Where to begin?…read more Rental agents, Kelly and Charlie, were awesome. They showed me multiple units, at different times, to be sure I got the right one for me. Both returned calls and responded to emails quickly. It was not necessary to make many maintenance requests but when I did, Rob and Aubrey responded quickly and did a great job. I cannot thank them enough for all they did to make my tenancy at Mill Garden a great experience!

I've rented my fair share of apartments. This was a great complex to be in. The location, staff,…read moreand price were the sweet spots for me. Anytime there was an issue, they were very quick to send someone out or remedy the situation. A majority of the units are right next to the greenbelt which is awesome. Also - they have a bike sharing option where you can use their bikes to get around! Lastly, they have parking.. which is something that is great when renting near or in Portland.

I've made many investing decisions over the last ten years, from land to cabins to single family…read morehomes, stocks, options.... And never have I made a more detrimental financial mistake that is as bad as choosing ascend to manage my property. While I can't discuss some things in their entirety -- it has been a nightmare, an absolutely gross oversight of their duties that's costing me and there's no end in sight. The staff will not call you, or answer about 60% of emails, the owner thinks it's beneath him to reach out personally to try and be helpful. Money has been lost and mismanaged 2-3 times now and no single month feels consistent. I never know what's happening with my home, the condition of it, and now I'm getting hit with legal fees and have a lien on my property from the delinquency of Ascend not have utilities properly switched. If you're an ascend client- check your ledgers carefully. If you're not--- run don't walk. Now I'm being threatened by them with retaliatory billing practices because I am not keeping quiet anymore , try any other company besides them.

I called after visiting their website and spoke with Zach. I have called other management companies…read moreand some did not even get back to me. Zach answered on the second ring! Their pricing seems extremely fair, and Zach was upfront about estimated expenses in the first few months due to some existing tenant issues I have with my property. The communication has been excellent. Very easy process to get all the paperwork done. I have high expectations based on their reviews from other platforms!

Dirigo was a good partner for managing my single family home. The provide a knowledgeable team and…read moreare very responsive when needs arise. If you are in need of a property management company in the greater portland area - I would recommend Dirigo.

Amber and Gail can at times be rude to Condo residents with lengthy and confusing email blasts. . I…read morewould not recommend this management company.

I worked with this company getting a house near St John St for rent. They are the management…read morecompany, but Dan, who works there, also owns the house. They were quick and efficient. After one email I had a showing scheduled for the next day with my roommates and I. Within a couple days we had a lease drafted up and signed. Very straightforward and worked with me attentively - especially considering how competitive the market is right now for rentals. They have kept the house in great shape and follow up quickly. No complaints!

I'd say generally avoid for small-time renting, I hear they're good for bigger real estate:…read moreThis is probably a long and boring story, haha. This isn't so much a review of MRA as it is of the main person I dealt with, Dan Soley. There was a listing for a 5 bedroom house starting May 1. I inquired early April (week 1) and we set up a time to see the place later that week. We saw the place that Tuesday, the agent (Cole) said there were others interested in the house as well. With this information, the others and I convened and decided to jump on the lease ASAP. The agent informed us he was on vacation following week, but that Dan (Soley, related to the "Principal" Josh Soley) would be filling in for him. I contacted Dan that Thursday and told him we were interested in the apartment, as the final roommate for the house had just seen the place and had liked it. Dan said he would draft up a lease and send it our way. Dan and I exchanged 6 emails regarding lease info that day. He then asked if we could swing by the following week to move forward. I suggested the following Tuesday, 12pm and never heard back. That tuesday (4/9) I emailed him about meeting, to which I got no reply. I gave Dan a call, he picked up after the 2nd try and I asked if we could meet that day. Dan said something like "I think the landlord is still finalizing the lease" but the phone line was muffled. I asked "Well, do we have the lease locked in or not?" to which the phone then cut out. I immediately called back and Dan did not pick up. I sent him an email the following day asking my question again, no reply. I tried calling again later that week, no answer. The following week, I emailed Cole and he gave me a call. He said the lease had been signed to someone else the previous wednesday. This means that the Tuesday I called Dan he knew that the lease was basically being finalized with another tenant, which was signed the following day. Meanwhile, for a listing starting May 1, we were kept in the dark until April 15. One of our roommates was starting Nursing school in Portland May 1. Maybe this company really focuses on bigger real estate so a small 5 bedroom rental house isn't high on their radar, who knows. The "owner" of this company, Josh Soley, his uncle (Joe Soley) owns the People's United Bank building, various other large buildings in Portland, along with many apartments in Portland. There are some stories of Joe I won't mention, because I don't want that to be the focus of this. More or less, my impression of Maine Realty Advisors is sketchy, and I feel bad for anyone that has to work with Dan Soley in the future. Cole was alright. All claims in this review can be substantiated. -Elias

If you have the opportunity to work with Alex Kappelman at Frontier Properties, you've been given a…read morerare and valuable gift: an honest, ethical, property manager. Let this represent the first documented historical record of all three characteristics being found in one human being. Ive known Alex forever, and hes always been good doing, helping people. Let him.

