Vega Investments

please make sure you read all of the posts before you even think about renting from this management company!

take your money and go somewhere else. They are a group of lying thieves. The appointment that I wanted wasn’t ready, so the female who works there showed me a unit which she said it looks like just the same. 4 days before I move-​in I went and checkout the the unit I was gonna get, and it was nothing like what she showed me. The place was way smaller and nothing like the one she showed me. After I called and told them about the situation, they replied with an attitude that it is what it is, and if I wanna get my security deposit back, I had to pay $ 150 for them to post the listing online, which they never did had that place listen in the 1^st place. I’m taking my money and going else were. They are so many other places that you can rent from in Monterey. They do whatever they can to take your money!!!

READ THIS REVIEW AND SAVE A HEADACHE FROM BEING ROBBED AND CANCER FROM THE MOLD. I am a current resident and i wish we never rented from these horrible people. Never rent any property from vega investments. If you are classy or can afford it, go else where. Yes the rent is cheap but you will get much less than what you pay for. The office is run by rude lying crooks «can_​dice and er_​ika.» They do not fix their properties. In the last 5 years that I have been here they have raised the rent 5 times ranging from $ 35– $ 115 this year. In 5 years they have not done one improvement on the property. Our home has flooded and our neighbors home as well other tenants here on the property every year now since I have been here. It is always an excuse and they do not pay for the damage or hotel fees. They will threaten to evict you if you do not remove all your belongings that day, so that they can «clean the disgusting carpet». They have never replaced my broken windows, never gave us any screens, did not patch up any holes (just promises), mold is growing in 2 of my rooms and the bathroom is starting to again. Health dept. will not do anything either. Some how these crooks keep winning. Once you are in here, good luck getting any deposit back. Read all the horor stories below. They are so bad that it is hard to believe they are true, but sad to say they are true. IT IS A NIGHMARE. STAY AWAY! their is a previous tennant below who left a review ⁰⁷⁄₂₀₁₅ They left their email and are asking for everybody to come together for a lawsuit against these crooks.

Do not rent from this place unless you have NO other choice. In Marina, CA; we had a broken patio door for 9 months; then when we gave notice, all of a sudden I was told they could FIX it. When we moved in there was a lot of stuff in the back «yard»; satellite dishes, old chairs, etc. My husband took everything to the local recyler and Vega never even acknowledged his help and time contributed. The window blinds were black with mold. Our deposit was almost 60 days late — I called after 3 weeks and told them they were out of compliance according to California’s laws. Finally got the check 6 weeks later; they deducted WAY more than average; I expected carpet cleaning and minor cleaning, but evidently they felt a need to charge for over 300.00 in PAINT! We lived there 9 months and we are clean, neat, nonsmoking professionals…. So beware, avoid Vega Investments if you can, you will not have a good experience.

Horrible service… pain in ass… people please don’t rent damn shit place… they are worse than the thief companies in stealing money. since one month we being waiting for our refund deposit but we didn’t received anything in mail. so we called office several times. and guess what… excuses…to save there ass they blame on other worker’s who work’s there… BAD SERVICE EVER I EXPERIENCED

Omg where do I start! My girlfriend and, I rented from these demons from 2011 to 2013. I moved into a house in Marina that was 1700 dollars month. I paid 3400 dollar deposit to get in. While living there I’ve had three floods in the master bedroom bathroom due to bad plumbing issues that where never fixed! On top of that they tried to say that the plumbing was my fault and sent me a receipt in the mail for a 800 dollar invoice for damaged carpet because of the flood! The owners daughters Candace and Erica need a lesson in manners and that’s exactly what they recieved from my girlfriend after they gave us back $ 240 out of 3400 hundred dollar deposit. Mind you my girlfriend and I stayed there for two days double scrubbing the house to make it look emaculate. I was floored when I recieved back so little. Also they sent us, fake receipts for cleaning and painting services that do not exist. There are enough people here to take them to a class action lawsuit. If you want to join me in doing so please contact me by email at
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I’m Shocked Someone Gave Them TWO Stars!!!
These lousy people always have an ad open just so they can have a steady cash flow from the application fees with no intent of even considering the applicant as a potential tenant. Scam artists! Just my opinion, but hey, check out their reviews…

