"I’d heard the stories about bad property managers and money was tight. In this flat real estate market I was forced to rent out my house because there were no buyers. I thought I could handle my out of state property management myself. After all, how hard could it be?
Boy, was I wrong!
After the first 6 months of a bad renter and having to find maintenance help clear across the country, I started to rethink my self-management plan. I hadn’t been paid any rent in two months because the tenant thought she’d have “some work” done to the house and deduct it from her rent.
I was getting desperate as I saw more and more money swirling down the drain so I hired the first property manager I could find. The fact that he didn’t return two phone calls for 3 days should have been my first clue.
Then I heard about Sally and Alpha Property Management. She got the bad tenant evicted, fixed the problems (the renter’s boyfriend had punched some holes in the wall and she had forgotten to turn off a bathtub which caused water damage), and found a good, reliable tenant who pays on time. I’m confident no one will trash my family home and I don’t have to manage the managers. Thanks, Sally!
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