Providence Management & Investments

My fiancé and I just moved here from Maine. We were working with PMI before we arrived. We made the mistake of signing the lease before seeing the property (a friend had walked through for us, who lived in the area, but he did not inspect the property closely).
Before signing the lease I asked if it has been cleaned. They assured us it had been cleaned.
We walked in and both our hearts sank. The place was dirty and it smelled. The stove/​oven had caked on crust/dirt.nothing had been wiped down, crumbs on the floors and counters. Toilet bowls had brown water in them, etc. we brought it to their attention. They apologized and said they would speak with the owner (did not hear back that day).
The next day we came back onto the property, as we had slept elsewhere, and to our horror there were fire ants in 5 out of the 7 rooms! They were coming in through the back walls. They had found the small bowl of cat food we had left out for our cats. We walked around the property and saw 5 extremely big ant mounds. We were truly mortified. I had one ant on my finger and it hurt like the dickens.
We ran back to PMI and told them the property was uninhabitable. Who knows what it would take to get rid of those ants for good. We wanted out of our lease.
We prayed and thank goodness they agreed. They let us out of our lease and now we are living in an adorable home with awesome landlords nearby. All brand new appliances. No ants to be found anywhere!
We learned our lesson. You have to do your homework. We will never sign another lease without thoroughly inspecting a rental inside and out.

I’ve never been a landlord, but had to rent out my house when I took a job in another city. So far they have made it easy. Rates seem reasonable and they are easy to work with. I get my rent check every month and I really don’t have to worry about anything. When there is repair work to be done the rates are reasonable and probably cheaper than if I had scoured craigslist to find some random guy to fix whatever is broke. I wish that the people I rent my apartment from would be as fast to fix things as providence is at fixing things on my renters house.

The guy who runs this business Josh Fannin is an extremely shady and manipulative guy. He will charge you for stuff that has already been broken and when you ask him to mail you a check for the deposit he will deduct the money without even consulting you. I had a horrible experience with this guy and his company and even my room mates and my apartments had the same problem later on. He will ask you to move in, but he will charge you for stuff thats already broken so make sure that you check everything and have it in writing.
Lastly that guy Josh Fannin is extremely rude and unprofessional. If I knew better, I would never rent an apartment or buy a property from these guys.