Baker Tower Apartments

-Current bed bug infestation -There is NO management onsite - they have abandoned us, so fend for yourself! -Homeless people all around the building, some pooping INSIDE the building -Homeless people doing drugs right outside the building -No guarantee that you'll get any of your packages -Neighbors smoking weeds/cigs in a SMOKE-FREE building -Poor ventilation. You can both hear your neighbors and smell what they're cooking through the vents -Disregarded maintenance requests. I've been waiting for a new A/C unit since SEPTEMBER of 2022 (it's now JULY of 2023) -Elevators are always down -NO consistent hot water -HORRIBLE billing system. You'll be charged for random, incorrect things & you're ignored when you try to have the charges removed. I was being charged $75 each for THREE parking spaces, when I only have one car. It literally took MONTHS for them to remove the charges -Dirty, dysfunctional laundry room -Sketchy neighbors, right on your floor

BELIEVE THE ONE STAR REVIEWS!! - I was supposed to move into my unit June 9th, when I walked in there were poop stains all over the rug, the place was dirty, and there was so much trash on my balcony I had to fill up a trash bag and throw it out. When I turned on the lights for the first time the switch was popping and buzzing so loudly that maintenance said it was unsafe and turned off my power for the first 4 days I was there until it could be fixed. The dishwasher exploded and flooded my unit the first time I used it because it was clogged with food from the pervious tenant. The oven and stove did not work and when I put in a maintenance request I came home to my oven gone along with all the pans I was storing inside of it. Maintenance has been amazing at responding but I have yet to hear back at all about the condition of my unit being completely unlivable for my first four days. No one is ever in the office to talk to even during their “open” hours, I can’t leave a message for anyone, and no one has responded by email. If you move in here you will be disrespected, given a disgusting unit, and ignored by the people who run it as they try to fill up more units with unsuspecting renters. The property managers are slummy, scummy, and ugly hearted. If you can avoid this place live literally anywhere else, I promise this place isn’t worth it.

Don’t even bother trying to rent here. Had a scheduled appointment and nobody ever showed or was even at the leasing office. TOTAL WASTE OF TIME. Listen to the other reviews. I asked other tenants going in and out the building and they all said this office is horrible with everything.

Baker Tower in a nutshell: If you take a look at their lease, you can see that it isn’t at all an equal agreement between tenant and building manager. You will notice that if your family lives in a far-off part of the country and you might want to sublet your room because you won’t be in it for a month or so and you feel weird throwing a thousand dollars at a place you’re not occupying, that’s not possible. They don’t allow tenants to sublet. Also, the person you talk to will give you a rental price which may seem reasonable, but you will be responsible for not only your utilities, but for the utilities for the entire building. Including the lights that always stay on in the hallway, and the heat in the hallway they never shut off, even in the summer months. So you’ll want to add at least $250 to the rent price they quote. And finally, if you want to get out of your lease for any reason, sorry. It’s impossible to get out of your lease without either paying them the rest of the least or a buyout fee, which can be two months’ rent. If you look at all of that stuff and don’t see the red flags, sign away! Next, you’ll be dealing with the management. After living there for a while, let me advise you on a couple of things: Don’t call the office and leave a message. You’re a resident, not a potential resident. They won’t call you back. And email is out of the question, unless you want a response from your manager that include the sentence, “I’m sorry I haven’t gotten back to you, I haven’t checked my email in a couple months.” No. Go into the office and talk to someone personally. It’s the only way to get anything accomplished with them. A couple years ago, they made renovations to every unit. They gave me a gift card and told me I had couldn’t be in my apartment because they were replace the balcony wall, which really amounted to replacing a really drafty uninsulated wall with an even draftier, even more uninsulated wall. You see, people had problems with their pipes freezing and exploding. In fact every time the weather outside drops below freezing, they put a sign in the elevators telling residents to keep their apartments above 70º so the pipes don’t freeze. The problem is, I’m not convinced that the 60s-era thermostats that are in every apartment are even connected to the heating system. If you hear a loud pop and then your apartment starts flooding, run to the office and hope to catch the maintenance guy.

The review titled "Great Location, Awful Building" is telling the truth: the entire complex went without hot water for three weeks while management pretended that it was fixed. If I had known the reality of the situation sooner, I would have exercised my right to move out during the outage. Maxx Properties billed everyone in the complex at full rent despite their obvious failing to provide a habitable environment. The slightly lower rent for the location and the downstairs gym are very nice, but I won't be sticking around at the end of my lease. This was a few months ago. We just have had multiple days of hot water outages since the previously mentioned multi-week one. No telling how long this will continue. I can't stress this enough: stay away.

I lived at Baker Tower for 3 1/2 years (cheap rent is hard to resist) and just moved out. The building is terrible, the neighborhood is sublime. If there were half stars available I'd give this 1 1/2, just for the location. For the last year and change we had no cold water at night. After about 8 PM the cold tap had to run at full blast for 20 minutes in order to get comfortably warm water, any time before that and it was literally steaming hot, scalding you if you're careless. After my 3rd report to management and 3rd reply of "the temp's fine from here", I gave up. Enough complaints came in for them to try something and the entire building had no hot water at all, at any time, for 3 weeks. It got so bad that people were scratching their complaints into the elevator walls. People were threatening to go to HUD about it. Hot water came back but I still had no cold water at night. I kept bottled water on hand in case of burns. Heat is also an issue. They crank the (shared) heat well through Fall. You get one wall unit for A/C but the apartments are not designed for airflow, so if you've got your heart set on this place and you're sensitive to heat, plan to make the living area your bedroom, otherwise you will see essentially no benefit from your A/C. Average temp in my bedroom was 78, 365 days a year. I got rid of my comforter pretty early and slept under sheets only. When I first lived here they had four sets of washers and dryers servicing the whole building, but they were designed for single family homes, to be used no more than once or twice a day, and so 2-3 sets were always broken. Sometimes all of them were. We complained about this for three years before they finally sprung for industrial-class equipment, and it works okay now. The AC units in the gym don’t work so the temp there pushes 80 . I can't blame the management - this is a corporate building and the money men are out on the east coast. And as I said, the location is great. There’s reasonably priced, good food to the north and overpriced, decent food to the south. Trader Joes, Walgreens, King Soopers are all close. If you drink, there are too many spots to count along Broadway. I was actually offered a rent cut to stay for a fourth year but I had to get out of there. I would say that unless you’re fine with handling a lot of stress, you should stay away.

I want to express my gratitude for the management of Baker Tower. We're finishing up our one year lease, and it's been a wonderful experience during our transition to Denver. My Fiancé and I are relocating to a another place, but regret leaving. As with any apartment complex, there are times then things break or the facilities have to be renovated. Given that, the management company has been up front and flexible. They replaced all of the laundry facilities as quickly as possible when we realized they weren't operational. The common areas are freshly painted, with new carpet. I tore my ACL from a ski accident, and they accommodated by shoveling my car out. The rent has been reasonable, given Denver's ridiculous housing market. I would gladly have renewed my lease if I were living alone. Our place was just a bit too small for the two of us plus the many visitors we get from back home. For the view, clean facilities, neighborhood, and management company; this is a great place to rent. Our utility bill is next to nothing as well, and the parking is certainly reasonably priced and convenient. Thanks for everything and making our transition very smooth. It means the world to us.

The studio is pretty nice - I outfitted it with a murphy bed to save space which I mounted to the closet entry and it makes the room more than big enough. Balcony is huge, which is really nice, and the wall facing the street is essentially all windows which makes the room feel much larger than it is. All in all, the fact that there is a ton of storage space (one huge walk in closet and a wall closet) and that the amenities are all brand new makes this a perfect space for someone who doesn't mind fitting their day to day life into a single room.