Fortunately I never rented from gage management, they couldn't even properly show their rental properties. I went to see Emery Place, which is at a great location only a few blocks from KU. The women they sent to show me the various apartments in the complex had very poor social skills. Walking into the 2 bed 1 bath basement apartments looked like walking into a celar straight from a horor film. The basement hallway that led to the apartment had paint chipped from the walls and pluming lines everywhere and very uneven flooring. The apartment itself was worse. Walking in it smelt like pure cigarette smoke, the place was a mess with cigarette burn marks all over the carpet and the tenants stuff in piles everywhere. Obviously it wasn't their fault that the current tentant kept the place like that. However, the women showing us the place didn't even acknowledge how disgusting it was or comfort us with the fact that it would be cleaned after the tentant moved out. Not a word. We saw a one bedroom on the third floor of emery place which involved walking up a wooden staircase and platform in from of each floor. I tripped over one wooden board that was sticking out a good 3 inches and when we left that apartment looked at it closer to see that it was clearly not the only loose board 3 stories up from the ground. Once again no comforting words from the leasing agent. I was hoping emery place was the worst gage management had to offer so we ahead to the next place which was around the Oread. We followed her their, she parked behind the building which was down a pretty steep gravel road to the apartment. We walked up the hill with her and she warned us that she had told the current tentants we wouldn't be there for another 30 minutes which didn't make sense since the place we had just been at was 3 minutes away. She knocks anyway with no answer, she asks us to wait outside where it was 95 degrees and she poked her head in and nervously yelled with no response then she told us to wait a little longer and made a phone call. While she was doing these I noticed that the front porch of this place was deteriorating, the back had trash shoved under it. The mail was all over the front porch and magazines were falling out of mailboxes. It was really sad that it was in such poor condition because It had one of the best views of the oread I've ever seen. We told the leasing agent that we didn't need to see inside, after deciding that Gage Management is not a company I would ever want to rent from, and too be honest their properties aren't even worth the time to see.
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