I am agreeing with the review above me! The only reason they are getting one star is because there is no option of zero! This company is run so unproffesional, I should have got the hint when I walked in a noticed that all the people in the office were in thier young twenties or looked like they were fresh out of high school.
The ladies who run the office do not return phone calls and when they do they are very rude. Not only this but the «on-​site» manager that they hired for our apartment complex is the only one in the complex who does not follow the rules that are stated in the lease. Who do you go to when the manager is breaking the rules? She stays up at all hours having parties in her apartment and then comes to your door to help fix something while she is in her pajamas with makeup left over from the night before. She constantly has strange young men outside smoking cigerettes (throwing there butss on the ground… so much for a clean walkway)
all in all it is just a gross, unprofessional place! The one time that got me was when she came to insert carbon monoxide detectors in the apartment, she came in MY place in her sweat pants and made herself comfortable on MY couch with out asking while the man inserted the detector, NOW THAT IS ONE HELL OF A MANAGER! Or how about the time the company wanted to show my apartment and left a notice on my door the morning of the showing saying that it was my 24 hour notice? When it is 8:00AM and you are showing my apartment at 5:00PM that is no where near 24 hours. ALL IN ALL… STAY AWAY!!!

I NO, DON’T GO THERE! find another place to rent… is my advice in spades. They bought the apt building I was renting from. The rents went up every two months till it was three hundred more per month. The landlord they hired was a nasty power monger all of 21 years of age. Who was rude, and unfair. This management company is just not good to tenants, and I was lucky to get my deposit back. Warning!!!

DO NOT. JUST DON’T. We rented a one bedroom because we needed a place fast & it was available. Our appliances appeared to be decent but turned out to constantly be in need of repair. Good luck getting anyone to come to fix anything. We had heard horror move-​out stories from friends, so we hired a professional cleaning company to clean it so Vega couldn’t charge us outrageous amounts after our walk through. One of «the girls» did our final walk through, said everything was great, and that our kitchen was the cleanest she had ever seen upon check out. Vega proceeded to charge us for a deep clean (including the kitchen), gave us a receipt with broken English, and said that OUR hired cleaner must not have done a good job (when we protested). They also charged us EIGHT hours of painting labor for a chipped spot the size of a quarter in our bathroom. They said that it was because they had to pay the painters for the time it took to buy the paint. Really? The SAME COLOR PAINT that the interiors of the entire 30+ complex is painted with? They have had a great number of court cases filed against them in Monterey in the past, and I can’t believe that they still manage to stay in business with how awful they ALL are. Upon move out, they take $ out of your deposit for normal wear and tear things that are required for a landlord to cover (in the state of California) themselves. DON’T RENT FROM THESE PEOPLE. Someone came to view our apartment before we moved out, and we told them the same thing. Stay away. They’re blatant liars and completely incompetent.

Beware! These people are the most unprofessional I have ever dealt with. They charged $ 25 for a credit check, told me I had wonderful references and credit, said I was first choice so I proceeded to get a cashier’s check for the deposit then waited… and waited and waited. No response to phone calls or email. I had to find out from a friend who lives on the property that someone was moving into the unit. They never communicated with me about this. I went to their office to find out what happened and the ‘girls’ (clueless 20 y/​os) passed it off saying «Erica» is the person who communicates with the owners of properties. I was so PO’ed I demanded at the very least s copy of the credit report fo which they charged me. Two weeks later it came in the mail… no doubt produced as a defense to collecting fradulent deposits. They cost me time and money as I was forced to pay higher rent at my then apartment due to their negligence plus the useless credit report. Never do business with these people. Lesson learned.
Then they had the gall to ask me if I wanted a list of other properties they handle! No thanks. At one point they said the only other applicant ahead of me was asked to pay «double deposit» due to ‘shallow credit’. When she couldn’t pay it along with other move-​in costs, I was given the opportunity to receive their shuck and jive.

