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Anissa G.

If I could give this business negative stars I would. My experience with them has been HORRIFIC. Because of the negligence of their property manager Kim Clifton my family is temporarily homeless and out HUNDREDS of dollars. We were supposed to move into a Renton property that she manages. When doing the first initial viewing through the home it was occupied. The people living there had a lot of things and were very clearly in the process of moving. The home definitely needed work which Kim assured us will be done. At the time we didn't notice the mold infestation. When we did the walk through one day before move in we noticed that many things were wrong with the home. Listed below is everything we found. -Mold -Detached smoke detector (illegal) -No carbon monoxide detector located (illegal) -Non functioning windows and doors for bedrooms (fire hazard) - Water damage (pushed finger through drywall) - house is FILTHY (was not professionally cleaned) - false advertisement (not freshly painted) - doors off hinges -garage door opener doesn't even work I immediately called Kim. She didn't answer her phone which I then left a voicemail. I also texted and emailed her CCing her boss Ed Verdi with pictures and the list of issues above. The mold problem was so bad I could put my finger through the drywall (which I took a video and pictures of and sent it to Ed Verdi and Kim Clifton.) neither one of them responded to my email that listed the issues with the home. After finding Ed Verdi's phone number I called him. He told me he would reach out to Kim. He informed via email that "I have not heard back from Kim yet so I will keep trying so we can get you an update as soon as possible." it took Kim from 8/31/19 until 9/3/19 to respond to me. She responded via text and said "Ok I'll speak with the owner and my broker about letting you out of the lease and get back to you." When I spoke with Ed Verdi Via phone on 9/3/19 I informed him that Kim has responded to any form of communication I tried. I'm VERY familiar with the logistics of property management. I find it hard to believe that Kim was unreachable. We did get our deposit back by 3pm on 9/3/19. I decided to reach out to Ed Verdi via email voicing my concerns with the lack of disclosure and communication Kim Clifton provided I also asked him to compensate us for the added costs due to this ordeal. Ed himself didn't reply to the email. Instead he had Kim reply. Her reply was unapologetic, her lack of professionalism is APPALLING. "I am responding your email to Ed Verdi dated 9/5/19. There was no lack of disclosure or negligence on my part, you and your mother viewed the property prior to the move in date. At that time I informed you of the repairs that needed to be done. You were also aware the current tenant wasn't moving out until 8/31/19. Your clearly stated urgent need to move in 9/1/19 left no time for repairs or additional cleaning to take place. I informed you that any repairs would be done while you were in residence, to which you agreed. Your inference that I lied regarding my inability to receive emails, voice message and text was insulting, I have several ways to verify it's truth. Once I received the information that you were trying to contact me I immediately text you letting you know we were working on refunding the move in funds to you. Due to the Labor Day holiday weekend and closure of the office WPM South returned your move in funds in full immediately on 9/3/19. The contract is void, all monies have been returned to you and no further communication is necessary." Not once did Kim mention mold in the home. Or that the fire alarm and carbon monoxide detectors weren't legal. I'm very aware that Washington state has strict laws that protect the tenants regarding mold. DO NOT LET THEM MANAGE YOUR PROPERTY!!! DO NOT RENT FROM THEM.

Here's the estimate--who has a $250 sewer bill?  And notice "some weeds" were used as an opportunity to do some extra work.

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Maple Leaf Property Management - The team at our yearly retreat.

Maple Leaf Property Management

(218 reviews)

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I recently met with Katie Mandell, a property manager with Maple Leaf, to view a townhome in…read moreSeattle. She was responsive and accommodating while scheduling the viewing. When we toured the unit, she was very knowledgeable about the property and its history, and answered all my questions regarding the rental terms and application process. Katie was extremely kind, personable, and professional, and gave me the strong sense that she and the company she represents are trustworthy and sincere. The townhome was great, but unfortunately, another applicant applied for the unit the night before we met, so the timing didn't work out. After we toured the property, Katie was kind enough to show me another home nearby, and went above and beyond, by searching for other properties in the area managed by Maple Leaf. I decided to not move at this time, but am grateful for all of Katie's help and hope to work with her and Maple Leaf Property Management in the future.

