I would say I am a patient and passive person and normally do not complain. However, I do not want anyone else to experience what I have had to go through for a year in my relationship with HOMEPOINT.
As a homeowner I chose the nearest management company as I felt they would be more responsive to the tenant and know the local market. What a mistake. I should have checked around! And don't let their 10% fee fool you. Just because they charge the highest fee around, does not make them the best. In fact they are probably the worst property management company available.
Can we say unprofessional. They could never get my statement out on time, and they submit it electronically online on their own website. It was not like they had to put a statement in the mail to me. The tenant always paid Homepoint on the 1st of every month. I usually received my portion electronically after the 23rd of the month. Every month they were trying to sneak in extra fees or incorrectly do the math trying to cheat me as the owner. Their response was always office error. ""I will let the girls know."" From month to month I could never count on how much I would receive from them.
I thought that by hiring a management company I was getting a team. They do not work as a team in this outfit. The right hand does not know what the left hand is doing. While they play the blame game and back stab each other in the office. I was expecting to be getting someone to do the work for me and take the burden off of me. Wow! Was I mistaken. I was more stressed then if I had just left the home vacant. I could never reach them by phone to correct their errors or check up on repairs. I had to send email after email. I have a job, I didn't want to have to do theirs!
When I gave the keys to my property to Homepoint, it was beautiful. I had just finished a complete remodel. They took almost six months to rent it, they kept lowering the rent and saying they couldn't get qualified tenants. All this while they were still charging me the 10% fee and using up advertising dollars. Which worked out to about $300 by the way. I would have been able to rent it myself and I should have. They charged me twice in one year for a walk thru inspection. This is to give the owner a false sense that they are looking after your property. As after the year was up I found the carpets were ruined, soiled beyond cleaning, and the walls were busted. The repairs that Homepoint had charged me for were never completed. The poor tenant!
After our year contract was up, they took another 60 days to get the tenants deposit back to me. They are only looking out for themselves. They could careless about the owner or the tenant.
I will never use Homepoint again, and would not recommend that you do ever!!
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