Nevo New York

Top winner of the «WORST SERVICE» award!!!
To get an apartment I paid 2 months rent + 2 deposits. They charged me $ 500 hidden fee. I am waiting for my countersigned lease agreement for about 2 months already…
About my experience:
1. Shower didn’t work (as I learned later).
2. The mirror in the closet was cracked (I learned later about it as well)
3. The ceiling was leaking.
Every time I was trying to reach the management, the procedure stretched my nerves to the point of braking. The management and the agency tend to ignore me. Literally… They don’t pick up their phones, they don’t reply to my emails… I hate this lady the most — Zina Gabriel… AVOID dealing with her and her colleagues!!!
The service of this agency is worse than services in developing countries… These people certainly have no self-​respect…

I don’t understand how these apartment finders (brokers) are able to come to work dishonestly screw people over in the dirt with a clear conscience? This was the first time ever giving into a $ 500 «processing fee» which I thought was fishy but agreed to it after seeing 1 of the apts Mia showed. What they do is tell you that you are approved even though they have ridiculous stipulations and enormous deposit expectations even if you have decent credit. What they are doing is wasting people’s precious time from taking off work off, taking cabs over, spending time in their office, getting money going back and forth only to give you the run around. These guys are playing a bidding war amongst each other and will take up w/​the one’s willing to pay more than what was advertised from their craigslist posts. If your looking to fork over a full years worth of deposit just to stay in Bushwick, cut your losses now. We ended up finding a much bigger and better place for a little less in Harlem than what these guys had to offer and we didn’t have to break into a 401K just to appease the «landlord». My suggestion is for these guys is to get a real estate job and look to serving the 2% only interested in condo’s and quit treating moderate middle class with the same expectations. There a perfect example of the bad happening in Brooklyn right now. And judging by these reviews I’m not surprised I had the same experience. A quick google search might’ve saved me the time, energy and money I wasted dealing with them.

STAY AWAY FROM THESE SHADY GROUP OF PEOPLE !!!
Jennie, Zina, Jessica — they managed to trick me and rented me a new apartment with so many latent defects that I can’t even count on my fingers. They don’t care what they renting and they don’t care about providing a good service.
I had to move out from my new place 2 days after since the place had extremely bad insulation, no pressure in hot water and no gas was setup. It was so cold that I couldn’t even sleep there. They would not mention this when I was checking the place.
Canceling the lease was a circus, Jennie was a real witch, she was very rude and offered me one month rent back, as if I wasted her time. I had to get a lawyer to get my money back. Canceling lease agreement was also shady, the agreement was prohibiting me to talk about them bad. My lawyer basically had to rewrite and correct the agreement.
If you would like to see my all problems in my new apartment at 352 Monroe, Brooklyn, please visit this link below.

This agency is the embodiment of a yeast infection, just when everything seems right you get down to the business and all of a sudden you get a whiff of something truly foul.
It all started when we dealt with Mia, an absolutely useless human to say the least, who agreed to show my partner and I a space in Bushwick. About half way to our meeting spot, she calls and informs us that the price for the apartment had risen 400 dollars. I fume, pout, and boil for a moment, yet agree to meet her and see the space. Mia then displays her broker prowess by displaying to us how not to open a door with the keys that were provided to her. I ended up trying to open the door with a card, toothpick, paperclip, and other ridiculous tricks. She tells us how sorry she is and THEN tries to pimp out other apartments she has in her stable. ¹⁰⁄₁₀ bait and switch, bravo.
More awful things transpired that I’m currently in the middle of, but please, please for the love of jah, don’t deal with these people. It’s in fact bad for your health, like a yeast infection.

