My wife and I are currently in the market for a rental house. We both have great credit, I’m a current homeowner, and in general we are great candidates to be tenants in someone’s house for a lot of reasons. We’ve been scouring all over the internet for rental properties that match the criteria we’re looking for, and one came up on craigslist that Properties Plus had posted which we were interested in. My wife made an appointment with them last week to view the property today at 5:30 PM.

I am a very busy Software Engineer currently in a stressful situation with a big deadline looming over my head. I don’t have a lot of time to be messing around and have been working a lot of extra hours over the holidays, but today I left work early to go check-out a house which Properties Plus manages. While my wife was on the way there, she got a voice mail from Properties Plus confirming the appointment and saying to call if we were NOT going to make it. Naturally my wife didn’t call back because there was no reason to.

We both arrived early and sat around in the driveway waiting for April to show-up. 5:30 rolls around and still no April. In typical iPhone fashion, a voice mail shows-up on my wives phone (without ringing) from April saying she was “stuck in Aurora” and wasn’t going to make it. We repeatedly tried calling her back from both of our phones to say we’d be willing to wait, left voicemail, etc, and did not get a response at all.

Being stood-up, especially for an appointment that you don’t have time for is extremely aggravating, especially if it’s with a company you are trying to do business with. The property in question has been on the market for two months already which is a long time for a rental in this economy, but it’s easy to see why with service like that. Avoid Properties Plus LLC!

More reviews around the interwebs of Properties Plus LLC of Colorado:

Google Reviews of Properties Plus, LLC
Yahoo Reviews of Properties Plus
Yelp Reviews of Properties Plus Broomfield
Facebook Reviews of Properties Plus Colorado
Property Management Reviews of Properties Plus LLC Broomfield

We requested the lease be amended to give us 30 days after move-in to evaluate the A/C, the electricity, and see the upstairs bathroom for the first time. We had hoped that they wouldn’t think we were jerking them around, since we’d be unlikely to pay for moving expenses and then leave after 30 days just to be annoying, but 30 days would also give us time to make sure everything worked correctly. We thought this was a good solution for everyone.

Johleen sighed with annoyance and said she’d get her manager. The manager for Blue Sage Realty, Kathryn MacGeraghty, entered the room, already irritated, and asked what we wanted. I re-explained, politely, that it’d be nice to get 30 days to make sure that everything in the house worked. She curtly told us that was unheard of and “not going to happen.” “No,” she said.

I told her that she was being a bit rude, and she told me “Well, you’re free to leave.”

I asked her if this was how their company was going to be as landlords. If our roof was leaking and we called them, would they tell us we were being nitpicky? She told me, “I’m rejecting your application. Get out.”

You can read more about his experience at Blue Sage Realty of Westminster, CO at Yelp, and my blog also has an entry about Blue Sage Realty.

There are a few other listings for Blue Sage Realty on the interwebs– this is the one that he had the aforementioned bad experience at:

Blue Sage Realty, Inc
8471 Turnpike Dr, Suite 220
Westminster, CO 80031
(303) 432-9898 Office

http://www.bluesagerealtyinc.com