Very frustrated experiences. When the first tenant moved out of our property, Homeworx told us the house was kept in a good situation. They recommended us to pay for the repair fee by ourselves, not ask the tenant to pay for it. We accepted because we were satisfied with the tenants, and would like to give their deposit back. After the new tenants moved in and we signed a new contract with homeworx, homeworx sent us a bill and said the previous tenant refused to pay the repair bill from their deposit. We were surprised. We thought we already paid everything for making the house ready and the tenants already got their full deposit. Then homeworx sent a new fixing list we never reviewed. For example, taking out the TV frame from the wall, or cleaning some areas no one thought it's dirty. Homeworx did it before the new tenants moved in. And finally this company successfully made the previous tenants paid 50% fee from their deposit, and we had to paid the remaining fee because breaking a new contract with Homeworx will make us lose lots of money. Homeworx is so good at this kind of operations.
If you want to use homeworx to manage your property, please remember, homeworxs will keep charging you the monthly management fee once the tenants moved in. You can't stop paying them no matter how bad their service is. You must pay them until the lease ends. So we have to keep using their service. The second tenant has two big dogs which homeworx never told us before they moved in. The neighbors were scared by the dogs and called us. We asked homeworx to figure out what happened because we don't allow pets in the property. Homeworx told us the tenants said they are the service dogs, and said homeworx can't do anything about this. But they can check the house every 3 months and send us the pictures for review. We bought this service. So every time they sent us only several pictures of the house, which never show us the situation of the wood floor, the back yard etc. where we asked them to take a picture. We asked homeworx to take the pictures we need to see. But they never respond to our requests. We paid money, but never know the real situation of this property. We worried so much and refused the renew request from the second tenants. We also told homeworx we won't use their service after this lease ends. Once the tenants got the notice from homeworx, they run away immediately. Yes, they run away and gave us a fake check for the last month rent. Again, homeworx said there is nothing they can do. This company checked the house and told us it only takes a little more than half of the deposit to repair everything. Actually, homeworx charged the first tenant and us almost 2 months' rents to make the house ready. We don't trust them, and stopped working with them. We ask homeworx to give us the deposit back. We will use it to cover part of the rent we lost and the repair fee we will pay. Homeworx said the deposit fee can't be used to make up the rent we lost. It can only be used for repairing house. Since they said they only quote half of the deposit to fix the house, they will only return us this number, and the remaining deposit fee will belong to homeworx. It's their profit. We hired a new contractor to check the house. It's full of trash, the wood floor was totally damaged, very smelly, plants in yards are all dead etc. We need to spend more than $10,000 to fix it. So this is Homeworx, never help us to resolve any problems, tried everything to get money from both the landlord and the tenants, did nothing even the tenants run away without paying the rent, and refused to give us the deposit to make up for the loss. This is a greedy company with awful service. read more