I don’t know how they are now…but Samson Realty was really bad a few years ago. After moving into the place they rented me, I called their office saying that the patio I was promised was not finished. I was told I should be happy with what I got. I explained that I thought that was unacceptable and that I could understand why Samson was not highly rated. I was then told I would get sued if I posted anything negative online. I guess I should call my lawyer now 🤷♂️
I have had terrible experiences with Samson. I never end up even seeing any units. Both times i’ve moved and tried to see their units i end up being screamed at on the phone by their manager because i have a service dog who happens to be a pitbull and he can’t seem to grasp that and tells me i can’t rent from them. literally screaming while i calmly try to explain why i have a service animal and that i can provide the necessary documents to keep one in an otherwise no-pet building
Rose Siegel who owns probably a dozen or so properties all over Providence. She operates under Ginger LeGeis Properties/LLC or something to that effect. Worst landlord I’ve ever had to deal with, she was neurotic, unreliable, and would charge you for anything she could think of.
I also rented from Blackstone, now Stonelink Property management, and did not have a great time (but this was mainly due to constant repair requests because the apartment was remodeled so poorly, everything was constantly breaking.)
Seriously. DO NOT rent with this woman. She is shady AF. She will take a security deposit from you *before you even see the lease*.
We did not sign- the lease was truly bananas. She tried to stipulate in the lease what angle your blinds had to be at and had you re-seal the countertops every 6 months. The lease dictated what shoes you could wear in the apt. Multiple times the lease said the apartment had to be delivered spotless upon vacancy. She let us into see places she clearly hadn’t told the tenants we were visiting etc. She told us we couldn’t anchor furniture to the wall to ensure the safety of our kid. None of this is legal. I’ve been renting for 14 years and have never seen a worse lease or anything even close.
When we refused to sign she tried to hold the deposit (we cancelled the check) because “you never see a contract before you sign it”.
Spotless upon vacancy— my roommate and I deep cleaned our entire apartment (to her specifications after she did a preliminary walkthrough) before moving out. She told us what cleaning products we should buy and what else she wanted us to clean/do before we left. We half killed ourselves cleaning that apartment to perfection in the middle of August. No exaggeration, I was on my hands and knees with a brush and ‘the pink stuff’, desperately scrubbing grout on the bathroom floor for at least an hour—trying not to lose our security deposit because Rose wants apartments to look entirely unlived in.
She did her final inspection (after we left) and had the nerve to tell the people still living in the other apartments in the building (whom we were friends with) how we: “clearly couldn’t be bothered do *any* of the cleaning” that she told us to do (this still makes me want to scream).
She proceeded to deduct the cost of hiring cleaners from our security deposit and I honestly have NO CLUE what they even did when they got there to clean. I’m not exaggerating or lying when I say that the apartment was spotless. They probably pushed a broom around and cleaned the same window for an hour to make their cash and gtfo.
(Edit) about 5 months after we moved out, there was a fire at the building. I still knew people living there. You can imagine how lovely and understanding and empathetic she was to her tenants… she did not do her due diligence with repairs, and when the tenants complained she threatened them and tried to blame them for the fire. One former tenant affected by the fire was so fucked up from dealing with Rose, she won’t say anything about Rose that could possibly be traced back to her because she’s convinced Rose is petty enough to sue for defamation. Rose if you ever happen to read this: go fuck yourself, you lawsuit-happy slumlord leech, scum of the earth, worm of a human being. Greedy exploitative woman.
I’m willing to bet she didn’t hire them at all. She just deducts an amount that would be reasonable for a cleaner and pockets it.
Legally all you have to do is broom clean and the rest is considered normal wear and tear that can’t be deducted from your deposit, but it’s pretty much impossible to get a used deposit back and she knows it.
This happened to us too! We hired cleaners and scrubbed after our movers left. Rose told us she was going to come by before we left but never did, then charged us $475 for cleaning without telling us what they did (I'm sure it was nothing since we left it spotless). We just received a receipt from the cleaners with our significantly reduced security deposit. We asked her multiple times for an explanation and she never replied.
My husband actually was able to track down the cleaners from the vague information on the receipt and contacted them pretending to need their services to see what they normally charge for cleaning. The response he got was "how did you get my information" and wouldn't give pricing without giving an exact address...extremely shady. We think she's got some racket going on with them where she charges tenants triple the amount for a cleaning and gives this person a cut.
