(Copying my yelp review here). I have never writte...

(Copying my yelp review here). I have never written a review online before, not even a restaurant or coffee shop. This is warranted. Please do yourself a favor and read this.

Grant and Kevin did not seem to care about my interests as a prospective tenant for a unit in the Pearl District, and the amount of disrespect and total lack of good business sense really should be a warning to all of you. Two things that happened:

1) I was verbally told during my tour of the unit that there would be a hefty move-in fee charged by the building, which would be split between me and the owners. Later, during the lease negotiation, Kevin stated that this was never offered to me as an incentive (hinting that I was lying). I have a good memory, and rather than continue fighting with Kevin on what I knew to be true, I simply asked him if he would reach out to the owners and see if they would offer this incentive. I waited.

2) As a prospective tenant, you should know what rights you have and what expectations are reasonable. You should feel secure in knowing that if and when an appliance breaks during your lease, you have a written commitment from the landlord/owner that they will fix it within a certain amount of time. This absolutely needs to be in your lease. Well, during the lease negotiation, I insisted that Kevin place in the lease an addendum that made this obligation a part of the lease. Despite his promises in e-mails that the landlord is responsible for appliances (if the tenant doesn't break them), those e-mails mean absolutely nothing under Oregon law because the lease itself contains what is called a "merger clause" (meaning any prior writings or discussions are superseded (I am a commercial litigator)). I waited.

Well, after a day of waiting to hear back on my two simple and genuine requests, I get an email from Kevin stating that the owners had "pulled" the offer to lease me their unit. I honestly could sense this was coming, because these two gentlemen probably rarely, if ever, take the time to consider a tenant's point of view and make any alterations whatsoever to their "standard" procedure for signing leases. They simply do not "negotiate."

This is not the right way to treat people. Landlords are not doing tenants a favor by "allowing" them to live in a unit. You are spending tens of thousands of dollars and putting your safety and well-being into the hands of these people. To be treated as if you have no say-so or valid input (and even be accused of lying) is a terrible way to begin a year-long relationship with people who are supposed to have your best interests at heart.

Never will I ever deal with Pearl Property Management again. They should be ashamed and re-consider their business tactics. A report with the Better Business Bureau, sadly, may not be enough to inspire a change.