Where do I begin to share how much Marie and her team suck. Let's start with your first point of contact, Cindy. After racially profiling my girlfriend (who is Puerto Rican but was born and raised in Queens) and asking her if she needed an application in Spanish, let's just say we that's when we should have stood up and walked out. Then, when she found out we weren't married she straight up said we would not be able to rent the apartment. When we explained we've been together 7 years and rented multiple places together, she then said the only way was for my girlfriend to pay an extra $2K deposit herself. When my girlfriend said ok no problem, Cindy went into full blown Utahrd "I cant, you can't, we can't" mode, and attempted to conjure up other reasons why we would not qualify. Not letting that effect us (our biggest mis step in retrospect), we pushed through this arduous process with this bootleg secretary with a face for radio, and almost out of spite, we plop down 6k & rent the place anyways.
We were perfect tenants for 9 months of our year lease. Then Covid-19 strikes and we both lost our jobs. I reached out to Marie and I met with her and the owner of the house to discuss a plan of action. The owner of the house said so long as we were able to rent the house in the month of may, and new renters move right in first of June we would be able to receive our FULL deposit back. Marie agreed to this arrangement. We used one of our deposits for April's rent and another for Mays rent, leaving our security/cleaning deposit hanging in the balance. We helped show the house multiple times in may and like a miracle we were able to get it rented. We were out on the 30th of May as instructed and the new people were available to move in on the 1st.
Marie still charged us $500 for some made up fee!!!!! Marie's go-to, customer service move in this situation was to take on a litany of scathing online reviews and snatching $500 wherever she could, using "we broke our lease" as an excuse. Remember, they signed a new lease, with a new tenant who moved in 3 days after we left.
Furthermore, it took us 7 weeks after moving out to get our deposit back!!! Essentially Marie took advantage of us at our lowest point during this horrific pandemic, lied to us, and simply stop taking our calls and emails. As a side note, Marie is very much like that weird aunt that clearly has made arrangements with your equally weird uncle to have kids, but spends all her spare time with her special friend learning Melissa Etheridge songs on guitar.
This company sucks, and I can't stress enough how nasty, difficult, incompetent and rude Cindy is. Picture a Nancy Grace and Eric Andre mashup experience when dealing with a receptionist! And don't turn your back on Marie, or your wallet and most likely your beer will go missing. Shady AF!! read more