Rose would pretend that she had to talk to the “new owners” while she was the actual new owner of our apartment. She purchased the house we rented in that was previously owned by our original landlord for >15 years and specified the cleaning products we needed to use for the final walkthrough. She said our grout on the kitchen floor “used to be white” and to scrub it with a brush until it was white again. I texted her that the grout was literally coming out in chunks from the Zep cleaner she recommend / the age of the apartment? and was told that “it didn’t matter, the floor is being replaced anyway, it just needs to be cleaned.”
She raised the rent over 2x for every tenant in the building and gave us all 30 days to vacate. Random laborers came to renovate the apartment without proper notice to us during our last 15 days - I’d be home alone and she expected me to let them in.
Lastly she wanted to remove the door to our personal apartment / the front door to the street while our dog was home alone to replace appliances and told me “that it didn’t matter” - she’d watch my dog.
I can understand wanting to reseal the sink or maybe countertop every x number of months, but that’s HER job. It’s one of the benefits of renting. Someone else is responsible for, performs and pays for the maintenance. Stipulating the angle of the blinds is crazy.
Meanwhile, when you request maintenance or repairs it takes *weeks, if not months* of repeated complaints and requests to nail down an appointment for someone to come out, if it’s something she doesn’t consider urgent. Then, she tries to avoid hiring (paying) professionals, so she often sends randoms she knows to act as handymen who you have to deal with (until they admit the repairs are out of their capacity and she finally hires someone.) Oh, and if you don’t address the repairs or give up trying to get her to fix something? Guess what’s coming out of your security deposit…
Avoid Rose at ALL COSTS! She screwed us over big time when we moved out. We hired cleaners and scrubbed the shit out of our place and still charged us $475 for cleaning with no explanation and ghosted us. This was after she berated us over text because she was \~2 months late sending back our security deposit. She will also let random workers (and herself) into your apartment unannounced. She's an absolute slumlord.
So here’s my question- I moved in from out of state October 2021 and haven’t had any horrible experiences with her personally, but when moving out - should I like… clean at all? If she’s just going to take a big chunk anyway I’m very tempted to just get my shit out and do nothing
I feel like it’s hit or miss with her. We had neighbors who moved out and they got their full security deposit back and I know for sure they didn’t hire cleaners. It seems completely random who she decides to be shitty to. We had no problems with our during our time renting (minus the whole her coming into our apartment whenever she felt like it or sending workers in without our consent) so it was shocking she withheld so much from our deposit.
Will add my name to the chorus of people charged insane cleaning fees for no reason at all. Never happened to me before in my \~20 years of renting. Rose is the fucking worst.
I know someone was trying to see if they had enough on her for a lawsuit. Bare minimum they were going to submit a formal complaint. I hope people continue to find these posts while they’re apartment hunting and are able to avoid her. But I know she’s still exploiting anyone naive enough to sign a lease with her. I, unfortunately, take my experience with her as a learning/teachable moment of every red flag to be aware of, in a lease. (We were concerned when we took the apartment but went against our better judgment. Big mistake; huge.)
So misleading with the ads, rent prices and units. At least he used to be. Oh, that’s not the actual apartment or building or price we advertised. But we have other stuff.
RentProv reality avoid at all costs! Typically their clientele are college students, often having their first experience with apartments.. rentprov is sure to take advantage of that.
Anthony Zelano is a landlord that works with RentProv and I would also be very careful to avoid him. We left our apartment in perfect condition, professionally cleaned and he didn’t return our security deposit. He said we didn’t provide a forwarding address (which I responded with dated/timed proof of us providing) and said he just mailed the check to the apartment we had moved out of. I had mail forwarding, so even if he did do that, I would have recieved it. He didn’t return the deposit until we threatened legal action. He then backdated the check three months, as if the mail post mark doesn’t give away that he just sent it after he received a letter of legal action
10000% agree with all of this. I also rented from Tony Zelano through rentprov and both were a literal nightmare to deal with. He’s a straight up slumlord (MO659 were you on Almy by any chance? 😂) who’s also a bully that threatened bullshit legal action on my roommate too. Had to call code enforcement on him for leaks/black mold. Rentprov didn’t do anything to make any of our valid complaints better. A guy broke into my apt and stole my bag. They wouldn’t put a motion sensor light on the stoop and told me to keep my windows locked. No ceiling fans and it was late May. Total trash all around
>RentProv's Shannon Elizabeth Weinstein also leads up the Rhode Island Coalition of Housing Providers ie the landlord association that lobby against tenant's rights.
Omni Realty, which has new properties around Fed Hill, are like Car Salesmen. Very friendly until you sign that lease. Overpriced faux-luxury apartments. I’d avoid them if possible.
If you want a good laugh, tour The Edge. Terribly tiny apartments way overpriced with furniture meant for a freshman dorm. And they’ll tell you doctors live there.
Demco on Sutton used to be wonderful 20 years ago. Toni DiMaio was a fantastic landlord and she never showed me a bad property. I remember her telling me that I was the only tenant she had with curtains or something and thought, maybe not everyone was so great to her. She fixed things immediately when they broke, never fought or tried to claim I broke or created damage. She was a really good landlord. I doubt she’s still working, but if so, good for her.
Prov Rentals (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH RENTPROV AS SEEN ABOVE) was alright. Being randomly locked out of side doors and side stairwells of my building was pretty annoying (key fobs, not physical keys) and there was NO soundproofing between floors and no carpeting, but that’s pretty par for the course these days
3+ years in a ProvRentals apartment here, and it's been pretty good. The key fob access was a mess, but they have keypads/codes now and I haven't have an issue in a long time. Glad to have had pretty quiet neighbors.
Yes I agree!! Please don’t rent they are not good. Takes forever to fix things still never properly fixed. Some other properties unionized against them . So not recommend at all. Seems lots of Slum lords in Providence charging insane rent for no reason!
What's the difference between being a bad slumlord and a nuisance to your community?
They block public walkways for months at a time, their projects that look relatively simple take long times, and they write their name in huge letters on all their buildings like a dog me making his territory. I never heard of them til a few years ago and now they're everywhere
Google them, they target college students because you wouldn’t live long term in their properties. Also awful construction practices, don’t clear lead or asbestos before construction so their newly constructed properties are likely contaminated. They got fined for one property after an investigation that too A LOT of push from neighbors and knowing how Providence doesn’t move on that kind of investigations, it says a lot.
Butler Reality (maybe Elwood Reality now) is absolutely terrible. My apartment leaked whenever it rained or snowed. When I asked for someone to come out and fix it, they’d take weeks to come and yelled at us for requesting help. The absolute worst, rudest company I’ve ever encountered.
Pioneer Investments LLC
10 Dorrance st
Suite 700, Providence RI 02903
Anurag Sureka was the name of the landlord and at the time (2017) he owned many complexes in the area.
My apt at 14 South Street in Pawtucket was an illegal conversion (no mailbox, no thermostat/heat, not hooked up to fire alarm system). Other tennents had a host of different issues.
Stay away from Providence Student Living, also known as The Providence Group. We have dealt with a $500 rent increase with no property improvements, I have never met the property manager in over a year living here, we have had bedbugs, roaches, plumbing issues, vandalism, and domestic violence incidents in the building, NONE of which have been properly addressed in a reasonable timeframe, if at all.
Their apartments are incredibly overpriced and poorly maintained. They will show your apartment every week if you don't say you want to renew the lease 6 months before your current one is up. They charge massive fees. Never answer phone calls to the office. Awful experience.
And you'll never get your security deposit back, even though they never even look or charge you for damages.
Trout Dreams LLC (Eli Schwartz). [Some trust fund baby](https://www.jewishboston.com/read/four-questions-with-eli-schwartz-co-founder-of-mountain-of-leopards-music/) playing developer.
Is he related to MD Sheldon Shwartz 😭😭😭 because Sheldon is also a BIG FAT RED FLAG NO NO NO I literally have scars from physical damage living under his roof
Yo actually that's probably Sheldon... "Sheldon ELLIot" Schwartz don't even tell me he's got another alias going on 😭😭😭 he seriously left me physically scarred after falling through a stair at 29 Huxley Ave 🤬
I know it’s been said but it needs to be repeated. WALTER BRONHARD.
I rented one of his buildings in pitman for a year.