Do not rent a place through this company if you can help it. They are somewhat friendly when you are trying to rent a place from them, but after that they are a nightmare. They do not show up for appointments when you make them. They are very slow to make repairs if they even repair them at all. I rented an apartment from them for over 2 years and then they proceeded to kick me out for no other reason than the new on site manager wanted the apartment I was in. With the letter telling me I had 60 days to move out they also sent a letter from an attorney says that if I didn’t move out within the 60 days that they were going to sue me. I was always on time with my rent and never caused any problems. Then the week before i moved out i had a conversation with them and they told me that if i cleaned the apartment well that i would not be charged for cleaning. I would just be charged for carpet cleaning. When I received my deposit back they took out $ 120 for cleaning even though the apartment was cleaner than when i moved in. I Took pictures of the entire apartment to show just how clean it was and they didn’t care. They took money out for painting the walls even though i had just repainted the walls with the exact same paint that they used to paint another apartment in the complex. They are are crooks. If you don’t believe me just read any of the other reviews about them. By the way it has been over a month and they still do not have anyone living in the apartment they just had to have me out of.

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NEVER RENT FROM THESE CROOKS! EVERY ONE STARRED STORY IS TRUE
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Never in my life have I been lied to the face from a business. These ladies are extremely unorganized, unprofessional, and will lie, lie, lie!
My story:
I was trying to find a place to live for this upcoming school year, and really liked a property that was posted by them on Craigslist. I had already had some troubles with other rental agencies, so I had explained that to them over the phone. I told them that I really needed a place to move in by the end of August, and that I was interested in this one bedroom home they had posted for my friend and myself.
I called the day that the house was posted, and the girl (Crystal) told me that they were going to have an open house the next day. I asked if I could see it that day (I was calling early in the morning) because I lived out of the area and it was a 2 hour drive to Monterey for me. She told me unfortunately not, but that I could just show up at the open house the next day. Knowing how the rental agencies work in Monterey, I knew how competitive they were already. I explained to her over the phone that I had already done a drive-​by on the property, and was extremely interested in it, and that I wanted to have an application prior to the walk through so that I could turn it in immediately afterwards. She said that’s fine, and that there were no other applications out for the place yet since it had just been posted.
The next day, I show up at the 4:00 PM walk through at 3:50 PM promptly. I walked up to the house and saw a guy and girl inside, and they asked me if I was the agent from Vega. I laughed and was like, «No I’m here for the walk through!» I apologized, and I sat and talked with them for a bit. They were nice enough to show me around the property themselves, and told me a lot about the area, which got my hopes up even more. Finally I finished the walk through with the tenants by around 4:15 PM, and still no agent. They told me I was welcome to hang on their patio until an agent showed up, and sure enough a black Bently comes pulling up almost 20 minutes late.
I smiled and walked up to the girl (Brittany) and told her I had already done the walk through with the tenants, which she responded back with, «Oh, you’ve already seen the property? I love it when the tenants do that for us.» Which was a bit odd, but I told her that Crystal had told me to give her my application. She looked at me a bit puzzled, and took my application. Then I decided that I wanted to get my application fee in, because there was another group that showed up for the walk through, so I knew I wanted to be the first in the stack.
I drove over to the Vega office and had the boss herself, Candace, help me out. I told her about my troubles with other rental agencies and we bonded a bit. I even explained to her that if for some reason this property doesn’t work out for me, that I had a second choice on the application as well. She wrote down notes on a sticky note, and put it on an envelope and then took my money. I asked her if the application fee was refundable, and she assured me that I was going to get one of the two placed I applied for, since our monthly pay stubs combined had triple the rent amount. I was told that I would know, «by the end of the day,» whether or not I was approved for the house.
Sure enough, no call by the end of the day. I called the next day, and when Brittany answered the phone she said, «Oh, I think you were approved, let me double check really quick,» and then put me on hold. After waiting for a few minutes, Crystal picked up the phone and told me, «Oh, well the land lord said they don’t want a co-​signer on this property, and you guys don’t qualify without one.» I was confused, because the previous day Candace had told me everything looked fine. I asked if they had ran the credit check, and she said that they didn’t. I asked them if they could forward my application to the second choice address on my application, and she immediately retorted back, «that property is already being rented out to someone else.» So I was confused, and didn’t understand how they could have approved and rented out a property within 24 hours when they couldn’t even finish my processing in a day. So whatever, at that point I was done, and just wanted my money back.
When I showed up to their office and asked for an application fee refund, I was told they don’t give refunds. I was extremely frustrated, and just left.
Do NOT do business with these ladies. They will take advantage of you and lie until they’re blue in the face. Even if you really, really like a house that is posted under their name, don’t bother, because you’re just headed for a headache. Waste of time and money!

