T & E Management

I lived in one of the studio apartments for a little over two years. The only time I saw Tom the landlord was when I signed my one year lease. When it was over he never contacted me to renew it, so I assumed he was okay with me paying month to month, which I did. The rent is by far the cheapest any where in Lake County, but unfortunately it attracts some long-​time tenants of the criminal variety. My apartment door was difficult to lock and unlock because, as I was informed by another tenant and NOT the landlord, the cops had kicked down the door to arrest the man who lived in my apartment prior to me moving in. More than once I had a stranger knocking on my door in the middle of the night, asking for the previous tenant. Talk about unsafe. There was absolutely no heat in the winter and there was often no room in the tenant parking lot because the public was allowed to use it. Personally, I loved the vintage feel of the apartment, which was one of the reasons I stayed so long.

These apartments are pathetic. They were built in the 50’s as office rooms until they were divided into small apartments. Everything is outdated and each apartment has black mold in the bathroom year round. The heating is radiated and very cold in the winter because the Landlords put a thermostat in the hallway so the boiler doesn’t turn on unless it gets down past the 60 °F. The rent is/​was $ 550 and you are really just paying for the location of being in downtown. These «apartments» actually should be called studios. One of the landlords comes around once a month to vacuum and maybe replace a light bulb outside in the hallway or to throw away trash mail. The other landlord comes around only when rent is due and then pushes out his chest to look intimidating while yelling at the person so it’s heard by all. He has also been told many times by different electricians to update the electrical room but he refuses because then he would have to bring the entire complex (stores below) up to code. It is all about money with the two landlords, nothing more and nothing less.
If you want to live here, don’t worry about passing any background check as there is none. People will leave during the night, be loud and commit a criminal act usually. In four years, three people were arrested while living there. One who broke into cars and then sold the stuff to his next door neighbor for cash and drugs and another who lived across the hallway who prostituted herself for drugs and rent money.
The rent should be closer to 350 – 400 since both landlords are really just slumlords who just want money.