I sadly signed a lease with preiss in june. They're telling me that i'm supposed to pay full price for august, but they're not letting me move in until the 15th. Can I contest this? I sent an email about it, and requested a copy of my contract... I don't remember seeing that I had to pay $200 some-odd for not shit...

7/13/2010 2:44:09 PM

And then you don't have to pay your last month's rent probably?

7/13/2010 2:45:02 PM

welcome to chit-chat!

7/13/2010 2:45:27 PM

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"welcome to chit-chat! HELL"

7/13/2010 2:47:04 PM

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" And then you don't have to pay your last month's rent probably? "

That's highly unlikely, if you know preiss

7/13/2010 2:51:58 PM

IIRC when I lived at University Woods (for two years 2004-2006), they charged me half a month's rent when I moved in in August of 2004

7/13/2010 2:56:37 PM

Have you asked them? Because I suspect that is the case.

7/13/2010 2:56:44 PM

So what you're saying is you signed a contract without reading it? Tsk tsk. I never sign anything without my lawyer present.

7/13/2010 2:57:14 PM

I know Campus Crossing aka, the shittiest apartment complex you could now and forever live at, charges for a full month in August then you don't have to pay the last month's rent. And I don't see how you can talk shit about Priess seeing as you didn't read the contract b4 signing.

7/13/2010 3:01:26 PM

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" sadly signed"

7/13/2010 3:04:03 PM

Trust me, this is will the first of many issues you will have with Preiss.

7/13/2010 3:06:20 PM

They come into the apartments and night and poop in your toilet and just leave it there.

7/13/2010 3:08:03 PM

^THIS

Also, just go to the leasing office and yell at them. The little college failures that run the place are easily badgered.

7/13/2010 3:08:14 PM

Fucking Preiss Company
http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=578738

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"The bottom of my toilet is leaking what appears to me to be blackwater, its sinking into the floor from water damage, my water bill has been 100 dollars every 2 months (for 2 people who dont use that much water) and there are trees growing out of my gutters."

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"Its Prei$$ Company what the fuck do you expect."

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"Yeah, the whole time I lived in my apartment I lived in mold. Called them several times and they never did anything."

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"preiss sucks"

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"It's like you expect them to care. Preiss Company is terrible."

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"I too rented from the Prei$$ Co., and they suck donkey balls."

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"Why do people rent from Preiss Company still?"

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"thats what i don't get, they've had a terrible reputation since at least spring 97 when i started at NCSU, so i'd imagine that any amount of research would yield enough horror stories to keep me away. i've never rented from them myself, but a lot of it is because of all he bad things i've been forced to hear about them while in raleigh and on tww"

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"when my internet jack died. I asked them to fix it. They said they weren't responsible for that and to call the ISP. So, I did that. Made the mistake of calling the Customer Support number and ended up talking to some guy I could barely understand about how to do ipconfig and iprelease. After banging my head on the wall from talking to that guy, I found a number a little higher up the chain of command, called and got a repair guy to come fix it. He told me my ethernet jack was broken on my laptop and that's why I couldn't get online. I had to practically twist his arm to get him to check the freakin' wall jack. He finally did and said "Oh....looks like your jack is dead." I swear, if ppl just listened to me in the first place things would've gone so much smoother! Well, when the repair man finished fixing my jack, he said "Yeah, equipment out here gets fried often because these apartments aren't grounded well and the Preiss company refuses to fix the issue. So whenever there's a storm, something goes down." Also, the ISP hyperlink internet is certainly pitiful as far as bandwidth, but they also monitor your connection for torrent traffic and will cut off your internet service due to "malicious content on your connection" if they sense it. /Preiss Rant"

Before renting with the preiss company....
http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=513367

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"First the most disgusting. There are rats in our apartment. My roommate and I are very clean, so to see rats in apartment is appalling. We told them about this in the beginning of June and it took them almost until August to come check it out. It is febuarary and we still have them. They put down some glue traps and caught three with three glue traps, but doesn't that signal you might need an exterminator and not just glue traps. After about a week of catching rats they said they would come back and exterminate and they never did. We have light switches that do not work. When we complained, the maintenance man called us back and asked if we unscrewed it and checked such and such wires. I mean come on. I pay rent here and maintenance is included. If I am going to be expected to do my own maintenance I should get a discount. I mean I did not go to state to get my maintenance degree. My roommates ceiling started to leak because the upstairs bathroom began to leak and messed up his ceiling and bathroom real bad. This happened in Aug. and they did not come to fix it until almost Jan. They also have called me on several occasions with an attitude about overdue charges, but every time I have to remind them either I already paid or have to dig up my money order for proof of payment since they can not afford to give me a receipt. It would not be so bad if they did not have such an attitude when they called."

preiss co
http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=397366

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"I have heard of were that they lose rent checks, so you can solve that by getting a receipt, simple enough. I've never had a problem, there's one girl there though that always acts like she has a pole up her butt but that's more of a personality problem, not really a management problem that would actually affect you."

