C J REAL ESTATE

I'm 58 years old, and never in my lifetime have I dealt with a more worthless company. I hope CJ's damage control personnel reads this (they wasted no time reading my Google review) because I'm going to start with a friendly reminder to them. The utility bill is NOT in my name! It never has been, and it never will be. So the next time the power goes out in my apartment (or multiple apartments and both laundry rooms) don't try to pretend that it's MY responsibility to fix YOUR problems. Moving on... The power has now gone out twice. Each time, CJ refused to accept any responsibility. I was working a 12-hour shift on Friday, 12/09/23, with plans to be out of town for the weekend. As it turns out, the construction company doing roof repairs had flipped the breaker. AGAIN, this was THEIR responsibility, yet they refused to lift a finger. What if I had already left town, and the problem required more than ME finding the breaker box in the hall and flipping every breaker? CJ doesn't care.

Is it possible for me to give 0 stars? DO NOT RENT FROM THIS COMPANY. We rented from them for a full year, paid a $750 deposit when we moved in to the townhome. They claimed we left over $1,500 in damage when we moved out (the place was immaculate when we left and better than when we moved in. The lady that did our final walk through even asked my husband to have me send them pictures to use as the model for the website!! We repainted, got carpets professionally cleaned and provided the receipt, filled in nail holes, scrubbed base boards, etc.) You would think that if we had $1,500 in damage they would want us to pay them what our deposit didn’t cover, but they didn’t. Why? Because they kept our security deposit when nothing was wrong with the home. Never provided receipts for purchases replacing the things they claimed were broken. We moved out of the townhome because we bought a home. CJ Real Estate was notified of this and was told they could show the townhome whenever they wanted since it was clean and now vacant (even though we were still paying rent for the next month). They had a key to the townhome but I was still called on quite a few occasions asking if I could meet them at the house in 10 minutes because they needed to show it...in the middle of the work week. Then when I asked them about the spare key they should have to the home, they had nothing to say. But it was being shown quite often somehow and I wasn’t letting them in. I had to call more than 5 times to tell them to stop calling me at work to meet them when they forgot the key at their office. I paid the last months rent and was told there was a couple who wanted to move in before my lease date was up. I was asked if I would be ok with that. In return, i asked them if I’d be refunded the prorated amount of rent I had already paid for the month since other people would be moving in early. Answer: no, of course not. Majority of the employees even think this company scams people but they get in trouble for speaking up. Sad. This company takes people’s money and I hope every potential renter reads this before allowing them to do so. There are better places to rent from.

Was supposed to fix ice maker. Never called after 3 weeks of waiting so I fixed the problem and then they called to set an appointment to look at it - but offered an appointment in another 2 weeks. I don't think people want to wait 5 weeks to have something repaired. I'm still waiting for my dishwasher to be insulated and I lived here for 2 years. Sounds like a freight train coming through the house. I don't ever use it due to the noise level and when I did use it - it didn't clean anything and the soap dispenser would never open.