Chelsea T

Review of Destination Real Estate

BEWARE!!!!! This guy is a crook! Please do not mak...

BEWARE!!!!! This guy is a crook! Please do not make the mistake we made and use this broker. Last year we found an apartment through destination real estate, and after we signed the lease, and paid first months rent, last month, and the brokers fee, we were told that the apartment we signed and paid for was actually not available, and we had to move into another apartment in the building that was in worse repair. We ended up having to pay for those repairs out of pocket and never moved into the apartment we wanted. (We still live here because halfway through signing the lease, Lawrence threw in the information that we were signing for a 17-month lease, with zero prior discussion. ) Although we ultimately decided that suing would be more trouble than it was worth (I kind of regret that) the lawyer we contacted by pure coincidence has already sued him several times because he commits fraud regularly.

Also, for some reason DRE was managing the website our landlord was using for tenants to pay rent. Right after we moved in, he pocketed our neighbors' rent and tried to convince our landlord that our neighbors did not pay that month. Our neighbors had to show our landlord proof that they had paid rent and that Lawrence was the one lying and stealing. He is no longer the broker for our building, but he's still out there committing fraud. Do not give him your money!!!

Update:
You say here to contact you however our lawyer reached out to you several times about six months ago and of course no one responded. I only wrote this review now because I randomly googled your company name and saw that someone had posted a complaint on Better Business Bureau that you all had taken a $2,000 deposit from someone for an apartment that ultimately was rented to someone else, and never refunded the money to that individual, aka stole money from someone. Obviously I don t know anything about the situation, but given my own experience, my neighbors experience where Lawrence attempted to literally steal $2,300 rent money from them, any my lawyers personal and professional experience (when we contacted him, by pure coincidence, he has sued DRE on his own behalf as well as for other people) it s hard not to believe there is truth to this situation.

I can t believe you all are able to run such a crooked organization like this and haven t lost your license. Moving in with my boyfriend was supposed to be a huge, happy, life changing experience and you stole that from me. You also literally stole several thousands of dollars from me which I paid in brokers fees to live in an apartment I do not live in, and then I had to pay to fix up this other apartment that had an orange and blue kitchen with messed up flooring and a bathroom sink that is basically a tiny cement tub with a plastic hose that dumps into the back of the bathtub. I never would have paid over $3,000 brokers fee for that.