We are a full service real estate office, offering professional property management and leasing services, effective supervision of your real estate assets, as well as sales and exchanges. Moved out of state and hired Golden Key to manage my residential property and I am so glad I did! Leslie and Adrienne are fantastic and always leave me with the feeling that my property is in great hands.
They've been very open to answering any and all questions and are very quick to get back to me if we correspond via email, always same day, and made me feel very comfortable as I am new to the process. Highly recommend this company! My wife Cathie and I could NOT be real estate investors without the steady hands and minds of Golden Key Properties involved.
They've been very open to answering any and all questions and are very quick to get back to me if we correspond via email, always same day, and made me feel very comfortable as I am new to the process. Highly recommend this company! My wife Cathie and I could NOT be real estate investors without the steady hands and minds of Golden Key Properties involved.
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Family owned and operated, we have been serving the North San Diego County area since 1970. We are a full service real estate office, offering professional property management and leasing services, as well as effective supervision of your real estate assets. We offer comprehensive sales services, including listings, exchanges and buyer representation.
Golden Key Properties, Inc. has been in business since 1970, and takes pride in establishing positive business relationships with other Realtors. If you refer a homeowner client to us, we ALWAYS refer them back to you when the time comes for them to list their home for sale. While we encourage Realtors to keep in touch with their clients, we will not ever solicit ourselves to list their home for sale.
FREE advertising for your rental property (sign, printed rental list, Craigslist, Zillow, Trulia, personal website, MLS, military website). Personal property showings by an Agent or Leasing Consultant certified in Fair Housing Fundamentals. Annual inspections performed to ensure your home is adequately maintained with no deferred maintenance.
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Victoria O.
Jun 28, 2021
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Dylan Doherty
Apr 29, 2021
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Positive: Professionalism, Quality, Responsiveness, Value
Easily the finest experience I have had with a property management company. The entire staff is friendly, punctual and an all around pleasure to deal with. I have worked primarily with Dana Pruitt and she has been wonderful since day one.
Easily the finest experience I have had with a property management company. The entire staff is friendly, punctual and an all around pleasure to deal with. I have worked primarily with Dana Pruitt and she has been wonderful since day one.
Vince Grillo
Apr 04, 2021
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Jeff Anshel The Eye Guy
Mar 30, 2021
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Lisa F.
Mar 22, 2021
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I needed a property management company during the pandemic. Dana already rented my property twice and both times within 30 days! I am very pleased with how she is handling everything. They are very fair with their pricing so I decided to let them fully manage the unit. So far, I have no complaints!!
Lydia Benevento
Dec 11, 2020
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We rented a property for Golden key for over 7 years. We just moved last month and had called and talked to William regarding how much to pay for the first week for March. Once we were all moved they mailed me a statement and an invoice. As soon as I received I called that day and have been calling/ email for the last 2 weeks and still have not got a call back. Lots of items that I have questions about how repairs no details on how much each costed, and begining balance??? As of today I still have not jear back from ANYONE.
G. S.
Sep 14, 2020
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Derek A.
Apr 27, 2020
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Just moved into a great rental house managed by Golden Key Properties. Dana was completely professional and quick to respond during the application and move in process - everything went absolutely perfect despite the limitations imposed by COVID and social distancing. The house is in excellent shape and the whole process was great from start to finish. We are very happy in our new home thanks to Dana and Golden Key Properties!
Andrew Hannan
Oct 30, 2019
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While each experience is truly unique to the individual, and you may read less than enthusiastic experiences, I can say mine with Golden Key has been EXCELLENT from the first (very prompt) exchange through to the current "little items" left from the move-in list. Moving at the holidays is NEVER fun, much less so unplanned. Dana Pruitt the PM and the rest of the team that I have interacted with so far have been nothing but attentive, responsive, helpful, cooperative and generally caring; not just for me, but I believe in their representation of their owner client. I found the place on a Saturday
Holly Lux
Oct 18, 2019
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Golden Key Properties will ensure headaches and frustration from day one. Every aspect of this business is based on capitalist predation. The owner, Ned Paterson, and the rest of the company will strong-arm you into signing your lease, yell at your wife when she calls for maintenance requests, and give you run-around after run-around instead of doing what you pay them to do. My advice is to steer-clear of Golden Key; rent from someone else that is hopefully better (and know your tenant rights)!
Cathy C.
Sep 12, 2019
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I was referred to Golden Key to manage my rental property when my previous manager was retiring. OMG! This company is the worst company. The personnel are not friendly or even act like they want to help you. Calls aren't returned for days. The last property manager told me she would do things "right now" and days would go by without being done. I had a manager for a while, Adrienne, who was fabulous. She left the company and the new one was awful. The owner must be absentee and letting the company run by itself with incompetent people. I have changed to a new company.
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Sandra Hughes
Jul 14, 2019
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Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Russell Mycorn, property manager for Golden Key Properties. You were instrumental in making an old lady's lifetime dream of LIVING ON THE BEACH a reality!!! I always hoped but never actually imagined my dream would one day come true. Russell provided great service throughout the entire rental and agreement process, and is only a phone call away if I have any further questions or concerns regarding the property. I hope all your future clients are as delighted as I am.
Sandra Hughes
Sandra Hughes
Noah H.
Apr 16, 2019
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Their agent was very slow to respond even though it was the first day of a listing. Makes sense though since they charge a 35$ application fee and the more people apply the more money they make. Wasted 70$ to find we were fourth in line. The ad was posted for days and reposted, I can imagine the 10th or more person putting in an application even though they had no chance. This company is scamming people.
