Dutch's Haus Apts

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If you are considering renting from this apartment.. DON’T! This apartment complex has great rental rates and looks good on paper, but looks can be very deceiving. The apartment’s actual landlord does not deal with the comings and goings of this place, instead everything goes through the “maintenance guy,” Rick. He is completely incompetent with his abilities as the handyman. He works during the school year as a teacher, and if you happen to call him during the day and expect to leave him a voicemail, think again, because he will answer it during his class and make it appear like you’re the idiot for bothering him. Furthermore, once you finally get him into the apartment to fix whatever needs it, he will do a horrible job, usually not fixing the problem at all, or causing a new problem to occur, and will have to come multiple times to finally figure it out.



The parking lot for the apartment is insanely tiny and there are two assigned parking spots per apartment, so if you have three roommates or want to have visitors, they’ll have to park in a completely different lot and walk over. Also, if you have an “unidentified” car parked in your reserved spot, Rick will contact you and ask you if you have someone living with you, and will force you to pay for the two person rate if he thinks you have a roommate. Aside from being super tiny, the parking lot is especially worse during the winter. Anytime it snows, Rick hires a guy to come out and clear out the lot. The snow removal guy basically scrapes snow from the middle of the lot and places huge piles in front of cars, so no one can get out.



One weekend, my boyfriend and I went to St. Louis and I turned off our A/C and anything else that was running. When we returned, our A/C was on and someone had not shut our freezer door properly, so our food was spoiled. Since then every time we were gone for a long period of time (like Spring Break or Christmas break), we would shut all the doors to the rooms and put a piece of tape towards the bottom, and when we returned at least one of the doors would always be open. I have a feeling that Rick was snooping through our apartment, since he has keys to all the doors at the complex. I hate to think what all he went through.



Rick completely ruined my experience living at this complex. He is a complete idiot and should not be paid to be a repairman or a representative of the landlord. When my lease was close to ending, I had an altercation with him where he screamed at me on the phone and threatened me. In order to speak to the landlord (because her contact information is nowhere to be found on the lease or website), I had to call the courthouse to find out her information. I left a message on her phone asking to please call me back. Of course she never returned my call. It just goes to show how the landlord and Rick do not care about the well being of their tenants. If you can help it.. COMPLETELY AVOID THIS PLACE!