Absolutely the worst company. Just for clarification, Nelson Vega owns this so called company while his rude, awful daughters, Candice and Erica run the office. Nelson has a salesperson real estate license but is NOT a broker and neither Erica or Candice have any sort of real estate license. That said, all of them are unprofessional, rude, unhelpful and will do anything to keep a tenants money. I have seen Erica create invoices placing another company’s name and address on the invoice stating it was for painting or carpet cleaning or some other non existing expense and presenting it to tenants as justification for keeping deposit money. They are dishonest and will say anything to a person’s face to get them to go away. There are plenty of other people to rent from and suggest people do just that.
RUN, RUN FAST AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY!

Pretty unprofessional. Called to make inquiries about a few listings, sounded like un-​trained teenagers were manning the lines. They did not give good information about any of the listings or have particularly good phone etiquette. Disappointing.

Saw an ad on craigslist about two months ago for an apartment in Seaside. Called the number for Vega Investments to find out when I could see the unit. «Crystal» said she had to get in contact with the tenants to see if the time I wanted to view it was fine with them (I wanted to view it the next day). That was fine, but Crystal never called me back. I called again a few days later to see if the unit was available to view yet… surprise surprise, no one answered so I left a message saying I had scheduled an apointment to view the unit and no one had ever called me back to confirm it.
I called back again a few days after that, left a message, still had no sort of response from their office.
Now, two months later, I drive by the unit and it still has a FOR RENT sign.
I understand if the unit had already been rented out or wasn’t able to view yet. But the fact that they had asked me to give them a time and day I would like to see it and never call and confirm or even return one of the three messages I left them, is ridiculous and extremely unprofessional.
Isn’t the point of working in a real estate office is to rent out properties? Hello?! Is this just an office for some clueless girls to pretend they have a job?
But on the brightside, my older brother rented from them for about a year and a half and said it’s just a whole bunch of clueless air heads in there, so I am very happy I didn’t get the chance to consider to rent from them.

