Ever hear of "Platinum Properties DMV"? Good/Bad? im

[Amiris Brown]

Have you ever heard of "Platinum Properities DMV"? I ask because they claimed to be 6 years old yet their website domain is only 5 months old (lying about how old they are is a glaring red flag to me). I'm wondering if they are reputable as they originally wanted $2K for the deposit for my fiancé and I. Now they want $4K for the deposit and only my fiancé will be on the lease, upon their request not ours. Sounds super sketch, even for the South East DC area and they don't even have their own credit checkers so they outsource to an automated TransUnion website form. Just sounds like another bad deal waiting to screw over anyone desperate to move as soon as possible. My fiancé feels desperate due to his axiety issues, but the reality is we will be looking at rentals this Saturday with the a recommended Realtor we were referred to. I think my fiancé is also freaking out now knowing that my identity has been stolen, but frankly my ID was apparently stolen as of 2011 according to the records I have looked at recently, and yet I've never had an issue getting past any requirements of the last two places I rented from — until we stumbled upon this incompetent management company in DC named Platinum Properties DMV where I had to go out my way each time to do their work for them after the TransUnion website kept insisting I had a house loan in NC lol when I've never been able to get a loan (frankly I'd like to meet this criminal who managed to get a loan with my horrible credit lol).

Upon viewing the rental the Realtor who was sent out to us by Platinum Properties even handed us the wrong rental application from a completely different management company too, thus we had submitted it to the wrong management company (we got the mix-up cleared and our money back). This company, Platinum Properties, just screams like a rip-off praying tenants involved (and maybe all other parties who knows, I don't want to stick around to find out), and while the current management company we are moving away from, due to them and/or the landlord not repairing the water damage and the mold that followed from the basement flood after the sump-pump failed, maybe insidious by letting their rentals go to cr*p so they can rip-off the landlord by gaining a sales commission here in the DMV area by convincing the landlord to sell after letting their rental get neglected with no repairs (I have seen other rentals from this management company and seen what they sell too lol, they use nieve landlords to get off-market sales), these people on the other hand at Platinum Properties appear to be so sloppy it makes me wonder if they are unprofessional criminals masquerading as a management company (the Realtor who showed us the house was very nervous and desperate to "sell us" on that lease, my fiancé seemed oblivious to this due to his inner mind workings, and that realtor even said stuff like "never give cash to maintenance" and that the repair people "are known to ask for that extra money from tenants in cash" even when there is no charges to the tenants). Like isn't that a bad sign if the only maintenance this Platinum Properties DMV management company got under contract are con-artist lol? I don't want any more headaches from this DMV area and their White Collar crooks — I certainly don't want to see my fiancé get his butt handed to him either, due to his gullible temperament. But hey, what do I know? That's why I need y'all two to weigh-in on this con-waiting-to-happen to both my fiancé and I over getting duped out of a false feeling of urgency to move (our deadline is 21st or latest the 28th of this month to start moving to be out no later than the 5th of Nov.).

Granted, I was the person who made the mistake of thinking our current rental that we are now moving from was a good deal, as I had no clue illegal rentals by slum lords breaking Code and evading property taxes was even an issue here in the DMV of all places. I also had no idea at the time that management companies would do more than management and so to have a funnel ushering unsuspecting landlords into a bind to force a sale out of them to then list it on the market (but I'm glad to have found this out before getting interested in Real Estate myself that's for sure, I can't say my landlord didn't deserve it – as he too is a crook lol falsely claiming the rental was his "primary residence" this entire time and thereby never registering it with the HOA here). Though, this past hard lesson has been learned by me, I'm now too sure if my fiancé comprehends it. I am now doing my due-diligence on freaking rentals of all things (totally worth just buying in this type of market here in the DMV, as tenants should NOT have to do their due-diligence because there should be regulations and enforcement of those regulations I cannot believe how crummy the DMV area is when it comes to high priced rentals with sub-par quality and service ugh).

Anyways if anyone knows anything about Platinum Properties DMV aka http://platinumproperties.co/ please let me know before my fiancé makes a rash decision (sadly, he doesn't always listen to me which is why I'm asking here lol ... it's a reoccurring problem).

Thanks