Watson management took over my property since 2024 and since then they have raised the quarterly fees from $400.00 to now $525.00 and the service remains the same and if not worse than before. They're very unprofessional at the office and the lady who's in charge of my property Hillary Rothmore, is extremely biased and incompetent. She only shows urgency to resolve issues when it involves board members only. read more

My company was hired by Mr. Willie Smith of Rosebud to perform a job, and the work was completed exactly as requested. Once the job was finished, payment was deliberately withheld despite clear agreement on terms. Multiple attempts to collect payment and resolve the matter were ignored or dismissed. This is unacceptable and demonstrates a complete lack of professionalism, accountability, and integrity. I strongly warn other contractors and businesses to proceed with extreme caution when dealing with Mr. Smith or Rosebud Watson Property Management. Their one-star rating accurately reflects this type of behavior. read more

If you ever take any advice from the Internet please make this it!!! This is the absolute WORST company that I have ever encountered. We are professionals that relocated for work, I cannot tell you what a nightmare renting from this company has been. There were so many red flags and we ignored them, biggest mistake ever!!! They are horrible people, who gaslight you and make your life hell. We are excellent tenants but are treated like absolute garbage. RUN Any positive reviews on here are fake!!! There is absolutely NO way that anyone who has rented from them has anything positive to say. read more

This company discriminates against renters, pick and chooses who the rules apply to. Even went so far as to tell me that children don't belong in an HOA. I think it's time for a lawyer. read more

Do yourself a favor and run. As a potential renter , do not get involved with them. Their only concern is, beside money, to fight the renters, parasiting the owners, inventing new rules against renters, forgetting to just praise the renters that pay their dues and keep watch actually for the property they occupy. I mean, 20 people bothering you, writing letters, emails, inspecting, taking pics of your belongings, threatening to get in your rented house when you not there?! This company is too much and all good renters enemy , for sure. Once I get out of the contract I will be very happy. read more

October this year we were looking at rental homes and found one that Watson property management had on the market. Now- if you are looking at renting or buying right now- you know the market is hot! Like- couple days on the market hot. So we were excited to be the first to view this property and first to submit applications. Now- we don't live in debt, so John and I are the rarities- we don't have a long credit history. So our credit scores reflect that. Prior to John I had rented houses only. I am used to a background check and credit check to see if we pay our bills. This company- if you don't have a long credit history or a high enough credit score they deny you and tell you your options are to pay in advance the entire lease amount. I want you to absorb that- because we don't have debt and we pay everything out of pocket- in order to rent with them, we would have to cough up $18k plus the deposit to rent one of their homes. RENT- not buy. So, jokes on them- in several ways. Because a quick perusal of the majority of big rental agencies looked to have similar standards. So we looked to see if we could get pre-approved for a loan to buy instead of rent. Because we have liquid assets. Guess what? We got pre-approved for a great amount. So suck it Watson! And ironically enough- one of their realtors has a house on the market that we toured! It was overpriced- but when I saw that it was a Watson Realtor that was selling it- it was an automatic DQ. Bye Felicia. So be warned- if your credit is good enough to rent with them- just go buy! Any of their rentals- same neighborhoods will cost you less in monthly payments to buy! Oh- as mentioned in another review- they do not show you properties. You are responsible to drive to their office during very restricted hours, make a $40 cash deposit to retrieve the key for the property and tour it yourself and return the key to get your deposit back. The person listed as point of contact is joke to deal with- only texts and not fast on responses. And wasn't even in the office when we went in- to put a face to the name of who we were dealing with. read more

This realty company is horrible. I did everything they requested and still do not return deposits. The office staff is rude unprofessional and horrible. Do not use them for listing houses or looking to rent with them. I guess when you are making 8.00 an hr you don't care about being kind read more