Extremely dissapointed with the agent. My family and I were promised first look at a home for rent…read morein my area. After several emails we decided on a week. When we were trying to set down a time to see the home, we were told there was an open house that coming weekend. We thought this was strange since there had been no one else interested in the home. This information was given to use on a Tuesday. The following day, after trying to reach Alex again and schedule a tour of the home before the open house, we received a response with a simple "this home has been rented". Mind you there was no phone call,although it was given to him, only emails were exchanged. We are extremely disappointed in how unprofessional our interactions with Alex were. We don't understand how this was executed as we were very excited for the opportunity Alex had promised us. We do not recommend his business.

I worked with Jackie Carter from this company and from day one had attitude and professionalism…read moreissues with this realtor. The house we were renting was not only disgustingly dirty with cat hair and a thick layer of grime on the air vents- she tired to pass it off as normal saying rings in the toilets and mold in the dishwasher happen in Georgia (not if you clean and maintain it!). After expressing my upset she said "well do you want it or no?" ...I said yes but I expect it to clean as she would when i move out. After calling the owners they hired a cleaner who came out and tidied up but i still had to scrub and bleach the dishwasher several times to clean it as well as the toilets and showers. She changed how she received rent a couple times with very little information provided to Me, was hard to reach when i had questions and continuously sassy. Now I am moved out and she is attempting to charge me 600$ to paint a small room and hallway. The home in total is only 1500 sqft. She is trying to grossly Overcharge me. I had touched up the paint in those areas but she wasn't satisfied with the colormatch. To be clear the home had tons of scuffs, marks, and bail holes (that were NOT patched up) all over the walls when we moved in. Now she is trying to have me cover the cost for painting the entirety of the rooms because they're "unpresentable" with paint touch up Marks....(they were in first place!) I would never work with this woman again nor would I ever hire her to manage a property. The home was spotless when we moved out, and looked exceedingly better than when we received it. Not to Mention we landscaped the yard and added weed barrier and mulch and improved the home while we lived there. No good deed. Here's the areas she is wanting to charge me for. She is unjust and unfairly treating me. The home should have been repainted in the first place if she wanted pristine walls on move out.

The owner is a man of integrity. In this world that. Is hard to find. I'm snot sure if they take on…read moreany more clients, but if they do, I strongly recommend them.

Selling our Portland, Maine townhouse after 25 years was a daunting task. Reports of a changing…read morehousing market, coupled with a complicated & unfamiliar real estate process, made clear 'For Sale by Owner' was not an option for us. From the Vitalius Real Estate Group market reports & newsletters received in the mail, we determined Elise Loschiavo had the experience & knowledge to sell our condo. Elise didn't disappoint. Elise demonstrated the expertise on how to best market our townhouse and kept us abreast on each step, explaining the real estate process, terminology & contracts in terms we understood. Elise's resource network, including a stager & photographer, was critical in making our townhouse competitive with other condos listed for our area. Appreciation of Elise's services & resources grew when, after selling our condo, we relocated to Oregon switching to the role of Buyer. Exploring area listings on internet sites and onsite tours, we found several houses profiled the Sellers' life in residence, not a place my wife & I could make our new home: * Oversized/numerous pieces of furniture giving a room a cramped look; * Personal photos or knickknacks throughout the home; and * Spaces, especially closets, filled with clothing, toys, storages boxes, etc. Thanks to Elise & her network of resources, our listing avoided these shortcomings by presenting our condo in a manner a Buyer could picture themselves living in. The Result: Our condo was under contract within two days and $20k over the asking price. Our cross-country move from Maine to Oregon required making numerous & daily decisions. One of our best decisions was enlisting Elise as our real estate agent to sell our Portland, ME condo.

