Short version: ParkOne is a joke. If you want an incompetent company to serve as your money collector, then go with this one. If you want a company that actually manages your property with care and professionalism, look elsewhere.
Long version: ParkOne managed our rental property for ~ 2 years, and their service went downhill significantly over that time.
Ed Basaldua was our initial contact, and at first he seemed great. We soon realized that while he may be a good salesman, he is arrogant and horrible at customer service. (You can see this in his responses to other negative Yelp reviews, where he makes vague, noncommittal statements about how they will review policies/procedures and never takes responsibility. And, most likely, in his response to this review.) He takes no responsibility for his company's shortcomings, and even failed to respond to our communications when we complained.
We should have seen the signs from the beginning. It always seemed like ParkOne made more work for us instead of less - like quoting us $45-150 to haul away some debris from the yard or failing to allocate repair costs when a mailbox pole we shared with neighbors broke.
Then, shortly before our first tenants' lease was up, we found out that they had been chain smoking in the yard (causing our neighbors to complain), which violated the lease agreement. We also learned that they had a 3rd dog living in the house (also a lease violation). When we spoke to ParkOne about these issues, they got defensive and seemed to side with the tenants! We elected to terminate the rental relationship once the lease ended, and ParkOne handled that process. ParkOne kept us totally in the dark about what was happening, making it even more stressful.
Later, when our house went back on the rental market, ParkOne used the same ad they had used 2 years before - even though it was out-of-date and contained inaccurate info. At this point, I called Ed regarding my various concerns. In response, Ed emailed me back providing excuses for each one of my complaints. He never apologized and didn't even address the rental ad, but said, "We of course want you to be happy with our service and we will always do our best for you. But we will not always be able to bat 1000."
How about batting .200? ParkOne proved that they were unable to do even that when they gave our prospective tenants a lease that listed THE WRONG RENT. Not only was the rent $100 less than the ad price, but ParkOne never even sent us the lease before sending it to the new tenants. When we asked for it, Chris Carranza responded that "with the request for the additional clause about smoking I assumed that I already sent you the lease for review so I only sent the addendum page." Big assumption, Chris. Check your email?
When I caught the typo in the rent, I tried calling Ed and Chris but just got an email from Ed stating "That was a typo in the preparation of the lease. The tenant did not catch that either (or maybe he did, but just didn't say anything)." Obviously. How about an apology for your company's continued incompetence? Then, after ParkOne failed to send us the executed lease as well, my husband emailed Ed on 9/9/14: "Ed, Did our new tenants move in? Has the final lease been signed? If so, is there a reason we haven't gotten a copy of the executed lease?
So far ParkOne's handling of this transaction has been far below my expectations when I hired your firm. Has your firm grown a lot in the last 2 years? I am trying to put my finger on what has changed regarding customer service over that time period as we had a much better experience getting our first tenants into the house. Please advise."
Ed never responded. Instead, Kim sent us a copy of the lease. I also tried to engage Ed over the phone but he stopped returning my calls. Perhaps in his eyes we were annoying customers, but we were simply trying to get the company to do the job we were paying it to do. At least they were still doing a pretty good job of transferring the rent to us - until we noticed that we were getting the rent 10 days late. Only after we inquired did ParkOne inform us that they learned that they must allow all rent checks to clear before dispersing funds. You'd think they'd tell their clients this information before they started to disperse the rent late, but it took us reaching out for them to get their act together.
I wish I could tell you we wised up and fired ParkOne, but we're busy and didn't want to deal with the hassle of finding another company. Finally, out-of-the-blue, ParkOne let us know that they were terminating our relationship. I think they were just tired of having clients that actually tried to get them to do their job, though we never did receive an explanation. In the end, they did us a favor - we manage our property ourselves now and it's much smoother for everyone involved. Even our tenants have remarked that their experience with this company was a joke. Good riddance, ParkOne. read more