Summers Realty

If your local don’t deal with Summers Realty!
We worked with Summers Realty for 2 weeks to rent one of their homes. We were ok’d and told by Tom that we got the house. We were all excited, started to pack and gave notice were we currently living to get a call the following day that they decided to go with another applicant who they felt could afford it better.
We could afford it and be comfortable financially living there. If not then we wouldn’t have applied for the house.
It’s unfortunate that people don’t give you a chance.

We had one of our very best vacations! They have a true gift of hospitality.

Tom Summer’s is notorious on Kauai for being a greedy business person, and particularly with his rental properties. Kauai’ is known to have nightmare-​ish landlord circumstances, and SUmmer’s Realty/​Tom SUmmers is a major player in this.
The home I rented from him was advertised as a 3 bedroom home, but was truly a studio apartment, with no doors. COMPLETELY UNSUITABLE FOR ANY OTHER LIVING CIRCUMSTANCE OTHER THAN A SINGLE PERSON OR A COUPLE INHABITING IT, WITH THE «THIRD BEDROOM» ACTUALLY A WALK-​IN CLOSET IN BETWEEN THE OTHER TWO ROOMS WITH NO DOORS SEPARATING ANY OF THEM. THIS HOUSE IS PRICED AS 3 BEDROOM, WHEN IN FACT IT IS A STUDIO APARTMENT.
Upon move-​in, I had to pay a $ 2200 deposit, and received a filthy home:
The windows were dirty and missing screens, the ceiling fans were filthy and required purchasing a ladder in order to clean. The baseboards in the entire house were filthy, the floors had not been mopped, the front porch was unkept and needed to be swept and mopped, and the toilet was even dirty. WE HAD TO SPEND TWO ENTIRE DAYS CLEANING THE HOUSE, JUST TO MOVE IN. On top of that, the yard was full of stickers and weeds, which we also had to manage, in order to move in, despite the written agreement in the lease to upkeep the yard. The paint in the house was filthy, with holes all over the house, filthy ceiling boards, and an insanely ugly and old paint-​job, with patches of pink paint amongst the neon green walls, which absolutely required painting. We had to spend $ 350.00 on paint and supplies, which Tom promised to re-​imburse, but never did, and over 100 hours painting the interior of the house, in order to start our business there.
After improving the quality of the home I rented exponentially, which was vastly overpriced in the first place, Tom kept my ENTIRE deposit, claiming that the new renters needed a 30 day build-​out that was coming out of my pocket. When I rented the home, I was also starting a business, and though it took us an entire month to paint the house and get it up to speed for running a business, Tom did not give us the option of a 30-​day build-​out. Yet HE charged me for the next tenant’s 30-​day build-​out, without my consent.
The previous tenant before me informed me that he also kept her deposit, after raising the rent exorbitantly and forcing her 5-​year established business out of the building, and after she claims to have hired maids to clean the house in entirety (it sat empty for a month before I received it).
t is clear to me, having talked to many locals who have lived in Kapa’a for their entire lives, that Tom Summers and Summers Realty is known to be a terribly selfish and greedy person, not respected amongst the locals. I only wish I would have done more research and found this information before renting from him. He is know widely around town to be the biggest landlord, renting to a vast majority of businesses and families, and is also known to be a terrible person to have to deal with. On top of always keeping deposites, no matter what length a tenant goes to to clean the house and return it in great shape, he also is incredibly rude, yelling at you, making snarly comments, cutting you off, hanging up on you when you try to get him to follow through with his verbal agreements, and generally being a complete ass hole.
WARNING: NEVER DO BUSINESS WITH THIS COMPANY, OR WITH TOM SUMMERS. IT WILL HAVE YOU IN TEARS WITH THE LACK OF JUSTICE AND RESPECT GIVEN TO YOU! THEY ARE GREEDY AND COMPLETELY LACKING IN DECENCY. THEY WILL ROB YOU.