Meca Properties

Nonepointnone! STUPIDEST PHONE INTERFACE EVER! FOLLOWED ONLY BY THE STUPIDEST OFFICE HOURS EVER. Monday through Friday 9 – 5??? For showing properties??? Ex squeeze me? I baking powder??? Wanna see an available rental when you get off work? On a whim? Uh… No, cuz, you are an idiot to this company maybe instead of a potential client, hard to tell – cuz THEY’RE CLOSED!!! And… In a our vain attempt to get through the phone tree to get to «sales” – nothing about RENTALS anywhere on the phone tree (HEY DUMB A$$ES!!!) – the «sales»
voice mailbox was FULL. NO follow up message to any agents’ mobile phones nor anything. ATTENTION PROPERTY OWNERS! Skeptics? Try these knuckleheads at 5:03 PM… ORRRR… READ A FEW MORE DISGRUNTLED REVIEWS OF THIS COMPANY DISINTERESTED IN NEW CUSTOMERS!!!

I don’t even know where to begin with how horrible this property managment company is. They are not friendly, they don’t call you back, they act as if it isn’t their job to be the liason between renter and landlord, and they are super over priced. Oh and don’t leave a review on Better Business for them because they try to make you out to be the whiney bad guy and act like because they have been in the business for 30 plus years they have to be good at what they do.
I moved from Miami to Charlotte 2.5 years ago into a property they were a manager of. It was a struggle to get the property due to their lack of responsiveness, no less than 4 phone calls to just find out if the place was still availble. When it came time for me to pick the keys up the property was dirty. They told me I didn’t give them enough time between the old tenants moving out and me moving in to have their cleaning crew come out, I’m pretty sure 14 days is enough time to get it cleaned.
Now that it is time to move out, talk about the biggest struggle. Again mutliple calls to find out things and I never get a straight answer or a call back if I leave a message. I’m slightly terrified of how much they are going to take out of my deposit even though I will be leaving the place cleaner than when I got it and it is being demolished to make way for a mega home.
Please beware of how unprofessional, unresponsive, and money taking this company is.

We tried renting a condo through MECA and despite all of OUR efforts, we opted not to work with MECA. Every single staff member we spoke to seemed peeved we were interrupting their day. Sorry, do people normally just hand you over $ 20,000/yr without having a few questions answered first? The man who supposedly «handled» our account wanted nothing to do with us.
We had already paid a $ 100.00 application fee for the two of us, $ 50/​each, only to find out that they would only name ONE person on the lease. So, please tell me, MECA, why did we both have to pay an application fee? Nickel & Dime, Nickel & Dime.
This is one shady crew, alright. And I don’t have a better management company to even offer you. So far, they’ve all been dreadful. MECA was our first impression of Charlotte. Don’t let them ruin this town for you, too.

I have yet to find one positive review on MECA properties and it is now very clear why. I was a tenant and had to leave my lease early because we bought a house. I notified MECA immediately and began searching for a new tenant to take my place. MECA seemed to be okay with this. I found a qualified tenant in a matter of weeks and was able to get the place re-​rented very quickly. However, 30 days later, my refund showed up. I was stiffed $ 400+ from my deposit. A portion of that was justified. However, buyer beware. $ 250 goes directly to their «re-​renting» fee. You will get nickeled and dimed for every small detail you miss. At this point, I’m shocked that I received a refund at all. I was also charged for not cleaning when I, in fact, did clean. My particular property had mold issues that were never addressed, I constantly had to email about lawn maintenance and to this very day, there is a thick layer of leaves from last fall on the driveway because the owner is responsible for maintenance and never took care of it. Even after I emailed and asked. Worst renting experience ever. Unfortunately, I didn’t find out until too late. Do not rent from this company. They care about their bottom line and the property owners, not the tenants.

These people are ridiculous. They have several rental properties listed on zillow and hotpads but when I call to ask about it nobody answers or calls me back. I will then email the Property Manager asking about the property and he responds a week later and then tells me the property has been rented. Do not rent through this company, if I can’t get ahold of anyone to inquire about a house why would i rent through them?

I called a couple of weeks ago to inquired on a rental property that they had listed. The direct selection when you call just kept replaying the same automated message. So I finally press a different option and got a hold of someone. When I talk to that person about the rental property she told me that before I can go take a look at the rental property I must first apply online and pay the application fee; which is non-​refundable btw.
I verify with her a few times in clear English «So I need to pay for an application fee on a property that I have not even seen yet; that I don’t even know if I want to rent before I can see the property?» And she said yes with no hesitation.
On their site it states that you would pay $ 20 and can look up to three properties and then get the money back, but the representative had a different story and honestly I’ve never heard of anyone who would be stupid enough to pay a non-​refundable application fee to go look at a property they don’t even know they are going to rent.
It is sad how money hungry some of these property management places can be!

I might rate higher or lower had I completed their process. I visited Charlotte with the purpose of finding a house to rent in the $ 800/​month range. MECA had a few quality properties in this range. Their office was very clean and had a customer computer room where I could browse all of their possibilities before heading out to view them. They were well staffed and knowledgeable, eager to help.
In the end they didn’t have an ideal property available, but I will look their again next year when I consider moving from the house that I did find.