Baker Tower Apartments

BELIEVE THE ONE STAR REVIEWS!! - I was supposed to move into my unit June 9th, when I walked in there were poop stains all over the rug, the place was dirty, and there was so much trash on my balcony I had to fill up a trash bag and throw it out. When I turned on the lights for the first time the switch was popping and buzzing so loudly that maintenance said it was unsafe and turned off my power for the first 4 days I was there until it could be fixed. The dishwasher exploded and flooded my unit… the first time I used it because it was clogged with food from the pervious tenant. The oven and stove did not work and when I put in a maintenance request I came home to my oven gone along with all the pans I was storing inside of it. Maintenance has been amazing at responding but I have yet to hear back at all about the condition of my unit being completely unlivable for my first four days. No one is ever in the office to talk to even during their “open” hours, I can’t leave a message for anyone, and no one has responded by email. If you move in here you will be disrespected, given a disgusting unit, and ignored by the people who run it as they try to fill up more units with unsuspecting renters. The property managers are slummy, scummy, and ugly hearted. If you can avoid this place live literally anywhere else, I promise this place isn’t worth it. Read More

Don’t even bother trying to rent here. Had a scheduled appointment and nobody ever showed or was even at the leasing office. TOTAL WASTE OF TIME. Listen to the other reviews. I asked other tenants going in and out the building and they all said this office is horrible with everything.

Baker Tower in a nutshell:

If you take a look at their lease, you can see that it isn’t at all an equal agreement between tenant and building manager. You will notice that if your family lives in a far-off part of the country and you might want to sublet your room because you won’t be in it for a month or so and you feel weird throwing a thousand dollars at a place you’re not occupying, that’s not possible. They don’t allow tenants to sublet. Also, the person you talk to will give you a rental… price which may seem reasonable, but you will be responsible for not only your utilities, but for the utilities for the entire building. Including the lights that always stay on in the hallway, and the heat in the hallway they never shut off, even in the summer months. So you’ll want to add at least $250 to the rent price they quote. And finally, if you want to get out of your lease for any reason, sorry. It’s impossible to get out of your lease without either paying them the rest of the least or a buyout fee, which can be two months’ rent. If you look at all of that stuff and don’t see the red flags, sign away!

Next, you’ll be dealing with the management. After living there for a while, let me advise you on a couple of things: Don’t call the office and leave a message. You’re a resident, not a potential resident. They won’t call you back. And email is out of the question, unless you want a response from your manager that include the sentence, “I’m sorry I haven’t gotten back to you, I haven’t checked my email in a couple months.” No. Go into the office and talk to someone personally. It’s the only way to get anything accomplished with them.

A couple years ago, they made renovations to every unit. They gave me a gift card and told me I had couldn’t be in my apartment because they were replace the balcony wall, which really amounted to replacing a really drafty uninsulated wall with an even draftier, even more uninsulated wall. You see, people had problems with their pipes freezing and exploding. In fact every time the weather outside drops below freezing, they put a sign in the elevators telling residents to keep their apartments above 70º so the pipes don’t freeze. The problem is, I’m not convinced that the 60s-era thermostats that are in every apartment are even connected to the heating system. If you hear a loud pop and then your apartment starts flooding, run to the office and hope to catch the maintenance guy. Read More

The review titled "Great Location, Awful Building" is telling the truth: the entire complex went without hot water for three weeks while management pretended that it was fixed. If I had known the reality of the situation sooner, I would have exercised my right to move out during the outage. Maxx Properties billed everyone in the complex at full rent despite their obvious failing to provide a habitable environment. The slightly lower rent for the location and the downstairs gym are very nice, but… I won't be sticking around at the end of my lease. This was a few months ago. We just have had multiple days of hot water outages since the previously mentioned multi-week one. No telling how long this will continue. I can't stress this enough: stay away. Read More