Accel Property Management & Investments

We were hired by John [redacted] in May 2014 to manage his rental properties because the former property manager was not a licensed agent & he wanted a Licensed Real Estate Broker familiar with the TX Property Code laws to manage his properties. A copy of the original lease was not provided to us by...

the former property manager & owner (who are both deceased now) or by Ms. [redacted]. We therefore wrote a new lease using the TX Association of Realtors lease form. At the time of signing the lease Ms. [redacted] indicated the stove was hers & I hand wrote that into the contract. I do not remember if she said the fans were hers or not, however, I did not write that in so I doubt that was indicated to me at the time. Regardless, the lease states that fixtures installed by the tenant either authorized or unauthorized stay with the property & become the property of the landlord. The issue is not were the fans hers, the issue is she ripped the 3 fans out of the ceilings & left bare wires hanging. She alledges when she moved in there were standard fixtures. She therefore needed to replace the fans she wanted to take with a standard fixture. You can not remove fixtures & leave bare walls. She was charged $110 for each fan, $40 to install & $70 for the fixture. Throughout the course of her tenancy she would submit a repair request & then not return messages or be available to schedule the repairs with a vendor. This is the reason some of her repair requests were not completed, not because we do not respond. I would be more than happy to submit further documentation including her lease, the communications log during her tenancy, & her security deposit accounting. We have documented inventory forms when my manager did an inspection in January. We also have move out photos. Ms. [redacted] refused to follow our legal documents & our written procedures. The Executor of the estate requested I give Ms. [redacted] a notice to vacate so he could get the home on the market & get it sold. He gave her time to qualify to get a loan if she wanted to purchase the home. She opted not to purchase the home. The Executor has received her request for a refund of her deposit & he stands behind the $600 we held.