They aren't perfect but they're the best i've ever had PROS: 1. Gave almost my full security deposit back (huge deal). 2. Maintenance fixed all of our move in related repairs very quickly. 3. Nice people for the most part 4. They leave you alone after the move in. CONS: 1. Getting in touch with these guys for a maintenance issue after move in can be rough, and there are things that they will just refuse to fix and tell you to do. 2. The girl we had was pretty rough around the edges, didn't smile much and she was our main contact for problems. She didn't really seem like she wanted to help which is kind of her job. I'd say definitely rent from these guys but write down EVERYTHING you may have a problem with before you move in because that's when they'll fix it. I hate all these yelp reviews that say "the people were meeeaaan :,(" grow up you're an adult people need real advice. read more

We went to an open house at 6410 Spring Ridge Dr in Bakersfield listed by Rachel Wang. As soon as we walked in, she assumed we were "laborers" instead of potential buyers. We're Hispanic, and the assumption was disrespectful and uncomfortable. We turned around and left immediately. No one should be treated like that just for showing up to view a home. read more

William Gordon The importance of integrity, professionalism, has become loss in this industry and now we have a bunch of fast talking sells people who believe that the public is there prey. We can only praise DH Horton and there staff for All there assistance and work, Tina Hamati was the contact sell person DH Horton, who should have received the commission on our new home sell. In summary, The real estate industry has been buzzing with news of the recent National Association of Realtors (NAR) settlement, a landmark case poised to reshape how real estate transactions operate.They are an example of why this industry is broken. Don't rely on the sales buzz these company have, or the words coming out of these fast talking sell people like William Gordon. read more

Watson Realty - Agent that you should not USE! - Mortgage Brokers Near Me - Bakersfield, California

Terrible experience with Jenna, Esbeidi and their team. The reason a person pays real estate commissions. in this case I paid both sides is to ensure that every detail is handled and the buyer is not in a bad situation two or three months later, which is totally the case here. I would look elsewhere and interview them first read more

Christi Taber is AMAZING!!! She helped a friend but a home and so she came recommended. Christi is so knowledgeable and has a wonderful sweet and caring nature. She works for you and wants to make sure you get what you want/need. She bent over backwards to help show me homes after another realtor stood me up. I was amazed by her ability to help on a whims notice! Praying for good next steps and getting a great home! read more

Callee Garner is the best she was so helpful through our whole renting experience through them. We had a horrible owner we was renting from I believe she was a bit bipolar. But Callee was so awesome and sweet very professional and kept me getting angry at the owner. I would definitely rent from this company again. Callee needs a raise to whomever this may concern. read more

We recently moved into a house which started off amazing with Watson Realty. Susan Blanza was our real estate agent and she was wonderful. We were actually referred by several people that knew her; however, towards the end as we started to close she was flaky. She never responded in a timely manner and most days she would ignore our calls. Calls were ignored as we do know that the cellphone is glued to her hand as we have witnessed it every time we have met w her. We purchased a used home and the sellers were also utilizing Watson to sell their home (****conflict of interest****). We had put our 30 day notice at our apartment complex and as it got closer to the end of our deal, a week prior we were told that the sellers were not able to move out due to some issues they were dealing w. We have 2 kids and so it becomes difficult at this time to go and make arrangements elsewhere. My husband and I were very stressed and worried about where we may live. My real estate agent Susan who finally called us back stated to us.. "If you continue to push the sellers from moving out of their house then they will back out and not sell their home to you". Prior to all of these things being said.. we agreed to pay their closing costs in FULL and we agreed to delay escrow to 60 days to help the sellers move out peacefully. The sellers were very selfish and didnt care that our family would be homeless, but that's not what really annoyed us. What annoyed is towards the end, our real estate agent only supported us til she pretty much got her percentage and deal and didnt care where we stood. We were and still are very disappointed for being referred to Susan as we were told she was very personal and caring. I will never refer anyone to Watson because of this situation. read more