DO NOT TRUST THESE BROKERS! SAM, MIA, and ZIMA are nothing but con artists
Hopefully my experience can prevent others from losing their money to this joke of a brokerage.
My first impression of Nevo was through MIA, one of their brokers. Mia started off by pulling a bait and switch on an apartment I requested to see. I walked all the way from Greenpoint down to Bushwick and when I got there, was informed that the apartment was $ 500 more than the listed price. In addition, she couldn’t get the door open.
I found the same place listed on another website for a different price and called the number, this time reaching SAM. Sam, took us to the apartment but also failed to open the door. Instead, Sam showed us the basement (which was irrelevant) and tried to sell us on other apartments in a different neighborhood that we had no interest in seeing. We finally got inside to see the apartment and immediately fell in love. We explained our situation to SAM who seemed very eager and reassuring that the landlord would be willing to negotiate the price down to what it was listed for online.
We applied with great credit, financial security and more than 40x rent in salary. After waiting days, calling morning and night to request and answer, we find out that we had been rejected. Baffled, we inquired how that could happen. Turns out that the landlord was none other than the broker/​con artist SAM who never had any intention of approving us for the apartment but still making off with our $ 500 deposit and $ 100 credit check fee.
Do not trust, do not give them a cent, incredibly unprofessional, I CAN NOT SAY IT ENOUGH! Apartment hunting is a stressful and sometimes nightmarish undertaking and it is because of sleeze-​balls like Nevo.

I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND these people. THEY ARE TOTALLY SHADY. They love to do the bait and switch (post pics of an apartment that is not actually available and then show you another), they will say «no fee» and then you go to sign paperwork and turns out there is a $ 500 fee that they sneak in, and they also tell you that you only need first month and security to move in but then after you qualify, they change it and say you need to pay the last month’s rent up front as well. For NO reason at all.
It also took over a week to get our application approved – that’s when they came back to us and changed the money required to move in. We had more than enough credit and income to qualify so there’s no reason that we should have been required to pay more up front. And they honestly couldn’t give us a reason for it. At that point we were just tired of them screwing us around so we told them forget it and asked for our money back (we had to give them the first month’s rent even though the application hadn’t been approved yet). I’m supposed to pick up the check for my money back tomorrow – we’ll see how that goes.
Oh and also, putting down the first month’s rent as a deposit was supposed to guarantee that the apartment would be taken off the market and that they would not show the apartment to anyone else. However even after we paid the money, I found the apartment listed on Craigslist anyway. SHADY!!!
I would give them zero stars if I could but Unilocal doesn’t give me that option.

Terrible terrible experience. It was my first apartment search after living in the dorms throughout college. We didn’t have much time to look and jumped on this apt after seeing it. It was completing a total gut renovation, had shiny stainless steel appliances, a dishwasher, central air – what could go wrong? On paper the apt was perfect. Working with Nevo turned out to be one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had and easily the worst year of my life. To start, there are TONS of hidden fees to make up for their «no fee apts.» The quality of their buildings is shit. Whenever my above neighbors were home, it literally sounded like a herd of elephants rampaging through the jungle. I could hear every word of their conversations and every line from their tv as if they were in the room with me.
The owner of Nevo and all the buildings they rent is a complete crook (as are all his employees). I dreaded speaking to him whenever something in the apt needed fixing because he would start yelling at me on how I actually broke XYZ when it was never properly installed before we moved in to begin with! Prime example: the bathroom door was a hair misaligned, which was obvious on the hinge side as there were gaps. This made the door very difficult to close fully, and we found ourselves pulling so hard that the door knob was hanging by it’s last screw. Plumber came to fix a different problem, but agreed that the door was improperly installed (something he had seen before). Immediately called the landlord on speaker so we could both speak to him. Again, he started yelling at me, blaming me for taking showers that were too hot and too long, and the humidity was causing the door to expand. Uh, no. The plumber backed me up, insisted it was the contractor’s mistake. At this point, the door was also splitting and splintering. Eventually, the hinges were somehow moved so that the door closed, but now it was a broken door closing.
Example 2: it took the landlord NINE months to install the mailbox. Nine months. In those nine months, the Postal Workers would toss the mail at my doorstep (it was a townhouse situation and I was the ground floor, so had a separate entrance). My roommate would literally wipe her feet on the mail, so it was clear if I didn’t distribute mail to my neighbors, they would never get it. Probably took another two months for the post office to actually put a lock on the mailbox unit (previously anyone could walk up and open the entire unit). A lock is good! But then we quickly realized we had no way of putting our rent checks in the landlord’s box. His genius solution? Taping envelopes clearly marked «RENT PLS» on the wall. Yeah, not putting my very expensive rent check in an envelope taped to the wall where anyone could have walked off with it.
Once I was getting ready to move out, that’s when even more issues started. About three weeks from my lease ending, realtors started dropping in round the clock. Sometimes announced (if I was lucky), more often totally unannounced. It became very clear quite quickly that they didn’t give a shit about me nor their clients. Sometimes six different realtors would show my apt in one day and they still couldn’t rent it. The smart people asked me questions and i wouldn’t hold back. The realtors would try to bullshit some excuse as to why it took so long to install a mailbox or do XYZ, but that’s all it was, bullshit. Then I had to email and call several times a week for SIX weeks before I got any type of answer regarding the security deposit refund (which was almost $ 3000 each!). It magically showed up on the 29^th day after I had moved out, otherwise I was about to sue for breaking the lease. But during those six weeks, the operations manager (I think Zina? She is 100% useless by the way) would continually pass me off to other people because she had no idea or claim to need to check with the landlord. Well guess what, I’ve also spoken to the landlord and he’s telling me I need to speak with you. Get your shit together.
I could go on for days about the poor management, terrible quality, utter lack of consideration and overall awful attitudes.
TL;DR Nevo is run by an Israeli crook and filled with even more Israeli crooks who are just after your money. Do not work with them under any circumstances.

