O.K. I had promised to leave another review of Properties Pus (purposely left the "L" out so that…read morethey sound like the nose-wipes that they really are).
One thing I remember is there was a massive gap in the composite 'boards' under the kitchen sink. Water had soaked down to those cheap 'boards' and the 'boards' had dissolved. The kitchen was on the back of the house, facing the back yard, and the deck was attached to the house close to the kitchen. With that huge hole under the kitchen sink, it was a perfect setup for mice to get into the house and get into other areas because the cabinets on the front of under the sink did not latch shut. The mice could just slip through the door. And the mice came in; many mice came in, all the time. Yes, we had a cat. He was an older kitty, and could catch mice outside, but the cabinet doors kept him from getting to the mice like he might have.
The point of this first section is that later, when the property owner's 'handy person' was in the property, as he was prepping and painting the outside of the house, I told him that there were mice getting into the house, and that it is a health hazard. His answer was, "Every house has mice." That was a B.S. answer. NOT every house has mice.
So based on that clown's B.S. answer, I decided to act on my own. I went to Home Depot, purchased a couple of boards of half-inch plywood, wood glue, nails, screws, and even a nice drill. Added in gloves, respirators, and safety
glasses, the total came to over 350.00. I identified two YouTube presentations where professional woodworkers had repaired cheap destroyed 'wood' under kitchen sinks and put in good plywood. I had a handy friend who has circular saws and tools come over and after cleaning out the old MOLDY composite 'boards' from under the sink, I washed everything with diluted bleach water.
Then we measured and cut the plywood to fit the bottom and sides of the under sink and closed all of those gaping holes. We did a thorough and CLEAN job under that sink. (Their management DID NOT complain about any issues under the kitchen sink when we moved out, IMAGINE THAT).
There were NO MORE MICE after we FIXED the under sink. We also did the property owner a HUGE FAVOR by repairing THEIR STINKIN HOUSE!!
That same year my spouse died. Properties Pus decided that they'd CLOSE OUR LEASE just a month after my spouse passed. We were in the midst of CRIPPLING GRIEF, and had to move. Got everything out of the house and HIRED a PROFESSIONAL CLEANER to clean the house for a $200.00 fee.
Properties PUS came back and had a 45-page diatribe (complete with pictures) of all the things that they did not 'consider properly cleaned.' The heater registers were dusty, they said (registers were FULL of spider webs WHEN WE MOVED IN. Properties Pus wrote that the fireplace was not 'cleaned' when we moved out. Well, the fireplace was FULL of OLD ASH and PARTLY BURNED wood WHEN WE MOVED IN. They had a 45-page list of all the things that 'we' had not cleaned when we moved 'out.' GUESS WHAT? The STOVE wasn't clean WHEN WE MOVED IN. The WINDOWS weren't clean WHEN WE MOVED IN. NOT ONE THING that they complained about for our 'move out' was 'clean' WHEN WE MOVED IN. It was a pigsty when WE MOVED in.
They are hypocrites to the ULTIMATE DEGREE and money-grubbers. They will present you with a completely NOT CLEAN house when you move in. And then they will turn into White Glove perfectionists when you move out so they can charge you 2,000.00 or 3,000.00 when you Move Out. Nastiness never ends with this motley crew.
When we moved into that place it was FULL OF OLD, STALE CIGARETTE SMOKE. One bathroom was so imbued with smoke sticking to the walls that I got nicotine poisoning when using steam to try to clean out the STINK on the walls.
DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT RENTING FROM PROPERTIES PUS. I guess there may be worse companies out there, but they are THE WORST that I
have EVER experienced in my ENTIRE LIFE.
Run, run, run. Live in a tent on the street before you rent from Properties PUS, they are a putrefying WOUND in the list of improper property management companies..