Not sure why I have to give them even one star; it's not like the deserve even that. This company is terrible. Let's run down just a few of the horrors, shall we?
First off, HavenBrook Homes is impossible to get a hold of. Unless, of course, they want something from you. Then they badger, blackmail, threaten, bully--anything they have to do to bludgeon you into compliance. But if you leave a voicemail or email with them, just know they are not going to call you back.
We have been tenants in good standing in this neighborhood for 6 years. Paid our rent on time. No drama. Not a single conflict with the neighbors. Good stewards. But getting ANYTHING out of these people takes an act of Congress.
A tree crushed the front gutter on the house and the rain leaked through the brick into the living room saturating the carpet. It took them weeks to get someone out to remove the tree then several more days to replace the gutter. The carpet has STILL not been replaced a year later. There is still mold and mildew in and under the carpet and no matter how many times we clean it there remains a nasty musty smell in the house and I'm reasonably sure our allergies are driven badly by that.
The air conditioner unit went out and it took them 3 months to fix it. It was mid-JULY here in Georgia before they finally got a maintenance guy out here to look at it. Then, while he was fixing that, he stood on the wooden platform that the unit sits on and broke the platform so that the AC unit now sits at an angle and doesn't drain properly.
Did they fix the platform that their maintenance guy broke? Of course not, silly peasant. The lords of the manor cannot be bothered with your petty concerns. Instead, the maintenance guy just told us "Don't use the AC too often so that it doesn't need to drain as efficiently." What!? We called you to FIX the AC...not break something else so we still can't use it. That was back in July; it is currently October. It's still not fixed and, naturally, summer was long and hot so we had to use the AC. Because the AC doesn't drain properly now we also have mold growing in the vents from the excess moisture.
Speaking of air conditioners, the outside unit was replaced--after another colossal battle--and they put a security cage over it. A security cage that not only doesn't latch but is too small for the unit. So the top of the security cage just sits on top of the unit. Not a major issue but kind of an eyesore and just another example of how little this company actually cares about anything to do with their properties.
When this kind of garbage finally became too much, we found a house to buy. HavenBrook then sent over a sheet, printed front and back of all the things we are "responsible" for when we move out. Things like professionally cleaning the carpet. You know... the carpet that was permanently ruined by mold and mildew? Things like repainting every room in the house to their specifications. Things like washing the exterior of the house. Cleaning up building materials discarded in the woods around the house by THEIR maintenance guys. With my security deposit in hand and after 6 years of faithful tenancy now they want me to pony up the money for THEIR property so they don't have to put any investment in it.
That enough? Oh, no. We just found out that our mortgage company has been trying to get in touch with them in order to file our loan application, but no voicemail they left had been answered. Because this loan was supposed to be processed weeks ago, we put in our departure date as October 24th. We just found out that this hasn't been processed because of HavenBrook not returning the mortgage company's phone calls. So, NOW my family will have to move out and spend several days--at least--in a hotel. And, naturally, we will have to move all of our stuff TWICE: once to a storage unit and once again into our new home. And all of this because HavenBrook wouldn't just return a phone call.
In order to fix all of this, the mortgage company finally called us and informed us of the situation. Furious, my wife called but no one answered. So, she continued to call--because we already know they won't answer their voicemails and an email takes days for them to respond to. Eventually, she got frustrated and so she and I BOTH called them repeatedly for over TEN MINUTES until finally someone condescended to pick up the phone. When we explain the situation to them--and our frustration over this level of incompetence--their answer to us was plain: "We don't answer our voicemail." WHAT!? Like it's a company policy or something? How can it be "policy" for ANY company that takes itself seriously to simply NEVER answer their voicemails?
These people are slum lords--nothing more. They completely ignore you. Jack your rent for no reason. Refuse to take care of their properties and then expect you to foot the bill to restore the building so they can continue to make a profit off of it.
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