Buckeye Real Estate-Realtors

Initially, I didn’t have a lot of complaints about Buckeye Real Estate. Sure, my apartment was pretty crappy looking, wasn’t the cleanest, and was small, but you get what you pay for.
I am actually moving out of my apartment 2 months early (and paying for two,) because I hate it so much. There are so many issues with this apartment.
The shower doors slide arounds and get stuck because there is no track to keep them in place. There is mold in the bathroom.
The toilet got clogged, and when we couldn’t clear it, my roommate called maintenance on a Friday. They told her they couldn’t fix it because it wasn’t an emergency since we have 2 toilets. The toilet ended up overflowing, and no one was home to notice it until 3 in the morning. By that time, water had spilled out all the way into the hallway, which is carpeted. GROSS.
My bedroom window is drafty and forms ice on the INSIDE during the winter.
The air conditioning wouldn’t drop the temperature of the apartment below 85 in the summer (Maintenance did fix this problem.)
My bedroom door didn’t have a latch on it (not a lock… a latch.)
There was a sticky streak across the carpet in my room.
The oven handle broke off while my roommate was getting her food out of the oven, and the door slammed and burnt her badly. She has a scar.
Outdoor maintenance is TERRIBLE. In the fall/​early winter, we had to walk across soaking wet, decaying leaves. When they finally did remove the leaves after fall semester was completely over, it took less than a few hours.
In the winter, they don’t shovel the snow (at least where it makes logical sense, like the sidewalk where everyone walks on the way to class.) The fluctuating temperatures and mix of rain/​snow that Columbus gets in the winter makes this extremely dangerous. Inches of ice build up when the snow melts and refreezes. I personally fell down twice this winter, even when being cautious because of the obvious ice. My roommate also fell pretty badly, and spilled coffee all over herself. I felt like the worst part was that NONE of the other apartment complexes around us had the problem with the ice because their snow was taken care of reasonably.
They flat out e-​mail you saying they won’t be plowing the parking lots in the winter because the snow needs to go somewhere (AKA. someones parking spot,) which makes parking impossible. There have been times I’ve gotten stuck, then slid trying to pull into a parking spot. My brand new car was also hit in the parking lot, and of course the person did not leave a note.
I would not recommend renting from this company. It’s hard to beat the price and location, but in the end, it is not worth it.

In the year that I’ve been with BRE, I have little to complain about. The rent is extremely reasonable farther from high street; My roommate and I pay a total of $ 660 plus utilities, which end up to be about $ 100 total, for a two-​story townhouse on the north campus end of 4^th street. The only real issue we had was during move in, when the AC did not work. It took about 3 days to get someone out to fix it, but I blame that on the high demand from everyone moving in within the same week or two. Every other request that we’ve had to put in has been taken care of within a day, usually the same afternoon. They even came for things we thought would get ignored, like when the screen got taken from our kitchen window, or we couldn’t remove the fan cover to change the bulb.
They’ve been a great company to deal with, and we plan on renewing until graduation.

I don’t even want to waste my time writing about how terrible the customer service is and how amazingly overpriced the properties are. What a mistake I made signing a lease with this corrupt ass-​a-​nine company.

I had a great experience with Buckeye Real Estate. The house was very clean upon move-​in, they were very prompt with all maintenance requests, and did a great job communicating the process to extend our lease for another year if we wished. They waived the fee when we were a day late with rent payment one time. Rent was raised annually at a very reasonable rate. Best of all, they didn’t rip us off with our security deposit. I was actually shocked when I found out how much our security deposit we got back after 5 guys lived in the same house for 3 years of college. Great company, would recommend to anyone, especially after seeing the trouble other students dealt with at OSU with other Real Estate companies.

Do not go with this company! I can not stress how bad they are. It was a bad experience all around & would never lease from them again! Save time & your money & go with another realitor!

As you can see from the picture that i posted, they gave me an apartment that was not cleaned. They were trash in the cabinets, mold in the bath tub and faucet and the the whole place smelled like garbage. I have previously looked at the apartment, it wasn’t like that. And also, they were no closet doors, the sliding doors on the porch was broken. They were trash everywhere. And when i wipe the floors, it was chocolate. i wipe the floors with clorox and it came out chocolate.
After going to the office, talking furiously with every staff, they let me meet the owner of the place. I wanted to get out of the lease. I mean the apartment was completely disgusting. Even if they cleaned the apartment, i would be to disgusted after seeing all the molds and trash. The owner did not care and said that he would cleaned the apartment. After giving him a few days, they were some parts that were cleaned. but still, it wasn’t cleaned like a regular new apartment. Seriously i’m not exaggerating. This is my worst experience with an apartment. Thankfully i moved out of the building, now i am living in a really really nice place.
In conclusion, I would not recommend Buckeye Real Estate at all. And my building was the 150 W Maynard. One time the elevator lights were off, all of them. I was alone in the elevator at 2 o clock, that was terrifying, i felt that i was in saw or something. It was pitch black in the elevator. And a lot of people also peed in the elevator. Don’t ever live here.

Throughout the year that I lived in a property managed by Buckeye Real Estate, I had very few complaints. I found an amazing apartment in Clintonville, my third, but that had nothing to do with Buckeye. It was a fair price for the area, I’m sure they had something to do with that.
HOWEVER. And yes, that is an all caps HOWEVER. I went in on the first of June to pay my last month’s rent and renew my lease (my lease was up at the end of that month). When I brought it up, the response came «oh, that property has been sold and we won’t be renewing any leases. In fact, we were just mailing out a letter to all tenants today.»
Wow. Finding out with 30 days notice is bad enough, but mailing it on the first? So it won’t arrive until the 3^rd or so? What a crumby friggin’ thing to do to someone. It takes time to find a place to live, you know? I ended up staying with someone for the next four months because I was graduating some months later anyway.
Oh, on another note, while my place in the ‘ville was underpriced, basically all of their units on campus are overpriced. Teeny tiny studios for $ 450 and crap like that.
As far as big realty companies in the area go, they aren’t the worst, but you’ll thank yourself if you get a small time landlord.

Personally, my experience with Buckeye Real Estate was fine. I found an apartment that I was looking for on really short notice and they had rooms available. Whenever I went to the office, the people treated me well. Because I was coming in late I would not have been able to sign an entire year’s lease and they were accommodating to that, allowing me to enter a lease with no hurdles to jump over.
Now, I’ve heard from others that their experiences weren’t so great. But I am being honest that things really did go as well as they did for me.