In just a year RealManage charged us over $21k in "additional fees". We didn't budget for those fees, becuase we didn't expect them. If you look at our management agreement, they had taken out the "additional price schedule", I had to ask them for a copy of it multiple times. And a lot of this stuff we never consented to, they just did it.
Like oh someone reported a problem, they spent 5 minutes texting me, and I dealt with it- then they would charge us 195+30 dollars.
Or like oh they did something with zero benefit that took 2 minutes... half hour minimum at 185$ an hour.
What a rip off. Look through the fees yourslef, some of these never actually even happened, like they are charging us for mileage and "mass communication"... for an site visit that the vendor cancelled on- said they needed a permit for the drone... and we never asked for the "additional work" to be done, they just found ways to charge us extra.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N0p6t9nKacYrM5ecnBdHWaXLgNwQ9528?usp=share_link
I put links to our contract and their "additional price schedule" so you can see the fees that they try to hide.
We would have been better off managing the property ourselves. Could get a PagerDuty account for 5 users for FREE, and hire a handyman for cheaper than they would pick up a phone. One time I called them to take care of an issue, and then they called me to take care of it. Literally paying them to have me deal with the issues.
I thought we had the worst management company before we hired RealManage, and they managed to set the bar even lower. read more