I lived in brookside, so I cant speak for their other properties. The apartment complex was fairly nice. Definitely not the best in the price range for Bozeman, but fairly acceptable. The park in the middle of the complexes was a nice touch (but the rule about no dogs being allowed *anywhere* on the premises was extremely annoying when a friend wanted to bring their dog to the middle of the park). Storage is a closet-sized space on the fairly small patio. Sound proofing is an enormous issue. We had a few problems with our neighbors below us hearing some of our music, but it we were able to come to an understanding. For a decent portion of my lease, I had a fairly pleasant experience living at 2019 W. College in the Brookside apartments.
However, it just so happened that our landladies' niece and her friends moved in above us halfway through our lease. These people very much liked to wear their cowboy boots on the linoleum floor and stomp very loudly at 2 o'clock in the morning on weeknights. Myself and my roommates attempted many times to ask them to please try to not do so to no avail. We talked to our landladies multiple times about the issue, but they seemed extremely disinterested in helping us resolve the issue.
When it came time to move out, (i suspect because of our problems with their niece) they hired a professional inspector to look at our apartment to evaluate it for cleanliness. This inspector check every single nook and cranny of the apartment, having us clean ridiculous things like the slider of the windows. Later, when asked, we found out that the inspector did not have the sheet showing the condition of the apartment prior to us moving in, so we were held accountable for fixing and cleaning things to a better condition than we found them in (I talked to multiple other people that also lived at Brookside, and none of them experienced treatment nearly as harsh as we did). We protested to the landladies, who only agreed to give us a small portion of our deposit after we threatened legal action. It has been a few years since I moved out, and I have moved to a different state, but I never saw that check.
I would strongly recommend using Bridger Property Management only as a last resort. I only have time to tell a small portion of the troubles myself and my roommates had with these people, but there is much more to tell. These people are shady, and extremely painful to deal with. The two ladies in the management office are ridiculously hard to get ahold of, since they seemed to get into their office at 9, go to lunch at 11:30, come back at 2:30, and leave the office at 4:30 or 5. IF you HAVE to rent from them, have a lawyer go through your lease with a fine tooth comb, and have the lawyer prepared to represent you in court when they inevitably do not hold up their portion of the lease, or violate Montana law concerning renter/rentee agreements. read more