Peninsula Company

Maria was really great. I hope all property management companies works like hers does. She’s super responsive, mostly by email which is great for us Silicon Valley people. She was very reasonable about doing things around the house, never gave us a hard time about anything and very importantly, let us treat the house as if it were ours. I will miss everything about the house, especially Maria!

Very responsive. Great landlord and housing experience. Positive management style.

I rented the 602 Heller St Apartment. Its a great place to live. Maria is very helpful and the house is well maintained. Its a great choice for single persons, close to Cal train, safeway and Target. Also the neighborhood is very nice.
I would like to give a special mention to Maria. She is very prompt in her responses. When I rented the house I did not had the chance to look it personally as I was flying from NY. But Maria made the move really very easy and I enjoyed my 10 month stay at the Apartment. Everything in the apartment works perfect !!.

Maria is an excellent landlord.
She is incredibly responsive to our needs often sending repairmen or taking care of the issue immediately.
She is a very kind, understanding person and I enjoyed having her as my landlord.

Our growing family used Maria for a refinance on our house and she comes highly recommended. I was looking around for an honest broker and contacted her after seeing her reviews. It was very difficult to find someone trustworthy after seeing all the mortgage broker hawks out there. I am pleased to say that we have finally found someone I would trust to take care of ALL our real estate needs, not just a refinance. Maria is exactly what everyone says NICE and TRUSTWORTHY! Finally someone who offers customer service and has integrity, is fast, is professional, intelligent and always responsive.
Maria helped us close our refinance just before delivering our first born baby girl and pushed to have the loan closed just before her birth to ensure we could start our family with peace of mind. She saved us more than $ 400.00 per month on our home loan and got us a refund for using her services. She was so honest and generous that she took a cut in the commission to ensure we got the loan as promised and consciously knew we would have more expenses with the new addition to our family. She also made sure the check was not just in the mail but she personally dropped if off in our mailbox so we had some cash in hand for the baby.
The best part of using Maria was she made us smile and that is just good old fashioned business that you have to love. I would contact Maria for any real estate transaction in the future and I think you should too!

I needed to find an apartment quickly for my relatives moving across the country. Maria went above and beyond, not only screening various apartments and finding the perfect place for my picky and demanding cousin, but also made phone calls to local elementally school so my little niece can meet with her teacher during spring break, which really alleviated her fears. Thanks Maria!!!

I’m writing this review as a property owner who has used Maria’s services to manage a single unit. I couldn’t be happier! Having her manage my property for me has not only saved me a lot of time, it once saved my vacation.
Maria has been in this business long enough to know exactly what she’s doing. She knows property owners want to maintain their property for the benefit of good tenants, but without any unnecessary expense. She also knows how to keep tenants happy and to attract and retain good ones.
When you hire on a property manager, you’re also hiring on their own professional network of handymen, plumbers, electricians, etc. This can save you time and money. When my tenants have had problems, they get on the phone to Maria, and she in turn already has a handyman in her «speed dial» who can take care of it immediately. If the expense is below a pre-​set threshold, I don’t even need to get involved– it just shows up on the spreadsheet at the end of the month that it was an item that was handled.
Maria’s use of good judgment and having her network at-​the-​ready actually saved my vacation on one occasion; we were in Maui taking a tour of hidden waterfalls, far, FAR away from any cell reception when the upstairs shower started leaking through the ceiling in the downstairs kitchen. If I didn’t have Maria at the helm back home, I would have had to try to find a plumber or handyman from a distance, and this would have been after my tenants got torqued off that they weren’t able to reach me for hours and hours.
Instead, what happened was it got handled after just a few quick phone calls, and my vacation was saved. Maria paid for herself many times over in that one incident.
Speaking of which, her fees are very reasonable, especially relative to what some of the larger management companies are charging for lesser services. She’s an excellent value!
Peace of mind, efficient handling of your property, and reasonable rates. I can’t recommend her enough!