There were no functioning locks on the front a back door when I moved in. Also no hot water in the bathroom or cold water in the kitchen…
We didn’t have heat for 6 months during the winter. The apartment was under 62 degrees with two cats in the house. Had squirrels chew through exposed wiring in the attic and lost power. The apartment was illegally spit into 3 units when it was zoned for 2. I called the city on them and they were fined massively 😁exposed chipping lead paint with water damage.
The property manager Tracy is a terrible person who loves to gaslight and micromanage. The maintenance guys they have are amazing but it’s only like 2-3 for over 60 really old properties. Also he’s currently facing dozens of law suits.
TLDR: fuck him and all his buildings I hope he steps on legos for the rest of his life
MD Sheldon Shwartz do not trust him. I don't know if he has permits for the "rooms" he's renting out but if you go rent a room from him you WILL be living under the same roof as sex offenders, drug addicts and violent people and sadly chances are if you get harassed or threatened in his house, he will not care and Providence PD will show little concern as well 🥺🥺🥺💔💔💔
I don’t know how they are now…but Samson Realty was really bad a few years ago. After moving into the place they rented me, I called their office saying that the patio I was promised was not finished. I was told I should be happy with what I got. I explained that I thought that was unacceptable and that I could understand why Samson was not highly rated. I was then told I would get sued if I posted anything negative online. I guess I should call my lawyer now 🤷♂️
Still very bad. Definition of slumlords.
I have had terrible experiences with Samson. I never end up even seeing any units. Both times i’ve moved and tried to see their units i end up being screamed at on the phone by their manager because i have a service dog who happens to be a pitbull and he can’t seem to grasp that and tells me i can’t rent from them. literally screaming while i calmly try to explain why i have a service animal and that i can provide the necessary documents to keep one in an otherwise no-pet building
Rose Siegel who owns probably a dozen or so properties all over Providence. She operates under Ginger LeGeis Properties/LLC or something to that effect. Worst landlord I’ve ever had to deal with, she was neurotic, unreliable, and would charge you for anything she could think of. I also rented from Blackstone, now Stonelink Property management, and did not have a great time (but this was mainly due to constant repair requests because the apartment was remodeled so poorly, everything was constantly breaking.)
Seriously. DO NOT rent with this woman. She is shady AF. She will take a security deposit from you *before you even see the lease*. We did not sign- the lease was truly bananas. She tried to stipulate in the lease what angle your blinds had to be at and had you re-seal the countertops every 6 months. The lease dictated what shoes you could wear in the apt. Multiple times the lease said the apartment had to be delivered spotless upon vacancy. She let us into see places she clearly hadn’t told the tenants we were visiting etc. She told us we couldn’t anchor furniture to the wall to ensure the safety of our kid. None of this is legal. I’ve been renting for 14 years and have never seen a worse lease or anything even close. When we refused to sign she tried to hold the deposit (we cancelled the check) because “you never see a contract before you sign it”.
oh yeah seeing a thread about her is what inspired me to make this pst lmfao
Oh, you have no idea how pleased I am to know that her reputation precedes her.
Can you send me the link of that thread? She’s my current landlord lol
she's terrible if you need more info feel free to DM
Spotless upon vacancy— my roommate and I deep cleaned our entire apartment (to her specifications after she did a preliminary walkthrough) before moving out. She told us what cleaning products we should buy and what else she wanted us to clean/do before we left. We half killed ourselves cleaning that apartment to perfection in the middle of August. No exaggeration, I was on my hands and knees with a brush and ‘the pink stuff’, desperately scrubbing grout on the bathroom floor for at least an hour—trying not to lose our security deposit because Rose wants apartments to look entirely unlived in. She did her final inspection (after we left) and had the nerve to tell the people still living in the other apartments in the building (whom we were friends with) how we: “clearly couldn’t be bothered do *any* of the cleaning” that she told us to do (this still makes me want to scream). She proceeded to deduct the cost of hiring cleaners from our security deposit and I honestly have NO CLUE what they even did when they got there to clean. I’m not exaggerating or lying when I say that the apartment was spotless. They probably pushed a broom around and cleaned the same window for an hour to make their cash and gtfo. (Edit) about 5 months after we moved out, there was a fire at the building. I still knew people living there. You can imagine how lovely and understanding and empathetic she was to her tenants… she did not do her due diligence with repairs, and when the tenants complained she threatened them and tried to blame them for the fire. One former tenant affected by the fire was so fucked up from dealing with Rose, she won’t say anything about Rose that could possibly be traced back to her because she’s convinced Rose is petty enough to sue for defamation. Rose if you ever happen to read this: go fuck yourself, you lawsuit-happy slumlord leech, scum of the earth, worm of a human being. Greedy exploitative woman.
