For those of you who don't know me, I should introduce myself. My name is Chuck Earley, and over the last 11 years, with the help from my two sons, Michael, and Ryan, and my wife Nancy and a God given determination ... we have managed to build three Apartment buildings and remodel four houses. All of which now make up "Eagle Creek Apartments and Homes". The apartments and houses are close to Nebraska Wesleyan University and the U.N.L. East Campus. therefore, each property was specifically designed and built with the student in mind.

In 1996, we built a four-plex, called Eagle Creek. We named it after my Great-Grandfather's ranch near O'Neill, Nebraska. We got great satisfaction from this achievement, and decided to do another, and then another. In 2000 we completed Little Eagle Creek, a three-plex, and one year later Little Eagle Creek II, a four-plex. Some apartments even have: fireplaces, skylights, stair lights, washers and dryers, a full bathroom for every bedroom, and decks overlooking University Place Park. (We may have gotten carried away some, but we wanted to out do those new NWU dorms by a mile!) To obtain the land to build the Little Eagle Creek Project, we even had to move three houses to different lots in the city. Those houses were then completely remodeled. One house went to: 547 No. 57th St., (sold in June 2010)) and the other to: 5044 Fremont St.. (sold in Dec 2010) In 2004 we added another home at 4946 Garland St , which in the summer of 2006, we moved to 5219 Garland , which was completed in June of 2007 . The now empty lot at 4946 Garland will be the future site of our forth apartment building.

Our goal is to keep all of these properties updated and in like new condition, and offer them at a fair price. We have never increased any rent, as of 2006. We also strive to make a special effort to get to know our renters, and to quickly take care of any problems that they may have with their apartments or houses. What sets us apart from larger rental companies, is that we are owner-managed and, therefore, take great pride in the quality of our apartments and homes, as well as our tenants ... who, by the way, we are determined to keep happy. The location of the apartments and homes to major colleges in the Lincoln area is also a big plus, as well as our competitive prices. For example, the new NWU townhouses (NWU's best) are priced, $14.00/ day/per student without food, and you will have to share a bathroom. Our apartments are as nice, and up to 36 percent less.

The price of a UNL double occupancy dorm room is $20.40 per day/ per student, which includes your dorm food. We know that in the real world, students living in the dorm eat out a lot, and anyone who has lived in the dorms knows the reason for that. We bring up the UNL dorm price and NWU townhouses because we know to live in one of our apartments, it could cost you $7.83 - $10.83 per day for rent, depending on if you want your own bathroom or not. Your utilities will vary, but normally cost around $1.33 per day, which includes phone and cable. This will leave $9.57 - $11.24 per day for food, which if you make even some meals at home in any of our apartments full size kitchens, you can easily live within this budget range. But best of all, you will not have to leave your apartment to use the bathroom, or even share your bathroom, and you are only one to two blocks off NWU campus, in one of Lincoln's safest neighborhoods.

As you can see, we definitely did not build mega-apartment complexes. But when it comes to housing for students, we think that smaller apartment buildings are better. We have found that the smaller apartments seem to attract the brightest students ... the students that know what they are in college for. They seem to have a different goal in mind. These are the years that young people choose the path that they will take throughout most of their life. The path that will "set them up for life", you might say. Those beaten down paths that do not offer many options along the way, are of course, the easiest but the least rewarding. Most of our past and current tenants have chosen more difficult academic majors ... the ones not just anyone can handle. They realize that a few years of hard work now, for the continual dividends paid out along the way is really trivial in the overall scheme of things. They also know that regardless of the path they choose, all are equally taxing over the long haul. So what starts hard, gets easier; and what starts easy, gets tougher. (Heavy but true). When you read about the drop out rate for students not living on campus, just remember people go to college for many different reasons, and we think living on campus has little to do with this rate. In fact, we have not seen any of our tenants not complete their education. They just keep focused. We, at Eagle Creek Apartments and Homes, want to help them achieve their goals, by providing a quite, peaceful and highly maintained apartment or house very close to school, in which to live and study.

We are the new kid on the block, but during the last 11 years, we have had the privilege to have many outstanding individuals stay with us ... all students. Thanks to all of our present and future friends, and especially to our past renters, whom we got to know and care about, and now miss. We wish you all the very best in all you do and offer some advice:

Accept the earth for what it is, a place of testing -- and realize that these tests comes to everyone in infinite forms. They will come no matter what you will do for a living, or who you think you are. Some will be very tough, they are the toll roads on the path of life that take only tears for payment. It is how you handle those tests that matters most, in reaching your ultimate goal, heaven. Have faith. Think positively about your worth as a child of the Lord and He will help you correct what needs to be corrected before you enter His Kingdom. Banish fear, which is a lack of faith. Banish negativity; God is a positive God. Banish judgment: Let God alone judge. Banish jealousy, which is akin to hatred.

So there you have it, look around and if you have any questions or comments, we would like to hear from you. I hope that through this site, current tenants will have an even easier way to keep in touch with us via e-mail , and find within these web pages the needed information to care for their apartment or house, all of which will make property management even more efficient!