Asi Property Management

I wish I had another option…
ABSOLUTE WORSE COMPANY? BUSINESS/​MANAGEMENT THAT I HAVE EVER DEALT WITH. Oh my goodness I could rant and rave all day about how terribly unprofessional they are. Literally making my skin crawl thinking about it.
How can such a god aweful place still exist? Oh that’s right they prey off of poor college students that have no other option but turn to them. Ugh why are they the only place in Iowa City that has 6 month leases? Seriously this company is ran by such scheming greedy money makers.
I should have known they were trouble ever since I first signed the lease. I mean who doesn’t have copy’s of the lease to give out right then and there? And after sending email after email I still had not recieved a copy of that lease. Not ok. Icing on top of the cake. I called and asked them to email me a copy and the lady Moon said no. Just straight up no. I asked why and she said because it’s too much work. That they have copies at the office and I can just pick it up there… That is a PROBLEM! I reside in Illinois and am not going to drive all the way to Iowa just to pick up a copy of the lease. Can she not scan it to me or send a PDF? She supposedly can’t. I should’ve asked for one early, which I did and didn’t get. So supposedly it’s my fault.
Not to mention that she was incredibly rude and no idea what she was talking about. She was consistantly contradicting herself and running in circles. I haven’t even moved in and I already can’t wait to move out. In fact I’m literally on the verge of cancelling my lease and finding somewhere to live for 6 months.
Wish I could rate them a 0 or –1 000 000 000. ASI you suck.

Working with ASI Rentals was quite possibly the most frustrating thing I’ve ever done. The business is run through a cell phone and Yahoo! email account and the office is in a very sketchy hotel on Riverside Drive. I rented a unit on South Capitol (the one with a pool). Rent was typical for downtown Iowa City rentals — $ 1100 a month for a two-​bedroom — but the building is literally five feet away from a high-​traffic train track which goes at all hours of the night. I literally would wake up four or five times throughout the night from blaring train horns and the entire building shaking from the trains zooming by – it was dreadful. I never used the pool in the complex, but I have heard some very disgusting stories from people who have, such as used prophylaxis floating around in the water. The building looks like a jail with bars on every level of the building, it is sort of dreary and depressing. The elevator, when it works — which really is not often — reeks of urine since people relieve themselves in it. I returned from long weekends home or huge grocery trips, only to discover that I would have to carry my bounty up five flights of stairs. The building has no security, the front door and back door are easily accessible, and on one or two occasions my roommate witnessed homeless people sleeping in the stairwells. The back door barely latched shut, it just sort of rested on the doorframe. On one occasion, the maintenance person told me that our water heater needed to be replaced. My unit was left without hot water for three days in late November and we had to shower at the University Wellness Center if we wanted hot water. The landlord does not answer her phone, instead, she replies via text message, very unprofessional. Before I even moved in, the landlord texted me at 1 a.m. with information about moving in. At one point, after several unfortunate events occurred and I complained to the landlord via email, she told me she «wished [I] never signed the lease.» If you have another choice for Iowa City apartments, I highly recommend you rent there, rather than with ASI.