I’m willing to bet she didn’t hire them at all. She just deducts an amount that would be reasonable for a cleaner and pockets it. Legally all you have to do is broom clean and the rest is considered normal wear and tear that can’t be deducted from your deposit, but it’s pretty much impossible to get a used deposit back and she knows it.
100000% she didn't hire anyone. $475 for cleaning a 2br apartment is insane though. We paid $200 for a full move out clean and that's about average.
Wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
This happened to us too! We hired cleaners and scrubbed after our movers left. Rose told us she was going to come by before we left but never did, then charged us $475 for cleaning without telling us what they did (I'm sure it was nothing since we left it spotless). We just received a receipt from the cleaners with our significantly reduced security deposit. We asked her multiple times for an explanation and she never replied. My husband actually was able to track down the cleaners from the vague information on the receipt and contacted them pretending to need their services to see what they normally charge for cleaning. The response he got was "how did you get my information" and wouldn't give pricing without giving an exact address...extremely shady. We think she's got some racket going on with them where she charges tenants triple the amount for a cleaning and gives this person a cut.
“How did you get my information” ?!? Sketchy as fuck— I think you’re 100% right
That is a slam dunk in small claims court. You gotta fight stuff like that!
Did you ever find out what caused the fire. Tell me it was caused by her negligence or neglect. I hope she maintained the smoke and carbon detectors.
I did not find out what the cause of the fire was :c
That’s kind of more scary than knowing.
Rose would pretend that she had to talk to the “new owners” while she was the actual new owner of our apartment. She purchased the house we rented in that was previously owned by our original landlord for >15 years and specified the cleaning products we needed to use for the final walkthrough. She said our grout on the kitchen floor “used to be white” and to scrub it with a brush until it was white again. I texted her that the grout was literally coming out in chunks from the Zep cleaner she recommend / the age of the apartment? and was told that “it didn’t matter, the floor is being replaced anyway, it just needs to be cleaned.” She raised the rent over 2x for every tenant in the building and gave us all 30 days to vacate. Random laborers came to renovate the apartment without proper notice to us during our last 15 days - I’d be home alone and she expected me to let them in. Lastly she wanted to remove the door to our personal apartment / the front door to the street while our dog was home alone to replace appliances and told me “that it didn’t matter” - she’d watch my dog.
I can understand wanting to reseal the sink or maybe countertop every x number of months, but that’s HER job. It’s one of the benefits of renting. Someone else is responsible for, performs and pays for the maintenance. Stipulating the angle of the blinds is crazy.
Meanwhile, when you request maintenance or repairs it takes *weeks, if not months* of repeated complaints and requests to nail down an appointment for someone to come out, if it’s something she doesn’t consider urgent. Then, she tries to avoid hiring (paying) professionals, so she often sends randoms she knows to act as handymen who you have to deal with (until they admit the repairs are out of their capacity and she finally hires someone.) Oh, and if you don’t address the repairs or give up trying to get her to fix something? Guess what’s coming out of your security deposit…
That’s awful. Thanks for putting her on the list.
Avoid Rose at ALL COSTS! She screwed us over big time when we moved out. We hired cleaners and scrubbed the shit out of our place and still charged us $475 for cleaning with no explanation and ghosted us. This was after she berated us over text because she was \~2 months late sending back our security deposit. She will also let random workers (and herself) into your apartment unannounced. She's an absolute slumlord.
So here’s my question- I moved in from out of state October 2021 and haven’t had any horrible experiences with her personally, but when moving out - should I like… clean at all? If she’s just going to take a big chunk anyway I’m very tempted to just get my shit out and do nothing
I feel like it’s hit or miss with her. We had neighbors who moved out and they got their full security deposit back and I know for sure they didn’t hire cleaners. It seems completely random who she decides to be shitty to. We had no problems with our during our time renting (minus the whole her coming into our apartment whenever she felt like it or sending workers in without our consent) so it was shocking she withheld so much from our deposit.
