Watson Property Management

I don’t understand the negative reviews. I rented from Watson for over 3 years. Maintenance repairs were quick and easy. The application process accommodated us well and got us in our neighborhood very quickly. I loved our home and am sad that I had to leave it (for personal reasons). We primarily worked with April, who was very helpful.

And the first honest Realty that I've come across in the city of Bakersfield so I do business with them now

Very nice helpful, would use again

I only just recently started to deal with this company while I was looking for an apartment. I had visited several local realtors who were bait and switch types businesses, I found a place that I liked and started dealing with Vanessa Martin. She is extremely friendly and thoroughly helpful with every aspect of the application process, if there are any questions she calls and requests more information and doesn't just toss your application like so many other places that are just looking for a quick buck. I would have given them 5 stars but since I just started with them I reserved 1 star for them to show me consistency in their actions. I would happily recommend anyone I know to try their services.

Does this place accept evictions

People are rude and walks off while you are talking to them. The secretaries are ok.

Avoid renting a house from Watson Property Management. They are not professional, they are rude, they are passive aggressive, and they have horrible customer service. Any time I called Watson Property Management, I felt like I was in the wrong for letting them know that a water heater or air conditioner broke. It seemed like I was inconveniencing them. I had to wait five days for them to send someone out to repair a water heater that broke – five days without hot water; think about that before renting a house from these people. I ended up having to contact the landlord (owner of the house) to get the water heater and air conditioning fixed. They simply do not take the tenant seriously.

Also, they did not do a move out inspection with me. They did not give me a chance to fix anything and instead they took about half of my security deposit away. I am not even sure that is legal; it is not ethical.

Good luck to anyone who decides to rent from them. You have been warned.

Watson property management is a joke. The lady's there are very unprofessional and unpleasant to talk to. They're very careless about their tenants. Don't ever rent from them.. HORRIBLE PEOPLE

We are a military family abruptly transferring from Norfolk, VA to Bakersfield, CA. We applied to rent a house from Watson Property Management on Monday. The application was very long. And they would only accept it in a drop box (due to Covid-19). As we were in VA, we were told to mail it in with a money order. On Friday, the day after we left for CA, we called and the same lady we talked to initially told us they had received our application, that one other applicant was before us and were already declined, and that they would run our application over the weekend and we could follow up on Monday. On Monday (currently driving through AZ), we called and the SAME lady kept saying she didn't know what we were talking about that she'd have to talk to someone else and call us back. Then she called back and said they never ran our application because it had already been rented. WTH? We could have applied to more places while we were still traveling. Now we're a day away with a 7 month old in tow and we have absolutely nowhere to stay.
If this lady is any indication, these people have no idea what's going on with the status of their rentals. And their application process is ridiculous. If you don't want any physical interaction, set up a process online. Take a credit payment for a processing fee.

Horrible service and an uncanny way of not verbalizing contract disclosure. Moved into property not cleaned but was told it would be considered when lease is up. We paid $500 to have property professionally cleaned upon moving out...11 months after signed lease. Landlord moved back. Was in perfect condition. Keep receipts future tenants!” We we’re still charged $285 cleaning fee, it was listed for the “garage.” Really? Watson kept close to $1000 of deposit. Take pictures before and after lease, NEVER take verbal agreements and avoid renting.

I wish I could give this company zero stars. They are very rude, unprofessional, passive aggressive, condescending, and did I say rude? I do not recommend renting from them. April is extremely rude. The management director is very rude as well. Don't waste your time or money with Watson Property Management.

The staff is rude they don’t answer the phone I had talked to Lisa and kept in contact to update on a specific rental the day the rental became “available “ I called and asked her about it she told me in 30 minutes she’ll have an update and that gave her enough time to call someone else to tell them to apply as soon as I called she said it was available and When I went to apply 10 minutes earlier it was tooken they say it is first come first serve but there is clearly picking and choosing to top it off the rental said it was cleaned we viewed it and there was still old dishes from previous people in the dishwasher it was pretty dirty

Vet very very bad and scammers they will take ur money and not helping you at all and very rude everyone over there is such a scammer

WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE EXPERIENCE EVER 😒 NEVER DOING BUSINESS WITH THEM SERIOUSLY I WAS SO LOOKING FORWARD TO A PROPERTY I WANTED TO GET MY FAMILY