almost 2 years ago and never cleaned up his mess after repeated phone calls. Somehow I am responsible for that now? I was never given another inspection report of things to fix, and in fact up until the day the check was written was told everything was fine. This is a horrible way to run business. It took countless emails before I finally dealt with Terri about the situation. 4 weeks after my initial inspection (Well past the legal deadline) I was given a second refund. The excuse I was given: "We were waiting for the owner to decide if he was going to sell the house or not". Talk to any real estate attorney and they will tell you that is not an extenuating circumstance for withholding a deposit, as the law clearly states. I'm still not satisfied with my refund, but at this point its cheaper than going to court. You need to document everything when you move in, don't think that they noted it for you. Always get everything in writing. Apparently with this company you cant rely on a persons verbal word as it means nothing. If you don't document, be prepared to fight to get your deposit back. Don't turn your keys over until you receive everything in writing. read more

Same thing happened to me when I called and talked to "Trish". She seemed annoyed when inquiring on an apartment as if I was bothering her. I asked a couple of questions and she got annoyed and said that she is in the middle of something and will have to call me back. It's so far 36 hours later and I haven't received a call back. I saw another Craig's List update on this apartment so obviously it's not rented yet and I was VERY interested. I was just very turned off, I can't imagine calling if I had any issues after moving in. So I decided to move on to another option. I hope she owns this property and some poor property owner isn't paying her or Parker Properties to poorly manage their investment. Sometimes people forget what they actually do for a living affects people in substantial ways. read more

Terri Parker and Andrew Bloom are outstanding agents. Terri helped us with a short sale back in 2009. She really helped us through this frustrating and difficult process. She kept us reassured, and confident that everything would be ok. Because of her excellence, we decided to use Parker Properties when buying a our condo last year. Andrew Bloom was our agent, and we couldn't be happier with the results. It took us a long time to find a place we liked for our growing family, but Andrew never stopped working for us and made us feel that we were customer #1. He was always available at our convenience, and was prompt with answering the phone and returning our calls. As long as we live in The San Diego area, we will continue using Parker Properties:-) read more

I can't say enough about what a great experience it's been working with Terri Parker and Tricia Miller of Parker Properties. They are professional and pro-active and communicate well and effectively with their clients. They take care of everything from property maintenance to fielding tenant issues. Terri and Tricia are always prompt in responding and made our relocation move and transition to long-distance landlords a positive experience. Highly recommended. read more

Parker properties has been my property manager for years. In this world no news is good news. They take care of business with few headaches for me. Recently did some renovations to the property and we were toying around with what the new rents should be. They got it spot on, though I had been skeptical at first. Great job, I recommend. read more

This company is completely unprofessional and uses bully tactics to enter your home. I was a renter of a home in Alpine to which the owners did not hold to their end of my lease to give me an option to renew the lease due them not being able to afford the home any longer and needing to sell. Although we had already secured a new beautiful home on Mount Helix, I still had a month left on my lease on the Alpine home. Teri Parker sent me a text that she intended to come to the home with less than a 24 hour notice to view the property to prepare it for sale while I still had possession of the home for another month. I told her I was not able to make this appointment until the up coming week. She then told me they had no intention of waiting that long. I again had to tell her I was out of town until Sunday and would not be able to open the house sooner. She then text me she will be there Monday morning at 9 am and had posted a notice on my door of her intent to enter on that date at that time an hour earlier. I told her what ever she posted had no validity under my lease and the law and that I will be there at noon on Monday when it worked for my time line and not before that and if she steps on my property before then I will consider it trespassing!!!!!! She changed her tune and agreed to meet me at noon I have the text to prove all of this. I don't know who these people think they are, but I would never hire them for anything as they believe they are above the law and have no problem using bulling tactics on law abiding citizens to meet their time lines! read more

Andrew Bloom is an excellent agent! As first time home buyers we were nervous and unfamiliar with the whole process of buying a home. Andrew was right there to answer all of our questions and we had tons of questions. He helped us get in touch with a great lender that made buying our home affordable and easy. There were no hidden expenses, every detail was broken down and explained to us. Everything worked out perfectly thanks to Andrew! We couldn't have asked for a better agent than Andrew. I highly recommend working with him. read more

