My husband and I went through this realty company to rent our first house. The experience was stressful and I strongly urge anyone reading this to go anywhere but this place. We are not hard people to please, don't expect any ass-kissing, we simply want to be treated like decent people. To start our rental agent left town the Saturday she had agreed to come in so we could pay the remainder of our deposit and get our keys, a 5 minute process. We had been told there is always someone there and didn't think anything when there was an associate there. He had to call our rental lady to verify and she didn't even remember us and told him to give us the keys, the man did not give us a receipt and proceeded to badger us about coming in unexpectedly. We explained we had an appointment with our agent beforehand, to which he waved us off. The house was NOT clean when we moved in, the carpet was filthy and there were light bulbs that needed to be changed, nails still in the walls and dirty areas on them, missing screens and broken window shades. Her nephew is the one doing the cleaning, under the table i suspect, and had left cigarette butts in the garage and backyard as well as his lighter and half full soda in the front bathroom. These are things that were not there when we put in our application. Her nephew also drove onto the lawn up to the side gate to get in the backyard and get things out of the shed, not a good idea in AZ where everyone has a gun. I came home when the man was leaving but my husband had walked out with his firearm inquiring who the guy was. Wouldn't you when some strange man walks into your backyard and you have no idea who he is? I had to make 6 different trips, 3 to get the garage door opener and 3 to find out about a mailbox. I am not an aggressive person and try to give the benefit of the doubt, but this place was across town and with gas prices so high I did not appreciate the extra trips. Then we found out, finally, that we had to pay the postal service to change the lock on the mailbox and give us the new key. She didn't tell us that from the get-go so we didn't have mail service for about a month, and we feel this is something to be included in a deposit and a service that she should be taking care of. Then came time for the lease to be up. In an unprofessional manner she contacted my husband and asked "the landlord wants to know if you're renewing your lease". We told her our 30 day notice would be with the rent next week, when it was due, and we would be out by the end of September. The Friday before the 30th I called twice, once leaving a message with a live person and another on her extension, and I never heard back. We simply wanted to know when we should be in for the final inspection, ect ect. Finally on the 30th my husband called and she told him we don't have to be there for the inspection, just to drop the keys and garage opener to her, and so we did. A week later and we still hadn't heard any info on getting our deposit back so I popped by the office while running errands. All she told me was "I don't know, our inspector works independently. He'll drop the info off when he does it". Seeing as how she was handling other customers I didn't push the matter. There was no company names given, no willingness to find out when it would be scheduled, nothing. I've never heard of an inspection taking this long. I believe it could be the lady's nephew seeing as how he seems to do a lot of these jobs for them and she didn't seem eager to give anymore info. He is not a certified contractor or inspector, he's just a guy who happens to be her nephew. We never paid our rent late and they had no complaint from or about us. I'm sorry this is so long but I want people to really know what happened and why they need to go elsewhere for their property renting/buying. We bought our current house from Realty Executives and they were phenomenal, I'm sure the same can be said for their rental agents. read more