I could go on and on and on, but bottom line on top: Do not use this company. DIY, you are way better off!
If you want to read on, please feel free...
I've been on the Board of my Condo Association for nearly 4 years. It's a 40 plus year old building with some ongoing maintenance concerns (not unusual) and some challenging owners/tenants(maybe a bit more unusual than some, but standard from what I've heard from other Condo Boards). Overall, it needs a project plan and a manager to execute said plan to maintain a building. We were self managed the first 3 years. We have some challenges with owners and larger maintenance projects. We thought RMS could help. We met with Randy several times before signing to discuss our scenarios and he was full of promises. We bought it.
That being said, RMS was abysmal. Phone calls are not returned, emails go unanswered and even the most basic requests (pay a bill, here is the invoice, address, amount etc.....just write a check guys and mail it!) needed 5 emails and 3 phones calls to be accomplished. It took them 2 months to pay our snow plow vendor. We reminded them weekly in emails and phone calls. First the lost the receipt, then they sent it....but it was never received then, the dog ate it.....
We could have done the minuscule amount of tasks they did ourselves, four times faster, done once, done right and with ten times the satisfaction. Basically, we just pad them to aggravate us for a year. The only thing they did consistently was pay themselves a monthly fee.
We could barely get them to pay our bills and collect assessments. We had to assist in some way every month, hiring and paying most contractors ourselves becuase they were unable to respond to general maintenance and definately could not handle emergency maintenance issues. The vendors they hired to come out and look at our boiler actually did further damage and left our boiler in an extremely dangerous condition. They drained the water tank and left the gas on, heating an empty, metal tank! Kaboom! Thank goodness we had our own people check on it after their vendors left us in peril.
While the staff was merely incompetant, Randy was beyond rude. When we asked for follow up on status or projects, we were met with silence. We asked for a project plan, it was as if a 3rd grader had written it, and no follow up was ever done without 4 or 5 emails and phone calls to prod them. During a meeting, when we confronted them with dates and times of unanswered phone calls, emails (second requests, third requests, fourth requests, etc....), our assistant project manager was able to point to one sole email he sent to us that went unanswered. I apologized and asked Randy if it that ever happened again if they could send us a reminder as we do for them when there are unanswered emails and he screamed, "NO! We are not going to baby sit you!" Really Randy? Because we paid you for a year to baby sit you and your assistant property manager....hmm.
Ultimately, we severed our contract with an attorney. They have a tricky automatic renew clause in the contract and had we not used an attorney, they would still be taking our money. The "bank" they use is a unknown, small time non FDIC credit union in Arizona! We had a hard time finding, let alone getting our own money back from them even after we severed the contract.
The irony is that RMS was recommended to me by an associate. He is thrilled with their service, although I have to question how invovled he is with the day to day operations of his Assoiaction and operations of his Condo. They had a different representative with RMS and she must be a gem.
I could STILL go on and on and on, but bottom line on top: Do not use this company. DIY, you are way better off! read more