I forgot to mention that I've tried with propertyStatus.status, property_status.status, but with no result...

In this case where you are just retriving one single property model with all one-one relations, why are you lazy-loading ?

I mean, lazy loading or not, the number of queries will be anyway 4 !

If not can you give a view of your schema.

It eager loading, by the definition from here: http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#eager-loading

Besides, the result that I'm returning to the user in through API and is in JSON format and that's why I need to select only certain columns and not all of them.

I'll redefine my question, in case I was not clear. This example is from the Query Builder documentation:

DB::table('users')
            ->join('contacts', 'users.id', '=', 'contacts.user_id')
            ->join('orders', 'users.id', '=', 'orders.user_id')
            ->select('users.id', 'contacts.phone', 'orders.price')
            ->get();

Can I select specific columns like that using Eloquent?

$this->users->
            with('contacts', 'orders')->
            get(array('users.id', 'contacts.phone', 'orders.price')->toArray();

I saw that it can be done using closure, but it can get messy if we have more joins using with().

I need that function as well. Would it be difficult to implement?