East Oak Manor, cincinnati-oh

They conduct tours of your unit without any prior notice; they’ll bring a stranger into your home at random times during the workday, and that stranger will take photos of the room containing your personal belongings. If you have an issue and need to reach the manager—good luck! You can never get through on the phone; the guy at the front desk was attentive and did his best to leave a message, but the manager never called back.

I went to view a property out of pure curiosity. Apparently two sisters moved into one of uptown sites. They wasn't please with the a few loud neighbors and kindly asked for a transfer. Which is actually covered on their lease contract. Their request was ignored and as wild as this sounds they placed a curse on their lease agent and the property too. As they left the curse remained. I went to the place and arrived early before the viewing agent. I met a resident who said within 2 months more the half the residents have moved out. Other are displaying weird behavior. He said he was next to go. He said there has been weird stuff happening in his place. I don't follow things like that normally. However he showed me ring cams footage he had showing objects in his house moving and following over with bo one home. He also had a photo showing how his place months back had beautiful natural lighting and now always dark. Those wiccans were are on Facebook sharing how they are over these apartments aggressively making sure they get there rent but don't enforce peaceful living or standards. By the way the unit I view was creepy dark and gave me a weird feeling. The lease act like he didn't want to be there. He game me rush like vibes.

This is the worst company to ever go through to find housing. I live on Views on Vine South. Here is everything that is wrong with my apartment and not even the whole complex. First our oven broke, then our microwave broke, and our dishwasher broke, then all 3 of our sinks broke and leaked over every single cleaning supply we had under them. Our HVAC started leaking out of nowhere. Our balcony light never works. All of the light bulbs were yellow and started glitching and needed to be changed. But that’s just my own apartment. With the building overall the gate to the garage is constantly broken. The keypads never worked and they got rid of the codes and told absolutely no one. And do not even get me started on the elevator on the South side. It has been broken over 50 times this year. I wish I was being dramatic. It breaks every other 3 days. And they don’t even communicate to anyone about it. Oh and they shut our water off and didn’t tell any of the residents and they’ve done that 3 times now. Mind you I pay $1400 a month to live in this piece of trash. So before you think about living here and think it’s gonna be a great experience as your first apartment in college don’t. It will suck the life out of you and ruin your college experience. Also I just want to say the receptionists are very kind but the property managers are disorganized and don’t know what’s happening half the time. DON’T DO IT!

Lived at Views on Vine South for a year on the 5th floor, and my honest advice is do not rent above the 3rd floor here. The elevator was out of service every 2 to 3 weeks, and if it went down on a Friday, you were stuck until the next work week. Nobody came to fix it over the weekend. Try hauling a week's worth of groceries up five flights and you'll understand why this wrecked our quality of life. It's the single biggest reason I'd tell anyone on a higher floor to think twice. Credit where it's due, the maintenance team was solid. We got lucky and nothing major broke in our unit, and when we did need them they were fine. That part I won't complain about. The noise is the other thing. Weekends are loud, and the club on the ground floor literally rattles the closest upper floors. I can't imagine trying to sleep through it if you're near it. And parking is a trap. It's $1,200 for garage parking, and if you skip that, you're fighting for public spots that are packed on weekends. On top of that, the garage gate was broken most of the time, which led to occasional break ins and people trespassing in the garage. I'd genuinely worry about my car getting scratched, vandalized, or worse out there. The final nail in the coffin was move out. The elevator was down for at least two weeks right before our deadline, and we were rushed to get everything out five floors down with no elevator, no extension, and no reply when we emailed about it. Zero communication when it actually mattered. Bottom line: the location and the building look great on paper, but between the elevator, the noise, the parking and security, and the way they handle move out, the day to day reality is a lot rougher than it seems. I would think twice before moving into this property.

I currently live in one of their Florence apartments with my husband and we have switched owners 5 times within the last few years which isn't always a bad thing but it makes it VERY difficult to contact anyone! In the last MONTH our AC went out twice the first time it was out for 5 days and they only gave us a little window unit that only cools 1 room and now it is out again and they sent out some contractor instead of uptowns actual mantanance team and he said it probably will need replaced. We tried to call the office again at 2pm to see if anyone will be fixing this but when we called they said the office was closed. We have lived here for almost 6 YEARS and we used to really enjoy it now this place genuinely becoming a dump. The lake isn't being maintained, the hallways are littered with trash from people moving out. Thank God we have the means to be able to move out when our lease is up. Do yourself a favor and stay far away from these apartments you'll save yourself stress and money.