Elise was wonderful to work with selling our townhouse. She was patient especially since we had…read moresome tight timelines. Her estimate of what our unit would sell for was very accurate. Communication is also one of her strengths. I highly recommend Elise and Vitalius Real Estate!!!

we LOOOOVE APEX! my…read morehusband and I have a home in Maine (we live in LA) and after MANY years of resisting the idea of renting our home out to 'strangers' we finally began to consider the possibility of renting in 2013. our hesitation was partly due to our proximity, but mostly due to the fact that we LOVE our home (and Maine), and still visit. our concerns were MANY, but to name a few: 1. how would we find a good tenant, since we are across the country? 2. how would we decide what to charge? 3. how would we take care of any problems for our tenants, should they arise, since we are 3000 miles away? our questions were plentiful, and we were to (soon) find out that the ANSWERS were to be found through ONE source! while we were in Maine in May of 2013, by GOOD FORTUNE, my husband happened to see the APEX rental sign on HWY 88, so I called, to inquire about a meeting. Chris (president/owner) came the NEXT DAY, and was SO nice, informative AND knowledgeable! she explained that APEX would handle all of our concerns (and MANY we had not even thought about)! she advised us about what we would need to do, to get the property up to speed as a rental (clear out garage, get 2 cable boxes, etc.) a day or two later, we met the "wonder woman" Melissa, (aka property manager) and she took pictures of our home so that they could market it on their site. (she took awesome pics!) the net result was that within 4 days of my initial call, we were on their APEX website! we flew back to L.A. a few days later, not knowing what to expect... Melissa worked TIRELESSLY to coordinate addressing a multitude of issues (fixing our garage door openers, new combo locks, a new washer dryer and installation, cable TV set ups, to name a FEW) and within a couple of weeks, they secured us a lovely family for our home! the family only needed it for one month, so just weeks later, APEX had found us ANOTHER family for a few more months!!! we have FULL faith that Chris and Melissa have found us 2 wonderful families! PLUS, by finding us shorter term tenants, my husband and I will still be able to visit our home! they do EVERYTHING possible to accommodate the owner's wishes, as well as the client's needs. APEX does all the credit checks, meets with the tenants at check in, 'introduces' them to the house, and (most important for US) they do the final walkthrough before check out, to make sure the house is in good condition....AND the VERY thing best of all, is that APEX takes care of the tenant during their stay to insure a POSITIVE experience for them! example: we recently had some minor construction work done on the exterior, (by our front and side stairs) and as a result of the disruption to the ground, we had a slight insect problem INSIDE the house (ants, tiny spiders) and the tenant called Melissa. she called a company, to come out and use NON TOXIC spray inside, plus spray the exterior perimeter! when she emailed me to confirm that i was okay with it, i expressed my concern about toxins in the house...she let me know that she had already requested the non toxic product! because APEX has relationships with so many companies who can handle SO many issues.....Melissa just HANDLED the entire situation! that is only ONE, of many many situations, BIG and SMALL that Melissa has taken care of at our home! she's just AMAZING!!! the fact that BOTH Melissa and Chris are a JOY to work with is an extra added bonus. :) so the ANSWERS to my questions stated above are: APEX - APEX - APEX!!!!! we are SO grateful to Chris and Melissa for EVERYTHING they have done and continue to do, and look forward to a LOOOOONG relationship with APEX. they have TRULY been a gift! we HIGHLY recommend APEX for all of your rental needs, whether a homeowner, or a potential tenant/client. they genuinely CARE, have the knowledge and the expertise, are a SUCH a pleasure to work with! THANK YOU, Chris and Melissa!

Rented a house in Falmouth for August '23 through Labor Day from this agency. It was billed by the…read moreagent, Adam Shapiro, as "the Greenwich of Portland". As it turns out, the house sits right next to a busy parking lot for a beach with dirty water that smells like sewerage at low tide. Cars sit idling in the lot until 3 or 4 in the morning every night; it feels unsafe having them there. The front door lock is very difficult to close and the lock is not solid, offering very little security. The lower floor of the house reeks so badly of dampness and mildew that everyone had to move upstairs; the mildew smell in the bedrooms downstairs is overpowering. When I told Apex about this, they refused to come to the house to get an idea of how badly the moisture has affected that level of the house. The upper level of the house also has a terrible problem with moisture and a mildew smell. Upstairs shower stall smells moldy and damp, towels turn mildewy after 1 use because of the humidity problem in the house. The dishwasher failed to turn on and run the cycle. Apex sent the cleaning person over and she was unable to do anything. They were no help at all, it was just "no, no, no" from them. The oven light stays on no matter what, you have to push it closed forcefully, but then the light just goes back on after a few seconds. The electric window blinds stopped working 1 week into our stay; they had to send a tech over to recharge the motors, which took an hour of my time and attention. I checked out of the house August 23, almost 2 weeks early because I didn't; feel safe there and because the house smelled so bad. The agent, Adam Shapiro, did not reply to any of my texts or calls informing him of this; he just took the money and ran