CDC Properties

Against my better judgement I rented a home through CDC for a year.
I was moving to the area from out of town for a work relocation and literally had one day in Lakeland to pick somewhere to live. There was a home for rent by CDC that I was interested in and I went by to talk to them. No one offered to help me. I eventually got someone to acknowledge me and told them I’d like to see the property and was told that they didn’t have time to show the property that day. I explained I was in town for one day and would put the deposit down today if I could just see the property and they told me I could come back another day.
I ended up renting the property sight unseen and luckily the home was nice.
Then came the fun part. After a year in the home, the owner decided he might want to sell the property. Now Aaron/​Jada are trying to get a real estate commission so they tell the owner the home will be hard to show with me in it.
I receive a post dated letter telling me to vacate. I went to CDC to inquire about the fact that the letter is dated a week before I received it and four days before the postmark (the letter was conveniently dated so that they didn’t have to provide an extra month’s notice per the lease). I also asked why I wasn’t told verbally about this when I had called to check on this situation. I was basically told they didn’t know anything. They didn’t know why the date was wrong. They didn’t know why they hadn’t told me. They didn’t know ANYTHING.
Conincidentally the owner wasn’t able to find any buyer interested in paying the price that Aaron and Jada probably told them they could and they had to rent it out again at the same rate I was paying but with two months less rent in their pocket.
This company was NOT good to work with as a renter. AND They did the property owner NO favors. I personally own rental properties in some of the areas I have lived before and CDC embodies the type of property manager that I run from. They’re just there to collect the rent and take some off the top. Nearly everyone I dealt with here had an air of superiority to them and I never felt treated fairly or with respect. RUN!

Jada put me at the bottom of her list, I feel like she didn’t care to follow up with me to get a property rented. I had to call multiple times to view the property. After viewing the property I emailed them regarding a few concerns I had and they never replied. I then called them and voiced my concerns and Jada said she would have to get with the property owner regarding the matter. I emailed again a couple days later… No response again. After 4 days went by I called back and she told me «sorry we rented the property to someone else.» I feel they are very unprofessional and very unhelpful. I certainly would not want them as my property manager.

This company grossly mismanaged our property. Jada and Aaron are extremely rude and unprofessional to the point where speaking to them on the phone exposes you to disrespect and being spoken down to, as if you didn’t employ them to do a job. They allowed a tenant to stay in our property rent free for 6 months on a one year lease, then turned around and charged attorney costs of over $ 500 for an eviction notice that was not necessary since the tenant left at the time when the lease was up. After the tenant left, they sent us a bill for over $ 400 for cleaning an empty 3 bedroom townhouse for 14 hours @$ 30/​hr. This is not a commercial property, who in God’s name pays $ 30/​hr to clean an empty house for 2 days. If you are looking for a company to rent and manage your property in Florida, stay away from this company at all cost.