RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN IF THE PROPERTY YOU'RE LOOKING INTO LEASING IS OWNED BY FAT PROPERTY!
It's only a matter of time before the company is investigated, shut down, and the people running the show fined/jailed. They ruin lives. They kill defenseless pets. They straight up steal. And they don't give a flying f**k about any of it, or you for that matter. To these guys, you are nothing more than an account number on a spreadsheet.
These crooks quietly closed on and took over management of a clean, affordable little apartment I'd lived in for ages, on November 15th of 2018. By January of 2019 (60 days), they had; Successfully illegally evicted me and 7 others on the SAME DAY; Killed my poor 19yr-old cat (in human years - yes, KILLED her, as in they put her outside, stray dogs tore her to pieces right in front of me kind of dead-and-gone!); Thrown my entire 39 years worth of personal property into the courtyard for the local dope fiends & thieves they cater to to steal (ALL of my family heirlooms/pictures, clothes, tools, furniture, everything!) - it was f****ng TERRIBLE! AND THEY DIDN'T GIVE A GOOD G****MN ABOUT IT!
Straight up, this conglomerate of property "investors" are crooks. Criminal to the core! They prey upon the most vulnerable, most at-risk of their residents - Black/Hispanic/Severely Disabled are the first to have every spare dollar they have raped away in the guise of immediate and illegal predatory fees & rent hikes once they've successfully closed on and secured ownership of the property; Only to be forcefully evicted anyway, No.Matter.What, once Fat Property has successfully extorted said fees, WITHOUT writ! (Quick-Easy-Cash-Grubbing) - The ones who DO fight back like I did are CONSTANTLY, ruthlessly and without compunction, intimidated and harassed in petty, punitive ways either by their own male maintenance personnel or by sending one single Harris County Cop (Sheriff's Dept; usually off-duty, always the same guy), by way of Fat Property's mafioso-like management style.
They've successfully rented a Harris County Pct. 1 Judge to secure illegal evictions for them, who can and does order that single off-duty Cop from Harris County Sheriff's Dept to harass tenants any way he legally can regardless of jurisdiction (sometimes straight up illegal, dangerous ways), who are currently fighting their cases in court if/when they're financially able to.. ALL cases somehow magically land on this ONE Judge's bench at the small precinct 1 annex on Lockwood Drive. They are QUITE proud of their disgraceful little racket and not ashamed to say it. They depend on the residents of their more affordable properties being unable to hire a lawyer who can dismiss the illegally sought cases in 10 minutes. They run this old school scheme on the most vulnerable, easily targeted properties they can buy post-Harvey (the hurricane), consisting of
1) Buy
2) Mass evict
3) Cheap & very poorly 'remediation'
4) Flip to the next sucker for 30% more than it could ever be worth.. Because, well, money, for the next guy to discover how shoddy & poor the reconstruction was.
These people buy the cheapest properties they can find, downgrade/degrade them even further, then raise rents to completely unacceptable highs. They go after the tenants who can't afford the massive hikes by purposefully "misplacing" rent money orders, tacking on hidden predatory fees (the highest I've ever seen) in the form of "payment fee", "initial late fee" and then "daily late fees" on top of the initial. They do not care if your previous property owner let you pay on the 3rd of the month because oh let's say about 75% of social security checks (disability/retirement) are deposited on the 3rd of the month! Disgusting practice. It's all an ongoing scheme to evict people they might actually have to speak to once in a while; Which takes me to point #2.
Sarah, their chosen antisocial troglodyte extraordinaire, goes out of her way to ignore you. She will tend to pick and choose when to act like a decent, normal manager depending on what she feels like that day, depending how willing YOU are to 'kiss the ring'. It's the grossest managerial behavior I've seen since the crack-ridden Houston of the 90's when property owners were still allowed to do absolutely whatever they wanted regardless of state & local laws at the time. The management of this company is criminal. read more