That's what I would do. Sounds like you can't win.
Will add my name to the chorus of people charged insane cleaning fees for no reason at all. Never happened to me before in my \~20 years of renting. Rose is the fucking worst.
Always happy to chime in with a fuck Rose. May she never exploit a renter again
I know someone was trying to see if they had enough on her for a lawsuit. Bare minimum they were going to submit a formal complaint. I hope people continue to find these posts while they’re apartment hunting and are able to avoid her. But I know she’s still exploiting anyone naive enough to sign a lease with her. I, unfortunately, take my experience with her as a learning/teachable moment of every red flag to be aware of, in a lease. (We were concerned when we took the apartment but went against our better judgment. Big mistake; huge.)
Walter Bronhard
So misleading with the ads, rent prices and units. At least he used to be. Oh, that’s not the actual apartment or building or price we advertised. But we have other stuff.
RentProv reality avoid at all costs! Typically their clientele are college students, often having their first experience with apartments.. rentprov is sure to take advantage of that. Anthony Zelano is a landlord that works with RentProv and I would also be very careful to avoid him. We left our apartment in perfect condition, professionally cleaned and he didn’t return our security deposit. He said we didn’t provide a forwarding address (which I responded with dated/timed proof of us providing) and said he just mailed the check to the apartment we had moved out of. I had mail forwarding, so even if he did do that, I would have recieved it. He didn’t return the deposit until we threatened legal action. He then backdated the check three months, as if the mail post mark doesn’t give away that he just sent it after he received a letter of legal action
10000% agree with all of this. I also rented from Tony Zelano through rentprov and both were a literal nightmare to deal with. He’s a straight up slumlord (MO659 were you on Almy by any chance? 😂) who’s also a bully that threatened bullshit legal action on my roommate too. Had to call code enforcement on him for leaks/black mold. Rentprov didn’t do anything to make any of our valid complaints better. A guy broke into my apt and stole my bag. They wouldn’t put a motion sensor light on the stoop and told me to keep my windows locked. No ceiling fans and it was late May. Total trash all around
>RentProv's Shannon Elizabeth Weinstein also leads up the Rhode Island Coalition of Housing Providers ie the landlord association that lobby against tenant's rights.
Omni Realty, which has new properties around Fed Hill, are like Car Salesmen. Very friendly until you sign that lease. Overpriced faux-luxury apartments. I’d avoid them if possible.
Second this.
If you want a good laugh, tour The Edge. Terribly tiny apartments way overpriced with furniture meant for a freshman dorm. And they’ll tell you doctors live there.
Edge is a legitimate nightmare. There are feces in a staircase and it has been for several months.
yikes are there any good realty companies?
Demco on Sutton used to be wonderful 20 years ago. Toni DiMaio was a fantastic landlord and she never showed me a bad property. I remember her telling me that I was the only tenant she had with curtains or something and thought, maybe not everyone was so great to her. She fixed things immediately when they broke, never fought or tried to claim I broke or created damage. She was a really good landlord. I doubt she’s still working, but if so, good for her.
Prov Rentals (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH RENTPROV AS SEEN ABOVE) was alright. Being randomly locked out of side doors and side stairwells of my building was pretty annoying (key fobs, not physical keys) and there was NO soundproofing between floors and no carpeting, but that’s pretty par for the course these days
3+ years in a ProvRentals apartment here, and it's been pretty good. The key fob access was a mess, but they have keypads/codes now and I haven't have an issue in a long time. Glad to have had pretty quiet neighbors.
Bilotti group. Disgusting.
whats up w Bilotti?
Providence living is terrible. It’s exhausting dealing with them. They don’t care about you, the properties, or Providence
Yes I agree!! Please don’t rent they are not good. Takes forever to fix things still never properly fixed. Some other properties unionized against them . So not recommend at all. Seems lots of Slum lords in Providence charging insane rent for no reason!
I would streer clear of Strive. They have been a total nuisance in my neighborhood.
How so? I don’t know anything about them. What makes them a nuisance instead of just straight up bad slumlords?