I am extremely pleased with Watson Management Team. I have been working with Watson for 11 plus years. I am even more pleased with the management services provided by Mr. Shawn Torgeson under the Watson Umbrella. I can think of nothing but personally expressing my sincere gratitude for the support that Mr. Shawn Torgeson has and continues to provide me and my family while with Watson. The way he managed my previous tenant's for 10 plus years, the upkeep of home, along with quick and professional communication throughout the process has been invaluable. His bedside manner with my tenants is unmatched by anyone in the property management field. It has been a pleasure to work with someone with such high attention to detail and excellent communication skills to make the transition with the new tenant smooth and seamless as possible. Once again, I would like to extend my heartfelt appreciation for the support and assistance that Mr. Shawn has provided. Do not half step when approaching Mr. Torgeson. His time along with other phenomenal members of Watson Management Team are extremely valuable. Do not come looking for a handout. read more

Awful rental service. They don't care about you as a tenant, just your money. Hidden fees everywhere and once you let them know you're not resigning the lease, they treat you like trash. The houses may be listed at a good price but you will be adding at least $500/month on top of rent for lawn/maintenance/utilities that are not covered. I will never be renting with Watson again, they made my life hell and made the renting process terrible. read more

21 days and counting for our A/C to be fixed. Their HVAC guys have no clue what there doing after we told them what was wrong and have HVAC experience just said we're not use to Georgia heat and the we should set the thermostat 5 degrees below ambient temperature I don't know what's dumber the fact he said it or they really believe it. 5 visits and $3000 in part later they order the right parts that I suggested in the first place so now we wait some more they sure don't seam to get in any kind of hurry around here. read more

The ladies there are all very rude and unprofessional. If I could give them a zero and the middle finger I would. They're all so passive aggressive and don't care about anything. I've been calling and even put it in writing about my AC unit that's been down since last summer n they don't care..I would never recommend anyone to rent anything from them.. read more

The worse Property management in Orlando. We moved out on Dec 6 today It Feb 1st they don't want to give our deposit back. We keep getting run around, that we had the address wrong, or may the mail delay for MLK day, but it in town mail it doesn't take 2 month for the mail to be sent back for a wrong address. We have called and email and talk to everyone at Oviedo office and our Property manager Tara Mason keep giving us excuses to why we haven't receive the check. We paid for everything we only want what is owed to us. I don't think that is fair. May be because we are black and they want us to act up so that they can take the money. I hate to use the race card but I'm running out of the reasons why. read more

By far the WORST property management company I've ever worked with in my life. They did NOTHING to rent my property for over two months, did not do the maintenance work that they said they would, did not market the property OR EVEN tell my HOA that they were the property managers. I have yet to even get my KEYS back from them!!! I have worked with many property managers in my life, and can tell you that there are PLENTY of them that are better than this. I would not recommend this company to anyone. read more

Bob K I am currently using Watson Management for our rental in Daytona Beach and they are the biggest SCAM going. I would not recommend this company to manage a dog house. They say that they have the right to call their handyman in for anything up to $150 without notifying us. Well it's just amazing that every time they call him in its just under, seems to me that someone is in bed with the handyman service. Can you imagine having a handyman wanting to charge $150 to put in 4 smoke detectors(battery operated),well that didn't happen. When they first started to manage the property someone knocked down our mailbox, well they called in the handyman I bet u can guess what that cost us. Watson I can not wait till our contract is up. read more

I am so surprised for all the one star reviews that I see. I have always had a great experience with Watson. I am renting a apartment in Riverside. They are always on top of everything. Usually within 24 hours they have someone out to check out the issue. The property managers have always been very respectful and easy to work with. Thank you All for doing such a great job with our building! LG read more

When my Father passed we were left with the task of taking care of houses that he was renting out. One of the properties was handled through Watson Management and we cannot tell you how great they are. They took all the burden of my Family during this hard time,, handled everything with the renters and are just really super people. We did not have to worry about anything. Ryan Horton was amazing and always immediately responds to all my emails. I have never dealt with a management company before but I would highly recommend using them if you have rental properties, you definitely have a peace of mind when using them. Thank you! Tammy C read more

