Laurence Management

I’ll second Dave W’s dissatisfaction with this company, including the utter lack of professionalism by «Sherry/​Cheri» — she really doesn’t want to do anything to help the residents and will make you feel like your call is an imposition. Typifies the laziness shown throughout this organization.

Horrible management company. They’ll not take care of the building, charge extremely high fees and will not fulfill their obligations. Never trust them. Do yourself a favor and do not work with this business.

As a homeowner in one of the complexes that Laurence Management manages, I can tell you from first-​hand experience that this property management company is a joke. Please for your sake do not work with this company. Here are the characteristics: high HOA fees, very bad attitude in dealing with homeowners, zero long term management and maintenance strategies.
It is also important to note that one of their employees, «Sherry», who often answers their main line whenever residents call to ask questions or request for building maintenance assistance, has the personality of a rock. She has the most unprofessional attitude one can ever encounter, as she makes it sound like you are disturbing or inconveniencing her, or doing something wrong, with any request for building maintenance help or management assistance, no matter how routine or minor the request is. There is the odd time that she might reluctantly help you though with a routine request.

I guess what do you expect from a property management company. Once you move in, you’re legally obligated to pay very high HOA’s and should expect pretty much nothing in return. For a 3-​bed condo in our complex you pay about $ 1000 per month in HOAs, which gives you an idea of what you should expect.
What you do get is the opposite of $ 1000/​mo. They do garden, but that’s pretty much it. Any requests or inquiries goes into a black box never to emerge. There’s been several thefts from our garage recently and other than changing the code nothing is done. What leverage do the tenants have though. In any case, I’d highly discourage anyone from using these guys as I’m not sure what service they actually provide.

I live in a building where we’ve hired Laurence Management to manage maintenance, custodial services, and general communication. I’ve worked with Adele Laurence for about two years now (as a resident and an HOA board member), and I’ve found her competent, helpful, and calm.

Among the pack of ‘worst businesses’ (maybe the bottom 5%), they may be among the top half. I have never had to deal with a bail bondsman or a parole officer, but dealing with this business gives me some experience that I can imagine being that sort of bad.
Worse than the cable monopolies of any city I have been in. (Lazier, if you can imagine, because those firms are often well-​meaning people inside of soul-​crushing systems. This is just a company of –insert epithet here).
EDIT to clarify that this is
, a real estate management company that manages a few residential buildings. The owners in those buildings all have exposure, sometimes substantial, to their management company. It is from this perspective, that this reviewer has as good of a claim as anyone to be commenting on the experience of this firm as a customer.