I don't normally write Yelp reviews, but this one bothered me so much, I want to make sure other people don't go through the same thing I did!
I am moving to Maryland from out of state, and I came up for a week to look for rentals. On Monday, TCA showed me a lovely townhouse that I thought was perfect. I was told that if I applied, it would only take a few days to run the application and if approved, we'd be good to go. That said, I applied as soon as I got home on Monday. I then called on Wednesday to check on the application and was told that it'd probably be done by Friday or the next week. So I waited until Friday and called back, and it was only then that I was told someone else had applied and been approved. Basically, I had been waiting all week for nothing.
This is frustrating because I came from out of state, and I had sort of stopped looking once I saw this place; it left me scrambling to see other places before I left. This is my fault, of course, for not taking TCA's implications (i.e., that I could sign a lease once they approved my app) with a grain of salt. That said, TCA was extremely misleading in having me think for a week that I was simply waiting for my application to be approved when in reality, someone else had already applied and was in fact approved. Not to mention the application fee (for me and my husband) was $80, which I might have thought twice about paying if I'd known someone else had already applied before me.
Overall, very unprofessional interaction with them. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that they didn't do this on purpose just to get me to spend the $80 on the application fee, but I still have a very bad taste in my mouth because of all this. I would not recommend this company to any of my friends or family. read more