Paragon Equities Inc

08/14/09

Won't respond to you unless you're offering money!

by Sgoode at Citysearch

I lived in a property managed by Paragon Equities for 2 years. The place started off wonderful. The apartment was clean and well maintained, the landscaping on the property was attractive, etc. Flash forward years and the place has turned into a trashy dump. Apparently the original manager for the property left Paragon Equities, and her replacement does not seem to care about maintaining the property. The landscaping is abysmal. All of the plants are overgrown and dying, yet they won't let me or other tenants do our own gardening. Instead we must look at a jungle of yellow/brown overgrown grass and dead shriveled flowers that block the path.

Secondly, I noticed recently that the trash hadn't been picked up for that week. I called the trash company who said that our trash bin was no longer serviceable because the bottom had rotted out and it was missing a wheel. They said they had sent several letters to Paragon over a month before telling them that they must get a new trash bin and Paragon has not returned the correspondence. I called Paragon and they still haven't fixed it. It's been over 2 weeks since my trash has been picked up. It's an 8 unit building. 2 weeks of trash is A LOT.

Lastly, I called to get permission to install a DirectTV satellite, left numerous messages, and my calls have not been returned. That was over 2 weeks ago as well. I paid $300 to get an HD receiver through Directtv and I can't even use it because the manager won't call me back.

I finally called pretending to be interested in another property and the manager called me back within 10 minutes. So it turns out they only return calls if they have a possibility of getting money out of you!

Just put in my 30 days notice. I can't wait to move.

• Pros: Polite office staff
• Cons: Unresponsive management, poor property maintenance

06/12/09

Property Owners and Renters BEWARE :-( :-( :-(

by msssylvia at Citysearch

Renters........Run don't walk!!!!!!!

Property Owners...........Run even faster!!!!!!!

I've tried on numerous occasions to arrange a time to view propeties for rent. When you get a hold of someone in the office, she tells you someone else will call back. They never do. You call the office again and ask why no on has called back and they hang up on you. You leave a message for a manager to call you back, and they never call you back. They have the first person you called call you back again and they promise to help you out. They claim to have never received any messages. They tell you they will email an application to you but they email you some other unknown document. They apologize to you and promise to meet to show you some property and oh yeah I forgot, one minute they have lots of properties available in a certain area and about 1/2 a day later....they have only one property available. Then you call to confirm your appt. with them the same day. You show up at the appt. about 15 minutes late. (unfortunately I had an emergency with my dog...he swallowed something and I had to take him to an emergency doctor appt.) No one around. You knock on the door of the current tenants house to see if they are there, no one answers. You look around, no one in site. You call the office which is about 12 or more minutes away. It's now about 20 minutes ago you were suppose to meet someone but took them at least 12 to drive back to the office. They are now too busy to talk to you when you call the office AGAIN. So lets see, it was 20 minutes ago for the appt. subtract 12 or more minutes for the drive, lets see 8 minutes left. Did the person who was going to show me the place ever even actually go to the apt.? Why didn't she call to see where I was. Unfortunately I ran out of the house when my dog was choking on something in his throat and I didn't take the office number with me. When I finally called 411 to get the number, the person who was going to show me the property was already back in the office after only 8 minutes waiting for me. I left a message for this lady to have her manager call me and of course...the manager never called me. I wouldn't even let my dog hire them to rent out his DOGHOUSE. If you use their services.......you deserve what you get. I've noticed that their rents are lower than most other places but that's because if they weren't lower....they would not be able to attract and secure tenants. I'm sure their tenants rent with them for only one reason......the lower CO$T (rent).

• Pros: Nothing
• Cons: Everything

03/01/09

The slumlords of Bluff Heights

by Vickismokescrack at Citysearch

Paragon Equities is the slumlord wanna be millionaire management company. I have the unfortunate luck to live next door to the eight unit building at 3104 E. Colorado, what a zoo, unkempt, Mexican mow and blowers blowing trash and garbage all around the neighborhood, wires hanging off the buildings, derelict cars on the property, tweekers running the laundry all night on the weekends, illegal over stacking of tenants, violent drunken and aggressive degenerates hanging out spitting, breaking glass and tossing cigarette butts all over the place...and all under the watchful eye of their so called on site manager. Paragon stands for the highest quality of Diamond but this lump of coal should be avoided at all costs.

• Pros: None
• Cons: Hard to find, no parking, office looks like a police substation, rude staff