Hammer Real Estate

What a great group of people! Let me start by saying I moved to San Diego in 2013 and was looking for the perfect place to call home. After a short search I found exactly what I had imagined and decided to call about it. Janet Hammer was able to show me the property soon after the call and that was all it took, it was love at first sight! Moved in about a week later and made it my home. As a military member who has rented for almost 11 years now there are leases to sign and abide by. As a courteous tenant, if you treat the house as if it were your own then you can pretty much count on getting back the money you put into it moving in. I always believed if you treat someone with respect and gratitude then it will be returned. Hammer Real Estate were always very respectful as well as professional and honest from the very beginning. I had a great experience with Janet, Rose and everyone that is affiliated with this company. I want to thank them again for everything they did for me and making my time in Point Loma time that I will never forget. I hope to work with them in the future in finding another great place to call home!

Coming from someone in real estate and who was a tenant at one of their properties, this is a terrible property management company. They only sent landscapers about 6 times the whole year we rented there. We called and asked them to send an exterminator for the rats that were coming from under the house and they responded by dropping off a box of mouse traps.
THEY WILL CHARGE YOU A $ 195 CLEANING FEE REGARDLESS OF THE CONDITION YOU LEAVE THE HOUSE WHEN YOU MOVE OUT.
I found this out from multiple tenants who moved out. Don’t expect to get your full deposit back. They are nice on the front end, but absolutely skip on taking responsibility for maintenance while you are there.
Look for another property, it’s just not worth the headache.

This is the worst Property Management company I have ever dealt with in my life! Avoid them like the plague.
They are really nice when looking at the property and by telling you about all of the things they will do for you. They will check on this, they will let you know about that, they will do this for you, they will do that for you, it’s all fine… blah blah blah…
Then you hand them your security deposit and it’s like a 180. First of all, the security is a large sum of money — pretty sure it was one and a half times the monthly rent. Do the math — if you apartment is around $ 2000 that is a lot of money you need to come up with up front. Think in the neighborhood of $ 5000 that you’re handing them with your first month’s rent.
Then they are going to respond to NONE of your requests while you are living there. I asked several times for them to check on certain things. Phone calls would go unreturned. Emails would not be answered — except if Jennifer was in the loop. She’s the admin and she would be very quick to answer.
So while I’m there the garbage disposal was broken when I moved in, broke while I lived there, and was broken again when I moved out. I called a several times because the Hammer team tried charging me for the repair but Janet is never around and has no interest in returning phone calls. Seriously, who has time to call and call and call to get random charges reversed.
The best part is that once I moved out I was told that my place would need some painting, cleaning, and carpet cleaning.
The painting charge was $ 150, the carpet cleaning was $ 300 and the «janitorial» was $ 390. Are you kidding me with this? What a rip off.
Do yourself a favor. If you ever see Hammer Real Estate, RUN!!! Run like your butt is on fire and the nearest water is a mile away!

To update I also was charged over $ 800 to «clean». I was double charged for many things and ridiculous charges such as not cleaning behind the fridge. We also had issues with broken items that were there when we moved in. Despite several notifications we were charged when we moved out. Absolutely horrible.
Horrible. Do not deal with these people if you can avoid it. I have never had problems with a landlord before, and this company is the worst of the worst. They will be nice and inviting until you want your deposit back. They lie, break promises, and do everything they can to swindle you out of your deposit. I may sound bitter, but they are so difficult to deal with. Filed a civil suit against them because yes it’s really that bad