Beacon Properties

I hadn’t planned on writing any type of review for these guys, but this is the third weekend they’ve ordered contractors to come by before 10am to do loud, obtrusive work in our building without any type of warning. This time they started at 8am. On a Sunday. FFS.
It’s really bizarre, because I haven’t been able to get them to fix our broken heater for the past month, but they can get these guys in and working on tearing up carpet and replacing windows on Sunday at 8am. Outstanding work, guys.

Beacon has managed the apartment building where I live for the last couple years. They took over when our kind, gentle and reasonable owner could not take care of everything. We all pay way below market rate, and so we were terrified when they took over, some people were certain we were all about to get evicted. But it’s been the opposite, nothing but professional service, and our rent only went up a tiny little bit. Whenever I’m late with the rent, I get a really polite email from Linda in the office who is the epitome of politeness and respectfulness. Thank you Beacon. I’ve been in situations where the landlord was hostile and greedy and unreasonable, and it’s incredibly stressful to have your home threatened liked that. For some people it’s way more stressful than others, some can just move on and not sweat it too much, but then there are others like myself where home is everything.

My partner and i were looking at an apartment for rent. We had went to the open house, filled out an application, then they immediately told us to send payment of $ 25 each, which we did. Then as quickly as we sent the payment, the property was already rented out? If it was already rented out they should not have collected any money from us. And of course they don’t answer their phones and send delayed emails. Upon further reading reviews of this company, I am very glad we did not go through them. Don’t let these guys take your money or give then your bank information, like they ask.

The guys there are decent, understanding, good people. I lived in a property that they managed for almost 6 years, so I know as much as there is to know about them. They were always there when anything broke and after 6 years, they gave me 100% of my deposit back minus a few late fees that I had (understandable). Beacon is a good business.

I like that they let me find someone to replace me when I moved in with my boyfriend. Aaron was awesome about it!

Beacon puts up the numbers as far as being consistent, reliable and by a phone. While I do not expect my property manager to catch someone who vandalized my car, I do expect them to handle their business and work with tenants to make things right so everyone can enjoy their lives in rented spaces.
Managing property is managing people and unlike property people can be crazy. Aaron has a firm and realistic grasp of both, property and people– a small group of business handlers.

Yes, props to Aaron, our latest on-​site manager, who actually does his job unlike ALL of the previous managers. He is the first guy who I actually see around the property cleaning, sweeping, getting things done. And, as far as I know, he is the first and only manager that Beacon hired since they took over the building; prior to that, it was Landmark Realty and they were really horrible and so were all of the on-​site managers they hired. So at least Beacon knows how to staff their properties.
Now, on to Beacon and why they only get 1 star from me. To be fair, I’ve never really had issues with them before but recently, my new car was keyed up while parked INSIDE the parking garage. My first thought, after staring at the peeled back paint of my new car incredulously, was «well, thank God we have security video surveillance — catch the f*kers and make ‘em pay!» — since they obviously are tenants in the building (reason being — if my car had been broken into, it could very well be an outsider or an insider, but I doubt someone would take the time and effort to break into a garage just to key someone’s car, so I’m assuming that it was a tenant… probably some stupid little kid or some hater. Whatever — I live in Oakland…’nuff said).
But to my dismay, I was told that the video surveillance was installed but is not working at the moment (it is NOW, but this happened about 2 months ago, I’m only writing the review now) and hasn’t been for about 4 months. WTF! So basically, I was SOL. Also, they raised my rent by 6% earlier this year so a big EFF YOU to Beacon :(

They’ve recently started managing the building I’ve lived in and it’s been pretty good going. The manager, Aaron, is great. I’ve been having a problem with a neighbor who is off kilter a little bit and Aaron has been very understanding and has tried to work with me.
ONE MAJOR complaint about this place. Their maintenance people are basically ghetto hood rats. I spoke to a guy who goes by the name MR. GONZALEZ, and he argued with me about 10 minutes on why he didn’t have the time to replace my blinds and told me if I wanted it so bad, I should go and do it myself… lousy people to deal with.

the only good thing about the beacon properties is george, the maintenance manager.