Elizabeth Parks
GBGood Maintenance Experience We had a variety of minor issues around the apartment. Althea was very helpful arranging for peole to come and fix them, and is super fast at responding to emails when we had questions. The maintenance person was very professional, fixed what could be fixed, and explained what still needed a follow up. We have been able to get everything handled, though sometimes the online form to submit issues is clunky. Not every room is covered, and there is a 200 character limit on providing info which can make it hard to describe anything unusual. But once we are able to email back and forth with the staff it goes more smoothly.
Nene Johnson
GBThey give the owners to much leverage They give the owners to much leverage. Poplar is managing the rental property on their behalf, so the owner should only have a say so in, whether or not they agree to allow a tenant to renew a lease. But Poplar allows the owners to determine the renewal increase amount, which in our case our owners want to go up $300 for another year lease which is ridiculous. Poplar should determine the increase rates based on each states guidelines. Otherwise they have not been too bad to deal with.
Anna
GBAs a tenant, avoid 2 stars because paying rent online is nice (though expected of a property management company at this point). Besides that, poplar is generally terrible to work with from a tenant perspective. They are slow to respond to work orders, hard to coordinate with, and nearly impossible to talk to on the phone. I personally will avoid renting from a poplar managed home in the future.
cora
GBDiscrimination OMG,!!!!! LITERALLY, YOU CANT GET A RESPONSE FROM THESE PEOPLE HOW DID THEY EVEN BECOME A BUSINESS, OR EVEN STAY IN BUSINESS, FROM WHAT I SEE THEY DISCRIMINATE PEOPLE, HORRIBLE Still waiting for a response
Danielle H
GBAbsolutely RUN. This is not a property management company, this is a call center with no follow through Absolutely RUN. This company is a SCAM doing the absolute bare minimum to keep collecting fees. Majority of the company is based in the Philippines and does not know the first thing about property management or the local markets they're operating in. Unfortunately, they purchased my PM and I wanted to give them a chance to iron out the kinks before running, but this is a dumpster fire. Most of the bids I got from them were wildly over the top for the job needed, and they'd typically tell me they couldn't get an alternative bid. I've now learned that this is because so few respectable vendors will work with them after not being paid for jobs that the vendors who will work with them are not necessarily the A squad.. After approving a bid, I would have to follow up for weeks or even months to see if anything had been done (even for massively urgent hazardous issues.. which I'm positive caused a long term tenant to move out). Multiple times major items took so long to get started or to get an appropriate bid, I ended up having to handle it myself (ie. roof replacement, unit turns, etc.) You have to audit all of their accounting because inevitably late fees will change every statement, utilities are sometimes billed back (or not at all in the case of one of my properties.. resulting in ~$2000 in unpaid utilities), and god speed if you have a delinquent tenant. Reporting is terrible and full of errors, so if there is an issue, you won't find out til it's too late. The tenant screening process seems non-existent, and they have no problem blatantly lying to you (my final straw before finding new management). This company has lost me thousands. I've never posted a rant like this, but I feel very passionately about telling anyone who will listen to stay away from Poplar Homes / OneRent.