We had an okay experience with them.
Although they list their apartments as no fee, they do charge a $ 500 processing fee. One of their Craigslist listings was incorrect (said it had a backyard but it didn’t), but both brokers we met with (Daniel and Michelle) drove us to look at a few more places.
The application process was easy and straightforward. I did keep in contact to see where we were at with the approval process.

DO NOT USE THESE BROKERS TO FIND AN APARTMENT IN BROOKLYN. Ever. They are shady, they have hidden fees, they are unfriendly and what they are doing is probably illegal. Here’s my experience with them:
Found a dream apartment in Ridgewood with 3 other roommates for incredibly cheap. The broker that showed the place told us that it would be a $ 125 deposit, $ 50 application fee and $ 125 brokers fee after we signed for the apartment. That’s all. They also told us that we’d need 2 guarantors and we’d be good for the apartment. I know, too good to be true, but we bought it, because we’re all stupid kids in our mid-​20s.
So we gave Nevo our $ 125 deposits and $ 50 fees. When we come in to the office to pay up, they spring it on us, against their original word, that we EACH need a guarantor for the place and also had to pay a $ 120 non-​refundable fee on top of that to do a credit check on them. That’s 4 guarantors for 1 apartment. A little bit ridiculous, but we still did it, because the place seemed so perfect otherwise.
Over the next week, we got all our paperwork in. My 2 roomates got all their guarantor fees in. I admit, I didn’t pay the guarantor fee because I didn’t want to put any more money down until all our roommates were caught up with our deposits and we formally had gotten the apartment off the market. Once we were all set (or so I thought), I sent Zina, the girl who works there, an email to make sure we were all good and that the apartment off the market.
Then, in my email inbox, there was this: A message that we still needed to pay another $ 2800 dollars (2 months rent) to the landlord, just get the apartment off the market. They had something about a deposit in writing on the application, but I thought that we had covered that with the $ 125 we put down on the spot. Apparently not. Now they wanted more. It’s clear that they were courting other potential tenants while they were taking our money.
I was furious. We were blindsided with the final fee. My roomates and I made the collective decision that this was incredibly sketchy and that we were going to pull out of the apartment. I figured I would lose their bogus $ 50 application fee, but when I went in to pick up my original $ 125 deposit, this is what happened:
I come into the office asking for my deposit back. Showing my receipt for the amount. Zina told me that «the guy who writes all the checks went home» but that she’d be sure to send me the $ 125 the next day. Very nice. I was a little irked that I was wasted all that time, but I was fine with that, and I left.
So I called again this morning to double-​check on the status of my refund. And Zina, the girl who I’d been talking to through all of this goes, «Well, you never paid us the guarantor fee when you applied, so you actually owe US $ 120»
WHAT THE F**K. So I went in to get my $ 125 deposit, that was supposed to GO TO THE LANDLORD FOR HIM TO KEEP THE PLACE OFF THE MARKET (which he didn’t) and they say I owe THEM money, because they ran a credit check on my guarantor before we even confirmed that we wanted the place. And before they had made us fully aware of the fees that they were going to charge us.
I tried begging for the money. I tried telling them that we were blindsided. And apparently, I’m in debt to THEM. Seems really sketchy how nice and lovely they were in person staving me off, but when the time came to pay up they’d thought of that excuse.
I GOT FUCKED OVER $ 165 FOR AN APARTMENT NEVO CHARGED US HIDDEN FEES FOR AND THEN WE NEVER EVEN GOT BECAUSE THE HIDDEN FEES WERE TOO HIGH. I THREW $ 165 AT CROOKS.
These people should not be in business. They are greedy. They are dishonest. They are the quintessential awful Brooklyn Brokers that you hear horror stories about. I wish I had looked at this Unilocal page to see how criminal these people actually are.
You have been warned. Craigslist is better than this.