Horrible experience! ZERO stars. I would never rent with them again. Maple Leaf is the property…read moremanagement equivalent of predatory house flippers. When I moved in I told them there was a hole in the outside wall, near the kitchen window. For the next 1.5 years I told them and they had their own inspectors take pictures of it. Despite this, they only made a move to fix it once I reported them to the city. The whole time I lived there I was told that all of my things molding was my fault (including 2 beds!). I was told to leave my cupboard doors and drawers open to prevent mildew in the kitchen. The dehumidifier I requested would fill up at the end of each day. When they finally opened the wall to fix the hole, there was black/wet insulation and they had to replace half of the kitchen's 2x4's, and the workers found another hole with earth worms living in the kitchen under the dishwasher. Despite having 5 different workers out to deal with the hole and earth worms, this was never fixed by the time I moved out. And then, 2 weeks before I moved out there was water dripping out of the bathroom ceiling fan. They opened it up to find a leak that had to be going on for at least a year because the insulation was again black and the wood was moldy. They did not fix this before I moved out. I just had to live with a hole in the ceiling above the shower... Then they illegally withheld $750 from my deposit. They didn't follow the law by detailing the reasons for withholding this amount. They simply printed out a screenshot of text messages with their handyman giving an estimate on two projects. Thankfully I was able to recover the deposit since they do not know the law or how to do their jobs. There is so much more, but this should suffice as a warning. Lastly, their own employees bad mouth each other. Highly unprofessional and shows the do not even follow basic respect standards. Disgusting, gaslighting, lying, and incompetent company. Steer clear!

Emerald Management & Consulting - Another successful Rock Wall and Drainage Project overseen by Nicole Lemons, Director of Special Projects

Emerald Management & Consulting

(42 reviews)

I've been reading a lot of reviews about Emerald Management and Consulting, and it's either 5 stars…read morethey walk on water and are miracle workers, or 1 star they totally suck. I hope my review cuts through the noise and nonsense so you can get a better idea of this property manager. I give Emerald a solid 4 stars because for the most part, they're an outstanding, responsive company run by passionate owners, Nicole Lemons and Heather Collins. And who am I? Oh, I was just the HOA president for the worst four years AraVita Condominiums in Magnolia has ever gone through. I could write a novel about my experiences with this building, but I'll cut to the chase: After AraVita was nearly driven into the bankruptcy by two spectacularly incompetent property managers -- South Lake Associates and the infamous CWD Group -- Emerald stepped in and finally showed me how a property manager is supposed to operate. They cleaned up our finances, hooked us up with reputable contractors, and finally guided the Board into some form of coherent path. I consulted for endless hours with Nichole and Heather on how to put out the dumpster fire that CWD Group left us in. Indeed, Emerald has made it a cottage industry in cleaning up the Superfund disasters that CWD leaves their condos in. So why did I dock them a star? Well, nobody's perfect. The first Community Manager Emerald sent me was, shall we say, not up to the task of helping the Board get back on its feet. Fortunately, Emerald understood my frustration (I had already dealt with two previous Community Managers who did, indeed, suck), and they got me a replacement Community Manager who did a great job. Emerald guided the Board through an understandably unpopular but utterly necessary $2 million special assessment to clean up the interior rot in our building, replace the windows and siding, and modernize the elevator. Their relationships with all the involved vendors proved invaluable. There have been several other hiccups, which is to be expected in the complex role of rehabbing and reforming a condo association, especially one left to rot by CWD Group. But all in all, I would totally recommend Emerald without hesitation. Nicole, Heather, and AraVita's current Community Manager Monica are awesome and really do give a damn about the owners and residents. For all you Emerald haters out there....girlfriend, please. Likely you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what a property manager is supposed to do. The buck stops at your Board of Directors, and it's likely that's who you should be whinging to. Addition: Feel free to disregard Victor E's 1-star review. He was one of my owners, and I can confirm the dude was impossible to get ahold of, so I don't know what his trip is. And again, most of the 1-star reviews are likely the result of an incompetent HOA or just plain dishonest owners who won't take responsibility for their own property. Newsflash, people: Condos are NOT apartments. The property manager can only do so much to effect repairs.

