Central Pacific Realty

These people are a bunch of crooks. I was part of a group of five students (seemingly easy targets, I suppose) who signed a one year lease with them. This was on the agreement that, amongst other concerns, a heavily leaking pipe would be fixed (in addition to resulting damage) before we moved in. Lo and behold, a month later it had not been fixed and mould, rot, and sagging drywall had taken over the house.
We demanded our deposit back on the grounds that the house was not in the condition promised (unliveable, actually). So began a legal battle where this company attempted to use threats, forgery, and lies to intimidate us into submission. For example, they submitted — as evidence! — a forged letter from the City of Vancouver stating that our health and safety concerns were unfounded. A roomate took the letter to City Hall and confirmed it was fake (and on letterhead from the 80s… nice). They also submitted an altered photocopy of our lease agreement to which they had added a section where we «agreed» to, on our own budget, repaint the house and add locks to the interior doors (since we were a mixed group of male and females, apparently). Too bad we had kept the original! They also threatened to charge us for cleaning (the previous tenants had left a lot of trash behind which we luckily had photo documentation of), but in the next sentence threatened to have us arrested if we ever returned to the property. And these examples are just the tip of the iceberg!
They continuously appealed judgements in our favor, added more false documents and stories to their pile, and increased the amount of money they were asking for based on those lies. They even threatened to take us to the Supreme Court of BC. Eventually, though, they realized they could never win and hired a «mediator» who tried to get us to agree to drop all charges and walk away. That wasn’t going to happen either, and after months of frustration we finally got all our money back (plus a bit extra).
We did win, and we did share some laughs over this agency’s feeble attempts at legal procedure. Overall, though, this experience was draining and unnessecary. I would strongly avoid taking your time, money, and trust to a more deserving company.