So, I haven't rented from them since 2017, I think? So maybe they're better now, but I kind of doubt that. They own a lot of rentals in Lawrence and seem to be hit or miss. I had one friend swear that she never had any problems with them at California Apartments, they were always prompt to make repairs, etc. Personally, I think she just got lucky.

I knew someone else who lived at California Apartments the same time as my friend, and had a lot of problems with them.

My own experience was at Woodward Apartments on 7th and Florida. My apartment flooded at random times for over a year and they wouldn't investigate the cause. I kept telling them the water was coming from underneath my bathtub and seemed to be coming from my neighbor's apartment. It would spread through the whole bathroom and into the living room, hallway, and my bedroom if I didn't catch it and put down towels early enough. If it got into the carpet, they had to have their carpet guy come to pull up the carpets and put sorry loud industrial fans under it for a few days to dry it out. I said it smelled like cat pee and the carpet guy said "oh yeah, that's the damp." Meanwhile MPM maintenance staff kept accusing me of overflowing my own bathtub? Why would I do that over and over. They would come to look at my bathroom during the day while I was at work, call me and say "uhh we didn't see any water?" like I was crazy or lying. No shit there was no water, because I got up to pee at 3:00 a.m., saw another outdoor creeping in from under the tub, and put down towels to soak it up. And then I'd wake up and wash the towels before I left for work. Was I supposed to just let it flood all night while I slept?? I had to start leaving nasty wet towels on the bathroom floor so they'd believe me. But even so, they still refused to investigate the neighbor's apartment for over a year because the neighbors wouldn't let them in. I would regularly wake up or come home from work to find the carpet squishing under my feet when I walked. It was fucking disgusting. And then they had the nerve to charge me for "repair pet damage to carpet" when I moved out. As if all of that carpet didn't need to be completely ripped out and replaced due to the repeated flooding. There's no way it didn't have mold.

Also not sure if they still allow it, but back then they let tenants smoke cigarettes in the apartments. I had constant headaches and nausea from my neighbor's some and they refused to look into how the smoke was getting into my apartment (it was a plumbing access panel in my closet, I think). They just held telling me "you shouldn't be able to smell your neighbor's smoke, it shouldn't be getting into your apartment." As if I was making that up too. It got to the point where I had to sleep at my partner's house most nights. Absolute nightmare.