Important for TCU or TWU students moving to DFW area

darienblythe79 · Apr 25, 2006

Just wanted to let everyone know DO NOT rent/lease with a company called Prime Properties. I won't say anything more than that, but rent at your own risk. My husband and I just got totally screwed by them and what good is this board if we can't warn eachother about things. Good luck and congrats to everyone starting soon.
TX

Geez, sorry to hear that. In that case, can you recommend some better properties?

Retired R.N. · Apr 25, 2006

Just wanted to let everyone know DO NOT rent/lease with a company called Prime Properties. I won't say anything more than that, but rent at your own risk. My husband and I just got totally screwed by them and what good is this board if we can't warn eachother about things. Good luck and congrats to everyone starting soon.
TX

Even more important to nurses working in the Dallas/Fort Worth area is the existence and the scope of an agency known as "Group One," formed by a large group of hospitals and medical employers in the area. They like to present themselves as a "credit reporting agency," but they collect every possible detail they can find about your employment and personal history and make your dossier available to all the other members of that group.

That means that your dispute with Prime Properties might very well find its way into the file they keep on you, but it's very doubtful that your side of that story will be reported.

Also important to nurses coming to Texas is knowing that Texas is an "at will" employment state, and there aren't any unions to help protect nurses' interests.

West_Coast_Ken, BSN, RN · Apr 25, 2006

Also important to nurses coming to Texas is knowing that Texas is an "at will" employment state, and there aren't any unions to help protect nurses' interests.

I'm so glad I left Big-D to go back home to Cali and begin my nursing career. Dallas was good to me and my family and I still have family there but I have no interest in how they treat their employee in Texas.

TexasCCRN · Apr 25, 2006

Even more important to nurses working in the Dallas/Fort Worth area is the existence and the scope of an agency known as "Group One," formed by a large group of hospitals and medical employers in the area. They like to present themselves as a "credit reporting agency," but they collect every possible detail they can find about your employment and personal history and make your dossier available to all the other members of that group.
That means that your dispute with Prime Properties might very well find its way into the file they keep on you, but it's very doubtful that your side of that story will be reported.
Also important to nurses coming to Texas is knowing that Texas is an "at will" employment state, and there aren't any unions to help protect nurses' interests.

Thanks, not worried about that because i have paid them all they say i owe, etc...they just have too much and i want it back....so did what i was supposed to! Thanks anyway

tonetone77 · May 1, 2006

Group One is employment info only. Texas hospitals can only say whether or not you are eligible for rehire. No true specifics. It says your position and when you worked. They can also put if you failed to give notice (two weeks). Most hospitals don't report to Group One and most small hospitals never look at it. THR is picky about it. One administrator told me that if you give a descent explanation, they ignore what is on there anyway. For $3.25 you can get a copy of your group one sent to you. As a Texas nurse, I do have to say it sucks here. Nurses don't understand nor use there power. They just do as they are told. It's the south remember. Everyone has their "place." And that's why I don't work as staff. My mouth is too big. :devil: