Please DO YOUR RESEARCH before you even think about renting with this company. I can speak from experience as someone who did not, but thankfully, my partner and I caught on quick and were able to cease further developments and communications. We live in Jackson, MS, a city involved in a major water crisis and urgently needed a new place to live. We started looking at Zillow, where we found a home owned and managed by Vinebrook Homes. I believe both of our judgments were skewed due to stressful circumstances, but these people are convincing and conniving swindlers. We filled out our PAID applications, where we uploaded our IDs and income verifications, and were assigned a leasing agent, Kristen Sutton. I'm posting her name because chances are, it's fake.
She contacted me the day after I submitted the application, which I thought was procedural since the approval process supposedly only took 48 hours. However, she told me on the phone that I had only been conditionally approved since my co-applicant's documents did not upload correctly. She followed up with an e-mail asking me to send over the documents, which I did. However, upon looking at the site where I initially uploaded the documents, I saw that my partner's had indeed uploaded successfully. I found it unusual but not unbelievable. In Kristen's e-mail, she included a phone number with her extension. I called it. No answer. I left a message.
The next day, now approaching the 48 hours, I sent Kristen a follow-up e-mail regarding my partner's documents for full approval, since it only took a day to verify and approve mine. Hours later, I never heard anything back. So, I decided to dial her extension. Still no answer, and keep in mind she never returned any of my phone calls. I only spoke to this woman ONCE throughout this whole ordeal and she NEVER responded to any e-mails, even when I CC'ed her onto an e-mail with Customer Service.
So, I called the main line to see if I could speak with an agent regarding my application and hopefully push it through. However, I soon spoke to the most incompetent people ever created and realized this phoneline had nothing to do with customer service, essentially full of mindless operators, constantly transferring you to one another. They never could give me a phone number to a Jackson office nor a physical address. I also soon learned that was because they do not exist.
One of the agents eventually confessed that "customer service" can only be reached via e-mail, which is ridiculous in and of itself, and that she couldn't even transfer me to the extension that Kristen provided because answering agents cannot transfer calls to leasing agents. I could not even believe such stupidity had just been relayed to me in a serious tone. By this point, I've sent e-mails to "customer service" demanding a cancellation of our applications, which, at first, they did not want to grant, claiming that a deposit would be due the following week, along with claiming that MY ID never uploaded, not my partner's, as I was originally told.
All of this for a home that neither of us even signed a lease on. Stay away from scammers. read more