The Hartman Home Team

I had a bad experience with this office. I felt they were less than honest on just about every level.
Don’t expect a return phone call unless your a multi million dollar client. Like another reviewer, I was passed from person to person. Finally called it quits.

My realtor at the Paula Hartman team helped me find a new tenant for my condo. My realtor encouraged me to lower the rent by about 200.00 for the new tenant. I trusted my realtors expertise and believed the unit would be hard to rent quickly had I not lowered the rent, I agreed to a 3 year lease below market value even though I was taking a loss every month. Halfway through the lease I found out that my new tenant is my realtors mother! Neither my realtor or Paula Hartman disclosed this relationship to me, in fact they went out of their way to hide it. I consider this unethical and a conflict of interest. I found out when a third party tipped me off, I immediately called Paula Hartman expecting her to be shocked and apologetic. Instead she argued that it wasn’t a big deal and that my realtor didn’t do anything illegal. My next surprise — my realtor is Paula Hartman’s son-​in-​law.
I have since contacted an attorney as well as the NJ Real Estate Commission and they encouraged me to file a complaint which I did.

I overheard a conversation at a table next to at dinner. Seems like other people have had the same experience.

Paula is the most HELPFUL, HONEST, HARD WORKING realtor I have ever met. I have bought 100s of prpoerties in my lifetime but no agent goes to bat for you like Paula!!!

Love to leave a note about the wonderful help I received from Hartman specifically from a sweet young lady named Ashley Frankel. She was energetic and her vibrant enthusiasm to help find a place for me to live was refreshing. I felt special even though I was only looking to rent. It didnt matter to her that I wasn’t looking to buy a home at this time. Her diligence in returning calls and going above and beyond to satisfy all of my needs was very refreshing because I can be a bit fussy.
Ilook forward to working with her in the near future as I am planning on buying a home.
Many regard Ms Ashley with that attitude you will go far. Thanks again for all of your help.

Attempted to use them to obtain long term rental several years ago… being new to the area we attempted to speak with Miss Paula but she could not be bothered. She dumped us on a summer employee in his early 20’s who had not seen the ball since kickoff.
So we ultimately bought a property with another agent. As luck and the the very small world of South Jersey would have it, Miss Paula later actually brought an ‘offer’ when we sold that property. Her lack of professionalism and tact was staggering. We weren’t so much insulted by the absurd low ball offer; we were insulted by the fact that the buyer’s agent was alleged to have insulted our neighborhood and town (both of which the agency markets heavily).
I don’t want to come off as though I am shilling for some other firm (See the obviously spam fake review dated 9÷20÷10 regarding this same realtor) but there are many other reputable and hard working firms that are interested knowing and attempting to do what is best for you.