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Cummings Properties is a commercial real estate company in the Boston, MA area. They are a very big local commercial real estate company. Several years ago, I needed to rent commercial real estate for my small business so I thought of Cummings Properties.Overall the office space is totally fine so I signed a multiple year lease with Cummings Properties. Last year 2008/2009 I received an increase in rent from them as a "standard of living increase". This is total BS if I ever heard it. When I asked the property manager at Cummings Properties, they said that is the way it is (and is in the lease) and we are increasing rent for everyone. How could you increase rent for EVERY small business by 10% during a recession? I was very upset and posted this complaint on another site last year (which I updated today):
http://www".complaintsboard/.com/complaints/cummings-properties-c149196?.html
Today, I was notified by Cummings Properties that our rent will be increasing again for 2010 by 14% for another "standard of living increase"|. This is ridiculous and I do not know what to do?. I own a small business and can not afford to have my rent increase every year until my lease is completed!.
I will continue to share my negative increasing rent experience about Cummings Properties with everyone I know as I do not think it is right to increase a small business rent every year, even in a tough economy that we are in?. If I increased pricing to my customers I would loose business for sure:.
Anyway, I wanted to share my horrible experience with Cummings Properties and not recommend any small business to rent any office space from them. 1294f82
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| 1. Written by Saugus75 on May 8, 2012 from -, -, US Don't work for Cummings, I did, and then got fired without a second chance because I borrowed 10 bucks from one of the custodians tool carts. They caught me with a hidden camera in the hallway! That even screwed me out of the holiday pay I would have earned the following monday. |
| 2. Written by frank on November 27, 2011 from salem, massachusetts, US I had worked for Cummings properties for 12yrs . An I can let everyone now know how they do business. Cummings will put allot in small print on all leases.An believe me i say it all works in their favor.They discriminate against smokers on their properties. i was fired for violation of the smoking policy. i did not fight them on it .When i was fired i asked the general manger if i should even try to apply for unemployment .Steve said it should not be a problem stating that the company had the right to reject it . Which i understood they did . he then told me he would make a few calls. Well they rejected my claim. instead they screwed me over . an im not the only person who smokes that they did this too.DO NOT RENT FROM THIS COMPANY THEY WILL PROMISE THE WORLD AN GIVE NOTHING IN RETURN.An if you own a collections company or a telemarketing firm they will watch an your employees . I know for a fact they installed at lest four cameras just to watch the comings an going of blue vases employees. I ave no motive other then to expose this company for the frauds they are .  |
| 3. Written by Ed on October 31, 2011 from -, -, US I heard they gave a half million bucks away to help feed low life drifters who should be working. They should reduce our rent instead of giving a free ride to scum who don't deserve it. |
| 4. Written by John on October 7, 2011 from boston, massachusetts, US It is all true! Cummings is a scam artist company. Funny how they charge a cost of living increase yet they denied all employees raises for 2 years due to the "recession". They screw small businesses and employees alike over. Then "the owner" gives half his fortune away for tax benefits and takes credit for doing something good when in fact he has direct ties to all his benficiaries. |
| 5. Written by SarahSA on January 5, 2011 from lowell, massachusetts, US William Cummings was unhappy with the Mayor of Woburn, Massachusetts. He called the Mayors' wife and harassed her multiple times. He paid some money and stopped the harassment. The low quality of materials is correct, although the rent increases are protected by contract law on what is called a NY triple net lease which the company uses. It make the business owner feel like they have given the landlord a blank check. Increased costs of property management are passed on to the tenant. Totally different from a residential lease. |
| 6. Written by Jennifer on August 11, 2010 from maynard, massachusetts, US HORRIBLE - do not rent from Cummings properties. Its expensive and bad quality space. Every time it rains it smells moldy because their buildings leak and they contract out really low quality workers to build out the space. Just reconsider renting from someone else. I rent 2 offices in the 200 Boston Ave location and I made a huge mistake. They have no idea what they are doing and offer no support or guidance when you have problems with their leaky ceilings and windows. STAY AWAY |
| 7. Written by John on August 11, 2010 from maynard, massachusetts, US Dont rent from Cummings properties. 1. Shoddy cheap materials are used to build out your space 2. The seem all nice at first and then install and equip the space with all the wrong parts then they want to get away from any commitment to help you fix THEIR space. 3. The whole operation seems like a scam STAY AWAY!! |
| 8. Written by Wchung on August 7, 2010 from boston, massachusetts, US I rent 2 offices from Cummings. I have no probrem with them. They good people. |
| 9. Written by johns on April 15, 2010 from nashua, new hampshire, US I found this bb after a google search. I have had much the the same experience as johsmith2010a, and I can't tell you how many people I dissuaded from consider leasing space from Cummings Properties. They are notoriously un scrupulous. Annual automatic rent increases using a confusing formula based on COLA, automatic lease renewals, "prompt payment discounts", personal guarantees on leases, etc., etc. Yes, it is the leasee's responsibility to read and understand the lease, but Cummings Properties and their merry band of leasing agents and lawyers know fully well that many small business owners are looking for help and guidance in these areas - not for someone to take advantage of them! Stay away from Cummings Properties - there are too many other better alternatives in the north shore area. |
| 10. Written by sj on March 27, 2010 from columbus, ohio, US I wonder if this is the same co. called home cummings that riped off people on there mortgages. thay raised there mortgages every three months, because it was in there contract that thay could.thay charged as much as 26% intrest. when you missed two payments, thay would refuse any payment after that to catch up. forclose, sell your property, and charge you moore than you started out with, thay collected from there insurance co. as a loss, and also collected the amount from the gov.thay made a killing.  |
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