A-1 Home Rentals Service ratings, reviews and complaints - Rental Vacancy Listing Service

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BCA's Summary and Analysis:

Complainants generally allege that the company misrepresented their services, failed to provide rental listings, that the listings were either unavailable or non-existent. Most customers complained of failing to received promised full or partial refunds.

The company responds in a few cases by indicating that they would provide full or partial refunds.

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Complaint Closing Statistics

0 complaints against A-1 Home Rentals Service closed in last 3 years.

Complaints	Type of response
0	Making a full refund, as the consumer requested
0	Making a partial refund
0	Agreed to make an adjustment
0	Refusing to make an adjustment
0	Refuse to adjust, relying on terms of agreement
0	Unanswered

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Company Info

This company's business is providing rental listings for a fee.

Primary Contact:	Andrea Vital
Business Started:	1/1/2005
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Licensing

California law requires anyone conducting a prepaid rental listing services to be licensed by the Bureau of Real Estate with a Prepaid Rental Listing Service (PRLS). A real estate broker’s license will also satisfy this requirement. Anyone licensed to conduct such business, unless licensed as a real estate broker, must also maintain a bond in the amount of $10,000 for each location. You may check the status of a real estate broker licensee by writing to BRE, 1651 Exposition Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95815, by calling 1-877-373-4542, faxing 916-227263-8943, or visit their website at http://www.bre.ca.gov. To verify licensing as a Prepaid Rental Listing Service visit http://secure.dre.ca.gov/publicasp/prls.asp to view a current active list of PRLS licensees.

For businesses outside of CA, please check with the appropriate agency.

As of June 5, 2006, we verified that no registration and licensing is listed with the California Department of Real Estate.

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Comments and Analysis

Complaints against rental listing services allege that the properties advertised do not exist or that the listings are not current and the properties were already rented, were never for rent or authorized by the owner to be listed, or do not meet the criteria of the person seeking the rental. Other allegations are that the properties listed were taken from ads in other sources, such as newspapers or Internet websites. Refunds, even if provided for in the contract, are extremely difficult to obtain.

California law requires companies offering rental listings to enter into a contract with you before accepting their fee from you, and the contract is subject to certain requirements. First, it must expire no longer than 90 days from the time you execute it. It must include, besides specifically what you are seeking in a property, a provision for refunding anything you paid over $50 to you if you obtain a rental elsewhere and a provision for refund if they do not provide you at least three available rentals meeting your specifications within five days after you paid your fee. It must also outline the small claims court remedy that is available to you.

For businesses outside of California, please check with the agency that regulates this industry.

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