Brenda T.
Jan 31, 2019
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Mike T.
Feb 10, 2018
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We recently moved into a rental home in Oceanside with Bryan Oxley as our Leasing Assistant. Bryan was very professional and attentive to our emails when we had questions about the property. He was on time at the property for viewing and kept us updated on our status as other applicants had applied for the property ahead of us. He informed us that the first applicants had decided not to move forward with the unit and asked if we would like to proceed with the credit check/paper work to get the ball rolling.
We ultimately moved into the home last week and couldn't be happier. Golden Key has
We ultimately moved into the home last week and couldn't be happier. Golden Key has
Martin Croskery
Jan 29, 2018
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We were buying a retirement home out of town and had settled on Carlsbad. We lived in the Bay area 600 miles away and wanted someone to look after the property for us. My broker put me in touch with Leslie at Golden Key properties. Leslie was both helpful and very informative about the rental market in Carlsbad and I felt confident using her and the company. Within one week of closing the property, Leslie had already met me at the property, taken photos advised me on the value of the property and put it online. We managed to rent our home out within one week and they have been looking after it
Alex P.
Jan 23, 2018
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Mitch F.
Oct 04, 2017
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I am a returning tenant of Golden Key Properties. I recently rented a unit from their company and Leslie was the agent I worked with. She was professional and helpful during both the application and move-in process. I had an item that needed attention once I moved-in and Golden Key Properties was able to take care of it in a timely manner.. The property is well maintained and I am enjoying living there as one of their tenants.
Karleen Miller
Oct 01, 2017
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Golden Key Properties worked with us on an apartment rental. They responded very quickly to our emails. Their website allowed us to review available properties and had good pictures so we could get a feel for the property before submitting our application. Our stay at the apartment was pretty good, all the appliances were new and worked well, there was a fresh coat of paint on all the walls so the place like they has made efforts to prepare it nicely for our stay. The outside area around the property was kept up nicely during our entire stay. All the Golden Key representatives were very helpful
Terri S.
Aug 18, 2017
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Beware of this property rental "business"? When you move out they will charge you for things that were deficient on moving in. DOCUMENT AND TAKE PICTURES OF EVERYTHING. They charged us $182 for moving an old grill on the curb before the trash company could take it. They charged us for carpet pretreatment AFTER we had the carpets cleaned professionally. We even had the house professionally cleaned at a cost of $250 so they could rent it right away but barely got half our deposit back. Renters beware!!!
Ben G.
Jun 05, 2017
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Pedro A.
Jun 03, 2017
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Ned is a nice person...but a bad Property Manager. He let the tenants destroy our property in San Marcos, CA. We had to invest thousands of dollars to repair the damages. We had to rent two trash bins to remove all the trash the tenants left. I think they are afraid to talk with the tenants.
Stay away from this company.
Rating=Negative
Stay away from this company.
Rating=Negative
Nicholas F.
May 23, 2017
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There's a Reason why these are month to month, I have had friends that have rented here including myself awhile back. Whenever there is work that needs to be done in these apartments such as construction, or mold clean ups, etc, golden key will tell you they will send somebody out to fix it and nobody even comes to look at anything for weeks, months. And whenever they send a repair person the job does not get done the right way. Don't waste your time or money renting from these people or you will have a long term headache
Wing C.
Apr 14, 2016
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Years ago the owner of this business mismanaged my property in so many ways, I fired them and found someone else. He let a tenant run off with expensive appliances and did not bother to help recover them, had unauthorized "contractors" perform unrequested services and tried (unsuccessfully) to get me to pay for it, and was generally a terrible obnoxious person. Run away, don't just walk away, from Golden Key.
Janelle R.
Feb 26, 2016
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I'm finally getting settled in my new La Costa apartment and have to mention that I have really enjoyed working with Golden Key Properties.
Dana Pruitt was FANTASTIC to work with. She was detailed, provided prompt responses and really understood our particular situation. I was traveling out of the country and was able to communicate any questions regarding the lease agreement, move in details and arrange for deposit to secure the apartment. I couldn't have done it without Dana's help!
During the move in process there were a few things that needed maintenance attention. Dana clearly
Dana Pruitt was FANTASTIC to work with. She was detailed, provided prompt responses and really understood our particular situation. I was traveling out of the country and was able to communicate any questions regarding the lease agreement, move in details and arrange for deposit to secure the apartment. I couldn't have done it without Dana's help!
During the move in process there were a few things that needed maintenance attention. Dana clearly
The T.
Aug 07, 2014
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I was going to list my home for rent with this agency until I met with some 20 something year old know it all blond trying to tell me that if I did not list my home at "her" suggest price that they were not interested in my business. Needless to say I was "Shocked".
I thought to myself who is this person with very little life experience much less business experience to tell me at what price to list my home. I've been a landlord for 25 years rented dozen of homes and not once did she consider I might have a little bit more experience then her and perhaps she should
I thought to myself who is this person with very little life experience much less business experience to tell me at what price to list my home. I've been a landlord for 25 years rented dozen of homes and not once did she consider I might have a little bit more experience then her and perhaps she should
Sharon Luther
Aug 26, 2013
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This is a 5 STAR team of professionals. They know what they are doing. They do their job well and carefully. On top of it all they all are incredibly gracious and helpful. Being a landlord is not my favorite job. I did my own property management for over 10 years. Finding the Golden Key team was a true blessing. I have been served well team members Leslie, Mary, Carolyn, Ned, Tom and Summer, Keep up the great service folks! There are not many companies like yours anymore these days.
