Spradling Properties

Dont rent or buy from these guys. Properties are infested with bugs! They dont fix anything. Washers and driers broken. Kitchen stove and fridge not working. They dont ever answer their phones. They dont return voice mails. They dont do any repairs. Not good for business.

I was referred to Spradling Properties by a friend. David was my realtor when I bought my house in 2010. I was thrilled when he only showed me houses that I had described and in the neighborhoods I was interested in. Since then I’ve developed a great relationship with him and his dad. David helped me a few years ago when I was looking for investment properties. They have also helped me by referring landscape business to me. Spradling Properties is a fantastic family owned company that I highly recommend.

Very professional! Handled our rental property for 7 years very well, no complaints. Very helpful in selling properties too!

David and his wife have been managing our rental property in Austin, TX for 5 years. I have found his service to be consistently reliable and professional. Repairs are taken care of quickly and cheaply, new tenants are found quickly, and the accounting is always correct down to the penny. I would recommend him to others.

I have been a client of Spradling Properties for several years. I had the opportunity to meet David on a trip to Austin, TX at the time I was thinking of purchasing a run down 16-​unit complex. This building had about 4 vacancies, and the remaining units were rented at below market rates. The condition of the units was poor. Our plan was to gradually refurbish the units as tenants left or were evicted (several did not pay rent). David Spradling managed this project terrifically. He oversaw the rehabs as they came up, and made sure that the prices we paid for rehabbing were very reasonable. David’s relationship with tenants has been great. There were difficult tenants at the beginning, and David always communicated with them with respect. Unfortunately, we did have to evict some of them for nonpayment. My 16-​units are now all occupied and getting market rents. I highly recommend Spradling Properties for property management in the Austin area.

I have bought and sold many properties thru Spradling and they have always provided a great experience in representing me. Spradling Properties has also managed all these properties for me for many years and I can completely trust them. They have proven over and over again they run a professional firm and understand how to manage investors and tenants.

Good Christian family with big hearts! I bought my home in 2009 through Spradling and I worked with Chuck, David and D’Lyn to get through the process easily and quickly. They sent a nice baby gift to us and have stayed in touch over the years to see if there is ever anything we need. And through the years we have become friends. They are very reliable and friendly. They take their relationships with the property owners of their management company very seriously and are extremely professional. Conversely, I know of a few cases of tenants of their management business who have been down on their luck and had trouble paying their rents and were granted many grace periods by the Spradlings, which is incredibly gracious considering it is the Spradlings who take the risk. They are also very generous people — giving of their time and their resources. Ignore the negative reviews. As a business owner myself, I don’t give much weight to negative Unilocal reviews, and you shouldn’t either because we all know that it is the angry few who leave feedback most of the time. Nevermind the thousands of happy customers! I am one, so I hope my positive vote counts!

I had leased a home through spradling for about a 1 ½ yrs. He seemed nice at first but when it came for him to do something about a leak or whatever we wouldnt hear back from him. We had a water leak on our ceiling and i contacted spradling many different ways via email, call, and text. He never would return our calls, we finally had to contact the actual owner of the home for spradling to do anything about it. He is very unprofessional and i should have known the first month of living there because he said he had had the place cleaned and it was the opposite, dust covered everything, the carpet was ripping up, baseboards had mud caked on them it was ridiculous and not to mention whoever had painted the house had spilt blue paint all over the carpet, painted all over the ceilings, the tile floors, paint was basically everywhere you could think of.
The biggest issue i now have is that when we decided to buy a house and move out he wanted to charge us for all of the repairs and paint and carpet. ALL of which i had wrote down on the move in sheet. When i called to discuss this with him he told me «i was lucky he didnt charge me the full price of the repairs». I was astonished at how unprofessional he was towards me, especially because i had cleaned it better than we had recieved it, i had even shampooed the carpets.
I can not believe people trust this man or this company with their homes.
I recommend no one rent from this man or his company, also do not let him manage your home bc he will most likely let it go to rot before he fixes any of the problems.

