I lived at the Edgecumbe terrace apartments for three years. It's a great location and it was great moving in as they had redone the interior. Unfortunately, the owners are difficult to work with. I had an issue with my air conditioning unit and sent pics of how it was 85 degrees in my apartment and the temp on the air con unit was going up and down and they accused my of photo shopping the pictures. The windows leak and, if god forbid you open them in the winter, they freeze open. They are difficult to turn on the heat until they legally have to so. They also used over half my security deposit to replace the entire living room carpet (at least that is what they told me) due to a stain on the carpet. Even more, they raised the rent by over 10 percent claiming they would suffer due to rent control. Again, great location but it is definitely not worth the stress of dealing with the owners. read more

I just recently moved out of the Cleveland and Marshall building after renting for a year, and I don't have a lot of kind words for the management. The building itself was very cool, historic, and mostly maintained, however, I had a few issues with management not taking care of some small maintenance issues, such as a clogged sink and tub drain. My tub was clogged for a week and I called many times to inform them and ask for assistance. They did not come until I had my dad call for me and then proceeded to berate me for not informing them sooner. This happened about a month into my lease. More recently, I recently received my security deposit check and was charged for not turning in keys, clogged drains, and unclean floors. However, I thoroughly cleaned the apartment before move out. They also charged me for a key which I did not possess at any point. It seems that they have no problem taking advantage of people. They also did not fully follow the law; they were supposed to inform me about renewing my lease or putting in my notice, which they never did, doing a final walk-through of the apartment before turning in my keys, which they never did, and they did not get me my deposit check within the 21 days after my lease ended, which they are legally obligated to do. Overall, decent building, good location, horrible parking, little storage, and terrible management. read more

I've lived in a lot of apartments in a lot of towns. I thought I'd be more pleased at my Roseville abode. It started out so promising. First of all, Roseville is a little quiet for my taste. But that's not really my apartment's problem. So moving on, it all started with a newly renovated apartment. Definitely the nicest place I've lived in--new carpet, new appliances, etc. However, when I moved in (two weeks after the original move-in date they gave me), they had forgotten to order blinds. So I lived a full month in the place being blinded by the sun and giving accidental peep shows. The folks at Mollner Properties were surprisingly unapologetic. Additionally, my garage I was paying for was also available about a week late. Then we come to the issue of laundry. There are strict hours of 8 am - 9 pm to use the washer/dryer. Let's just say that pulling my clothes out of the dryer at 10 pm was not kosher. Finally, I thought I was being nice by giving three months notice I would not be renewing my lease. I picked up the apartment, and everything looks pretty neat. Not deep cleaned, but it's not move out time yet either--you can tell someone still lives there. Apparently the landlord is not pleased. I received a phone call getting complaints about the stove, garage--which only contains a piece of cardboard and random leaves that blew in, and general cleanliness of the apartment. Honestly, there is nothing destroyed or dramatically dirty about any part of that apartment. If you want to feel like you're being babysat, watched with eagle eyes by your friendly neighbors and deal with freakouts over non-issues, move in. I know I got suckered in with the amount of space and generally good upkeep of the building. Not the worst place or experience ever, but not people I would want to deal with again. read more