Finding the right apartment can be a nightmare, especially in NYC, but I knew from the moment I met Mia that she would make it an easy process. She seemed like the type of person who could get things done, no matter what, and proved it when she was kind enough to drive me around from space to space. Did I mention the torrential rain? That didn’t stop her.
I knew the first space she showed me was the one, but it was a bit over budget so I decided to keep looking. She showed me some other spaces, all of which were nice. Ultimately, she was able to find an affordable unit in the same building as the first one that I really liked. Within a couple of days, I was approved and started to move in.
It was an absolute pleasure working with Mia. She’s honest and does everything she can to accommodate you. I must admit, I got a bit worried upon checking Unilocal after submitting my application, but there were absolutely no hidden fees or deposits involved. The entire experience was pleasant. I’ll definitely give Nevo a call if I decide to move out when my current lease expires.

Very very disorganized and unethical business practice .
Hidden fees
Unclear communications
You are passed from one person and you are not taken care of from the beginning of the process to the end .
Due to failure of organization and lack of everyone in the office having clear jobs and titles I was stuck paying for a second apartment for a month. They also add hidden fees that are not discussed until it is to late in the process .
Getting an apartment through them was the most expensive and stressful procedure i have ever been through in finding a home.

This company had access to my apartment and was showing the apartment without notifying me. Once I realized this I decided to put away some of my camera gear in my closet. My camera bag with thousands of dollars worth of gear was stolen. I didn’t realize it was missing until the day I was moving out. I notified the company to let them know and the owner, Nevo, got on the phone and right away started acting defensive and told me it was none of his people and I shouldn’t be bothering him with my complaint. He said to me «I shit $ 7,000 every morning, me and none of my realtors need to steal your camera equipment» — I didn’t even accuse him of stealing anything yet. I was merely trying to get more information in order to file my police report. When asked for the company address he told me to «google it» and told me I can speak to his «five attorneys».
The company and realtors were negligent. They didn’t even bother closing or locking the deck door after the showings. I found the deck unlocked twice and my front door unlocked once.
They are not even accredited with the BBB. I still plan on filing a complaint and will be seeing them in court with their many attorneys. I guess you would need «five attorneys» when you run a shady business.
The owner is disrespectful and apparently shits money.
Stay away from this company.

My roommates found started working with Michele from Nevo while I was out of town. They put down a refundable hold on an apartment and when I came back, I wasn’t happy with the location and felt unsafe. Plus, the apartment wasn’t finished. With a turnaround of two weeks, it wasn’t going to be finished unless it was a crap job put together.
I voiced my concerns and instead of trying understand my point of view or find alternatives — Michele instead tried to argue with me and dismissed me. «You’re not going to find what you want» and pulled the whole «I’m in the industry routine.» I don’t think she realized I’m from sales and I know what it’s like to risk losing your commission but never lose the trust of your client. I have tons of friends who move in the city. Will I offer any referrals? No. Will I use her again? No way. The only perks of working with Michele is that she had a nice car and was willing to meet you late after work.
When she realized my roommates were going to back me up (instead of I guess what she had hoped was ditch me and sign the lease), the next morning I received a text message with options that were in the parameters of what I wanted.
Since we already had a $ 500 deposit with them, we thought it might be easier to just stick it out and work with Nevo. We did find an apartment we liked but Michele was unwilling to negotiate on our behalf. After our two month saga of apartment hunting, we’ve had some amazing brokers who really spoke up on our behalf. We just wished they represented the apartment we loved!
Then working with Nevo… nothing was organized and I received several calls even after we signed the lease. «We need this» or «We think you’re short this much» which was just unprofessional. Plus, we were not short any money. They just weren’t organized. Michele also totally peaced out during the process and passed us off to Julia/​Zina. Then after promising us a copy of our lease, today we’re told they don’t have it and to contact our landlord. Then they refused to give us the contact information for our said landlord. We’ve been living in said apartment for a month. Seems weird not to let us contact our own landlord.
Thankfully the prior tenant gave it to us.
FYI, they apparently charge a $ 500 surcharge even if the apartment is no-​fee. After working with Nevo, seriously the next time I move I’ll pay WHATEVER amount for a REAL broker because this was just silly.

