Devoy Development

After coming across negative reviews for Devoy Development, I thought I would offer a review about my experience. I had no problems at all. Joe was very professional with me from the day I signed the lease til the day I handed him back the key. No problems with my deposit either.

I’ve rented houses and apartments for over 10 years in various cities and states. Devoy Development is the only landlord I will never, ever recommend to someone. Aside from making up bogus excuses to keep my deposit, he also gave access to my home to other people on more than one occasion without my permission. From reading other comments, it sounds like this is common practice for him.
I won’t get started about the thousands of dollars I had to pay to remove bedbugs from his rental property.
If you decide to rent from this company, do yourself a favor and get a cardboard box to live in instead. You’ll have more privacy and won’t have to waste your time writing a bad review on Unilocal in a year.

Joseph Dubuque is dishonest and unreliable. He let a new tenant move into the property I was leasing days before my lease expired and did not refund me for the rent. He took double rent, which I now know is illegal.
He also will attempt to keep your security deposit. Make absolutely sure you document everything. He is a scam artist that banks on the hope that you won’t do anything about trying to get it back.
He is unresponsive with maintenance emails. DO NOT RENT FROM HIM. You’ll save alot of time any money renting elsewhere.

If Unilocal offered the option of negative stars, that would be appropriate for Devoy Development. They did not address maintenance issues in a timely manner (ie, not at all). Very disturbing (and illegal), they entered my unit without notifying me… on two occasions, once leaving my door unlocked and standing partially open. Thank goodness for observant and honest neighbors!
Extremely unprofessional. Do not believe a word that comes out of Joe Dubuque’s mouth. Dishonest and unprofessional can not begin to describe his work «ethic».
I have rented for much of my graduate and professional training and never had problems with other owners or management companies. If you want to simply get what you paid for, have honest dealings with a manager who will take responsibility for issues/​repairs and follow through, please save yourself the trouble and go with another management company.

Joe, the owner, does not follow through when he says he’ll do things — I needed a plumber and he never responded to my requests for help. He also took over 3 weeks to return a deposit check to the owner of the condo that he was leasing for said owner — the owner lives out of state and has to find someone to inspect the property prior to being able to send the deposit to the former tenant (and this was after he told the owner he would do the final inspection himself). His company has gotten much too big for him to handle and I don’t believe that he has hired the right people to do the job. You can do better leasing from, or via, Joe and co. Devoy Development just can’t be trusted.