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly DO NOT MOVE HERE. If Yelp allowed cautionary or negative ratings, this property would be -5 in my view. I am 64 years old and lived here for over 9 years. They refused to renew my lease, so they could remodel and significantly raise the rent. They also broke an agreement we had, disregarding and keeping the $1000's of improvements I made after explaining to them that I planned to live there until I medically needed to move, and I would then leave all the improvements. Instead they forced me out and kept everything; a high end range and refrigerator, new sink and shower heads which I had bought out of my own pocket, plus keeping my full security deposit and then had the gall to present me with a $600 bill for cleaning/repairs for paint and floor refurbishment. Meanwhile they are now refurbishing the entire apartment. I have referred the matter to the MN States Attorney's General, St, Paul and Ramsey County Housing Authorities, the Postal Service for mail fraud and the FBI. These are very immoral and greedy people. And I am aware that numerous other tenants have been treated the same way. Your "Security Deposit" is a sunk cost the day you give it to them. No previous tenant I've talked to ever got theirs back. The Good The building is located in a great area. There are North/South and East/West transit stops at the intersection. This allows quick access to both cities, the airport, the Xcel, the Amtrak Station and numerous universities. St. Thomas is within walking distance. The local neighborhood is exceptional with easy access to several restaurants, gas stations, coffee shops, laundromat and Izzy's Ice Cream. The neighborhood can be noisy sometimes due to the high number of college students, but I was once in college and it never bothered me. The building is very presentable from the outside on the street side. The private side is a weed garden. The Bad There is simply NO PARKING. You will find yourself fighting to find anything nearby. And St. Paul views the rich kids at St. Thomas as a pure source of parking fines, so follow every possible parking law or get a ticket. (I received one for $300 because my retired Navy license frame was said to cover a part of the plate - it was dismissed when I asked for a jury trial). But you will be ticket for everything possible. Get a copy of the MN statues regarding Landlord/Tenant Laws from the State's Attorneys' General Office - you will need it. Heat is supposedly included in the rent. MN Law requires landlords to maintain 68°F, and that is the maximum you will get out of the dangerous steam radiators. The windows are ancient ant drafts are constant. Expect to average around 66°. If you have children, be warned the radiators reach 160-180° and then shut off for hours. A very high burn risk for kids. There is no A/C and they no longer offer/allow it, unless you want to pay significant fines. The interior of the building is in very poor shape. Hallways are dark and gloomy. I threw out numerous meals as paint (you will sign a lead paint and asbestos acknowledgement, and the lead paint is real) from the pealing ceiling fell into my food while cooking. Do not expect any response to maintenance request for weeks or months. I simply started fixing everything on my own and left well over $300 in faucets, supplies and materials. Also be warned, that although the electric outlets appear normal, they are not grounded, and the power is very "dirty". Be sure to use very high-end suppressors and regulators for any PC's or TV's. The power fluctuations will destroy your electronics. Only use dimmable LED's as they seem capable of handling all the variations; otherwise an LED bulb last 3-4 months. Do NOT ask them to fix a light bulb or the old-fashioned screw in fuses they use (no resettable breakers) unless you want to pay 10X the cost to cover their labor. The Ugly - In fact the VERY, VERY UGLY The management of this property is horrible. When I initially moved in ten years ago the property and building was being managed by the older couple who actually own this and numerous other properties. Sue Molnar is a great person and I always trusted her and believed in her word. She has clearly been put in her place and her word is now meaningless. About six years ago their son became the Property Manager and supposedly lives on premises. Good luck in ever finding him. He is an extremely Passive-Aggressive person with a serious inability to deal with people. Many residents, particularly younger women and minorities confided in me that were very afraid of him. Two young girls asked me to help them because he was so abusive. Do not report any issue to him, just fix it yourself. If you do raise an issue or complain, he will eventually get around to addressing your request, then accuse you of causing the problem and demand payment to cover the cost and labor. This is not a business interested in developing l read more

Lived at this apartment for 3 years. Nice people, but extremely hard to get ahold of if you need anything. Once we left, our security deposit was much lower than it should have been. They charged us almost $300 for cleaning the apartment, when my roommate and I deep cleaned it before we left. They charged us for giving them a new shower head? If you already live here, make sure you go through the walk-through of the apartment so they don't charge you a ton once you are gone. All I can say is expect to not get your money back from them. They are not there to be your friend, they just want your money and will charge you a lot for nothing. read more

I lived in the Mollner Properties apartments for three years and was not impressed with management. John and Sue, although nice people, were really difficult to communicate with. They don't answer phone calls and take many days to respond to voicemails. They just recently got email for the first time, but they take a long time to answer that as well. They also scammed me when I moved out. I was leaving at the end of the month and called them to set up a time to hand over the keys. They told me they were too busy to meet and to leave the keys in the apartment when I left. I deep cleaned the apartment, left it spotless and then left the keys in the cabinet as instructed. A few weeks later, I got a check in the mail from them with my deposit. They had taken money off it because the apartment wasn't clean. I tried to call them to contest, because I had even taken pictures on my phone of the clean apartment to avoid this kind of issue, but they never answered my calls so I never recovered the money. Additionally, in my first year living there, the apartment flooded in the spring. Management did a very poor job of taking care of the situation and basically solved the problem by turning on our air conditioning (which, of course, we paid for). When I reported mold from the flood, they came in and asked to take my moldy clothes to be able to look into the situation more. I never heard back from them and they never returned my clothes even when I asked. All they did was deny the presence of mold. Even if you're not living in a basement apartment, be very, very careful if you decide to rent from John and Sue and don't expect to get your deposit back even if you leave the apartment in better condition than you found it. read more

