OSU Property Management

I wish I could give zero stars. I can not even explain how much I despise Jack and this company. I don’t understand how a human being could treat others as terrible as he treats his tenants. I have many stories that I can share. From broken breakers, molded dishwashers, to spider eggs and bed bugs that were there previous to move in. Do yourself a favor and stay away unless you would like to lose hundreds of dollars and be frustrated at this disgusting company for your entire leasing year.

Jack Beatley is a slumlord. My roommates and I are currently in a lawsuit with him and getting ready to file a second one so I want to be careful to not «defame» him and «hurt» his «feelings» but I will tell you this:
Reasons my roommates and I are suing:
1. We have crumbling stone steps with gaps in them. One roommate fell down them and split her eye open, I fell up them and scarred my knee. Thankfully Property Management installed a railing one foot from the ground. Unfortunately it cannot be utilized because we do not walk down stairs at 45 degree angles.
2. We had a caving ceiling that Jack refused to fix until I called Columbus City Code Enforcement Officers.
3. Over the summer our AC was broken, we were told to turn it off and it would be fixed the next day. Turning it off flooded the basement, which created mold and led to cockroaches.
4. My roommates and I living on the top floor have woken up with what we assume are identical spider bites that were so large, our lawyer asked if we were sure we hadn’t been bitten by bats.
5. My roommate pays $ 300 for off street parking. Jack gave his nephew/​nephew in law/​some sort of relative a parking pass that allowed him to park behind the useless garage in our backyard. He would constantly block her in. He eventually hit her car and caused ~$ 650 worth of damage, gave her fake insurance info, and was never to be heard from again. A background check revealed that he was jailed for an armed robbery. And our landlord let this guy park at our house of 7 girls. This was over a year ago and the guy still parks there.
6. We were also robbed two days ago because our landlord left an extended ladder at the side of our house. He’s too lazy for storage so it’s typically chained to a tree. It was used to scale our house and go into the one window with an inoperable lock.
7. I’ve personally asked to have my bedroom lock fixed because it consistently locked me INSIDE my room. So when the robbery happened I lost ~$ 5k worth of things because I didn’t have a lock :-)
8. When we contacted the OSU Property Management Emergency number to remove the ladder and repair like 10 doors we got no response. They took the ladder from inside our house and went over the robber’s fingerprints on the back door knob when they were removing the ladder, so those prints that could have potentially solved our robbery, and the two robberies across the street can no longer be documented and used.
9. We received a note in the mail saying our house would be shown a specific week but no one ever came. A week later Jack walks into my room while I’m laying half naked in bed and tries show my room and came back later that day and did the same thing to my roommate when she was sleeping in her underwear. When we asked for notice they emailed us and said that they would be showing our house Monday-​Friday every day until it was leased.
10. Jack was showing my roommate’s room (a converted closet) to a potential tenant. My roommate told them it had no ventilation in it. Jack told her and the person touring that someone must’ve stuffed old sweatshirts in the fake vents. We have not found the sweatshirts yet. We assume leprechauns took them.
11. Our lease was invalid to begin with, as it states that we are not allowed to put our money in escrow which is not a right he can have us sign over.
12. etc.
If you have an upcoming lease agreement with Jack Beatley /​OSU Property Management I would «highly suggest» to try to get out of it ASAP and just claim that he didn’t give you full disclosure. From experience, pretty easy to get out of the lease because it’s not a legal lease to begin with. I highly suggest to take it to a lawyer. I don’t know how he is even legally allowed to operate a business that involves the shelter and safety of other people. When you complain about something they won’t fix anything unless you call Columbus City Code or file a lawsuit. This man does not even care enough about people to even give his workers a decent office. The office smells like broken dreams.
You might initially think he’s an alright landlord because they’ll come over and point to things and be like «oh yeah, that IS broken» but they’ll never come back and fix it. We had four broken cabinets and they literally came to fix one at a time.
But they must be somewhat tolerable because they have ONE positive Unilocal review… written my their own secretary.
^^Obviously^^ I have no problem with complaining about the house, but how can someone go to such great lengths and still live in these conditions?
Visit
and do a records search (to the left of the page) of Jack K Beatley. He has been to court over 250 times. I wouldn’t know because the page reached its max.

Were sketchy at first, but they are reasonable people if you take the time to talk to them. Have lived with them going on 3 years and have developed a very nice, cordial relationship.

Why does O.S.U. allow dirtbags like this victimize students? A quick trip to Unilocal confirmed my suspicions about problems my child is having with this loser? Cam[pus legal aid does nothing to help my child and this rental has a leaky roof and sketchy back door. How would this poor excuse for a human being like to be woken up in the middle of the night by rain falling on the bed and the landlord refusing to do anything about it, or having a back door that is a hollow interior door with no security? The more time I spend at O.S.U., the less I think of it. Granted, your football team is good, but your homeless problems and student protection sucks.