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"Yes... I'd third all of that. The company itself is EXTREMELY disorganized. Let me say that again... EXTREMELY DISORGANIZED So, that being said... make sure that you check over everything yourself and know that you have your end of everything covered completely. I looked at Preiss company apartments, and although I am currently living in one of their complexes, I went the private owner route because I was very unimpressed with the way they handled showing us locations for rent. Also, I called in reference to a few of the houses that they have for rent in the area just about a month ago... they were not helpful at all. They knew nothing about the properties that they had for rent and refused to answer any of my specific questions. They directed me to their website which I had already perused and which did not have the answer to my question. Hope this helps and that your experience with them will be better than mine! Oh yeah... I forgot to mention... we had an issue that was very specific to our situation and we had to get special directions from Preiss company to figure out how to handle it. Needless to say, it took weeks for us to actually get through all the levels of management and find a solution, which wasn't really a solution at all. Haha... but in between talking to all the different people, someone got confused... and they had something installed that doesn't make any sense whatsoever (just because they didn't understand the issue at hand). Anyway, just one of my many personal examples of them being hard to deal with."

Non-Preiss Company 4-bed apartments in raleigh?
http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=595806&page=1#14033172

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"Some friends and I are looking for a decent 4-bedroom apartment or townhouse that is generally near campus. Nearly every source says that Preiss Company sucks, so we'd like to avoid them."

full price for half month's rent?
http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=598478

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"I sadly signed a lease with preiss in june. They're telling me that i'm supposed to pay full price for august, but they're not letting me move in until the 15th. Can I contest this? I sent an email about it, and requested a copy of my contract... I don't remember seeing that I had to pay $200 some-odd for not shit..."

7/13/2010 3:08:27 PM

i just moved into the Raleigh Apts and we had to pay full price even though we didnt get in until the 10th of July BUT August will be the pro-rated price of what July should have been. It makes no sense but yeah we paid $700 for part of July and then we'll pay $495 for the full month of August then back up to $700 regularly after that.

7/13/2010 3:09:32 PM

So, you knew this was a bad idea before even signing with the company? Nobody feels bad for you. Let this be a lesson to you young people of the tww community. As if a quick search of the internets wouldn't have told you this same information.

7/13/2010 3:09:40 PM

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" I don't see how you can talk shit about Priess seeing as you didn't read the contract b4 signing."

I've subleased, they fucking suck.

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"Trust me, this is will the first of many issues you will have with Preiss."

agreed, but there's slim pickings in june for a place do-able on minimum wage.

7/13/2010 3:10:24 PM

MOST places I have live always make you pay the full month regardless of when you move in. I've always been told you pay for the month ahead pretty much. But on your last day there (august 15, 2011) you won't have to pay anything.

[Edited on July 13, 2010 at 3:12 PM. Reason : f]

7/13/2010 3:12:00 PM

Well hopefully you picked the top floor.

7/13/2010 3:12:37 PM

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"signed a lease with preiss"

i stopped reading the thread right there.

Whatever you're complaining about is the way its going to be. Good luck fighting it

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

7/13/2010 8:52:37 PM

Half months don't matter because they base their payments by month name.

With Preiss, they don't care how long you are in the location for, just have a set lease rate ie: $1,500. Regardless if you live there during an agreed upon time period of 6 months or 12 months, you still have to pay the $1,500. So your payment will still be 1500/6 or 1500/12.

7/13/2010 9:05:36 PM

i've never not had a pro-rated rent if move in or move out date is not a full month

7/13/2010 9:06:43 PM

I had the same thing happen with Preiss. Had to pay full rent for the first month and you don't get jack shit of that back. Still have to be out July 31 of the following year.

7/13/2010 9:07:07 PM

lol, the shit they gave me was it's "12 equal payments divided over 12 months..regardless of when you moved in or when you move out"

7/13/2010 9:07:33 PM

yar...

anyone looking to sublease a room?

7/13/2010 9:18:25 PM

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"That's highly unlikely, if you know preiss"

if you "know" preiss so well, why did you sign a lease with them?

7/13/2010 9:26:02 PM

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"lol, the shit they gave me was it's "12 equal payments divided over 12 months..regardless of when you moved in or when you move out""

This.

I'm moving in to University Village this August because it was one of the only Preiss properties I couldn't find anyone bitching about, and... I swear don't think I'm a fucking idiot but it sounds like I am... BlackDog said the place was good (he lives there). I realize now that he's totally drugged up and probably thinks the rats in his apartment are rainbow puppies OH GOD I'M DOOMED.











Also, about a month after I signed my lease, ApartmentRatings got their first reviews in for University Village.

7/13/2010 9:55:19 PM

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"I had the same thing happen with Preiss. Had to pay full rent for the first month and you don't get jack shit of that back."

WTH is wrong with you people?
1. Don't rent from Preiss.
2. If you did rent from them grow a pair and don't let them walk all over you.

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"For information on tenant security deposits, discrimination in rental housing, condominiums and townhouses, and other consumer housing issues, contact the North Carolina Real Estate Commission (919/875-3700) and request a free copy of a "Questions and Answers" brochure on any of these topics. Other written materials are available from the Consumer Protection Section of the Attorney General's Office (919/733-7741). And for fair housing (discrimination) issues, call the North Carolina Human Relations Commission (919/733-7996) or your local fair housing agency. In addition, you may wish to consult a private attorney."

http://www.ncrec.state.nc.us/publications-bulletins/Renting.html

The NC Real Estate Commission and the NC Attorney General will look out for you if you make a reasonable attempt to look out for yourself first.