We could not be more pleased with Teri Parker's service and abilities as a real estate professional. Teri sold our property in three days and at a higher price than anticipated. She is very quick to respond to our questions and concerns and went above and beyond to handle issues for us that arose during escrow. Selling a home can be a daunting process... she made the experience as simple as one could hope. Teri's extensive knowledge in all phases of real estate transactions made it clear early on that she is far more experienced than most. We will certainly rely on Teri and her team for any future real estate needs. Without reservation, we highly recommend her to others. read more

Teri Parker is an awesome agent! She is on her game, with a no-nonsense approach - which is high on my priority list for an agent. She is clear and concise. Thorough and professional. She is my first choice for an agent to represent me in future property purchases. She recently sold a home for my neighbors - to the FIRST person who viewed it. It doesn't get any better or faster than that. Great job Teri. read more

We recently moved to Santee from Florida and have been very thankful for the genuine help from Tricia Miller. If I email questions or concerns she replies promptly with helpful answers or lets me know she needs to find the answer and will contact me as soon as she does. Tricia was a big help in our cross country move, adjusting her schedule to see us, giving detailed information for schools and such. Parker Properties has provided a helpful, stress free renting experience that is greatly appreciated! read more

Using the real estate side of this company has been outstanding. Andrew Bloom is on the ball and has made himself available. Without a doubt one of the best agents I have worked with. I have no opinion of the rental side since that is not what I am using this company for. I have bought and sold homes in two states and this guy knows his stuff. Highly recommend him if you are looking to buy a home. read more

Teri, Andrew, and Taylor are the best in the business. You won't regret using them for your real estate / property management needs.

I'm renting a house from Parker Properties & have lived at our new place for about 3 months now. From the beginning I have always received great service from them. Tricia was wonderful with helping me view the house before we decided to rent it. We had a bee issue and within an hour of calling them a bee service was at my house removing the hive. I was super pleased with how quickly they responded to the problem. I also had a plumbing issue that began at night and the office was closed, so I made a maintenance request through the website and received a response shortly after from Teri letting me know she got it and the next morning a plumber was here to fix it. Again, so great about responding to my problem quickly and resolving it. This is a fantastic property management! :) read more

We listed and sold our home in Alpine with Parker Properties and were totally pleased with the exceptional service provided by Teri and her staff. Any calls or emails were answered promptly which made the normally difficult real estate/escrow process much less stressful. She is definitely an advocate for her clients, going above and beyond to get things taken care of. I would highly recommend Parker Properties if you need a realtor. read more

Trisha in the rental department of this company is downright incompetent and lazy! The very first time I called to inquire about viewing a rental, she said she was on an important call and would have to call me back. Well excuse me. Another time I wanted to drop off the deposit check so I called to say that I was on my way at 10.20am. She said she'd 'wait for me'. Like I was totally putting her out. Another time I wanted to drop something off at their office at 11am and she said that wouldn't work because she was going to lunch and I'd need to come back at 1.30. Yes, that would be a 2 1/2 hour lunch break. Oh, and I asked her to ask the owners if we could do something to our home EIGHT times and she each time she said she was going to ask them, but she didn't. She's so lazy that when we wanted to view the property she sent us to the house so that the current tenant could show us around. Oh and when I wanted to pick up keys on the day of the move in she said she couldn't make it before 10am because traffic might be bad for her to come any earlier. Seriously lady?? In this economy surely someone else would take your job and do it ten times more efficiently. read more

I usually reserve Yelp reviews for an absolute top notch experience and Parker Properties definitely hit the mark. I've actually seen them in action from both sides of the market as my parents used them to manage a rental home in the past and had nothing but a positive experience and then I just so happened to rent a place they were the managing in Alpine. Stayed there for 2+ years. When comparing my experience with Parker Properties to my time with other rental management companies, Parker definitely has their act together in terms of response and communication. Teri has put together a staff that is actually capable of managing the in's and out's of rental properties while other companies are hard to reach and/or you're looking at a 48 hour turn around time to get a response from an inquiry. We only had to reach out once or twice in our 2 years there and every time it was lightning fast response/act to get the issue resolved. They also kept us in the loop/updated. You really can't beat that these days, especially when compared to other companies who are a bit understaffed and less experienced. They have a 24 hour emergency response system, online payment option etc. Whether you're an owner reviewing potential rental management for your property or a tenant who sees a Parker Properties managed listing...I HIGHLY encourage you to give them a call. Thank you so much for all of your time, attention and help Parker Properties. read more