Leading Edge Real Estate

We are moving to Augusta from out of state. Found a property Christina had listed for rent online. Spoke to her multiple time about our need for a 6 month lease not a year and was reassured that, after talking to the «owners», a 6 month lease was doable. She really pushed for us to start the lease date a month before we would be moving. We said we could do 2 weeks before not a full month.
When we walked through the property work was being done on it. She said work would be done in a week. That was 3 weeks ago and the work still isn’t done and wouldn’t be done by lease start date.
When it came time to sign the lease it was for a year. She said she would be able to help us break the lease in 6 months and help us find a house to buy. The lease she wanted us to sign clearly stated that breaking it would be a $ 4000 penalty. Then called later to say the «owners» were standing firm on wanting a year lease. And when confronted with the fact that we knew she and her husband were the owners she denied it. Their method of doing business is, in my opinion, deceptive and little slimy.
Now my husband and I have to start all over again searching for a property to rent which pushes our move back at least a month. Wish I had read the review by anonymous K before trying to do business with them. Thanks to Christina and her blatant lying and deceptive business practices we now have to scramble to find adequate housing that suits our needs. So frustrating!

We used Leading Edge and they were great, Drew went above and beyond for us, very friendly, down to earth guy. He was there every step of the way. I would never use anyone else but them. House buying and selling is stressful but with Leading Edge it was a piece of cake. You want to buy or sell use Leading Edge!

We bought our house using Christine and Drew, and in the future I will definitely not be utilizing them to help me sell. They are only about their own bottom line. Once we settled on a house and signed all our closing paperwork, we never heard from Christine or Drew again — I only got to speak with their assistant. When we closed on our house, the old property owner was at the house and he had left copious amounts of garbage throughout the property. Unfortunately I had not noticed because he walked through the entire house with me and I did not even imagine that somebody would leave their bathroom drawers full of garbage. Our backyard was full of garbage. Once again, Christine or Drew were nowhere to be seen for the closing.
Sorry but I just cannot fathom that realtors earn themselves thousands of dollars in commission for essentially opening a door with a key and showing you houses that you ve picked out yourself from online. This real estate company in particular was nothing but unpleasant to work with. Oh, and of course the closing was postponed too because nobody liked to communicate in a timely manner with me or the sellers realtor. Ridiculous.