If you haven't been fast-talked into putting down an unspecified deposit on an apartment, then be forewarned: NEVER CONDUCT BUSINESS WITH RAPID REALTY. Rapid Realty does not care about tenants or landlords. They are only interested in closing deals any way possible by cutting corners with lies and psychological sales tricks. Here is my experience: After being told that i had to hurry up and put a deposit down on an apartment because someone else was going to put a deposit down (lie # 1), they made my cosigner and I wait in their closing room for almost one hour to type up a three sentence addendum to a lease that was blatantly worded against our original wishes. After my cosigner rightly walked away from being tricked into signing for both me and my potential roommate, it took them an entire week to get back to us with an answer from the landlord. Then they told us that due to our credit history, the landlord wants us to sign a lease with an increase of 100 dollars per month. Who does that?! We think that Rapid Realty gave us an incorrect quote from the very beginning and then used our vulnerable credit situation against us to try to get us to close the deal by waiting close to the end of the month to give us an answer from the landlord. At that point, we backed out and got our deposit back, which we got back in 24 hours thankfully. We also found out later that the apartment they tried to give us happens to be the back yard of the largest homeless mens shelter in Brooklyn with a methadone clinic right down the street. I feel sorry for the tenants in the building that will close with Rapid Realty.
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