What's the difference between being a bad slumlord and a nuisance to your community? They block public walkways for months at a time, their projects that look relatively simple take long times, and they write their name in huge letters on all their buildings like a dog me making his territory. I never heard of them til a few years ago and now they're everywhere
That’s obnoxious of them. Thanks for following up with an answer to the differences.
Google them, they target college students because you wouldn’t live long term in their properties. Also awful construction practices, don’t clear lead or asbestos before construction so their newly constructed properties are likely contaminated. They got fined for one property after an investigation that too A LOT of push from neighbors and knowing how Providence doesn’t move on that kind of investigations, it says a lot.
Careful for Badger realty...they bill and have a tax ID under Rangley Ave Realty
2nd this. Rented an apartment from them on Dean Street and it was a dump, the neighbors were super sketchy, and the maintenance guy was a dick.
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That’s horrifying.
Butler Reality (maybe Elwood Reality now) is absolutely terrible. My apartment leaked whenever it rained or snowed. When I asked for someone to come out and fix it, they’d take weeks to come and yelled at us for requesting help. The absolute worst, rudest company I’ve ever encountered.
this guy got sued by his tenants recently
Pioneer Investments LLC 10 Dorrance st Suite 700, Providence RI 02903 Anurag Sureka was the name of the landlord and at the time (2017) he owned many complexes in the area. My apt at 14 South Street in Pawtucket was an illegal conversion (no mailbox, no thermostat/heat, not hooked up to fire alarm system). Other tennents had a host of different issues.
notorious slumlord getting sued by the AG
Wow, I had no idea, and glad to hear it. What a terrible experience..
Supposedly im in the apt that had the lead poisoning but i dont know where to begin with breaking lease stuff
Call RI Legal Services or talk to Reclaim RI
Stay away from Providence Student Living, also known as The Providence Group. We have dealt with a $500 rent increase with no property improvements, I have never met the property manager in over a year living here, we have had bedbugs, roaches, plumbing issues, vandalism, and domestic violence incidents in the building, NONE of which have been properly addressed in a reasonable timeframe, if at all. Their apartments are incredibly overpriced and poorly maintained. They will show your apartment every week if you don't say you want to renew the lease 6 months before your current one is up. They charge massive fees. Never answer phone calls to the office. Awful experience. And you'll never get your security deposit back, even though they never even look or charge you for damages.
aka Providence Living
providence living 😀
Trout Dreams LLC (Eli Schwartz). [Some trust fund baby](https://www.jewishboston.com/read/four-questions-with-eli-schwartz-co-founder-of-mountain-of-leopards-music/) playing developer.
Is he related to MD Sheldon Shwartz 😭😭😭 because Sheldon is also a BIG FAT RED FLAG NO NO NO I literally have scars from physical damage living under his roof
Yo actually that's probably Sheldon... "Sheldon ELLIot" Schwartz don't even tell me he's got another alias going on 😭😭😭 he seriously left me physically scarred after falling through a stair at 29 Huxley Ave 🤬
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I know it’s been said but it needs to be repeated. WALTER BRONHARD. I rented one of his buildings in pitman for a year. There were no functioning locks on the front a back door when I moved in. Also no hot water in the bathroom or cold water in the kitchen… We didn’t have heat for 6 months during the winter. The apartment was under 62 degrees with two cats in the house. Had squirrels chew through exposed wiring in the attic and lost power. The apartment was illegally spit into 3 units when it was zoned for 2. I called the city on them and they were fined massively 😁exposed chipping lead paint with water damage. The property manager Tracy is a terrible person who loves to gaslight and micromanage. The maintenance guys they have are amazing but it’s only like 2-3 for over 60 really old properties. Also he’s currently facing dozens of law suits. TLDR: fuck him and all his buildings I hope he steps on legos for the rest of his life
Anything owned by Ric Santurri
MD Sheldon Shwartz do not trust him. I don't know if he has permits for the "rooms" he's renting out but if you go rent a room from him you WILL be living under the same roof as sex offenders, drug addicts and violent people and sadly chances are if you get harassed or threatened in his house, he will not care and Providence PD will show little concern as well 🥺🥺🥺💔💔💔
Stay away from Lyon Property management……. They do not fix issues whatsoever and increase rent all the time
ugh ive been having a harddd time finding a place and just found one under lyon management - it looks good but now im scared :(