UPDATE 5÷25÷13
BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE!!!
We rented with Vega for almost 2 years and we couldn’t wait to find a new place and GET OUT!!! We were so desperate breached our budget and were willing to pay another rent unit we can get out!
To clarify — read as many reviews as you can! When I started renting, there was an equal amount of good and bad reviews out there so we chose to rent with Vega, over other mngt co. because others have illegal appts. too!
These are account of 1129 First St — but are true statements for many of their properties
*We had termites in the building and they won’t do anything about it — not even an inspection! Tenants paid for an inspection out of pocket and Vega did nothing.
*We have mold around every window pane, window sill, on dry wall, in every bathroom — they won’t do anything about and blame it on the tenants, saying we need to clean our windows and the window condensation daily.
*We have a homeless man living in our laundry room — they said they cannot put locks on the door because of the homeless lobbyists in the area (excuse me??? Really!!! so you can’t lock up your private property? LIES)
*The homeless man expels waste into the washers and dryers
*They park 3+ trailers in the parking lot at all times. So not only can tenants who have more than the 1 allocated car for the carport not park in the lot, but the dumpsters are blocked and the garbage man cannot access them by truck or by hand to empty them.
*The garbage overflows because it is not being picked up and raccoons and the homeless who sleep behind the dumpster create a big mess.
*They never fix things that need to be fixed! NEVER! Unless its a water leak because they pay the the water bill — then they’ll come in 3+ weeks to fix it.
*By building code law the place is illegal because of inadequate insulation, they installed the CO detectors late into the year and forged the acknowledgment sheets, the stairs are in disrepair, and the railing are not even attacked to the stairs or walls and are falling off the building.
Those are just a few issues, not mentioning the poor management and rude staff in the office whom are never helpful.
The owner is never there. HIs daughter Candace is a b****. Erica, I believe is the only own other than the owner who has a real estate license or any education/​certificates. They post the legally required 24hr notices to enter your home, less than 8 hours before time of entry.
Should I carry on?
Be safe and smart and rent from a smaller company. Needless to say the 3 largest in the area are corrupt or illegal.
Rent from home owners when possible!
On March 23, 2013 I called Candace Vega to get masters keys, which as on site managers they did not give us to have onsite. A couple had locked themselves out. It was 11pm and I had to work at 5 am. I called 6 times total because she kept ignoring my phone call and sending me to voicemail.
Here is the text message transcript:
Candace 1(831)236−4533:
I’m finishing dinner. I will be there in about 10 min. Don’t call me 7 times. Its not an emergency they can always call a locksmith.
Me:
No they can’t, they don’t have a phone. I have to work at 5 am. I don’t have keys and I have people banging on my door at 11 pm.
Candace 1(831)236−4533:
You have/​get a rent credit don’t you. Also you could have called a lock smith,
Me:
I did call they are closed.
Candace 1(831)236−4533:
They work 24 hrs.
Me:
Which one? I’ll call
Candace 1(831)236−4533:
I’m already on my way. And all of them
Me:
Not American [locksmith] not Home Depot
Candace 1(831)236−4533:
Obviously not Home Depot. There not a locksmith.
Me:
Thanks that really helpful I can call so you don’t have to come. If you told me who you used for the complex.
Candace 1(831)236−4533:
Stop bothering me. I’m driving. You have it on a list.
Really great customer service right! I hope her father sees this before he thinks she can run his business. In the 2 years of renting form them, they went through employees like no one’s business (a new girl out front more times then I can count).

An automatic red flag to any future renter should be how inconsistent the reviews are for this ‘company’.
You will be lied to about pretty much everything, including your security deposit and what you’ll get back when you move out. You will be lied to when it comes to having anything fixed at all (it took 11 days to have them send their repairman over to fix our sink).
I never got the chance to meet everyone in the office, but the few I did meet were very sweet, very friendly, but totally unprofessional and absolutely clueless on how to run a rental company. They really are nice people but the company they work for only wants your money — and they will find ways to keep as much of it as they can.
If you can avoid renting from them — AVOID IT. I really really wish someone had been able to warn us before we signed a lease with them. There are a lot of other rental companies in the Monterey area that have to be more professional than this.

The only reason I am providing one star to Vega Investments is because Unilocal does not give the option to have ZERO stars. Horrible! Unprofessional and rude! Candace was the worst person I have come across in trying to rent a home yet. We were strung along for over a month about a home and all it ended up being was a huge lie. Candace and her team of misfits will take your money to «apply» for a home and then string you along as long as they can. They have no intention of renting homes in a professional fashion. When calling the office she would not even come to the phone and would have a staff member tell us she was too busy. The after emails and cell phone calls were unanswered we made a trip to the office in Monterey. Candace was in her office and refused to come out and talk to us. We demanded she come out and once she did she was rude, unorganized, unprofessional, and looked like she actually just woke up.
Please note, none of these people in the office are educated. They do not even have a realtor license. Candace’s father is the broker and that is it — he is never in the office. BEWARE!

As a property management group, they were slow to respond to requests for fix-​it stuff around the property, although someone usually showed up eventually. In the end, they overinflated all sorts of ridiculous charges and kept over half of our huge deposit, so my advice to anyone renting from them is to be sure to photograph and catalog everything wrong with the property. Even things we went through in person with the Vega representative during the move-​in as issues left over from prior tenants ended up being charged to us. Crooks.