Eric Davis Group

28/​M/​Military, I have never had a problem with Eric Davis Group. Despite the other reviews, I’ve lived in one of their houses for about 2 years now, and service calls have always been timely (less than 48 hours), and documents always came back over email within a few days. Greg is a great manager. Benji, their maintenance contractor, does great work and is very respectable with true country-​boy know how on fixing issues with the old houses that Eric Davis Group specializes in. These lessers dont understand that old houses (before 1950) need a fair amount of maintenance and upkeep. I would recommend them to anyone on a budget, and they have always been mindful of delaying my rent date when out on an assignment of lengthy orders.
My only quip would be that sometimes there is no one in the office on the weekends and smaller maintenance requests get backlogged.

Please pay attention to the posted reviews. As a «company» this is joke. They are an incompetent mess! I rented a house through them and even though I moved 6 weeks ago, I still have not received my deposit. When I sent a friendly reminder, the amount of my refund changed as the owner continues to assess «damages» at her leisure. Ridiculous! It appears that now I am going to have to go to court to fight over the principle of the whole thing. If this is the only way you can rent the place, go find another one quickly!!!

I can sum up our experience with the Eric Davis groups to one word: terrible! I am a home owner and the Eric Davis group is managing (which will end soon) our property. I agree with the first reviewer, Joe F 100%. The company is operated by incredibly incompetent and deceitful individuals, they always tend to «forget» critical things and due dates about your property all the time (including renewing your lease with the tenant and listing your property during the agreed upon time), and never communicate problems and updates until you reach out to check on them, which usually means things have been «forgotten.» Please please stay away from this company!

Scheming liars! Worst real estate company ever. Took our application fees and deposit, under extreme suspicious circumstances claimed couldn’t run our credit, how does that happen when everyone else 3 other real estate companies were successful, just that houses weren’t available in time for our move or that we wanted to be approved to have early chances on the real estate companies houses that may have come on market. Which if you noticed Eric Davis group have few homes for rent 3 Three that I saw when I looked them up! I (found them/​the particular home on zillow) I say they were collecting MANY application fees on one house and lied to me because that’s first question I ask –has someone applied for this home as yet. Ridiculous. If you can’t «run» credit that’s ur problem re-​imburse clients! Shady shady shady people! Yet day after home pending I thought something may be wrong with your running credit system, now home pending and off market. Shaking my head. The almighty greed of money taking from ordinary people with no interest in doing what u should do! How do u people sleep at night??? STAY CLEAR everyone! Run don’t walk away from this company!

Hands down the worst experience I ever thought possible. If you are looking for a condescending, lying, integrity-​free, irresponsible, and uncommunicative property management company, then Eric Davis Group is for you!
They were referred to me from a friend of mine (who I’ve updated and suggested they not refer this company anymore). It started off smooth enough; signing forms, getting a list of suggested repairs and the quotes for them, explanation that we were trying to maintain a budget but still wanted to get the needed things done, etc. etc. Finally all things were set to get up on the market after only outlaying a couple grand. Then, with much anticipation… nothing.
It took more than 6 months to find a tenant after we’d signed the papers, and then only if we came down $ 100 off rent. Move em in.
Everyone who rents has probably had the «needy» tenant; the one that calls about every little thing. I believe that’s why management companies exist, right? One guy said, «This person is crazy, I sure wish I had a company that would help me manage the tenant and I’d just pay them a monthly fee. That’d be nice!» Well, I think this tenant trained all those other «needy tenants» on how to act. Not a month went by where we got our full rent due to some repair that was needed. Now, if something is wrong in the house, I want to know and I want to fix it, but the problem was the communication and the frivolity of the repairs. I would get a call after a «repair» was made and told how much it was. I told them that I needed to be consulted BEFORE any work was done and I had to approve it. This behavior didn’t change, despite many calls and notices about it. Then, if I disagreed with the repair, they would cite that it was needed for safety purposes, but only when pushed. One instance was cutting open all the windows in the house (built in 1950’s). The person responsible for maintenance cited not running the a/​c as the reason, when I told the head of the company doing so could damage the walls and floors, he stated it was for safety purposes. Hmmmm. Rinse and repeat that scenario several times over.
Now we’re at move-​out time and the property management company contacted me b/​c the tenant has written a threatening letter citing the unsatisfactory conditions in which she lived in the prior year (I lived with my entire family there for 6 years) and hinting at a lawsuit. While they’re shaking in their boots, I simply smell an attempt to get back the deposit in full. I advise them to do the walkthrough as normal and let me know what they find. This is where the whole thing took a nose dive.
They came back to me and said all was good and the tenant should get back all of their deposit, except for what I had previously paid for the tenant to make an erroneous service call in the middle of the night. OK I say, but my wife and I will come down to turn the house for the next tenant and get it ready to go on the market. Well, we walked into this place and it was anything but fully-​deposit-​refundable. The dogs had torn up the carpet and used it as a bathroom for about a year. Every room in the house needed repainting, some rooms had wall scratches way down to the sheet rock. There was some interesting colors of some kind of growth in the bathrooms, the yard was a wreck, etc. etc. etc.
Now, having been on both sides of the tenant/​landlord relationship, I know there’s some give-​and-​take and that you’ll always have a sharper eye as the landlord, but there’s no person on God’s green earth that would say, «Sure! They should have 100% of their deposit back.» They were purely afraid of the threatened lawsuit. The problem was how they handled it. They claimed that they didn’t paint the whole house (I had photos and records they did), they claimed I denied some of their suggested repairs prior to move in (I had records I didn’t), they even claimed I advised on having a sub-​par paint job to stay in budget (I didn’t and have records to prove it)!! The conversation around this went on for weeks and they continued to lie to me, attempt to rewrite the past, claim they had started work when they didn’t, etc.
End of the day, they gave the tenant 100% of the deposit back, I still had to replace the carpet and paint the interior all out of my pocket due to this tenant, as well as work for days on end with my wife to repair the damages made to the house. I fired this company and have since found a great company and tenant (was on the market for 3 days before getting rented). Now, I’ve left out a lot of details, but rest assured, I have prior emails outlining all of this and more. If property management was easy, people wouldn’t hire a company to do it. You hire a company to manage things when they go south. This company didn’t. They kicked the can down the road by lying to everyone until they couldn’t lie anymore, and then rested the burden on me and my family.
STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY.