Harrington Apartments 677 16th Street, Des Moines, IA 50314

"I live here and it's in an awesome neighborhood!"

"I love my Bay Windows for all of my flowers and what nots! Truly is remarkable to live in a historical area such as Sherman hills! ( If you believe in "signs".. you will find them here )"

"This property may be owned by Conlin, but they are not the property managers you'll be dealing with. Harrington House and Oakview Terrace rarely answer their phone and typically have a full voicemail box so you aren't consistently able to leave a message. Most of the time I would have to call the Conlin Emergency line to get a hold of anybody. I moved from Ames after graduating from ISU and needed to find affordable housing as quickly as possible. I was so thrilled to move into a historic building in the Sherman Hill neighborhood. It only took a day to realize how lazy the management company was and what their terrible communication really entailed. Upon moving in and filling out my check-in sheet, I made sure to note the mold growing in the bathroom, the lack of any water pressure in the shower and how dirty my unit was. BY FAR the worst part about this apartment are the other tenants. It may be a secured building, but the amount of questionable individuals hanging out on the stoop and being let in the building was ridiculous. Per usual around 10:00 certain residents are drinking 40s of Natural Light and fidgeting uncontrollably on the front step. The people out front definitely fit the stereotype of low-income, disability collecting, drugs addicts. These residents are clearly tweeking on some sort of narcotic and the police frequent this building a lot. There is a CONSTANT smell of marijuana and cigarette smoke emanating from the halls. At one point I even asked two tenants below me to please follow the rules and smoke outside and they started yelling at calling me names. I know without a doubt my neighbor sold illegal drugs and I would hear knocking on his door all throughout the night. He proudly showed me his marijuana plants and told me of nicknames in the building for who sold what. For the most part I feel safe in Sherman Hill walking around at night, but I am always really uncomfortable walking into my building in the dark. Sexual innuendos and cat calls are a staple at this place. On top of this I really appreciated all of the yelling from the wanna be gangsters hollering at each other in the parking lot late at night, as well as the loud rap music that would echo throughout. For nearly a month I waited before they fixed my shower pressure. It wasn't once or twice someone came out and failed to check their work to see if the problem had been fixed. One night I came home to find my bathroom saturated with water and my own towels used to soak it up. I called the emergency line (since no one called or left me a note) and was told they had to turn the water pressure off in the building to check the leak. Some idiot in the building took it upon themselves to go to the utilities room and turn the water back on while I had no fixtures in my bathroom, thus water COVERED everything. It wasn't until I called and complained about my soaked carpet outside the bathroom and destroyed personal items (i.e. hairdryer, curling iron, makeup, etc...) that they fixed it immediately and cleaned my carpet. Then this summer my air stopped working. I made my first of 4 complaints in May and didn't get it fixed until July. And they didn't fix my air. The compressor was broke and they didn't want to go to the roof to fix it (even though the maintenance person said I wasn't the only person complaining about the lack of AC), they gave me a window unit instead. The whole time I was calling Harrington they said they never knew of my consecutive maintenance complaints. This place may be in a beautiful building in a really amazing up-and-coming neighborhood, but the tenants are disgusting and sketchy and the property management is terrible."