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Reynolds Properties Apartment Building


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anonymous

Resident 2009 - 2010

7/20/2010

When my roommate and I first moved into this apartment, we were really excited. The landlords seemed cool and laid back. They even told us we could pick out whatever colors we wanted the apt to be painted, which we thought was awesome because the first two rooms were an ugly color, as well as the room that was my bedroom. Well, what we thought in the beginning was them being laid back was really them just being lazy. When we moved in the apt was filthy with lots of holes. A light bulb in my bedroom was burned out. They vetoed most of what we wanted to paint, and instead used paint that they already had on the premises, and left the ugly rooms ugly. They also painted my room a hideous color. That was all minor compared to what came next. Des Moines had a horrible winter storm that year that basically shut down the city, but the storm stopped around 2-4pm. I had to be at work early the next day at 7:30am. They told us the back lot where the parking is would be clear "by the morning." Well, it wasn't and I was 2 hours late to work after calling their house 5 times to complain to get someone to come plow. Then they left a 2 foot by 2 foot hole in our ceiling for 2 months (Dec to Feb) after we called them before the ceiling even caved in. Our radiators also leaked water, and after we told one of them (the landlords are a husband and wife team) they were leaking, the other seemed not to know about it. It's very clear they don't communicate a lot of the building issues with each other. (They also like to say they're either too busy or they're constantly not in town.) They would also come by without giving the 24 hours notice required by Iowa law, and many times they said they would come by and then never did. They sent an electrician to our apt to fix our outlets without telling me and he went back to my bedroom and moved my stuff around; at the time I had been sorting laundry (including bras and underwear) because I did not know that a stranger was going to be in my bedroom. The last straw was when it started getting hot out and I called the landlords and asked if they could install the AC unit that came with the apt (it was in the basement). The wife said yes and someone would be over within a week to install it. We waited two weeks and no one came. Then a friend felt sorry for us and came and installed if for us since we couldn't even lift it. It ended up being tilted wrong, and when I called the landlord to fix it, he acted like he knew nothing of us calling to have it be put in and then said, "It's not my responsibility to make sure the AC is properly tilted." And then he kept telling us to or to get our friend to do it again! According to Iowa law and even our lease, it says specifically that he IS responsible for it. By that time we were so angry about their laziness and unpredictability that we told them we're moving out at the end of our lease. I would highly recommend to people NOT to rent from them. Very lazy landlords who do shoddy work and do not want to put money into the building. We are dying to get out now and hardly cannot wait for our lease to be up at the end of November. To retaliate to our angry messages, they will not approve a subleaser for us. This is the worst apt I've ever lived in.

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