Part 1:
Apparently you can't write a review if you want to pick ZERO stars! Worst place we EVER rented from! The house looked better when we turned in the key than when we received the house and they insulted us by giving us $300 (approximately) of our deposit back!
There was a "pet deposit" but never told us what it was used for! They took money from our deposit for "fines" from the HOA in the neighborhood we were renting from, even though there was never real "proof or an investigation" ever done! We actually had to take a picture of our dogs feces to show them what the amount looks like to "prove" the amount from the picture they showed us was definitely NOT from our dog!
There was actual food still in the oven- even in the drawers of the kitchen! Even dog toys and MORE food under the oven! Coffee grinds, medication for the owners dogs, mail, I'm sure if you can think of it- it was there! Like she just moved her furniture out and said, "Pettit get this house rented". We had to rent the Uhaul another day and have someone come to help us move because the house wasn't even ready! We also spent about 14 hours cleaning the house up and down to feel like we could even move our stuff in!!!
Pubic hairs in the showers, stains around the light switches, grease in the shelving... pantry with grease and coffee grinds- urine on the floor and running down the toilet- DRIED!!!! I have pictures!
They never changed the water filter for the whole house in the whole 2 years we were there! It's supposed to be changed every 6 months! Pettit said the landlord "wanted to come and change it herself" .... didn't happen! Pettit said they were going to paint the walls before we moved in because they were sooo scuffed and dirty, or they could paint it since we had already moved in... they NEVER came- THEN CHARGED US TO HAVE THE HOUSE PAINTED!!!
What else... each inspection (they come every 3 months by the way to "supposedly discuss with the renter what was wrong so you have a chance to fix it- NEVER RECEIVED ANYTHING- but all this stuff is "wrong with the home now that we are leaving!"
The ONE TIME WE ASKED TO POSTPONE (JUST A WEEK LONGER) BECAUSE I LITERALLY JUST GOT OUT OF THE HOSPITAL FROM HAVING A BILATERAL MASTECTOMY WE WERE TOLD.... NO! This is the only time convenient for them (Pettit)! Wow.... just WOW!
Some woman came to the house to "clean it", Come to find out, the "cleaner" was the owner- kinda psychotic right? Very deceptive! Wanted to see who was renting from her? That's the "maid" they sent to the home! She didn't identify herself as the owner, changed her accent from "English" supposedly where she's from, to a fake "Jamaican from New York" accent! Apparently she didn't realize I was from the East Coast and grew up near NY- NOT their accent!!!! Again, CRAZY!
Let's see, what else- the house came with an OLD (not even a front load) washer/dryer and when we said we weren't going to rent it for $25/month, the owner came right away to pick it up as if we were going to "sneak and use it for free" hahahahaha!
My husband spent almost $200 on buying mulch, planting grass seeds, etc because that house was known as the "eye sore" of the neighborhood! Neighbors actually would drive by and THANK my husband- some would even literally KNOCK ON THE DOOR- for FINALLY getting the house/yard nice! There were toilet rings and random things my husband didn't even write down on the "initial" sheet because that is normal "wear and tear" from a house being... 13 years old.... they had the nerve to "charge" us for that! A cheap $80 door covered in wall paper, my daughter pulled off the sticker and peeled off some of the wall paper... somehow it cost $270 to change out and fix (the owner wanted a new heavy wooden door!) then when they gave us the final total, it was less then what they took from the deposit, they never refunded us that! When we asked why our "initial" list was 5 pages and somehow the "walk-thru" list was 50, no answer! "They've upgrades their system"... Sooooo- their walk-thru was more strict than our initial one?
In their contract it says to leave the house in the condition we found it in, we left it BETTER- and got 1/4 of our deposit back! I will admit, after 2 years, of course there will be wear and tear- they wanted the house to not only look better than they gave it to us, it's like we had to float around and not eat, walk, or actually live in the home! Then we paid for someone to steam clean the carpets- fine that's usual when you have a dog.... they tried to say the house "smelled like dog" because I didn't pay for flea treatment for the carpet... because I pointed out IN THE CONTRACT IT DID NOT STATE I NEEDED TO DO FLEA TREATMENT, I DID SPECIFICALLY WHAT WAS ASKED! I guess they thought I "got over on them" so they had to take more of our deposit somehow! read more