Colorado Property Management
Property management services provide services for two distinct groups of people. Property owners can use a local Colorado property management company to help provide income for the property owners. The property owners are usually trying to gain income through a cabin, beach, or other vacation property that they don't use as a full time residence. For groups of people looking to vacation, a CO property management company can be used to provide vacation rentals that are available to be rented, generally by the week. The management company will provide a contract previously seen by the owner to the renter to ensure that both parties have their expectations met.
Property Management in Colorado:
CO Property Management Reviews & Comments:
 Bedbugs, Mold, Carbon Monoxide
by lonifinch on March 20th, 2009 on Alameda Apartments |
| There are leaking pipes in the bathroom, with poor ventilation, which cause substantial mold build-up. The manager tells you the mold is due to inadequate cleaning. There is a gas water heater in the basement which leaks carbon monoxide into the dwelling units because there is no other ventilation. There is poor weatherproofing on all the windows; this results in mold on the windowsills and very high heating bills for the tenant. The other tenants smoke indoors, inevitably forcing all tenants to suffer from second hand smoke. There is a bedbug infestation; has been there for years. You are guaranteed to be bitten several hundred times every night while you are asleep. Don’t worry if you never had bedbugs, they can travel through cracks in the walls and electrical wiring, along the carpet seems, and can live over a year, dormant, in vacant apartments. Tenants have to throw away their mattresses when they move out. If you are so fortunate to have the manager call out an exterminator, it will take two weeks for your apartment to be treated; Terminix will “find no evidence of bedbugs” and leave the chemical dust all over your cloths and furniture. Then you will have to pay the bill. If you complain that the problem was taken care of inadequately, because there are still live bugs in the apartment and the dust is very toxic to have been used so carelessly, you get the three day notice to pay or quit. If you comply with the notice, the apartment will file an unlawful detainer against you anyways. In addition, there are exposed electrical wires, running current, and numerous dead outlets. The apartment is in violation of several housing codes that are ignored until the tenant requests repairs, and are ignored afterwards too. If you have severe allergies, combined with the toxic levels of mold spores to breath, you may end up in the emergency room and admitted to the hospital for five days; afterwards, you get to go home to all the second hand smoke with your oxygen tank. If you are really lucky, instead of dying from Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis, you can ask that indoor smoking be minimized and patiently wait for retaliation from the landlord. |
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Rude Management
by Mike on December 9th, 2008 on Caron Realty Incorporated |
| They never answered my phone calls when I call. |
Colorado Real Estate Management
Real estate management companies provide a service that many property owners don't have time to perform themselves. To effectively rent a property and gain income, proper Colorado advertising, marketing, record keeping, and bill collecting must be performed. Although individuals generally look for rental property for vacations, many businesses utilize real estate management services for commercial purposes. Professional CO real estate management businesses act as the middle man to reduce the risk to the owner and renter by becoming an impartial third party.