Alisha Buchanan

Review of Weinstein Properties

I am a resident of a community in McKinney, TX and...

I am a resident of a community in McKinney, TX and my experience has been terrible to say the very least. When I applied for my apartment, it was being managed by a different company and when I went in to get my keys, there was a whole new team that advised me that they were now being managed by Weinstein. On this day I met Jennifer who stated she was the property manager, and Diane who was apart of the leasing staff. Things started off shaky after I learned that the property lost my state ID after failing to return it to me after viewing my apartment. After moving in, things only got worse. I was supposed to receive $600 off my rent in June and instead of applying the concession, staff thought it would be a better idea to mail me several notices, charge late fees and ultimately file eviction on me. It wasn t until I reminded them of the concession that they actually applied it and reversed all court costs, late fees and filing fees.

After this, they never applied a payment for my rent and actually LOST, yes LOST a check for my rent as well as my money orders. The worst part of all of this is that I am a single mom who recently managed to escape a relationship involving domestic violence. My daughter made it out alive with NOTHING but the clothes on our backs. Additionally, I was just diagnosed with Lupus and quite frankly can not afford to be stressed.

Here we are today, the office has once again filed another eviction claiming that I have not paid rent despite the fact that they have admittedly lost one of my rent checks. Their saving grace is the fact that I am unable to locate my money order receipts so they have decided to proceed with eviction. I haven t received anything on my door in the form of a notice. Nor have I received a phone call about things escalating to this point. I was never even given the option to pay the pst due balance before things got this far.

To top things off. I contacted the so called regional manager Angela Hazlewood and left her a voicemail and this wise guy thought it would be smart to have the leasing staff return my call on her behalf . If I wanted to continue speaking to the leasing staff, then that s what I wanted to do. This was a total slap in the face and by any standard of professionalism would be viewed as highly unprofessional.

I will be contacting TAA, my attorney and all other related entities to report this wrongful eviction. Especially now that I have located my receipts for payment. Do yourself a favor and go with a larger named management company. At least they have an image to uphold. I can tell you right now, Weinstein doesn t care. ESPECIALLY if you are a minority.