Blue Ribbon Lofts

Maintenance guy showed up before I got off the phone. He was professional, patient and personable. Fixed my biggest problem immediately, and followed up with the office for me to get my other requests scheduled and completed. A night and day difference from maintenance under the former management company.

The garbage room is a sanitation disaster and is never cleaned up by management. Likewise, the carpet is filthy and there is no furniture in the public spaces to make the space inviting.

If I could give this place 0 stars I would. If someone were to ask me if they should live here I would tell them to make sure they look at every available option before coming here. - Safety is not properly accounted for. Several months of domestic abuse was such a problem that the local police had at minimum 2 squad cars parked near Blue Ribbon Lofts BRL during the day and increased to 4 squad cars during the evening and nighttime hours. BRL sent out a poorly written up email and paper flyer stating it is aware people do not get along all the time and picked 3 numbers from the nearest therapy locations for the units to use as a resource. This did not help the situation and the police continued to return. BRL then moved a therapist into BRL for free and disclosed the location of her apartment to let all tenants know she was living here. - There is little to no available parking. - You can hear your neighbors by just sitting and listening. - Overall appearance of the community is unsatisfactory where: --smashed car windows, broken bottles, stolen stickers or ripped-off license plates is a problem for multiple tenants within Blue Ribbon Lofts. - Maintenance Staff is seldom accomplishing work requests in a timely fashion. When they do arrive, they are unprepared, distracted, or need to leave to accomplish another task. - Property Staff is unprofessional, disrespectful, unorganized, and greedy. - Garbage removal is poor and unkempt where the smell of garbage saturates up to the third floor. Each unit is disatisfyingly overpriced. For a 2bed 2bath, $1400.00 is required for just barely over 1000 square feet. Each apartment comes with a washer and dryer, but it's not technically included within the apartment, that's an extra $50 each month. The priorities of work for the hired employees are more focused on how the hallways are painted rather than fixing the problems within each unit. Management would much rather provide tables and chairs in the open area that no one will ever waste their time using than clean the carpeted flooring that is not only wreaking of feces but also seen laying on the carpet and ground throughout the complex. The unit I was living in had a bedroom door that shattered off of the door frame not more than one month into the lease. I asked for a replacement door and there was absolutely no communication for months until I had to ask again by requesting a new door for the 2nd and 3rd time. 7 months later I finally received a working door. Do you want to use the garage parking?; an additional charge coming your way. Yet, don't waste your time again because the open spaces are reserved and there is a waiting list that does not ever change. Trying to park outside instead? Good luck, between the window-smashing, license plate stealing, and car scratching you are better off parking in the parking garage located down the street that is dramatically overpriced as well. Because Blue Ribbon Lofts does not provide outside parking, you will need to contact the city to register for a parking pass or you will get parking tickets every night. While the city is amazing at handing out citations for parking, they cannot seem to figure out why vandalism is so high or why there is broken glass littered across the street or why there are so many incidents where the police are needed to be called. All in all each unit is overpriced for what you get. You will be nickeled and dimed for each part of the apartment minus water. I left for deployment and I was more nervous about my roommate being alone in the building than my own personal safety. None of the work requests I wanted to be done before I left were accomplished and I came home from my deployment with only 1 request being accomplished. I was gone for 9 months. Unsatisfactory. Do not allow yourself to be taken advantage there are better places in Milwaukee where you can get your view and fun of living downtown.

We just bought this place. I can only imagine what this place will be like in a few years. We not only have a top management team but we have our own construction company with top notch designers. We love the nostalgic history behind this old brewery and we love the beer! Pabst Blue Ribbon!!

Vanessa had me fill out an application and told me I'd get a response in 24 to 48 hours. She knew I had little time but strung me along for four days before finally telling me the unit wasn't even available to rent after all. Total lack of response, respect and decency. In the end I ended up contacting the former tenant which was through the original listing and this is what she had to say: "I really don’t blame you, Gorman has been terrible to work with so you are probably better off with where you are going. It’s a shame because it really is an awesome apartment." The unit I saw and the building are indeed nice, but from my experience something isn't quite right at the place and I wouldn't trust them again.

The worst experience ever. I have been very patient with everything currently going on. I reached out 3 weeks ago to get more information and either do a tour or a virtual tour. Neither of which the company offered. Still being patient I would call and leave voicemails or email and hear nothing back for days until I called again. I was really looking forward to getting an apartment only for them to tell me after three weeks the one I was looking at was already rented and the next one available is double the price. Complete joke.

Pretty good! I love that they are making updates to the community! I can’t wait to see the outcome! We could use better trash services and more storage availability. Other than that I love it

I have been emailing and calling leaving multiple messages and once i spoke with Johnny King leasing specialist he stated they had 2 bedroom openings however two weeks have passed and once i called the office again, the man who answered stated they don't have any 2 bedroom s nor does he know when they have them available again. completely unprofessional and inconsiderate of others.

The Office Manager answered the phone was rude and disrespectful to one of my clients. Left her in tears from this experience. The Lofts are really nice but there is no professionalism with their staff. Detours decent people off from desiring to live here. We have to do better.

It took a couple of day to get matter fixed. But once it was completed it worked perfectly.