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My realtor, Bobby Calhoub, was great. Very professional. I would highly recommend Bobby. Answered all our questions, returned our calls. Easily a five star review. Want your house sold? See Bobby! read more

It was such a pleasure to work with Miss Susan B. from Watson Realty. She is very professional, has a pleasant personality, and goes above and beyond for her clients. She made the process of selling our home so easy. I will definitely be referring my family, friends and anyone I know who is selling or wanting to purchase a home to Miss Susan B. She is the best! read more

BEWARE of Watson Realtor Cindy Gilligan Armstrong. She is dishonest and does not keep her word. She was my realtor for the sale of my house. She told me when she listed my house that more realtors would show my house if I brought their commission up to 6% from 5%. She then informed me that if I would do that she would give me $1000 after escrow closed. She now refuses to pay me the money. I WOULD FIND A DIFFERENT REALTOR AS THIS COMPANY DOES NOT BELIVE THE CLIENT COMES FIRST. THEY BACK THEIR REALTORS NO MATER WHAT. read more

I cannot rate this company as whole. However, I spoke with agent Ronda Newport on 2/13 which happened to be Super Bowl Sunday and she was extremely unprofessional. I do respect that it was the weekend and it was Sunday morning, but to respond to a potential buyer with "I'm preparing for a Super Bowl party right now so I'm busy what is it that you want because I already have lots of offers." When I had already explained that I apologize for calling and that, when she was available, I'd like to view the listing and make an offer. Overall, the conversation was very uncomfortable, she was very rude and I would not recommend working with her. If she was busy I would've been glad to leave her a voicemail rather than receive a backlash due to stress or whatever the case may have been. read more

The best Realty company we have ever used. Tammy Watson sold our home in three days, helped us purchase a new home without any stress. She did such a great job, our children and friends used her as well. Very professional, and ethical company. read more

Watson Realty - Tammy Watson, would highly recommend. - Mortgage Brokers Near Me - Bakersfield, California

Brandon Goedhart - CalDRE #02045854 - was amazing! He listened to my concerns and put me at ease. After speaking with 2 other agencies, I decided on Brandon to sell the house, and was very pleased with the percentage he requested. I was hesitant to use Watson, as they represented the sellers whom we purchased the home from over 25 years earlier. MARY CHRISTENSON CalDRE #00818891 was the realtor at the time, and she made some very underhanded moves during the process. One in particular was planting trees in the front yard (pots and all) for show purposes, which she then uprooted after escrow and hauled away. Another dirty deed was agreeing to pay the regular gardener (who had tended to the landscape for years) to perform the yard work while the house was on the market. When the house sold, she reneged and tried the rob the man of his pay. After a lengthy verbal battle and threats to take her to small claims court, she finally paid the man! Such sneaky pettiness! But Brandon turned that all around and put my trust back in Watson Realty. He's a man of his word and someone you can count on. I can't thank him enough and wish him the best for a long and prosperous career! read more

Valerie Angulo is not a good real estate agent. She is rude, pushy and takes it upon herself to give the door code to an appraiser without the consent of the owners. Children were in the house! Untrustworthy. read more

For anyone looking for an agent!! Look no more Jason Moyer at Watson Realty was hands down AMAZING!! He was on top of it. He took care of everything, he made buying a house so easy, he was always available any questions or concerns I had he was just a phone call away. Thank You Jason for making our dream come true of becoming home owners. read more

Shanti is an amazing realtor! My husband and I just purchased our first home and she was incredibly helpful the entire buying process. We knew very little about real estate, and Shanti explained everything to us every step of the way. She was very friendly, knowledgeable, and professional. We will be referring all our friends to Shanti for their real estate needs! read more

Love the Gordon Group, Sheeza is the Best. Had another realtor and the property just didn't go anywhere, no offers nothing. The Gordon Group came over for an interview to sell our property and she was Dynamic. Sheeza did everything and more, great staff of workers too. Professional and kept us in the information loop. Actually if you want to know what success sounds like talk to Sheeza. Fred Rodriguez read more

