This is my personal experience with them. Rented from them for a year and a half. Rented a 1…read morebedroom apartment. I would have stayed longer, but my then-partner/roommate at the time and I ended up having an altercation in which I had to break my lease for my own safety and mental well being. For that reason, I am using a different name here to kind of preserve a little privacy.
When we went to look at the apartment, we were told it was being remodeled, which was clear to us when we looked at it. They were in the process of installing a new kitchen sink, as well as patching holes in the walls, and repainting cabinets.
The apartment was about what I expected, small place in a college area. Smelled like paint. I was a little put off by the pack of cigarettes' and ash tray sitting in the open bathroom window but the place didn't stink like smoke, so whatever.
What I didn't understand was why they painted the cabinets and then the wood floors in the bedroom with a type of paint that wouldn't allow me to wipe any liquids off of it without taking the paint with it. I tried to swiffer mop the bedroom floor and took paint off with it. DX Super annoying! The cabinet doors also seemed to be mounted a little strangely, they rubbed against the adjacent wall when you opened them and couldn't open all the way.
It was all manageable to live with, though. Better than not having a place to live! At one point during my rental time with them, we had a sink that had a barely-visible leak underneath it. It took me a little bit to catch on that it was there. I alerted their maintenance guys and told them it wasn't a big deal. It was a slow leak, and I put an old ice cream bucket underneath it. It did take them a little while to come out and fix it, though, but everyone's human and I'm sure they were prioritizing other issues first. They fixed it a month later. By that point, the leak was a little more serious, but the ice cream bucket was still coming in handy, and we weren't paying for it because our utilities were included. So we just updated them with a text, and just waited for them to get back to us about when they could come out.
To my understanding, they had a lot of properties at the time. I think they have since been growing, so they have more. I'm not sure how many maintenance guys they have, but I do know they have a 24 hour number in case of emergency. I wouldn't have considered the sink an emergency, so waiting was no issue.
Another repair we ran into was our heat not working when winter was about to start. We didn't have access to the thermostat in our apartment. It was in another unit in the triplex, I think? Which was a little odd, but this was a cheaper apartment with utilities included so we didn't mind. When we didn't seem to have any heat coming to our place, though, we did tell maintenance and it was quickly taken care of within the week. Again, it wasn't really cold out. There was no snow on the ground. They had the issue taken care of within the week and they let us know what was going on as they were coming out and figuring it out.
We had issues with some downstairs neighbor being really noisy, as well as not picking up their dog's poop but the office gave them a few warnings and did what they could.
Overall, I think I had an okay experience. I think if you have any issues, if you just sit down and have a conversation with any of the staff in the office, they'll do what they can to take care of it. I suppose I could have mentioned all the issues with the cabinets and renovations they did, but I was just thankful at the time to have a place to live. I think it's common sense to get any changes to your lease or any sort of permissions from them regarding pets or fixing anything yourself in writing, though. People forget things and sometimes the system swallows things whole and they get lost forever.
I'm not sure how exactly to rate the experience. 2-3 stars. The folks in the office really were kind and helpful. Just, functionally, things in the apartment were weird. The cabinets. Painting the floors was really weird.
Thanks for being understanding when I had to break the lease. I would have stayed with the company, but I was unable to find an apartment I could have afforded myself at the time.