South Coast Property Management

I have lived at a small condo community since 1998, that Scott Smith has managed since 2003. In 2009 I lost my husband of 18 years, and 4 months later, my job of 16 years. We had a perfect payment record until a few years ago, even after the above mentioned losses. I fell significantly behind, caught up completely, then fell a few months behind again. Fast forward to today, when I stopped by to make a payment. Scott Smith comes out of his office and starts to lecture me in the most demeaning, personally offending, and disrespectful way. He proceeds to say he doesn’t care about my explanation — which by simply saying, he betrays that he does indeed — which I might add is an extremely dangerous and creepy way for a 3^rd party management company to be run.
This man is paid by our community to be an objective entity and is anything but. This is the second time in the last 4 or 5 years that he has literally yelled at me and even asked me to leave when I was only there to make a payment and did not take any step to engage him in conversation.
He also refused to give me the stamped receipt that I am always offered by his secretary. His exact words: «I don’t feel like going out of my way for you». I am appalled to the point of being scared to go back unescorted. Thank God for the voice recorder on my phone.
RUN — don’t walk — away from South Coast Property Management! I’m sure there is supporting information for this cautionary review if you poke around Google.
BAD BAD BAD, especially if you are a woman.

BAD BAD BAD (this is the second time I’ve been screwed by one of these types of companies… I guess I had to learn my lesson twice.)
My boyfriend and I were looking for rental homes in the Claremont, CA area over the past few months, and we saw a variety of ads on
that had «Mike» as their contact info. I called Mike numerous times, and after about two weeks, he called me back. We set up a time to meet in order to go over the «literally thousands» (his words) of rental properties that his company managed in the area. We met at his office, he printed out a variety of listings for us, and we gave him money to run a credit check. He then told us to drive by each of the properties, and look at a website for the new properties that were «listed every day». We were also told that, no matter what, they would help us find a place, and we would be contacted daily as new listings in our price range became available. We drove by each one, and their descriptions were completely inaccurate. We then checked the website, and realized that not only were the listings old (months old in some cases), and they were not updated every day, but also the «thousands» actually were much much less. We checked back every day, and waited for phone calls, and called for updates, and nothing came of it. Nothing was added to the website, and no one ever called to say anything was available (even though, miraculously, craigslist seemed to be getting new listings every day, that when we called about them «were just rented».) This company is a scam and everyone should be VERY careful about giving them any information.