I have been renting from Watson for a year. Any trouble call I put in has been handled quickly. They have a portal app, so paying rent is really easy. All the people I've dealt with at the Jacksonville office (Sunbeam Rd.) have been very friendly and helpful! I truly have zero complaints! read more

Not an honest company. We complained to the HQ and they did not respond. The local staff is rude and unprofessional. They practice immoral policies in these challenging times. Always thought Watson had a good name but was proven wrong. Placing a BB complaint as well. read more

Watson Realty is trying to make a claim against our security deposit to repaint the interior of a property that we lived in for over six years. We have disputed it once and they lowered the charges from $565 to $200. We now have to take the time to dispute it again, and they will once more take a month to respond, but I am not giving up. They also tried to charge us over $150 to cut the grass on the original claim, after we mowed, hedged, edged, and weeded the day before we turned in our keys. They dropped those charges altogether, but it was completely fraudulent to begin with. Crooked bastards. My advice...DO NOT RENT FROM WATSON REALTY. read more

The company is very dishonest when you rent from them about lease terms and lease renewals. Transparency being a key term here. The company requires a two month notice whether you renew or not and then find it acceptable to charge additional fees because they agree to allow new tenants to move in weeks later when other people could have easily moved in much sooner. This is known and has happened to hundreds of renters with this location. They pressured us to resign a lease so that they could go out of the country to Italy on vacation even though we weren't comfortable with the renewal terms. read more

Had the misfortune of trying to use them to rent a property in marietta Jacksonville. They where the laziest most uninformed people I have ever dealt with in my 30 yrs of experience as an owner of several rental property's. Listing the property was a nightmare it took them over 2 weeks to sign an agreement they wouldn't show it for another 3 weeks and when I asked for an appraisal value (just signed a contract to sell ) they came up with a price 1/2 the value. These people are dangerous they should not be in the industry. It seems there's not enough professionals to go around in that area. If you would like to contact me directly to discuss feel free. read more

Watson Rental is nothing but a money grab. They have no problem taking your money but if you need a repair, want to see pictures of your home, or any other status you might as well forget about it. I have been trying to have repairs made since early OCT, it December for god sake. Due to their lack of service I drove hundreds of miles to make repairs on my home after a storm. If you require property management I highly recommend you do your homework. Watson represents terrible service and poor communication. I'd be better off on my own. read more

Wow, so horrible. Wasted my time. I had to pick up the keys to view a listing and they gave me the wrong keys TWICE! Waste of gas and time! Then they couldn't find the correct key! Do not do business with this garbage place. read more

A year and a half later nothing has changed since Juan's post. This place is terrible, when did realtor mail in their jobs. This property management group still has you show yourself the home as long as you pick up the key by 3p and drop off $40 as collateral until you drop the key back off. They put the majority of their listings under Lisa Jones who is never available to answer a call, return a call much less to schedule a showing. If you are good with doing all the work while they collect the check give Lisa a call, just don't hold your breathe for a call back. read more

Possibly the highest concentration of dumb people on the planet. They have a fee generating scam that tricks applicants into applying for properties. When more than one applicant applies, they ONLY use the credit of the lesser applicant to establish rental criteria, making the credit pull (and fee) of the better credit applicant unnecessary- and a violation of Fair Credit Reporting Act. No one in this office, or even within the entire company has any business or common sense. Look at their ratings across the internet- there is a reason why no one likes them. Avoid this company at all costs- its a headache you don't want to put up with. If you do have to deal with them, then only put your best applicant on the application. If you have another applicant with less than stellar credit, then leave them off the application. I have an 800 plus credit score and a 6 figure salary and they denied me because of a co-applicants credit. You can claim they are "visiting" and there is not a damn thing Watson can do about it and they can not prevent you from having sleep over guests. Remember to adapt and overcome with these scoundrels. read more

