Do not trust Pemberley Realty. I lived in one of her rental properties for a little over a year and had the worst, horrible experience. She is rude, money grubbing, and will try to make you pay for all of the fix up projects on her run down properties knowing full well you did not cause it. That's how she tries to make her money. She will also make up fees that you would have to pay for (an actual example, "my gardener had to pick up your dog poop and you should be happy I didn't charge you for that"-- not mentioning that her other tenants' 3 dogs were always left out in the yard & there was a possibility it could be the other dogs- no one knew, but I can tell you I always clean up after my dog).
She will favor the renters who pay more and actually threaten to kick you out if you don't comply with their requests. She always threatened to kick me out if I ever offended the downstairs neighbor, BUT, once she learned that I was in the process of buying a home, she tried to be super nice and persuade me to let her sell me a home by offering a measley 1,000 bonus back if I did. She even said she'd make up a lie to the neighbor for not "getting on me." (Side note, my neighbor was a grouchy older woman who didn't like my dog initially). Even when I moved out, Roxanne tried to charge me that much in repairs, claiming that had I let her sell me a home, I would have gotten $500 back (she, of course changed the amount to a lower amount than she initially offered again), to pay for my repairs.
When it was time to do a walk through, she tried to bring ammunition to use so that she didn't have to refund my deposit, later saying that I was a day late paying the rent (the check was sent on the 2nd, instead of the first) when I had proof that it took her an average of two weeks to cash the check. I even paid her the $25 "fee" she said she would be charged, even though she didn't even cash the check until two weeks later.
In fact, she found "wear and tear" scratches on her beat up old hard wood floors of the rental property, and told me I had to pay for the entire wood floors, of which she never produced a receipt and to this day, has not repaired the floors, nearly a year later. I know she didn't refurbish them b/c she moved another tenant in the same day I moved out.
When I moved in, she kept the deposit of the renter before me for the cleaning and promised to pay a house keeper to clean when I moved out since I moved into a dirty apartment. When I did move out, she tried to charge me for the house keeper and after a long discussion to remind her of her promise, Roxanne tried to say that I had to pay for the cleaner working more than 6 hours.
To be fair, Roxanne is nice when you meet her. I thought I would like her and wanted to like her. She is a very pretty woman, and I thought she would be hard working and understanding. But my advice is to find another realtor or rental property owner.
Work with someone who has integrity, ethics, and good customer service. She really will nickle and dime you and is only nice upfront until the exchange of money comes in, then she will find reasons and fees that you will have to pay for.
The only reason I didn't go to the courts is b/c I was in the process of moving, buying a home, changing jobs that I didn't have time to pursue this. I have been told by many realtors, even a judge that she did quite a few illegal exchanges. At this point though, piece of mind comes from not dealing with her at all.
She really is unethical and a gouger. For this reason, I have decided not to even eat at her restaurant in University Heights. Karma works in mysterious ways and if you are an unethical business person, it will, someday, haunt you.
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