Being a Bakersfield native I've always equated Watson Realty's name with first-rate service. Unfortunately, I've never dealt with the company personally until yesterday when I called to inquire about a property for rent. The receptionist was very short with me on the phone, had zero information to contribute when I asked basic questions, then ended the call with the statement that I could come to their office, pay $20, and check out a key. So, giving her the benefit of the doubt as it was her "Monday" after a 3 day holiday, my daughter and I made the trek today to Watson's offices. The same receptionist was just short of being rude, was not clear about the process to view the property and when I finally pushed her for answers she was totally put out at having to make a phone call to clarify her unclear response to my question. My daughter and I then drove back across town to view the property and suffice to say it was not what we were expecting. The grounds were amazing, the building exterior was charming, but the interior was one step up from what used to be called a "flop house". The square footage being advertised was short by over 200' and the building was in total disrepair. Being sorely disappointed we made the trip back to Watson's offices and was relieved to find that the receptionist I had dealt with previously was gone. Instead, the other receptionist was talking with another person about...you guessed it... a complaint of poor customer service! Needless to say, I collected my $20, left and hope I'm never in a position to deal with this company again. Renters are a property management company's bread and butter. Without them, the property owner doesn't get paid hence the property management company doesn't make their percentage. Treating people like they are second class citizens is not good business. read more

Would never recommend Watson Realty to anyone they can't return phone or get back to you in a timely manner I had a home listed with them and could never get it sold quick enough so ended up leaving them don't use them they'll waist your time money and home ownership dreams read more

Some of the rudest, most incompetent people I have ever dealt with. My fiance and I rented a property from them a few months back, and upon signing our lease, we discovered our property had been vandalized. Upon discovering this, my fiance and I contacted Watson to let them know what happened and to report our issues. Was told we would hear back from the owner shortly, and after we waited for an hour without nothing happening, we called back. I was forwarded to a woman named Callie who is the absolute rudest, unfriendly bitches I have ever met. She had an attitude from the start, was rude the whole conversation, suggested we broke into our own house, and argued with me at every turn. I can only assume that if she is that rude and dislikeable over the phone, that she is probably a very shitty worker and individual in person. Very disappointed in their customer service but she and the whole office needs an attitude check, being rude to your customers wont get you very far as a business. read more

I'd hate to say this in 2019 but these ppl here discriminate and waste your time. The girl in the front office is extremely rude I don't think she understands the value of good customer service if she doesn't like her job she should b there cause it shows. My experience was bad I wouldn't recommend them to my worst enemy. read more

We just rented an apartment through Watson realty. The apartment wasn't ready to move in even though we were told that it was inspected by Katie. Only the walls were painted and new flooring throughout. Everything else was very filthy, old pizza slices on a patio, kitchen sink clogged, washing machine wasn't working, the stove and oven were inhumanly filthy, and only 2 filthy rusty burners out of 4 (which were piled on stove top) were working, garage opener broken, etc. etc. On a bright side I got a new t-shirt from one of the "inspected" closets. :) We were contacting April about all the non-working items, we even went to the office to speak to her because we didn't get a reply to our email. When the receptionist called April, she said she was on the phone with a mortgage company and we needed to make an appointment to come again because she was too busy to speak with us. After we insisted, she eventually showed up showing undeserved disrespect throughout the whole conversation. She was aggressive in letting us know that we have no rights to expect any response to our requests. The Plummer will be contacting us in the next 72 hours. Meanwhile it's been a week since we moved in, been busy cleaning our "move in ready" apartment, can't cook, do laundry, or wash dishes - which is probably ok, because we can't cook anyway. :) Very bad customer service here. Very bad. Would recommend against dealing with Watson Realty for any reason. read more

We recently closed a transaction with Spring Bunting. She was professional, efficient and friendly, and an absolute pleasure to work with. I highly recommend Spring for all of your real estate needs! read more