I have been at OSU for 4 years now, and I have never heard of nor had a worse landlord (which is saying a lot when it comes to off campus housing). The general disregard for any and all requests (maintenance and otherwise) is truly astonishing. I have yet to meet anyone connected to this company that displays even minimal competency. When we moved in we had ONE working smoke alarm, and after realizing this and alerting the landlord, it took two weeks and several harassing phone calls from my PARENTS for OSU property management to come resolve the issue. There have been numerous other issues, and I am currently awaiting a response to two maintenance requests I put in two months ago…
We were charged an exorbitant amount for the ‘privilege” of moving in 2 weeks early, only to open the door to the most putrid smell I have ever experienced. The smell was coming from the carpets, which are in the worst shape I’ve ever seen in an apartment off campus and were supposed to have been replaced before we moved in anyway. Every time we vacuum, the multiple layers of filth are again brought to the surface, allowing us to relive our move-​in experience; oh the scent of lies and broken promises. The kitchen tile was even worse, and the grout was black from all the grime (it took 4 hours to clean our tiny kitchen).
I am mostly writing this review out of frustration over calling them 8 times over the past few weeks during business hours and not getting a response. I know college kids don’t read reviews before signing a lease, but I wish I had.
Once, they had a basket of Cheryl’s cookies sitting on their office desk when I went in to pay rent. As great as those cookies are, I still left with a bad taste in my mouth thanks to the idiocy of this company.

Jack Beatley is by far and away, the worst landlord I have ever had the misfortune of coming across.
On move in day, in the middle of July while it was near 100 degree outside, went to look at the 1 bedroom. I believe her name was Ashley that showed it to me. Come to find out she didn’t work for the management team. Weird. The hardwood in the front and bedroom was covered in filth, and paint stains. I was immediately assured they would have a team in to buff and polish it. Cool, right? In the bathroom, the painter had actually washed his brush out in the bathroom sink, and had actually caused the appliance to clog.
Come move in day, these issues were anything but remedied. They had a cleaning team in called ‘Sistaz in Action’. I knew this because they left their cleaning list on the still filthy hardwood floor in the living room. As you would guess, the paint was still in the bathroom sink. Also on move in day, the windows that had curtains, that happen to overlook a busy alley, were either too small or too damaged to be useful.
Moving forward, come December of my lease year, I started to notice little black bugs coming out of the walls. There was an old piece of finish on the wall near the ceiling where they came out of. When I notified the office, they cut me off and told me it was my responsibility and I had 10 days to fix the problem. So I got a hold of Jack personally, and set up a day for the 2 of us to do a walk through and he never showed.
In January, they send a mass e-​mail out to all tenants, they will be coming into your space whenever they want to show it to prospective tenants. I understand the need for this, but a heads up before they randomly walk into MY apartment sure would be nice.
The craziest thing, I walked into my apartment over on West 10^th, and found the maintenance guy on 5 occasional casually walking around my apartment when I wasn’t there. Funny, nothing ever came up missing except for a wrench I use to prop up my recliner, 3 times…
There are other landlords on campus that aren’t half the piece of crap Jack is. PLEASE explore other options.

Believe every bad review of this place! I lived in 5 different places in my time at OSU (because I liked changing things up) and my experience with Jack and property management was the absolute worst. Jack is the definition of a slumlord and he knows exactly how to manipulate things so he doesn’t get in trouble for screwing you over.
I lived on chittenden and the day of move in I showed up and there was still a girl living there?! It was really awkward and messed up. And on top of that the place was disgusting because they hadn’t cleaned it and Jack set it up so he didn’t have to clean it for us legally. We had to hire professional cleaners to come in and get the place cleaned so I had to live out of my car for a couple days.
The guys in the apartment below us went to move in and when they opened the door roaches scattered and there was an old pizza box on the kitchen island. Great way to meet the new neighbors by hearing them swearing about the amount of roaches running around in their new place. Their apartment was infested with roaches and Jack said he knew nothing about it and didn’t have to do anything about it. So, it ended up that the five other apartments in the building (including mine) all got infested with roaches in the next couple weeks. Maintenance never solved the issue. They came in a couple times spraying some worthless stuff. I had roaches until we moved out. I even witnessed some crawling on my food in the microwave when I was heating something up. It was disgusting.
We had so many issues with the place that year and had to call and call and call just to get them to acknowledge us. The whole office was rude and kept lying and going back on their word. We even had to go to OSU’s legal service to get help with dealing with them.
DON’T EVER RENT FROM JACK AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT. These awful people need to be banned from Ohio state properties. Please if you see this do not rent from them and boycott their properties. Worst experience I have ever had. Feel free to contact me if you need to know more because I have many more horror stories from them

Slumlord. I rented from this place back when it was called «Locations Ltd.» Did some research. The same slumlord, Jack Beatley, is the owner of both places. Certainly had numerous problems with this company, and without being legally prepared for their scumbaggery, I would have likely fallen victim to the same stuff they pull on other people. In my opinion, Jack Beatley is not to be trusted, and it is of my opinion that he preys on college students.