Kismet Property Management, LLC

01/24/12

Love my home

by Debbie3 at Citysearch

I have lived with kismet for about 3 years. I Love where i stay, it feels safe and thats a plus in my book , for i have kids that i have to protect. The property is well-maintained and the maintenance is handled in a timely manner.As long as i have lived with them, i have never had any problems. The staff is wonderful. They work with me to help me out if i needed any help. Overall I am a satisfied tenant..

12/29/11

Kismet Is Fantastic!

by Oliverio at Citysearch

I have been with Kismet for 2 years now and I have only the best things to say about them!! They have been managing my home and have done a fantastic job. They are hones, hard working and dependable. If you call the manager at any time he returns your call and always provides the best customer service. I would recomend them 100% and I think they are the best property management company in Memphis!

12/02/11

Rude. Irresponsible. Nasty

by sswoods at Citysearch

Stay far away from Kismet. The hot water in my apartment does not work. I wait upwards of 30 minutes for it to get warm- if it gets warm at all. I have had to boil water to wash dishes for 8 months. I call, they claim to be sending someone out. nothing gets fixed.

It took weeks to get them to come fix a plug that shot out sparks.

The ceiling in my bedroom is wet from a leak on their roof and they couldn't be less interested.

The people in the office are angry, thoughtless, rude and lack any sense of personal responsibility.

DO NOT RENT FROM KISMET.

11/04/11

Great Experience

by Marge23 at Citysearch

I find the negative reviews hard to believe. I have been leasing from Kismet Property Management for over two years and I have had nothing but excellent service and rapid responses to any maintenance issues or requests. I would recommend Kismet Property Management to everyone. The office staff is top notch and very professional and I love their tenant portal where I have the ability to pay online and send electronic maintenance requests to the office. Kismet Property Management gets a five star rating in my book.

06/19/11

Don't do it if you can help it!

by dunkt10 at Citysearch

First off let me say this, I think that it is very skeptical that about four 5-star reviews were written on this company in one day. Not a coincidence! Let's start at the beginning. When I first looked at the house, even though the house was in a fairly bad neighborhood the houses on the street looked decent and the house looked good. I think the first bad sign of poor management was that the door was unlocked even though no one was working in the house. I took a look inside and decided that if was decent enough for the price ($675/month). The assistant in the front (Lisa) was the type of person that would put on a facade for clients to get them reeled in but she was actually pretty rude from there on out. We were told by Marvin that we could move in Labor day weekend and then we could sign the lease at the house instead of waiting and going to the office after the weekend. This was the 2nd mistake. We booked U-Hauls and had cleaned out our previous residents ready to move in all to find out that Marvin had not considered that that particular weekend was a holiday and that he was going out of town. After going back and forth with him about us getting keys to the house as he promised he finally called a maintenance man and got him to give us a key even though we would not have signed a lease at the same time. Once we got in the house their was no refrigerator. The utility bill was sky high in the house b/c we had to keep the thermostat down on 60 for the house to even be cooled to 75 degrees. After submitting a letter of things we wanted fixed, it took a while for us to get anything fixed. They only fixed some things and said that we would have to fix other things b/c the manager would not pay to fix it. This process took weeks after we moved in. Back to the horrendous air problem. After suffering through the rest of the summer, we were finally told that since it was about to get cold they would not worry about fixing it until it got back hot again around March '10. I complained that we would have the same problem during the winter with the heat because there was only 1 small unit that was responsible for air and heat. They would not be moved on their decision insisting that the heat would not be affected. But as I thought, the heat did not warm the house to a comfortable temp unless we kept it on 85-90 degrees. Our MLGW bill was 400-500 a month for a fairly small house. Now lets talk about the maintenance men. They had 1 main guy that would bring his cousins and friends to help him fix things or though it seemed that way. I'm sure he was not certified to be doing half the things that he was doing. Lets skip toward the last 3-4 months. My ceiling sprung a leak and things were falling from the it. Of course it took them days and days to come out to look at it. They did something but did not fix the problem so the ceiling continued to leak. They NEVER patched the ceiling back up or painted even after multiple calls and visits to the office. One time I went to the office because no one was returning my call or responding to my needs as a tenant and when I got there I saw a group of the "managers" and maintenance men going to the pub next door to their office. When I got inside the rude ass lady, Sarah, said that their was no one their for me to talk to because they were at a "business luncheon". BS! And of course again no one called me back to address my issues. I have plenty of horror stories that I could tell but I think just one more would suffice. We wanted to get the hot water heater checked out. When the maintenance men got their they didn't fix our problem but caused another one. Apparently, they had messed with the gas line and caused a leak. That night when we got home the house was filled with gas and we had to call MLGW. THIS COMPANY IS NOT WORTH THE HEADACHE! PLEASE STEER CLEAR FROM THEM UNLESS YOU ARE A TENANT THAT IS USE TO LIVING IN SUB-PAR CONDITIONS! HEED MY WARNING! THEY ARE INCONSIDERATE AND MONEY HUNGRY!