They are OK… just OK. To start off, we didn’t seek them out, Michele posted a listing on renthop that we were interested in looking at and she kind of just stuck around for the commission. She was really patient with us, 3 people with completely opposite schedules and she was super flexible with showing times, even showing us places at 830 or 9pm and on weekends. I’m not sure if she was new, or she just didn’t give a crap, but she was a horrible negotiator! The apartment that we eventually chose, we wanted to offer relatively low (so we could meet in the middle and get the price we really wanted) and she wouldn’t even bring it to the landlord because she knew he would not accept it. Umm… duh honey, hes not supposed to… that’s why its a negotiation. Once we gave her our $ 500 to take it off the market, we always had to contact her to make sure things were moving along (it took 3 days to perform a credit check, which is ridiculous. its a 10 minute process). With the urgency of real estate in New York, you need to be on the ball and make sure your turn around rate is super quick for your clients. Processing all of our paperwork, which we organized for you, shouldn’t take 10 days. Also, these are all no-​fee apartments, yet they still charge an additional $ 500 «application processing fee». I’ve never heard of that in my life! It costs you nothing to throw my information and lease in the garbage!
Contacting them post signing is essentially the most frustrating experience, since they pretty much forget about their clients the second the check clears. My roommates and I have all tried calling to get any of the landlords info (its not on the building sign where it’s supposed to be) or a copy of our lease (which we asked for when we signed, but the «copier was broken») and they said they would email us a copy. We’ve asked 5 times to no avail. Apparently they don’t keep copies of our file, the landlord does, but they refuse to give us his information. Umm WHAT?!
I definitely won’t use them again, nor would I recommend them to anyone, but it was an OK experience simply due to the fact that Michele was so flexible with her time.

Oh goodness, my room mates and I were sadly struggling to find a place for 3 weeks. Finally we came across a place and Rony was the broker for the place. Rony was very friendly and helpful. He was very clear with everything we needed for the apartment. He went out of his way to allow us to see the place the second time too. The process of applying for an apartment is stressful enough, but Rony made it easier!

The five-​star part: Eddie the broker was terrific to work with. He was very quick to respond to our calls, texts, and emails. When he met us at the apartment, he had all the necessary paperwork to take our deposit and give us a receipt, along with the application forms to fill out. He showed us his broker license without being asked. He even drove us to our next apartment viewing appointment with another broker! When the landlord was concerned about some changes we wanted to make to the lease, Eddie got in touch with us right away and made sure we were aware of the concern so we could contact the landlord directly and negotiate. Finally, he detoured to our old place to personally hand us the key. Everything worked out splendidly and we’re very happy with our new apartment. Thanks, Eddie!
The three-​star part: Zina in the Nevo office sent us a draft lease that was full of typos and errors. Our names were misspelled, «owner» and «landlord» were used interchangeably, the lease dates were wrong, the rent due date was wrong, and on and on. Also, the landlord relayed his concerns to Zina but she never told us; fortunately Eddie found out and called us right away, or else the lease signing might have been delayed for days.
The four-​star part: the Nevo office isn’t exactly posh, but it’s not as bad as some other reviews make it out to be. We signed our lease in a little underground conference room that they did their best to make into a pleasant, professional space.
Net: four stars, and I’d be glad to work with Eddie again as long as I have time to proofread the lease before signing it.