I rented a studio apartment in redwood city from Maria. I had no problems with the place, and she was very responsive the few times I needed to contact her.
When I finally needed to move out, she found a replacement for me immediately, and let me out of my contract early so I didn’t have to keep paying rent after I was moved out. I also received my deposit refund very quickly.
I would definitely rent from Maria again.

I rented a unit from 2010 to 2011 that Maria managed.
Maria responds promptly to emails and voice/​text messages, typically within 1 day.
She made sure to contact me days in advance when she needed to drop by with a plumber to investigate a possible water leak.
Early on, I notified her of a problem with the water heater, and she promptly called a repairman and was on site when the repairs were done.
When I gave my move-​out notice, she quickly began searching for a new renter, placed them and was able to refund me part of the 30-​day notice rent.

Reliable property manager. I refer my clients to Maria and I hear only the best reviews. Everybody has been very happy.

Maria with Peninsula Company is the best landlord I have ever had, ever. She is attentive, resourceful, friendly and professional. She is seemingly on call 24/​7, flexible and refreshingly accommodating.
One night I was having trouble logging on to the apartment building wireless network, so I asked her if anything was the matter. She immediately responded that she was unaware of any internet issues, but that she would contact the other tenants to see if they were experiencing any problems. Once she heard back from a few of them, she decided to upgrade the building’s wireless service without hesitation. The problems stopped, and the secure wireless internet connection was still free of charge to tenants.
The on-​location manager, Shelley, is also very amiable. It’s so rare to find such a nicely run, pet friendly, stand up rental company. Renting from Peninsula Company was a real pleasure.

Rented from the Peninsula Company sight unseen because I was moving across the country and didn’t have time to visit. It turned out to be the perfect place at the perfect time, loved the location in Redwood City, and Maria and Shelley were very helpful and responsive whenever something came up. No problems getting the security deposit back, no funny business or hidden charges.
Shelley managing the property was really wonderful too — I miss her!

I’ve refinanced with Maria 3 times now. Yeah, so I jumped the gun once, should have waited, but nevermind that now.
She’s great. She responds in minutes, she takes care of all the minutiae, she’s nice and funny and friendly and working at all hours of the day.
This last loan was a pia — the banks have finally figured out they should consider who they’re lending money to… and have redoubled their bureaucracy! Her perseverance got me a stellar rate, despite a mountain of obstacles that the bank was putting up along with that rate. Lender wanted tons of paperwork — from insurance, employers, banks… every time some document needed amending, and instead of just telling me about it and waiting some more, Maria called the insurance, the bank, HR, over and over until she got what was needed from them.
Would (and have) recommend her to anyone for any service.

I rented from Peninsula Co. from mid 2007 to early 2009. I would pay double rent to go back. Maria was the best landlord I have had since I started renting in 1995.
**She responded immediately to every email I sent over 2 years and was always accessible by cell/​landline (even the week she got married, literally until the day of her wedding)
**Cut me slack when rent was late
**Turned blind eye to unauthorized improvements – only smiled and shook her head in the coolest way you can possibly imagine
**She did things that landlords just don’t do, like replacing lightbulbs inside unit, adjusting sprinklers, moving garbage
**Came in middle of 2008 rainstorm and raging floods to pile sandbags in waist-​high water
**Discreet. Didn’t knock on doors without emailing or calling, approach tenants to chat, or engage in any conversation about other tenants. Tenants who weren’t hanging around wouldn’t know she even came.
**Notified me of a rent increase months in advance and exchanged long emails about rental market, inflation, and basically her entire financial situation – all for about $ 100, and my unit was below market
**Sense of home/​community. I guess this was a lot of little things that added up, but it really made a difference. Usually I didn’t contact her beyond writing checks, but somehow she made it feel like home, and I know that other tenants felt the same way. There were never any issues, just peace of mind.
**One ex-​tenant called back to rent another unit, in another location. Whatever she had. Forget Craigslist! Everything else is like flying coach after having a Gulfstream jet. Maria provides the service of a billion-​dollar management company, devoted to your apartment.
** OK, here’s one negative thing. I spent 2 years telling my friends about how awesome my landlord was and how unworthy I was to be living there. No good landlord stories.