Davis Paul Management Group

 

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Dana W.

Oakland, CA

The property manager was completely insane and threatened to rape me on multiple occasions. 'Nuff said.

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Gavin h.

San Francisco, CA

This is perhaps the most unprofessional and dishonest property management company I have ever come into contact with. They lose checks and charge you for it. They back date items to cover themselves and lie. They place their own employees in buildings at below market rents ahead of qualified renters.   I overheard their employee who lived in the bldg discussing how many hours were to be billed on a project I watched take only minutes. they hire friends to do work and over charge tenants and landlords.

When I met and complained to the building owner who hired them, the owner was shocked and unaware of how bad they were and dishonest they had been.  I later came to find out that The owner was getting ripped off by them and finally fired them. The new management company is 10x better and seems honest so far.
most landlords aren't good, but htis company is awful

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Sherri C.

Oakland, CA

Like being stressed and angry? Then run, don't walk, to the nearest building with a sign that says "Professionally managed by Davis Paul Management." You DON'T like being stressed and angry? Then run the other way like the devil is chasing you, because if you rent from these people, he is.

First of all, they lose things...important things. Like security deposits and rent payments. Doesn't matter if you have PROOF they got it; $75.00 late fee.  You send them the proof and they swear up and down they didn't receive it..even if you send it Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested...didn't get it.  To add insult to injury, doesn't matter if they stamped the check with their date stamp and it cleared your bank on the 2nd, your next statement will swear up and down that it was received on the 6th.  The 6th on a weekend or legal holiday and the office closed? STILL going to almost automatically tack on a late charge.  

When you refuse to pay the late charge, some how it miraculously turns up as a Three Day Notice on your door as "rent" for the prior month...definite no-no under California Landlord-Tenant law. I would love to know how much revenue they generate by scaring the hell our of tenants who don't know any better and pay it. When you, in writing, point out to them that only actual rent can be called rent and rent checks must be applied to rent (not to imaginary fees) and that their "notice" isn't worth wiping your ass with from a legal standpoint, you get to hear them shriek and scream. Use the term "fatally flawed" and watch one of the owners get hysterical and defensive and laugh until your tummy hurts, as she starts calling you names and questioning your intelligence.

I got around this by sending all of my payments via Priority Mail with signature confirmation. which gave me ammo to work with when required. Of course, even then, they "never received" my rent check, but did receive my utility bill check (which is another huge rip-off they perpetuate), which happened to be in the one and the same Priority Mail envelope. I spent $20 on a stop payment, sent them another check, and lo and behold, the check that "never got there" somehow got deposited a couple of days AFTER we moved out and they tried to get me for another thousand, claiming I gave them a bad check and didn't give notice, etc. Uh..what about the letter that was sent two days after we "didn't give notice", telling us how sorry they were we were leaving as well as a "move out checklist"?

Not sure if they are slightly to the left of shady, inept, disorganized, or a combination thereof. I do know that I would live in a cardboard box under a bridge before ever dealing with them again. If you must rent from them, you need to paper trail them into the next milleneum..it will save your wallet, your credit, not to mention to your sanity.

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bianca francesca o.

San Francisco, CA

Davis Paul: Because there aren't enough slumlords in this city.

Bought our old building (we left within a couple month, thank god) and managed to kick out tenants who had been at the corner of 14th and Mission since the 1980s. Charged fees for extra keys, ridiculous deposits and lax response to repairs in this unsafe and vermin infested building. When we left we were told the building wasn't earthquake safe and had to be repaired within a year--that was two years ago. The only thing different? A For-Sale sign just went up.

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