Don’t rent or buy anything from this man or his wife. The world’s worth & most unprofessional agency. make promises to do repairs, doesn’t follow through. Charges flat rate monthly for water & never produces any type of bill. I had to withhold August rent to get him to speak with me. We went to court & the judge told him «you would think that you would want to keep someone who’s paying on your property» being that every other person present owed 6 months+. Even though the judge gave me time to pay him for August and September’s rent he refused to accept my money & filed a writ to have me evicted. He still got to keep my $ 500 security deposit. You have been warned again!

I have been leasing a house thru Spradling properties for over four years and they are an awesome company to work with. They are a family owned business with a great sense of professionalism. They have always quickly responded to something if it needed fixing. I can highly recommend them as people to work with!!!

Update #2 — he is now refusing to fix faucets that need to be turned on with a wrench and fix the light fixtures not working (need xmas lights in kitchen to see) because «your wife pissed me off». Retaliation is ILLEGAL. Let him know what you think — 512−282−8014
Update #1 Here is a press release about the situation. As of right now Chuck says he does not «know our plumber» and does not «believe» the gas leak is an emergency and will not put us up for the night in a hotel while we wait for septic to arrive.

I don’t know why Unilocal deleted my review of Spradling Properties. Probably because Spradling asked them to. Be warned!!!
These ‘properrty managers’ are worse than incompetent. We were living in a house leased to us and managed by Dave Spradling. The house had been severely infested with rats (unbeknownst to us until after we signed the lease and moved in). Spradling refused to fix the problem. He then offered to ‘put poison around the house’ for our 1-​year-​old to eat. There were other problems with the house that made it unfit for occupation. After repeated refusals to make the repairs, and threats from Spradling to ‘throw us out on the street and keep our deposit’ if we didn’t stop complaining, we decided our only remaining option was to report the condition of the house to the city code compliance department and break the lease.
We did those things, moved a second time with our toddler, and used our deposit to pay our last months rent (as per Austin’s rental laws: make sure you check that you do this the legal way should you plan something like this). We never recovered the expenses from moving twice with a one-​year-​old. The owner of the house ended up firing Spradling and making all the repairs we requested anyway, except she had to do additional repairs and do it all under the watchful eye of code compliance inspectors.
The lesson here is: Spradling is a complete disaster weather you are a tenant or a property owner. If you hire this company, expect unpleasant and expensive times ahead.
P. S. I am still so pissed about this that I am re-​writing this review over a year later after discovering that Unilocal deleted my review. Spradling Properties leaves a deep, long lasting, truly negative impression. I will keep re-​writing my review every time you delete it. People deserve the warning so they don’t have to experience something like this. That is supposed to be how Unilocal works, isn’t it?

I also had a very fraudlent dealing with the Spradling office. Mr. Spradling the elder sold me my home. I told him I wanted to be in a specific school area so as not to change schools for the kids. He took me somewhere and told me it was that; and it clearly was not. He then took my inspection money for the home, told me The inspection was OK and I did not have to look at it; because he OK’d it. I did not know any better at the time. Later when I took my first shower in the Master Bedroom and went down to the kitchen it was flooded through the ceiling light and you could see the ceiling was falling from previous water damage, the fence, garage door and ponds in the back were all broken and need to be replaced. Also, when I closed on the home he told me I HAD to lease it back to the owners since it was Christmas and I had no choice (thus leaving me without a home on my first Christmas in a home I had just bought) and he wanted me not to charge them rent back. Also, at closing he did not show up and I called him confused about where my $ 10,000 downpayment was being credited. He told me to «shut up and that I was a stupid woman who wasn’t as smart as I thought I was; and furthermore he was Christmas Shopping and didn’t have time to bother with me. In addition he said he would sue me and take my $ 10,000 if I did not sign the papers. The
The escrow officer explained to me that Mr. Spradling knew before I got to closing that there was a driveway built on the side of the home without permits, ponds were over the easement and all that would not be covered in the Title Poicy.
Again Mr. Spradling said not to bother him and call him because he was out spending the over $ 4,000 bonus he got by selling me that property
It has been 13 years I am still in the property and dealing with issues with the home. He knew I spent my last $ 45. 00 to buy this home and had no money left. I later found that I paid way over market and it also had been on the market an extremely long time in a very fast market; because of the condition of the home.
Mr. Spradling is a horrible man, deceitful and dishonest… his review is negative stars…