4 years ago
I would not recommend Remax to anyone in the marke...
I would not recommend Remax to anyone in the market for property management, looking to rent, or buy/sell a home. I was renting a property through them recently and decided to terminate my lease early because we were buying a house through a different real estate company. To be short and to the point, Beth Crabbe, the owner did not like that at all. She is the rudest and most unprofessional person I have encountered in the real estate world across 5 states and multiple real estate companies. She is all about lining her pockets with money and doesn't care for the owners or renters as long as she gets her percentage. Upon finally jumping through all the hoops they set forth to terminate our lease, and me having to post the listing to Facebook and other sites myself, they finally re-rented the property mid-May. Now mind you, we paid rent in full May 1st, even though we were no longer dwelling at the property. It comes time to collect our security deposit and advance rent paid for the month of May. I call them in advance to ensure they understand I'm owed for advance rent as well, they said my check would be ready the next day. I show up and they only have my security deposit and not my portion of prepaid rent. I calmly explained to the assistant property manager(PM) why I am still owed X amount of dollars and she could not have been more confused, so she leaves a note to have her boss call me the next day. I spoke with the head PM the following morning and she "can't believe" they overlooked that; this was after I explained how proration works to her. So, they tell me my additional check is ready for pickup that same day. My wife goes in and speaks with the receptionist and informs her she is there to pick up a refund check, and they tell her it was already picked up by me. My wife explains in further detail. At this point Ms. Crabbe comes out of her office and throws her pen down on the desk and tells my wife that they don't owe us anything more. My wife calmly asks to speak with the head PM who then diffuses the situation and explains to everyone that we were owed that money. And now we received our rent payment portion back and are finally done with them! It makes me wonder how many other people they have illegally withheld prepaid rent payments from, it would be interesting to have someone take a look at their books over the past few years. I plan on following this up with a complaint to the BBB, the NM Attorney General office, and also recommend to the base to advise its Airmen to look in another direction for real estate services due to shady business practices.