There property management services are a joke! Callee, Katie & April are all useless! They lie for no reason other than to here themselves talk! They are very catty and disrespectful to everyone they interact with...... Don't trust them or this organization.... read more

This is a review of Watson property management. I was a property owner. The Watson office building may appear modern and professional, but this is a case of looks can be deceiving. Customer service is terrible. They are rude and incompetent with bad attitudes. After about a dozen problems in just three months, the last straw was when I learned they had never paid the lawn care service, who called me asking for payment because they could not get a response from Watson. Unfortunately, this was typical. read more

DO NOT RENT A HOME FROM WATSON REALTY! Their office manager is a complete mess, she is vindictive and unethical. She will tell you one thing and turn around and do another. They don't honor their contract! BEWARE...I want to help the next person, DO NOT RENT FROM WATSON REALTY, WATSON PROPERTY MANAGMENT. Callee Garner is the office manager and is hell bent on always being right, when the entire time working with us was WRONG. She couldn't handle me knowing renters rights, she couldn't handle me being one step ahead of her, you can tell she is use to bullying her tenants, but with me she couldn't. So what did she do? raised the rent, turned us into collections (wrongfully) and we are still dealing with getting this off of our credit. She needs to be fired, so many things bad I have heard regarding their practice. Sadly, we all need a place to live so we deal with the antics of the property manager. I am currently in a law suit with Watson Property Managment over their rental practice. DO NOT RENT FROM WATSON. read more

Made an appointment with MARY CHRISTENSON. Waited 30 minutes past appointment time to call her to see where she was. She said she wanted to push appointment back another hour. Ok then, we'll wait another hour. Another hour passes....then we wait another 30 or so minutes past that to find out that she's too tired now and wants to reschedule another day. Let me sum this up. We arrange a day and time out of our busy schedules to meet and Ms. Christenson has us sitting there for over TWO hours without ever ONCE calling us to let us know she will be late and then cancels on us. If we didn't call her, who knows how long she was going to let us just sit there and waste our time waiting for her?! I have to say that this is very unprofessional and quite unexpected considering her veteran realtor status. read more

Diana Andrade was our agent. She was wonderful and very professional. Thank you Watson!

I have been working with Callee for approximately 6 years with my rental properties, I have not had a problem getting in contact with her during or after business hours. Any problems that arise with my rentals she contacts me to let me know the situation and it gets resolved. She always has the time to listen and discuss any problems that we have and gives me her professional opinion. There screening process for tenants has been fantastic they have been long term and trouble free. I highly recommend Callee and her staff to anyone that needs rental properties managed. read more

Left app and $25 cash deposit for app processing, left bunch of mssges n finally when they called me back, l was told that my app couldn't be processed because l didn't leave the fee for processing....the place looks good but beware of people that work there stealing petty cash...and horrible customer service as far as follow up...bad experience for me...ln short, someone stole the money, not that l care much for the $25 but l think management should address the issue !!! read more

My mother was selling her house, in the middle of it all she became terminally ill and was hospitalized. Watson said they would take care of everything. Sure, they took care of all her furnishings, and items in the WHOLE HOUSE!!. The neighbor was there when Watson hired a cleaning crew to get the house ready and move all the belongings in the garage. The neighbor said the next day the same truck that was moving and cleaning the house, packed up everything and drove off twice! Our neighbor asked the cleaning crew where they were taking it and said to storage. We called Watson and made a police report as everything was gone!! Watson claimed they don't put things in storage. Also,the cleaning company signed a letter stating they didn't take anything and the detectives left it at that!! Even with a witness these crooks still got away with taking everything from a furnished 4 bedroom house. All of our personal possessions and family pictures GONE!! read more

do not use this management company!!!!. they do absolutely nothing!!!! they are rude and could care less about your needs. kelly is the manager and she is a joke!!!! everyone else acts like you are a burden to them. i have used them for a year now! but never again!!!!!!! read more

