J and R Associates

I always find it crazy when companies have their name and phone number on their vehicles, and still choose to drive like crazy people. Someone from this company nearly killed me driving through Oakland, tail gated super close to me for 3 or 4 minutes, then passed me on the right, cut me off, and slammed on his brakes to spite me I guess (I was going 80 mph already) I slammed on my brakes and nearly had a major accident. I memorized his license plate number and called the CHP, but there was nothing they could do. If they run their business like they drive, dont go there!

Don’t rent from them

J and R Associates need to learn to screen the people they have moving into their buildings. I rent from them in an apartment in downtown Oakland and several of the tenants are loud; from just talking loud late at night to having their sexual rumps late or very late at night while others try to sleep. I wouldn’t recommend this company let alone the building I live in to anyone! Not even to a rabid Bat!!!

I usually try to only Unilocal positive reviews but people need to be warned about this place. I would give zero stars if possible. I should have trusted the previous Unilocal reviews. This company is absolutely terrible with the exception of the manager, a very nice 91 year old woman. I applied for an apartment by leaving an application, 2 pay stubs, employment verification and a check for the application fee in a manila envelope w a young man who I now know does their maintenance. Several days later I called to check the status. Carmen, the receptionist, tells me she is waiting on the check. I told her the check was in there. We go back and forth and she has this attitude that’s very «ah well, your fault’ which does not go over well with me. Checks do have account numbers on them! Along with name and address! So I asked to speak to the manager, who was really nice but also had no idea where my check could be. I told them that I want to pick up the ORIGINALS of all my information, have no interest in renting with them, and will most definitely spread the word that this company is terrible!!! Apply/​Rent at your own risk!

This is the WORST of the worst when it comes to slumlord landlords. They basically buy all the apartment buildings up as they come for sale and then mark them up for 30million a piece so that no one else can own them also. If you have ANY other option for an apartment I would recommend going to them as these people could care less about their tenants. The building on Alice, 1470 Alice to be exact, is one of the worst ones and unfortunately I live in it. There are about 22 apartments here and only TWO washers and TWO dryers in the entire building. Also, whenever the machines break they don’t even fix them and the non-​english speaking maintenance men will not help you fix them either. Get past that and you find out that the room they use to spray paint pipes instead of fixing them used to be a meth lab. If only they would switch rooms and add more laundry machines for their 22+ tenants it would be a lifesaver. Oh yeah and goodluck if something breaks, they will come into your apartment and break YOUR stuff and fix the thing that they broke but god forbid they replace your stuff. DO NOT RENT FROM THEM IF AT ALL POSSIBLE!!!

I was very dissappointed with the level of unprofessionalism displayed by this company. I called on a Friday morning to see if an apartment I wanted was available, and asked if I could bring in my application the following day, on Saturday. They assured me that I could. On Saturday morning I called again to check that the apartment was available and whether I should come into the office with my application. Again I was told that everything was fine. I made the trip to the office, which was not convinient for me, and even when I submitted the application, they assured me that no one else had applied and they would contact me on Monday once my credit check had been reviewed. On Monday morning they called me to tell me that the apartment had already been rented and the lease had been signed that FRIDAY morning when I had first called. I cant believe they didnt have the organization or decency to let me know that it was no longer available instead of asking me to come in on Saturday. I also feel like they should not have agreed to let me bring in the application the following day, if they were not going to honor that agreement.

Beware! They are greedy manipulators and known in the eviction defense community as such. Do not sign anything without having a lawyer look it over first. They are well known for turning affordable apartments into overpriced condo units. The repairs they do are purely cosmetic. I lived in a building where there was a leak in top floor laundry which would cause the ceiling in the room below it collapse regularly. The J&R solution was to tile the floor and just leave a cut out hole in the ceiling rather than remedy the leak. The walls in the unit were mushy after it would rain and they would send the same guy over every time and he would act like it was the first time ever being told of the issue. He would say he would be back but would never return. Weird leaks all over the apartment and when the tile in the shower fell and exposed a moldy wall all they did was slap some plastic marble over it and called it a day. HELLO! you need to remove the moldy, mushy wall before you cover it up! That unit sold to some poor sucker for far too much. If they only knew about the mold in walls…

Great people working in this office. Friendly and fair, I would recommend them if you are looking for an apartment in the Oakland area.