It's hard to find a good PM.... R.A.N.S. sucks. They will avoid hiring outside services at all costs, even when it came to my rat-infested little tiny house. They sent over the same bad-attitude maintenance guy for any and all issues (and he didn't know anything/care to figure it out). All he wanted to do was complain and give me a hard time for being scared of rats. (Mind you, these rats were 6 inches long not including the tail.) After 4 half-assed maintenance visits from Phil, the manager, Ray, looked around and found a hole where the rats were entering. They filled it in and decided that was good enough. By now, there are already rats inside my walls and getting into my house from the unfinished storage loft. Now the rats are alive and trapped inside. The poison bait they brought in would kill them in 2 weeks. They seriously expected me to live in that tiny little one room cottage as the rats continued to hang out under my stove and in the loft above my bed. I finally had to move out mid month because the rats had completely taken over. I kid you not, I would open a cabinet and there's a rat sitting on top of my canned ravioli. I'd look up from my bed in the morning to see a rat sitting on top of my suitcase in the lofted area (which wasn't fully finished and had huge gaps between the surface and the edge of the wall). Even when I showed Ray, he said "oh yeah, it looks like they never finished constructing that cause it's still completely open up there..." and never did anything about it. The front desk lady Denise was always very kind and prompt to aid in my issues, but Phil (sorry excuse of a maintenance worker) allowed my rat infestation to grow. Had they hired an official exterminator like I begged them to do, the rats would have been nipped in the bud before they began to multiply in my walls and loft during springtime. The stench of them dying in the walls was profound. I literally would wake up in the night to a rat trap setting off and screeching to it's death.... It was unlivable. Even after these encounters, they still refused to send an exterminator. They were completely unwilling to spend the money on outside help. My attorney brother in law encouraged me to take them to small claims court, but I was in the middle of my final semester of Architecture grad school and didn't have the time nor money. I really wanted to like them because it was very easy for me to get approved to live in that house, but the way they handled serious maintenance requests was abysmal.
Another story: my friend was living in an apartment complex across the street from me and showed me her moldy walls. her bathroom wall was squishy to the touch. you could see mold growing in the holes and she found a sickening amount of different mold types in the bottom of her closet, under her bed, and on the backs of all furniture facing the walls. What was their solution? Slap a fresh coat of mold-resistant paint over it and call it a day. They didn't care. My friend and her dog had worsening rashes and everything smelled of mold and mildew. I was truly afraid it was only a matter of time before the walls cave in on the residents.
That being said, there are good pm's out there, such as Kensington property management. They allowed me to move in several weeks before my lease started because they felt so bad that I was stuck in a rat-infested 300 square foot house. I'm forever thankful for Judi for saving me from such unlivable conditions.
The standard for landlords in Eugene is so low, and you only realize how bad they can be once you experience one that goes above and beyond for you. R.A.N.S. hides behind a friendly face (Ray - he really is nice but he should reconsider who they hire as the primary maintenance person, maybe consider shelling out the $ for a professional rather than letting the problems fester and cause far more damage than necessary) and put's a band-aid over serious problems because they're too cheap to care about your safety. Not surprising at all, they didn't even return my security deposit. Ill betcha they turned right around and rented it out to another person as if the rats were never there. read more