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Matt Franklin
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Portland, OR
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Detroit Property Management Disaster

Matt Franklin
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Portland, OR
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So I purchased a "Turnkey" single family home in Detroit (specifically Taylor) last year. Things started going south almost immediately. Rents were late almost every month, then the renter decided to move out, and since then, it's gone from bad to worse. The property managers failed to remove garbage that was left in the yard, and I was issued a "notice to appear" in court as the owner of the property. 

Now I'm in Oregon, so clearly I can't pop out to Michigan to appear in court. I called the PM and was told they would go to court and get this managed by giving the judge the tenant's name and getting the violation re-assigned. Today I received notice of a default judgement, since nobody ended up appearing on my behalf.

On top of all of this, I just received another notice in the mail from the City of Taylor. This time it's for noxious weeds in the yard.

Needless to say, the property manager is NOT managing the property. So now I need to find a new PM. Based on semi-recent (within the last year or so) experience, can anyone recommend a decent property manager in the greater Detroit area who does even a marginal job managing single family homes?

Thanks in advance -- any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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