Quick synopsis: Close this Yelp page and move onto the next property management company.
I've been renting for over 10 years and have lived in multiple cities across the States. This is by far the worst-run property management company. The property manager, Robert, keeps horrible records and he generally under-delivers on his promises. From the moment we decided to sign the lease until now, it has been an uphill battle. For example, they insisted on receiving a cashier's check, rather than a money order (they're practically the same thing!). Additionally, they wanted a picture-confirmation that we're even sending them a check, which I find to be completely absurd.
When we were settled on a move-in date, the property manager insisted that we come and do a move-in check at least a week before we're supposed to be moving in. This might be okay if I were local, but I was 400 miles (or 7 driving hours) away, living in San Francisco. After giving quite the pushback, he finally gave up and said that we could do the check-in on the day that we move in (isn't this the normal for most apartments out there?). Why would a company require me to do review and complete a move-in check off a week before I would move in? Couldn't there be a chance that the unit could be damaged between the check-in and the actual move-in?
Next were the building's mailboxes. This is a new building that we are living in, and for several weeks (probably more than a month), I stopped receiving mail to my mailbox. At first, my thoughts were, "Great, no ads and junk to just throw away" and kept on checking the mailbox every few days. Finally, I ran into another tenant while I was checking the mail and she asked me, "Oh, are you getting mail again?" to which I was a bit surprised and asked her what she meant.
Turns out, the mailboxes were not installed up to USPS's code, so they stopped delivering mail to us. Per her advice, I went to our local USPS location to pick up my mail and there was quite a bit (you can imagine what my mail stack might look like after a month of not receiving it).
Were any of the tenants in this building notified? Nope.
And then the calls boxes. I've had several packages that were not able to get delivered to me, even though I am home every day, because they couldn't get past the front gate. But it has a call box, so why weren't they able to get in? Oh, well it's because the property manager didn't ever add us to the call-box outside of the main gate. What else? Our lease has both mine and my husband's name on it, so naturally, you would think that both of our names would be added to the call box - WRONG! Only 1 person per unit. This is a hair more acceptable for our situation, but can you imagine if you were in a roommate situation? You'd have to always rely on your roommate to pick up the phone whenever USPS, FedEx, UPS, DHL, etc. tries to deliver drop off a package.
It has been 3 months since we've moved into the building, and the front-gate call box still does not contain any tenants in the directory.
As a tenant, I would not recommend living in a building that is ran by this company. I'm not sure how the other Staff at Ontrack is, but the one staff we work with is one of the least professional property managers I've worked with. read more