Not happy with the services they provided; or really did NOT provide. Their costs were higher than other property management companies and the services were virtually nonexistent. The best decision I made was to let the company go after one year and now have been much happier with another local company in the Jax area. read more

Watson took my security deposit because my neighbor damaged the apartment complex balcony while moving out. After contacting them several times they basically called me a liar and said they had witnesses. Total BS. I kept my apartment in perfect condition and cleaned before I moved out. I would not suggest renting through Watson. They are extremely shady people. read more

Reviewing Watson Property Management in Neptune Beach, FL. Negative experience from the start. The property manager showing the unit rushed and would not answer questions. The Zillow posting listed a fireplace however it was sealed and unusable. Turnover in the property management office, dealt with 3 different managers within one year's lease. Completed all items on move out cleaning list however did not receive a significant chunk of security deposit because it took 27 days to get the proposed amount so by the time it would take to refute the money was needed towards new lease. Would not work with the property manager again. Would rent through another company. read more

I walked into the Palm Coast office to meet the property managers BEFORE I decide to list my house. Three days in a row no one was there except the receptionist who offered to call me when they come in, but she admitted she hadn't seen them lately. Today was the last straw though when I finally met the property manager Terry, and she smelled like booze and didn't seem to have a clue about what she was doing. She couldn't explain the process to me or tell me who their vendors were. Not trusting these people with my home. read more

ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE IN EVERY WAY AS PROPERTY MANAGERS, ADVOCATES, AND LISTING AGENTS. DO NOT USE FOR ANY SERVICES!!!!! I would give ZERO stars if I could. WAYNE JONES managed our property for several years (if you could call it that). It took DOZENS of phone calls and e-mails to address simple problems (e.g. weeds in the yard) that should have taken ONE phone call and follow-up action by Watson and ZERO effort by the owners. Wayne acted as listing agent for a year while we tried to sell the house and he NEVER went to check on the property, did NOTHING to sell the house, allowed tenants to TRASH the house, and gave us NO updates on the selling effort, even after MANY phone calls and e-mails. FAILED to provide timely, accurate final accounting when we no longer needed Watson's services. Arranged repairs & charged us AFTER we were no longer under contract--TWICE--and charged us for it MONTHS later!!! ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE IN EVERY WAY AS PROPERTY MANAGERS, ADVOCATES, AND LISTING AGENTS. DO NOT USE FOR ANY SERVICES!!!!! Our relationship with Watson wasted THOUSANDS of dollars and at least DOZENS of hours of our time and caused unnecessary strife with us, the tenants, and the HOA. ZERO STARS !!!!!! read more

I used the Watson Orlando/ Oviedo Branch. I went through 3 leases with them and was never late. I was getting bills in the $400 + range for 10 out of 12 months for my electric . When I moved I EVEN LEFT THEM A 1200 DOLLAR DEPOSIT .. I also had a basketball goal fall on our car causing over $500 in damage to a brand new vehicle because it was not installed properly. They are the absolute WORST company to deal with and LIED about damages that were there when we moved in. Instead of sending us a bill they sent it to collection and tried to hurt our credit. I would NEVER reccommend them to anyone. Infact I would reccomend you NEVER do business with these lying and unethical people. If it would not have cost more money and time than it was worth I would have taken them to court and sued them for their lies! RUN and find a more ethical company to deal with!! read more

The Worst. Don't return calls. Lisa Jones never spoke to us after numerous calls, neer returns calls. Talked to the broker Terri Brown and still no results. Worst property management company. Don't do business with them. As an owner and paying the outrageous 15% commission, canceled our contract after fighting to get out. Went with less expensive management company and got far better service. read more

The WORST company ever! Do. NOT use them. They do NOT provide walk through upon move in or move out, do. NOT maintain the property at all and then try to charge you for everything tap hat was already that way when you moved in. Repairs take forever, service is terrible! Can't believe they keep getting away with this. I am a landlord and just completely blown away at how horribly they "manage" properties. So glad we found another place and got away from these crooks. read more