WARNING: THEY HAVE AN F RATING ON BBB.
Would give zero stars if possible. Aviv started by bait and switching us with an apartment that was magically «moved into» within 45 minutes of getting on the train to go tour.
He showed several other apartments, quoted a much lower price and bonus amenities, changed lease length and increased price by a couple hundred the next day. He lied about the pet policy. He lied about the deposit.
We switched to taking to Zina, someone who is only just barely polite/​pleasant when she thinks you’re gonna sign something, and immediately lapses into compete disinterested rudeness any time you have a question. She was more consistent and prompt than Aviv, who is simply a hot mess of a human being, and she is definitely good at returning phone calls, which I appreciate, but in the end she was also unreliable. I will definitely add in Zina’s defense that neither my father nor I are easy to work with, and we’re not exactly undemanding or «play it loose”-type people, but we were consistent with our requests from start to finish and never asked for anything we didn’t need.
The boss, Shai?, returning a call about the misquoted prices, tried to play hardball with me and basically force me into signing by saying 3 more people were applying, etc., which I turned down. Very aggressive and cheesy scammy way of pushing people into signing leases. Probably common in NYC what with the state of real estate, but I don’t think (with all the hipsters flooding into the city) you need to play it so dirty to get leases signed.
They called back later with a slightly better deal but no written proof of said deal.
Overall waste of time, constant lies, incredibly grating and annoying brokers with no manners, not sure if they ever actually sign anyone to any properties or if they just make a living taking people’s deposits.
We got a check mailed back but I’m not convinced it’s real until the money clears.
STAY AWAY.

Oh, NEVO, you really don’t want people to love you, do you?
I am currently in the market for an apartment in East Harlem. My roommate and I found some apartments for way under value in the area we really wanted to be. Considering we made 60x the rent with excellent rental history we figured we had this in the bag.
We met with a lovely girl named Eleanor. She took us to a few different apartments and we fell in love with one of them on E 117^th St. Thinking back, I should have been a bit more concerned when someone else was standing outside the apartment waiting to show while we were in there… but I let it go and we decided that a rent stabilized apartment was too good to pass up. we forked over their «completely refundable if you don’t get approved» $ 500 application fee.
Eleanor didn’t seem concerned when I told her our credit was sub-​par. I had come prepared with every piece of paperwork ever needed, references, landlord records and references and personal references. I even took the time to write a letter to the landlord just in case.
Eleanor ran off to Brooklyn so that she could hand in our application and deposit before the office closed. Cue waiting.
The next morning, I still hadn’t gotten the receipt she promised me the night before. Finally, around 10:30AM after repeated text messages I got an e-​mail from someone I have personally named A**hole McF*ckface. Great! The ball was rolling.
I asked when we would know about the application and he said «hopefully within the next 24 hours.» Fantastic!
We wait. That afternoon A**hole McF*ckface called me to let me know that he ran my credit. He was very, very rude and judgmental about the entire situation. I tired explaining but he essentially cut me off and said it didn’t matter and we’d probably need to put down «extra months security» to get the apartment.
Oh…okay. I asked if he could run my roommates credit just in case. Sure, he says. Give me his cell phone so I can get his social. Um, dude? We joint applied. You have everything you need including a signed application from him. I had to explain this several times before the light bulb clicked on.
I waited for HOURS to hear back about this. The next morning, A**hole McF*ckface still hadn’t contacted me. So, I shot him a message asking what was up. He said that my roommates credit score was too low for the landlord’s liking and we would need to put down more security and then ASKED ME HOW MANY MONTHS I COULD AFFORD. At this point, I was really annoyed. I told him no, I didn’t want to do it.
I contacted Eleanor to let her know we’d need our «completely refundable deposit» back and she said she was sorry and asked if we would reconsider. She said she was told that we would be approved if we supplied just” one more extra month of security.” After sitting on that for a while I decided that the apartment was worth it and we told her to keep it off the market and that we would take it.
At this point, I shot A**hole McF*ckface a message and said that we were still interested in the apartment and that after speaking with Eleanor and hearing we only needed to supply one extra month of security we would be interested. He was REALLY rude with me at this point and told me he never said that and it could be multiple months. I stood strong and said that one month extra was all we could do. He said he would get back to me after he spoke with «management.»
Yet another entire day goes by before I, yet again, have to track down A**hole McF*ckface with an answer on the apartment. Finally, he gets back to me and says that on TOP of the first month and security originally quoted we would need an additional FOUR MONTHS of security to get this apartment and that he didn’t «think it was worth it.»
No shit, Sherlock.
I told him I would go to their (sketchy, btw) office in Bushwick to pick up our «completely refundable $ 500 deposit.»
While I was parking my car, my roommate went in to go get our application and our «completely refundable $ 500 deposit» back. Come to find out that «completely refundable» deposit was minus two $ 35 credit checks. Not only that but A**hole McF*ckface decided it was necessary to photo copy our entire application. Um, why, dude?
While my roommate was waiting for this to happen he heard one of the girls leaving messages for at least 4 places asking for additional security deposits from them.
Yeah, their apartments are gorgeous and the photos are accurate. However, they run a shady business that I can’t get behind.

