10/21/09

Don't let them handle your properties!

by DonaldMT

My wife and I own some rental property. We made the mistake of answering one of their postcards for property management. They boast a low vacancy rate and "proven procedures". What a joke. We''ve had more headaches than managing the properties ourselves.

Ineffective vacancy marketing results in low ball rents. They have to rely on craigslist and even then viewer has to call their dead end phone system. Try calling one of their ads yourself and see if you can make any sense of it.

Another thing is my wife and I always are professional and treat our tenants with respect. Unfortunately this is not the case with Oishi's. We decided to drop them after some of our tenants contacted us and complained about poor and rude service. A good lesson for us. We were lazy and did not do our due diligence checking out the company. How this company survives is beyond me.

08/27/09

Concerns about Oishi

by ChrisHawaii

I can't speak about Oishi's treatment of renters, but I can share my experience with trying to get one of their properties. I attended what was described as the first showing of a property. But there was already one woman allowed inside the property before the rest of us entered. I was the first in the group to offer my application (and my wife's) along with the $20 application fee per adult ($40 total). I believed that I had a pretty good chance of getting the property, since I was the first of the group of people attending the first showing to hand over my applications and fees. They said that they would make a decision the following day. The next day, however, I never received a call. Other property management firms had already accepted my offers on more expensive properties. I contacted my references (university, employers, banks, previous housing managers, etc.) and discovered that Oishi had never phoned them to collect information about me. No use trying to call Oishi, because their phone system is automated--you won't reach a live human voice. Given that Oishi never attempted to confirm my financial eligibility, I am left to assume that they knew on the day I gave them my application and $40 that the property was already going to someone else. Yet they accepted my applications and fees anyway. Some business they have going on there.

But after reading the many complaints about Oishi's treatment of tenants, I guess I might have saved myself many future headaches.

• Pros: Nice property
• Cons: Who do they rent to?

06/22/09

Sounds no different than other rental agencies.

by SamIam

The grounds are kept up surrounding the apartment building and the person we may be renting after has not mentioned any complaints. Yet this person does sound very familiar. He could be anyone of a number of slum landlord representatives that we have known. If you have rodents call the department of health! They will call the landlord.

Tried this once at work for the dirty employee break room. It was clean the next day.

• Pros: We are considering renting from them
• Cons: Will let you know