Acorn Management

AVOID AT ALL COSTS! SLUMLORD! Albert Stratton owns this company. He is a not only a slumlord, he has serious rage issues and a pointlessly vindictive personality that makes renting from him a nightmare — he clearly hates his tenants. ALL of his tenants, even the good ones.
I lived at the Detroit Avenue apartments for over a year. These are lovely but old units in need of repair. While I was there the bathroom literally caved in. The upstairs tenant also flooded my unit with dirty kitchen water. Stratton’s idea of repair to my waterlogged kitchen was to spray paint over the dirty water — and over whatever food happened to be in the kitchen at the time!
I paid my rent in full and on time, if not early. I was also one of the only tenants that did not call the police nor have the police called on me during my stay — and believe me this was a regular occurrence. Fights and other suspicious behavior was a constant here.
Tenants also let their cats roam freely around the hallways, one tenant left the cat for us to take care of when she moved out. I wanted to adopt a skunk and politely requested permission to do this (even though the manager at the time counseled me to go ahead and get it). Stratton not only declined, but treated me to an irate hand-​written note full of bafflingly misdirected anger. I decided to hold off on the pet.
There was construction to Detroit avenue at the time, and every day for months I would have to walk up and down Detroit, find the foreman, and then wait for him to to get someone (they were always on break) to move the construction vehicles from in front of the single, hidden driveway to the apartment complex so I could get my car out and go to work (the City refused to help also). I begged Stratton to invest in a $ 10 «do not block driveway» sign, but was treated to another of his irate verbal refusals. I finally moved out for this reason as I needed to get to work!
3 years later I needed a referral to move into the house I was considering and mistakenly thought that Stratton «couldn’t» say anything negative about me — as, logically, I was an ideal tenant and there was simply nothing negative to say. Did you know that, unlike previous employers, landlords do not have any legal restrictions on referral comments? Two days before I was scheduled to move into my new home, over TWO MONTHS after I requested his referral, I got an irate call from the new leasing office (Bauer reality — see review). They were furious that I did not tell them I owned a skunk, and about several other clearly vindictive and untrue comments made by Stratton in what could only be a desperate and pointless attempt to keep me from moving into a new home??? Seriously?
I’m shocked that there are no previous warnings from Unilocalers about him. I can only imagine his fury towards his tenants has scared them off. I honestly half expect another of his patented bile-​dripping messages in response to this review.
I have no idea why Stratton is such a hateful human being. Let me take one for the team on this. AVOID AT ALL COSTS! And thanks for the life lesson!