Traditions Realty

Don’t touch this place with a 100 foot pole!!! If I could give it less than one star, I would. They lie and are extremely uncooperative. Unfortunately, I rented a home from Traditions. The realtor was super nice in the beginning, but I guess that’s how they lure poor suckers in. The house was disgustingly dirty when I moved in with a midnight black tub, dirty floors that took 4 times to clean before my feet weren’t black, and 15 dead palmetto bugs littered all over the floor. When I needed repairs a couple of times, my requests were completely ignored for a month or so simply because the proper manager (Sacha) didn’t want to deal with a disgruntled home owner. He even admitted the reason for his delay was that the owner was angry because she had to pay for repairs that should have been fixed before renting. Traditions obviously did not do a background check on the home owner, because the month I moved in was the month the owner stopped paying her mortgage. Coincidence? All correspondence was forwarded to Traditions to relay the owner multiple times to no avail. I have since run into two other neighbors who had the same experience and specifically named Sacha personally in their discussions of horror.

I’ve had two encounters with Traditions– one might say that the company is bi-​polar in nature. After my first experience I’d describe Traditions Realty as manipulative, deceitful, and coercive.
I did give them another shot– mostly because I found a property I really liked and, as fate would have it, the place happened to be one of Tradition’s listings. I will say, that this time around, the realty agent was accommodating, transparent and really worked his bum off to find the perfect place for me, but… After I signed the lease, the bi-​polar nature of the company started to kick in; they were my best friend until they got my money then, all of that «going out of the way» to make things work went to heck. I’m extremely frustrated and worried that, since they’re managing my new rental, I’ll be SOL.
So, all and all, I’d say:
If you choose to go through Traditions, just know that it’s a gamble. It really depends on the people you’re dealing with, it’s a real box of chocolates with them, «you never know what you’re gonna get,».
I took the gamble, and chose to roll of the dice with them– just so happened that I ended up with snake eyes.

This realty has great listings in the Riverside, San Marco, and Murray Hill areas. My experience with the staff has been pretty good. When I first moved into the building they were managing, there were fleas, but they did take care of them. I would have preferred a higher sense of urgency in their response time, but the problem was resolved quickly enough. They have great listings and are definitely worth checking out, plus they have really good hours for those of us who have to work the normal M-​F (Open Saturday and Sunday.)

I have worked with three realtors from this establishment now, and I’ll say Ginny Greenland is far and away the best of the three; she wasn’t pushy, she made herself available and she gave me several options to choose from. The other two clearly thought that I was working for them, and couldn’t really be bothered to do their job. The first one gave us the wrong keys upon signing our lease and wasn’t able to get us the correct keys until the next day (incredibly inconvenient when trying to move!). The second one (a year later) sent me a copy of my lease, didn’t follow up for an entire week, and then when I contacted HIM to ask when I could drop by to sign the lease his response was that we «really need to get this wrapped up in the next day or so». Really, guy? All that aside, they always have a wide selection of properties for rent, and their site is easy to navigate. I’d probably use them again to find another rental, but I’d probably be specific about who I wanted to work with, based on my experience.