7/13/2010 9:58:47 PM

i never had a problem with preiss

7/13/2010 10:00:14 PM

7/13/2010 10:06:28 PM

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"i just moved into the Raleigh Apts and we had to pay full price even though we didnt get in until the 10th of July BUT August will be the pro-rated price of what July should have been. It makes no sense but yeah we paid $700 for part of July and then we'll pay $495 for the full month of August then back up to $700 regularly after that."

This. I rented from Preiss (in one of their individual properties, not the college hamster housing) and wanted to start my lease in mid-July so I could move my stuff at my leisure without a rental truck. I was charged a full month's rent for July and the pro-rated July amount for August. Not sure why it worked that way--something about their accounting. You might want to ask if this is what's happening to you.

While I certainly wouldn't call Preiss a model of landlord virtue, and would watch them like a hawk, my experiences with them haven't been so bad. The only problem I had in three years in the apartment I rented from them was a difference of opinion on a maintenance issue in the bathroom (not involving plumbing or sewage). I had also lived in one of their properties at University Oaks while in school, but the guy who owned our unit specifically told us to direct all maintenance and requests through him and he'd call on our behalf. They listened much better when the owner called. The building was cheaply-built junk, but we lived there when it was brand new so not much had broken yet.

7/14/2010 2:58:29 AM

^^ ahha. I like that.

7/14/2010 3:18:15 AM

Boylen Company bought an apartment complex from Preiss a couple of years ago (at 1613 Gorman Street) and they were fantastic landlords over the two year period I was living in that complex. I only had one problem (a leaky dishwasher) and they sent out a maintenance guy that day to take care of it. My girlfriend lived down the hall and she had an awful mold problem end up spreading from behind her sink, and they sent out a couple of repair guys who fixed it up very nicely, even repainted when they were done. They are very open to suggestions about improvements to the grounds, easily approachable and easy to deal with, and they even let me slide on a late fee once because I totally forgot what day it was. I left earlier than July 31st this year, so they prorated my rent to $34 dollars for the month.

I would highly recommend them for anyone. and they're usually hurting to fill their apartments, so if you sign up for one you can start getting $100 for referring other people.

7/14/2010 10:41:05 AM

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"Well hopefully you picked the top floor."

As somebody who lived on both the bottom floor and the top floor of a Univeristy Woods complex, I can say that the water pressure on the bottom floor was superb and the top floor was hardly anything at all

7/14/2010 2:49:52 PM

Priess company sucks balls.

I lived in Gorman Street Village.

The red headed step child of the Priess Company. If you think living anywhere else that is owned by the Priess company is bad don't even think about Gorman Street Village.
I lived in mold all year, and pretty much had a steady cough until I moved out.
My roommates and I all called several times to have them remove it and no one ever came to look at it.
One time I got locked out and they have a number to call during the day for them to help you get back in. I called, it took the guy FOREVER to come help me out and then when he got there he didn't even have the right key. He had to go back to the office, and they still didn't have the right key there.
He came back with a crowbar, probably around 4 hours after I initially called and right as he was about to pull the door frame off so I could get into my apartment my roommate finally got home and let me in.

7/14/2010 3:02:21 PM

dag ... look at supplanter's post

7/14/2010 5:38:52 PM

^OMG you're right, tdubbers complaining about something? Scandal!

(Although TWW's disapproval was in fact a major consideration for me, I didn't have any other options at the time and couldn't afford to wait).

7/14/2010 7:28:42 PM

This makes me really sad concerning what they're going to do about the carpet damage I have in my place

Thank goodness we are technically living in a privately owned apartment.. he just lets the Preiss Co manage it for now... but they control my deposits :\

7/14/2010 7:42:49 PM

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"My roommates and I all called several times to have them remove it and no one ever came to look at it."

Did you ever call the NC Real Estate Commission, or even try going to Student Legal Services? I would classify mold as cause for substandard living.

7/14/2010 8:01:04 PM

^Most types of mold aren't, I checked because of my fucking terrible mold allergies.

7/14/2010 10:08:39 PM

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" I never sign anything without my lawyer present."

You pay a lawyer to sit with you during an apartment lease signing?

7/14/2010 10:57:47 PM

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"This. I'm moving in to University Village this August because it was one of the only Preiss properties I couldn't find anyone bitching about, and... I swear don't think I'm a fucking idiot but it sounds like I am... BlackDog said the place was good (he lives there). I realize now that he's totally drugged up and probably thinks the rats in his apartment are rainbow puppies OH GOD I'M DOOMED. Also, about a month after I signed my lease, ApartmentRatings got their first reviews in for University Village. "

quite exactly my situation...


also, I got them to let me move in on the 6th, rather than the 15th. I got the same "same rate for an 11.5 month lease, just spread over 12 months." Not to say I won, but I got a little of what I wanted.

7/20/2010 10:42:09 PM