Action Property Management

Definitely avoid these guys, we had a broken window for the entirety of our lease (through a very harsh WIsconsin winter, no less!), despite reminding the landlords once a month that we needed it fixed. But my biggest issue is more one of ethics– because they apparently filed for bankruptcy months ago they claim that part of the court settlement included not having to pay any of their tenants’ security deposits… a fact which they kept from everyone until AFTER we moved out. As in, they kept $ 900 from us without showing any paperwork or being upfront about it. These are very bad and very shady people that you should avoid– there are definitely better-​priced rentals on the East-​side as well as good local business that should be supported instead people who would be as sneaky AND lazy as these folks.

Don’t rent from Action Property — ever. Their shit hole apartments are filled with exposed pipes and hardware that are exactly one crappy coat of paint from falling apart all together. The apartment my room mates and I were in they lauded as having been ‘completely redone’ just before we moved in — but the tile and paint were peeling, an the paint that stuck manged to paint all of the windows closed. (In our non-​air conditioned apartment.)
They respond very slowly (if at all) to any complaints or concerns, and when they do, it’s with the creepiest contracted workers you can imagine. A drunk person from North Ave. broke a storm window in our house by throwing a rock at it, and they sent a guy with no credentials or verification that he worked for Action Prop at all to come claim the window — with a key to our house, mind you — to get the window with the promise that he’d bring a new one back ‘sometime.’ We never got our window back and they threatened to charge us for it, despite the police report we had filed about the incident. They also have no emergency number to call in case something drastic happens — a pipe bursts? Better hope its during office hours, or you can expect to pay out of your own pocket. While living with them, we had an incident with WI winter weather where our locks froze shut (from a mix of rain that turned into ice). It was lucky that my room mate had to foresight to leave the back door unlocked, because even after we contacted them, it took Action Prop 48 hours to get someone to de-​ice our locks.
When you finally move out of whatever horrible, barely passing apartment you were living in, they will also take it upon themselves to with hold your security deposit (in our case, it was because they ‘lost’ our new address, despite frequent calls and giving it to them many times) until you finally threaten to take them to court. Once that happens, they’ll send your deposit right quick — less a few hundred dollars for deductions that don’t make sense. (We were charged $ 100 for ‘soiled dining room carpet.’ We didn’t have a dining room, nor did we have carpet.) When you confront them about the charges, they will become defensive and unresponsive.
DO NOT Rent from Action Property — DO NOT.