Avoid this place. Decided to sell my home and worked with Watson Realty. The realtor didn't seem to do much to sell my home, other than asking me to reduce the selling price several times. He never made any attempts to update me. I frequently asked for updates and feedback from those viewing my home. He finally asked the other agents for feedback and said none of them got back with him. He doesn't even have a good enough rapport with other agents to get a response. During one showing someone brought in a dog that pissed in 2 of my rooms. I was left to fit the cleaning bill. The realtor complained about the smoke detectors chirping due to a low battery and I coincidentally found the breaker to them turned off. At that same time the breaker to the master bedroom completely went out. I tried contacting several people from Watson, including the general manager to no avail. I ended up withdrawing the listing. The realtor met me and was less than friendly; his only concern was getting back the folding chair he left at my house. I signed the withdrawal forms on 2/8/16, and was told I would receive a follow up call from a manager the next day. Two days later and no call. This agency is terrible with a complete lack of customer service. read more

I was treated very poorly by the receptionist at the Camino Media location. She spoke down to me, acted annoyed by my very presence there and then totally changed her attitude to be friendly only when a senior employee walked up to ask me about my kids. If you are going to inconvenience people by having them drive over without knowing if the keys for the specific property you want to see are available in order to view your rentals, at the very least you can be kind and professional. I dared ask if she could just call me when the keys were returned since I live literally 2 minutes from their office (and can't keep driving to their office since I have 5mo old twins to pack up each time) and she looked at me like I was crazy to request that. Won't even consider any of their properties now. read more

Very unprofessional. Never got services needed taken care of and when mentioned after moving out, they turn it around on you and make it seem like you're at fault. Employees get defensive and bring up unnecessary comments. Do not waste your time with them read more

My husband and I recently rented a property from Watson Realty. We had a wonderful experience during the rental process and since we have taken residence. Their company is helpful, prompt and goes out of their way to make sure that you have a great experience with them. I had the pleasure of working with Callee Garner and April Martinez throughout this experience. They have been absolutely amazing! They made us feel like we were not just renters, but more like family. They are both kind and helpful and let you know that what you need is of the utmost importance. Since moving in we had to email regarding a couple of work orders and I had a call from both companies and our issues were handled with 24hrs of contacting them. I would recommend Watson Realty to anyone. Ask for Callee or April, you will not be sorry you did! No one likes to move but they made it a great experience for us. Thank you Callee, April and all of the helpful staff of Watson Realty! read more

yes good afternoon my name is Cheryl Long and I went into this company and use them to do my escrow work on a property that I sold and it closed escrow through Chicago Title December 27th they had to have my husband husband durable power of attorney whichhe has Alzheimer's due to the fact June 11th of 2017 he fell and fractured his hip and he has a A-Rod and three pins upon getting into the escrow the title company requested the original copy of my durable power of attorney over my husband so I gave it to him very reluctantly and I asked if I could have at least a copy well they have lost the paperwork they can't find it they said it's going to take him they don't know how long and they would get back to me while they never called me back I called them yet again and they was a lady by the name of Nora who is over the central California escrow she is the associate secretary from the father company Watson Realty and she told me yet again that it would take days or weeks for them to get an idea where my information and she informed me that I could order a certified copy from Sacramento of my husband DPA I said you mean you will order a copy of my husband DPA of certified copy so she said no we can't do that because we didn't have there was no money left in the house account to cover that and I said so you're telling me that you lost all my paperwork my original durable power of attorney which I cannot get back because of my husband and his Progressive Alzheimer's and she said yes you will have to order that on your own and I said well I don't think so I'm going to call and attorney I said thank you very much for your help so far which is nothing and I hung up all I'm saying is people please do not use these people Watson Realty Chicago Title and central California escrow and I'm going to put this on all of the other two businesses and I will be going to the Better Business Bureau on top of everything else thank you and have a very nice day. read more