Eck RE Services manages properties and performs landlord services for property owners. I say this…read morenot to be obvious to to remind renters that they do not work for you, but for the property owners. With that in mind they have systems in place to responsibly inform, both verbally and in writing what the responsibilities are for both renters and owners (via Eck RE.) I rent from them currently and find them honest and responsive to my needs and they have performed required maintenance fairly quickly. I read the lease so there are no surprises and the renter's responsibilities are reasonable; they even were responsive to my questions and amended the lease to ensure it was complete. I recommend Eck to anyone wishing to rent in the area as their properties are well maintained and clean when you start, much cleaner than other rental properties that cater to a more transient college crowd. The properties are clean because of their rigorous maintenance but they will hold prior tenants accountable for fees if they did not keep a clean and responsible home. The Eck staff are professional and have been friendly with our correspondence. I can only imagine the lower ratings here are from those newly away from home but are still expecting Mom & Dad like treatment and forgiveness. The Eck staff are not your Mom or Dad and the property owners are not willing to clean up your mess for free. If I owned rental property I would want the Eck staff to manage it for me.

This is not meant to be a hateful review, just a matter-of-fact account of what awaits anyone who…read morerents one of Eck's properties. I was their tenant for 4 years, so I had sufficient time to get acquainted with the good, the bad, and the ugly. So, here are some tips to you, future Eck tenants: (1) THE GOOD: I rented a 3-bedroom house. Location was great, house was in very good shape for its age (it's built in the 60s), rent was affordable. And, I should mention, they did not increase the rent throughout my stay there (more on that below). (2) THE UGLY: If you look up some of the other Google or Yelp reviews about Eck, you will notice several complaints about poor response to maintenance requests. Sadly, all these are accurate. I was lucky enough to have very few maintenance issues over the 4 years, but Eck were always very slow to address them (except for one time when the AC broke in the middle of the summer - that was fixed within 24 hours), and on a few occasions nothing was done at all (the gutters remained clogged for more than two years, in spite of my 2 separate requests). Yes, they would email almost immediately in response to a request and promise that it would be addressed - so they were prompt to "respond" in that manner - but nothing was done. I found that irritating, but not as bad as what comes below. (3) THE BAD: Be prepared that you will NOT receive back your full security deposit. It just won't happen. There is no such thing as "wear and tear" in these people's codebook. If the unit is in any way found to be in worse shape than they determined it at move-in, you will get charged. In my case, I spent hours and hours vacuuming and wiping down the house, and yet I still got charged for things like: "dust on bath cabinets", "dust on bath mirror", "hall light fixture not clean", "bedroom door not wiped down" (I've posted a snapshot of some of these ridiculous charges below), etc. And the "best" part is, they cover up very nicely upfront by including a list of "possible deductions" from tenants' damage deposit in the lease, so don't even bother arguing. My first reaction was disbelief and anger. But after giving this more thought, it started to make some sense. This is their entire business model: the rent is kept at affordable levels (for the square footage offered), but part or all of your security deposit will be added to the overall cost. It's less transparent, but seems to work well in a rental market, such as Lawrence, where decent options are not widespread. And if you, future Eck tenants, try to adopt the same view (just accept that you will never see all that deposit money back), it will hurt less, I promise! My overall Rating: House: 3/5 Management: 1/5

thank you for the fast attendance to all our maintenance requests! Sean came for our leaking…read morewashing machine and was super helpful. You always find great subcontractors!! And you gave us an excellent, speedy solution with a new machine!! Thank you so much! We love living in a Location property!!!

We have been Very Happy with Location Properties that has managed our property in Lawrence throught…read morethe years. Great communication with staff members, timely follow up with emails on repairs or maintenance issues. If you are in the market for a property managment company then give them a call!

I've had great service from maintenance in the almost five years I've been renting from MPM. There…read morehave been a number of repairs needed mostly because of the age of my unit. I don't know if it varies by owner, but I've never had to wait more than a day when it was something their maintenance could handle. And that includes having someone show up on the weekend in an emergency situation. If an outside service/contractor is needed, you're going to have to work with their schedule, just like anyone else. I've always requested maintenance through the app or emergency phone if needed and had zero problems with that. I sublet from the previous tenant and had no issues with that.

Midwest Property never did me dirty. Maintenance was always there within 12-48 hours after requests…read morewere placed. My roommate and I had our AC stop working and it was replaced within 48 hours of placing the request. About two months later, our dishwasher wasn't working well and it was completely replaced the day after the maintenance request was put in. Every time I called the office, there was always someone nice and helpful on the other end. My roommate and I chose Midwest Property because it was cheap, despite the bad reviews, and we never regretted it. I did have a friend who lived in the same building as us who had bug problems that kept recurring, but they were also renting a ground level unit. Overall, I would say be cautious of the first floor units because of pests, but I have no other complaints! Great experience!

Kimberly is, in a word, fabulous. I highly recommend her! Not only does she have a great…read morepersonality but she truly cares about selling your house. She scheduled open houses every two weeks. If she was out of town she had an associate do it instead. She explained everything carefully. She told me how to decorate to get the house sold, she even rearranged my refrigerator. My husband was tempted to leave me in Lawrence and take her with him to Minnesota since she was so well organized. I wish that she had at least come with us, I could use her here!!!

