Business ProfileforCore 3 Property Management

This company had a listing on their website for a 3-bed, 2-bath for $1650/month with no utilities required by tenant. We (myself and ****** ******) toured the unit twice- along with another unit in the same complex that had the same no-utility advertisement- and both times were reassured that no utilities were required. At one point there were up to 5 listings in this complex on their website with the same claim. We signed a lease with this company on March 7th. The responsibilities section in the lease states that lessor must put water, electric, gas, and trash in their name before move in and first day of lease “if applicable”. We signed this section under the impression that none of those services applied to our case. We paid $110 in application fees, $1650 in security deposit, $500 in pet deposit, and $542.47 in first months rent, all prior to receiving the keys. When picking up the keys and move-in package, ****** asked one more time to ensure that no services were required and they confirmed. We have since paid $3300 in rent. On May 1st, we were charged $119.28 for electric. We contacted the business and were told not to pay and to wait for more insight. On May 15th we were charged $36 for water. On May 20th we were told by the company that we must pay the utilities and that it was “regrettable” that “it was not made clearer verbally”. We would not have signed this lease knowing the utility requirements, and we were not made aware of them until we had already spent thousands of dollars. They still have listings of units in the same complex falsely advertising no utilities. I have attached 3 of their false advertisements for this complex, our original lease, and our email exchange with the company regarding the issue. As stated in the emails, we wish to have our rent discounted to account for the utility amount we now have to pay or to be transferred to another unit.