So after reading the reviews on here i was freaking out… I know didn’t check Unilocal until after i gave them the 500.00 to hold my apt… so for sure i was bitting my nails and searching for my rosary (that i had packed in boxes because i need a place ASAP)
However (and just for the record nobody paid me for this review and i am in no such affiliated with them)
But i have to say they really are awesome!
First of all i met Michelle through her listing on CL… she was the broker who first me with us.
She was very nice and super knowledgeable of the locations and trains… and if she wasn’t sure she would ask Siri.
I was very impressed by their listings… we initially started off with a lower price range (which were amazing i mean no Crack Dens!!! all new and renovated!
Also we really appreciated the fact that she took the area and train lines into consideration based on our initial criteria for our new place.
I had worked with Brokers in the past that try to show you amazing places in the middle of no where or show you amazing places you can’t afford. but will take on roommates just to move there.
She also was not pushy, if she showed us a place she would give us time to discuss and then give her our input.
So for sure she earned most of the stars on this rating!!!
Once we found our dream apt (yes all happened on a Sunday which is super convenient (they open from Sunday to Friday for the working Folks)
we then went to Nevo Offices, a very trendy, happening and most importantly PROFESSIONAL.
Sophia (the office Manager) took over our file (she the one who wheels and deals with the Owners or landlords of said apts.)
She was super thorough, gave us a checklist and an overview of what to expect, including timelines.
Once we paid the off the market fee (500.00 cash money… but you are given a proper receipt) so no worries here
Then the anxiety set in of our approval process.
(as promised by Sophia if you submit all the paperwork on her checklist, the process is a skip and a hop of a couple of days)
So here is the part where NEVO gets the rest and all the stars.
I must have called, emailed, texted and then called again… to see if we were approved.
She answered all of my questions, all my emails and all my calls.
Anyone who is in search of there dream place knows what this stage is like!
It was the best experience ever…
since we all know how nerve breaking finding your dream place in NYC is…
Here is my conclusion:
1. Great listing for all price ranges
2. NO broker fees
3. Friendly Staff
4. Great experience.
5. Handy Checklist with no surprise endings except the keys to your new place :)
Hope this helped!!!

I’ve been working with Nevo on an apartment in Williamsburg for about a week so far. I’m on the fence so far, but I’m trying to give them the benefit of the doubt.
They appear to be the sole representation for a building we were interested in on Meserole, and while I contacted one agent (Shai) and then was met by another without warning (Zoe), my girlfriend and I liked Zoe just fine and she was happy to show us plenty of places in the building. No complaints about Zoe (Zoey?).
A few days later, we wanted to see one of them again to confirm before we decided to rent it. We couldn’t see it Friday or Saturday, as either the firm or the building or both close up shop for Shabbat. Fine, no problem. We met Zoe on Sunday morning to see the place one more time… but she didn’t have the keys. To her credit, she made a valiant effort to obtain them, but she was fighting against some serious disorganization on the part of the building crew and ownership, and we couldn’t see the apartment. Still, we were pretty sure we wanted that one, so we went to the office to get the process started.
Things got worse at that point. We were told that the actual price ($B) was higher than previously quoted ($A), due to a reduction in rental concession. We weren’t happy with that, and despite their efforts to talk us into moving forward anyway, I made a counteroffer ($C) and we left them to try to get that to work with the owners of the building.
The owners apparently agreed, and that afternoon we were able to see the unit again, confirm that we wanted it, and sign the preliminary paperwork. All seemed fine, except that it’s now 5 business days later, I’ve provided multiple varieties of paperwork, and despite my excellent credit, good job, and plenty of cash flow, they haven’t yet given me a lease. If they manage to get it done today before closing up shop, I’ll maintain them at 3 stars, but if it gets pushed off again or worse, cancelled, they’re angling for a reduction.