C Hamilton & Assoc

For the past two years, I’ve contracted with C. Hamilton and Associates (CHA) to take care of my rental property in Athens, GA. Claire, the owner, is very involved. She came out to meet me at the house initially and has been in email or phone contact from the start. Her team, consists of her daughter, Tina, and about three others. All have been easy to contact via email, for any question or concern since our contract began in July/​August 2013. I admit to being a little fussy as an owner: dogs ok under a certain weight and preferably no undergraduate partyers who’ll destroy the place. I can’t think of any additional concerns of mine that I shared with CHA regarding tenants.
CHA found a tenant for the place in June/​July 2013 (really, the tenant saw a sign driving by one day, made an appointment to see the house, the CHA agent didn’t show up or let me know someone would be stopping by, I showed the tenant around the house, we chatted and she loved the place, her family moved in), and all has been right until summer 2015. When I realized that I wouldn’t be able to rent the place at the start of August 2015 due to what CHA considers my restrictions with the house and a rent that they said was too high (1^st, $ 1000-​then, $ 985-​then, $ 970 for a 2/1.5 bed/​bath newer house with a fenced in yard walking distance from downtown/campus/stadium…it seems this is the going rate in town…$ 450−500/bedroom), I decided to put the house on the market for sale. I don’t like paying for my own rent in one state and a mortgage for an empty house in a different state.
I contacted CHA at the end of August 2015 to let them know I no longer wanted to rent the place, and I would be selling it. That’s when the communication practices of CHA changed dramatically from what I had experienced over the past two years… like overnight, it seemed I had done something so terribly wrong that constituted:
–no more email communication what so ever,
–no notification that they’d be calling GA Power to shut off the power in the middle of the Georgia summer heat,
–no notice of what to do to formally terminate my contract with them,
–no notice of how they’d handle getting me their copies of my keys back to me,
–no information about how much security deposit they’d charged to the former tenant,
–no final banking report… nothing (and I’d inquired via email about all of these things!).
When I followed up with Tina on the phone about the power shut off, she informed me that it was not her responsibility, that I should have asked my seller’s agent. When I called the office and spoke to Terry about the keys, she said they’d been sitting on the front desk for weeks waiting for someone to come by and pick them up, but it wasn’t her job to notify me. The way CHA chose to end their working relationship with me speaks volumes. I know they don’t like the idea of not making money off of my property, but it was only one, little house. What’s the big deal? Why did CHA’s actions have to be so ugly and unprofessional? What’s the point they’re trying to make by treating me so disrespectfully?
And speaking of disrespectful treatment, I am friends with the people that own and work in the painting company I hired to repaint the house interior in August (hence why I chose their company). When they returned the house keys to CHA’s office, they told me how incredibly rude and disrespectful CHA treated them… your tone, your giving of directions of where to leave the keys. CHA, I think you are snobbish, rude, disrespectful, nontransparent, classist, schmucky business owners. If I own property again in your market, I’ll be sure to use a different agency. I hope others read this review and use it to help make an informed decision about their own rental agreements. I no longer own the house and am thankful to be off of both the renter and seller markets.
Hey, Athens… Don’t do business with C. Hamilton and Associates.

If I could give a negative rating I would.
The upkeep on the properties is non existence.
They delivered the wrong move out date and kept raising the rent. When I spoke to them on the phone they ended up yelling at me and saying they can not change the situation. Very unprofessional.
Upon moving out my roommate and I were charged for problems with the apartment that were there upon our move in. We had noted them in our move in checklist but when we turned it in Hamilton failed to sign our move in list so we had to pay the charges.
I would recommend avoiding renting from them.

If you are searching for housing and has come to Unilocal for some reviews, well, you are in the right place. And one advise as a person who has lived here for 2 yrs and has put up all of random craps from Hamilton:
DO NOT RENT THEIR APT NO MATTER WHAT REASON.
Here’s my story, my roommate and I rented Bloomfield terrace because it is extremely close to campus, and at the time it was cheap. The landlord seemed nice and reasonable when we first came touring the place, and the next minute after we turned in security deposit and signed the lease, they turned into the DEVIL himself.
1. The bathtub and sinks are clogged all the time. We understand this is an old apt and we tried to unclog by ourselves if possible. We called them only once when it was seriously clogged (meaning the water had stayed in the sink for 3 days and did not seem to level down). THEY CHARGED US FOR $ 75 BECAUSE THEY CLAIMED TO FIND A TOOTHPASTE CAP IN THE DRAIN, WHEN OUR TOOTHPASTES IN THE BATHROOM STILL HAD CAPS ON THEM.
2. WE CALLED IN FOR PEST CONTROL BECAUSE WE FOUND A MOUSE IN OUR APT. Only God will know if they came or not, because I certainly didn’t see anyone. The only credit I would give is when I called them, the girl on the phone was genuinely apologetic (that does NOT happen often).
And here comes number 3, which finally caused me to write this review.
Just a month ago, they emailed us saying we are to move out on the 28^th of July. My roommate and I were like ok, cool, we planned and had gotten ready to move everything out on July 27^th because that’s when the new apt lease starts. Then guess what, they called us a week ago telling us we are moving out on the July 25^th. THEY MADE A MISTAKE BY TELLING US THE WRONG MOVE OUT DATE. We called multiple times trying to tell them we can only move out on 27^th. I’m not even exaggerating, they yelled at us over the phone. Then I made a trip to the office, one employee there was nice enough to try and help us. Then the last time I called back to get some answers, her boss picked up the phone, didn’t even apologize for telling us the wrong date, and told us no with condescending voice. I felt as if I was treated like trash.
I’ve told my story. Now it’s your decision if you want to live there or not.