We have been in our house 2 years. One evening our landlord came up for a visit.they let us know…read morethat her brother was moving back to town and had bought the family home. this is where we were living out in the country. we have dogs kids and chickens and this is where we like to be.we had to be out pretty quick and were caught unaware, we could not find anything. we have looked and looked and looked. Lawrence is a very difficult town to find a rental in especially if you're a family and you've had some problems in your life and gone thru a divorce and had a spouse thats ruined your credit. it seems no one wants to help you these days. people are all about themselves, nobody quite wants to really help it's really sad that life has become all about business. I ran into this after trying to get several places and not having an adequate credit score.I kept trying, I found a house that I really liked and called, it was a realtor that was managing. Kimberly Williams with McGrew real estate, she said I'll be glad to show it to you but the landlord requires a 600 credit score and yaddy yaddy yaddy.I said well that's not going to work for us and then I said can I tell you a little bit about us? she said yes so I told her my story and to my amazement she really cared she told me to write my story down and to email it to her and she would go to her client and see if she might make an exception and give our family a much-needed break. The next day she got back with me and told me the client did not want to rent with us I guess she's one of those that it's all about the money and not giving someone another chance I've never had an eviction and I've never owed anyone money on rent I just needed a little help. this is not where I wanted to be at 55. I just want to say this is the first review that I'm going to compliment somebody on and thank them for their help and that will be Kimberly Williams because I was somebody that didn't have a pot to piss in and she still went out of her way to try and help me. now the thing is I'm going to be coming into some money in about 6 months quite a lot of money and I'm going to buy a house and I'm not going to call the Chaney's but I'm going to call Kimberly and she's going to sell me a house because my money is green enough for her, so if you're looking for a house, put your money on her thank you Kimberly!!!

LKS Realty offers great property management services for landlords in the Lawrence, Kansas area…read more Their comprehensive and responsive service takes the headaches out of managing my investments.

Parent review: I have four kids and have lived in several apartments myself as well as moving kids…read morein and out of apartments and dorms over the past 10 years. Here is the story of this weekend's move. 1. We called earlier in the week (Tuesday) to let them know we were coming on Saturday from Dallas (500 miles). Requested a call back. No call back all week long. 2. Nowhere online or in published material does it list their hours for Saturday. 3. Big accident closes I35 north completely. We are going to be later than expected. We called and FB messaged several times. No response. 4. Arrive and as expected the office is closed. It is 6pm. 5. Found an after hours number on Yelp (thank you!). Manager would have someone meet us at 10am the next morning. 6. At 10:10am, no one there. After several additional calls, at 11:35am Payton shows up. 7. It takes 5 minutes to get keys and now we are able to move in. The apartment is good. Carpets are clean. Price is fair. The communication and responsiveness is incredibly poor. Payton did a great job of getting us on our way once he got there. Thank you!

First Management was a constant nightmare to work with throughout the lease. They charged…read moreunnecessary fees without notice and lied about the condition of the apartment at the end of the lease. Take picture of your space.

Cheryl Baldwin was very pleasant and kind, though the property owner lived out of state and uses…read moreyour deposit to remodel his house. We moved in with their fence held up with a zip tie, glass and nails all over the back yard, beer bottle caps stuck in the molding, and all the outlets painted over. Now I move out and he fully replaces the fence, builds a containing wall in the basement to get rid of rodents and charges me for all of it. I would not trust property shown by this company as they only show you the property and then leave to the whims of morally depraved land owners.

By far the best management company I have ever dealt with. They have managed one of my rental…read moreproperties for years. They are on top of every issue. They are always available and have maintained the property in excellent condition. They coordinate maintenance and take care of repairs without being asked, and keep me in the loop if there is any significant cost involved. Top notch and professional. You can't go wrong with Hedges!

Toni is the BEST!!! I know them by the name Location Properties. Josh is doing a good job as…read morewell. I hope Toni is the one training him. I'm a property owner and I live out of state, so I totally depend on Toni. She really cares and it shows.

This is not a well-managed property management company. There are only two members who work in the…read moreoffice to handle all paperwork and property-related issues. If you have an issue with your property, do NOT expect it to be fixed quickly. Management will send out 3 separate maintenance persons to each tell you the same thing. At the end of the day, the issues have STILL not been resolved and it's been over 4 months. It's almost an inconvenience for them to have tenants to be responsible for. It's embarrassing and unprofessional.

Some companies pay people to write a review about them. Scudo is not one of them my review is 100…read morepercent true about this company, I've been with them 7 years they are very transparent, they don't treat you just like a tent. I had an issue not with my rent but they found out the manager reached out to me and ask if I needed help, that warmed by heart knowing that someone I've never seen had a heart had reached out to me by phone not email or text but phone to make sure I was ok. Again they make it very hard to move. Because they make sure there properties are up kept if you have an issue it's handled ASAP. I've never rented from a leasing company I'm blessed I found them.

Raymond and his team is wonderful. I used 2 property management companies in Kansas, Raymond's team…read moreis definitely the winner. They always respond timely, and their price for property management and also repair is fair. I already transferred one more property from the other management company to SCUDO, they helped to get it rent ready within 2 weeks and rented it out in a month. The tenant they found always pays on time, and seems to maintain the property very well. Definitely will recommend SCUDO !!