During the pandemic, the then HOA Board President of my (now former) condo complex signed a…read morecontract to make Emerald Management & Consulting our property management company. In the first year or so, the management operations were relatively standard and uneventful. Emerald did send out an excessive number of physical letters in addition to emails detailing complex-wide work orders and/or yearly budget ratification meetings. It was the first telltale sign that they were a bit too eager to spend the association's funds via their à la carte hours billed business model, even when the additional time and services did little to nothing to benefit our community. Had I sold my unit at this point, I probably would've rated them as a '4'. By the end of year one, the HOA President who brought in Emerald worked with them to re-write our HOA's Regulations and By-Laws. All of this happened pretty discreetly, as we were still only having meetings once a year to do the budget ratification, while board elections had been suspiciously put on hold. At the one yearly meeting we had, owners' concerns were boiling over due to the lack of transparency/budgets/board meeting minutes/etc., but the HOA President and property manager from Emerald downplayed any negative feedback and proclaimed they were doing an excellent job. Sometime during year two, a group of owners started communicating via an unofficial Google Group after one owner felt unjustly singled out (possibly due to personal reasons) and fined for their tenant having one bent metal blind in the window and some holiday lights left up into January. This owner tried to resolve the matter of their supposed infraction but the HOA President and Emerald did a poor job of working things out and just kept tacking on late fees. Feeling wronged, this owner started digging into what this HOA President and Emerald had been doing behind closed doors and opened a legal case against them. Over the next year, Emerald refused to consider any solution that didn't keep draining our reserves of hundreds of thousands of dollars in administrative and legal fees to collect on a fine for a such a petty, vindictive infraction. At this point, the HOA President probably realized they had gone too far so they sold their unit. Had I been so fortunate to sell my unit at the same time, I probably would've rated them around a '3' based on my experiences up to that point. After another year or so, Emerald notified all owners that the entire HOA Board was either selling, resigning, or considering whether to make their exit. I decided to join the board and work hand-in-hand with Emerald to ensure a brighter outlook for the association even though this would be challenging for me as an off-site owner. Over the next 10 months, my time serving on the HOA Board opened my eyes to the extent of behind-the-scenes business where Emerald was continuously falling short of expectations and costing our community well into six figures of poor contractor work, needless amounts of special project and legal fees, and failing to deliver on just basic administrative services. As you come to the end of this review, which Emerald will probably reply to and dismiss, consider the following (these actual examples are just a portion of all the things our community dealt with while under their management): Are you OK paying thousands of dollars to receive bids from sub-par, overpriced contractors and being at the receiving end of high-pressure sales tactics to pick one of them ASAP? Are you OK paying monthly fees that are multiple times higher than other management companies charge just to have an ACH Payment taken out of your bank account for an assessment? Are you OK with every owner being sent dead Zoom Meeting Links for important Board Meetings? Are you OK with vendors being paid late? Are you OK with predatory tactics lacking full disclosure of potential costs when the management company offers to administer projects affecting individual units (also mentioned in other Yelp reviews)? Are you OK with poor communication and your community manager missing important emails and dismissing fault saying, "I manage 8 communities and had no board approval from any of the 8 to do the work"? (This was completely false on top of being unprofessional) This past summer, I, along with a group of owners making up 10% of the total units in our complex, put our condos up for sale. My condo ended up selling for 30% below its value from less than a year ago. Most units are still for sale or have gone back to renting. This outcome wasn't influenced in any way by our precarious level of reserve funds or pending special assessments. But unfortunately, it *was* a result of the poor service provided by Emerald Management & Consulting over the past 5 years. They significantly contributed to the financial pain and difficult life-changing decisions myself and other owners were left to take, and for that, they only deserve a '1' out of 5.

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Bell-Anderson & Associates

(38 reviews)

Jen Corp of Bell-Anderson has been especially helpful during a purchase and sale transaction! She…read morehas been very responsive when questions are asked and very knowledgeable about the property in question. When work orders were required, she got right on things. We really appreciated her expertise and guidance!

I'm the president of the Board of our association. I'ts hard to know where to start with how awful…read moreand costly it was to work with this worthless scam of a company. They neglected invoices, leaving us in arrears with vendors. They mismanaged our property, refusing to visit or saying they had visited when we knew they hadn't. They didn't show up for meetings. They canceled meetings the day of. They failed to notice billing issues that wrecked our vendor accounts and then refused to fix the problem. They told us repeatedly that it was not their job to manage our community. They refused to tell us how much money was in our accounts or answer any accounting questions. They accused our Board of being unresponsive because we didn't answer emails within an hour or two and then ignored us when we did answer. They completely ignored our residents, including during emergencies. They didn't provide any emergency contact number for our residents, and when our Board members tried to contact their after hours emergency vendor they refused to take any action without Bell Anderson's approval. They didn't answer our phone calls, text messages, or emails for days on end and then when they did answer they were curt and maliciously unhelpful. Their community association manager refused to take part in meetings. Bell Anderson's policy is to not take minutes during meetings, forcing us to hire an outside contractor to attend meetings and take minutes for an additional $400/month on top of their management fee. The association managers they assigned to us were a 90 year old man whose executive functioning abilities were long gone, and then when he finally retired they gave us a woman who *openly* treated us like she hated us from day one. Meanwhile, through all of this and much more, they had no trouble pocketing the management fee check month after month. When we finally had enough and planned to fire them, they got wind of it and "fired us first", stopped paying all our bills, and refused to cooperate with the incoming new mangement company. The owner of Bell Anderson and the operations manager were unapologetic and arrogant through all of this. If you are considering hiring this company, please don't hesitate to reach out to me at onetaothree @ gmail, I have many references and testaments to what a horrible, incompetent, outright toxic company Bell Anderson is. Thank you for reading all of this and please don't hesitate to share it as widely as possible.

Windermere Property Management South - propertymgmt - Updated October 2026

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