No one in this place knows what the hell they are doing. My agent (who works for a different company) took me out to see a house for rent in late July, and after a few days of debating, we were told by person #1 that the house was, indeed, still available and no one else had applied for it. The listing agent on the property was "Harvey Rosenberg".
Paperwork began on August 1st (Thursday).
On Friday, my agent was called by a woman named Pat and was asked when I wanted to move in.
The weekend goes by and no word from anyone (they have a 72 hour maximum policy, according to their own paperwork, about replying to applications. Does not stipulate weekends, holidays, etc...).
Monday, we were informed that, because there was another adult over the age of 18 who would be living in the house, they needed an additional application filled out AND an additional 50.00 for the fee.
Tuesday I brought my agent all the paperwork and the 50.00.
Wednesday she sent them all my information.
On Friday, we still had not heard anything, so I called personally. Person #2 said no one was in the office who could handle properties at that time. A friend of mine called about 10 minutes later and asked about the same property I had applied for, and asked if it was still available. A man named Joe (who apparently is a property manager) told him that, yes, it was still available and that there were no applications pending at that time. I called back after hearing this, and spoke to person #3. She seemed shocked when I told her what my friend had heard from Joe (she'd tried to blame the lack of knowledge on the other secretary, the one I'd first spoken to), and said she'd call me back. This same woman called me back an hour later and told me I was second in line for the house, and that the first applicants had until Monday to deliver a deposit.
Finally, a woman named Sabrina Gass got back with my agent. She angrily told my agent that SHE was the only agent on the property, and that we were second in line because she had another application, and bitched about "not getting the additional 50.00" from me, which had been sent through their automated system via their website. My agent faxed over the receipt twice to them, and emailed and called them multiple times to ask if it had been received, but Sabrina couldn't be bothered to return the emails or phone calls. We were also told by Sabrina that "No one would have told you they had until Monday to deliver the deposit, they have until WEDNESDAY." This would be Wednesday August 14th, a full 2 weeks after the initial application.
Finally, Wednesday night at 6:30pm, Sabrina called my agent back and, again, said she'd never gotten the additional 50.00 from me, but it didn't matter anyway because the other applicants came in and dropped off the deposit. She then proceeded to tell my agent she could come in and pick up my application fees in person, because "they don't write refund checks".
During this entire time, the listing was updated daily on Hotpads.com (I have screengrabs to prove this), never listed on any rental website it was on (and there were several) that it was temporarily unavailable or even pending, and they were scheduling additional viewings.
After all this, the fact that they call themselves "ELITE PROFESSIONALS" is the biggest joke of them all. I mean, I can call myself Queen of Mars, but just giving myself that title doesn't make it true. In their case, it's beyond a lie. Also, we never once spoke with the listing agent "Harvey Rosenberg", and couldn't get ahold of him when we tried. read more