I have lived at the apartments on St Paul Ave (Edgecumbe Terrance) for about 4 years now, we have finally decided to move out. The main reason is the management or "landlords" they are absolutely awful. 2 years ago our apartment flooded and we were unable to live in the apartment for over a week, relocate my cat (which the landlord always forgets we paid a $75 deposit for) and didn't even get an apology or a decrease in rent for the month. Not to mention the giant hole in my bedroom wall from them trying to locate the flood which was not fixed until over a year later (we had to call several times to remind them.) And the black mold on the bathroom ceiling was poorly fixed. They just painted over it. That isn't even the biggest issue. John Mollner, the property owner, is harassing. He has come into our apartment unannounced and has literally YELLED at my roommate for supposidly smoking in the apartment (he was asleep.) Not to mention the fact that my daughter was also asleep in the next room. We eventually got tired of the attitude and having to walk on eggshells. Not to mention, our neighbors are nosey and strange. Now the bedroom is flooding again, and if you try to call the landlord, good luck getting a hold of them. And of course we got attitude from John Mollner about bringing that up too. Basically, if you are thinking about living in a property that they own, I suggest you look elsewhere unless you enjoy being babysat and not able to live your life in your apartment that you pay for monthly. This our last month here and they are threatening us with an eviction? Bizarre folks. read more

I'm relieved that I'm not the only one that's had to deal with this property management. I've lived in a lot of rentals and apartments, and work in the industry, and I've never been treated so poorly or taken advantage of so much by management. My lease lasted a whole 4 months before I just had to get out. The property at Marshall and Cleveland has poor parking and a lack of storage. After moving in, it took a month to get my name changed on my mailbox. After several letters and packages were returned to the sender after being found "undeliverable" by the post man, I finally got management to do something about after a number of phone calls. They were highly unapologetic after the great hassle (and money) I had to go through because of their lack of due care for their residents. Square footage of the apartment is nice and it's a great location. That's about all the good I can say about this apartment complex and its management. The walls are paper thin here and we were pestered by surrounding neighbors and management for noise if we had more than 3 people over past 9 pm on a weekend. Laundry is crazy expensive downstairs. I started taking it across the street to the laundromat to save money. After blowing a fuse in my roommates closet (they still have the old screw fuse box), we notified management of this and it still wasn't fixed by the time we moved out (a month and a half had gone by). After deciding it was time to leave and giving management our notice to vacate by June 1, we cleaned our apartment and were available and accommodating so they could fill their apartments with tenants. I wish I would've left a note out somewhere that warned tenants of this property management company. We were pestered by John and them to keep it unreasonably clean. They notified us that they found tenants, but they wouldn't be moving in until June 15. We asked if it would be okay then to take that time to assure everything was out and the apartment would be throughly cleaned. Both me and my roommate were completely moved out, returned our keys and had the place deep cleaned by June 10 and had a walkthrough shortly after. We were told then that we'd be set to get our deposit back as long as we unclogged the drain a bit more (this being after I pulled so much junk and hair out already). I bought a jug of drain cleaner and dumped the whole thing down. Water drained just as it had when we moved in. Once we received our deposit back, it was half of what it should've been. We were charged for a half months rent for not moving out until June 15 (they did not notify us that we'd be charged rent for taking that time to clean). I was already paying rent at my new housing and would've have moved if that was the case. They charged us for new parts and labor to fix the tub drain (again in the same condition when we moved in). We were charged 60 bucks for 2 nails in a door that were there when we moved in as well, as well as 40 bucks for a couple new sets of shades that were "damaged" (where are they buying there shades? You're getting ripped off). From what it looks like from other reviews, they have a history of nickel and dime-ing their tenants. I doubt any previous tenants have gotten their full deposit back. If you like being belittled as a tenant and being stollen from, this is the place for you. Oh and everything's under construction right around the property now too! read more

I lived in their Roseville apartment for a year and had great luck. They were always responsive to my questions or concerns and the neighbors were friendly and helpful. When I returned to Minnesota after being out of the country for a year I needed a place to stay closer to the South metro where I worked and it was getting close to winter. I called the Mollners and asked if there was anything available in their Marshall Ave. building only to find they had another building in the Highland Park area. They had an apartment available for me and before long I was moving in! I've viewed a lot of apartments and witnessed a lot of owners who don't seem to care much for their properties. From my experience The Mollners truly do care about their building and the people in it. I would recommend them any day! read more

I lived at the Lexington Twin Apartments from 1999-2013 and thoroughly enjoyed my time there, my neighbors, and management. John Mollner was always prompt in fixing problems. I had no complaints. If people are respectful to their neighbors, to the landlords, and take care of the place where they live, then you will enjoy living at these apartments. read more