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Peyton Howard, a junior at Mississippi State University who is living in the apartment complex, told The Dispatch he and his roommates are considering filing breach of contract civil suits with the apartment complex for issues ranging from mold to broken appliances found when they moved in Aug. 14. Braden Simmons/Dispatch Staff\t\n\t\t\tOKTIBBEHA COUNTY \u2013 A garbage bag ripped and trash spread by the front door. Dirt scattered across the bedroom floor. A big gash through the kitchen\u2019s stovetop.\nThose were just a few of the issues that greeted Peyton Howard, a junior mechanical engineering major at Mississippi State University, when he walked into his apartment during move-in day Aug. 14 at the Yugo Starkville Campus Common on Ace Avenue off Oktoc Road.\nThat is once he got into his bedroom.\n\u201cThey had to get a drill and drill my lock off because they told me \u2026 nobody\u2019s been able to open this door for about two years,\u201d Howard told The Dispatch on Thursday. \u201c\u2026 And then the second you open my room, it is just dirt (and) dust. \u2026 (My room) didn\u2019t have a chair, desk, or bed, and then you walk into the bathroom, and (it\u2019s backed up).\u201d\nWhile the area was cleaned by apartment complex staff, Howard, his roommates and their parents are still awaiting a response to requested repairs to broken appliances they found during move-in, including to the stovetop, washing machine and dryer.\nThe conditions were a far cry from the \u201cmove-in ready\u201d Howard said residents were promised.\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tNeal Gunter, a junior at Mississippi State University, holds up a broken piece of his shower Thursday in his apartment at the Yugo Starkville Campus Common in Oktibbeha County. Gunter is one of several residents considering requesting release from his lease agreement after receiving no correspondence from property management about issues in his apartment since he moved in last week. Braden Simmons/Dispatch Staff \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\nEven though he and his roommates are frustrated by what they allege was a breach of their lease agreement due to the room\u2019s condition, Howard said they feel lucky compared to other tenants who are dealing with more distressing issues like mold, insect infestations and broken air conditioning units.\nNatasha Olive, the mother of an MSU student living in the apartments, said she and her son were some of those less fortunate who found animal droppings, dead bugs and broken appliances in the apartment.\nBut even after cleaning the room themselves, the issues did not stop Friday, Olive said.\n\u201cNow the issue we\u2019re having is his air is not working,\u201d Olive said. \u201cHe had to go and buy a fan to try to keep cool. The air is messed up. \u2026 The stove is horrible. The outside of the complex looks like it\u2019s nasty. They\u2019ve either just swept down all the trash from the top level, and \u2026 it dropped behind the stairs. It\u2019s just filth. \u2026 I\u2019ve never experienced anything like this.\u201d\nOlive and Howard agreed that they, alongside dozens of other residents experiencing issues, plan to ask the apartment complex for a partial repayment of their first month\u2019s rent or alternative compensation considering the conditions they found their apartments in last week.\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tPeyton Howard, a junior at Mississippi State University, points to a cut through one of the burners on a stovetop Thursday in his apartment at the Yugo Starkville Campus Common in Oktibbeha County. Howard said the gash in the stove top was just one of several issues, including a backed up toilet and dirt and dust strewn about his room, that he found when he moved into the complex last week. Braden Simmons/Dispatch Staff\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\nBoth Olive and Howard said they had previously taken tours of other apartments at the complex that were not in the same condition as the ones they leased.\nIf those requests for repayment go unanswered, Howard and his two roommates expect to break their lease agreements and file a civil suit for breach of contract against the company.\n\u201cWe want either some kind of compensation, like get all of our utilities fixed within this time frame, lower the rent, something,\u201d Howard said. \u201cWe need some sort of compensation because the way that it was in here, that\u2019s not something you can just let slide.\u201d\nIn an emailed statement to The Dispatch, Yugo Global Communications Director Jo MacAdie said that the company is aware of \u201ca small percentage of units\u201d at the complex requiring additional attention since move-in. She declined to comment about whether tenants would be compensated for how the rooms were found.\n\u201cWe are addressing the concerns raised by affected residents and are focused on helping them settle into their new homes,\u201d the statement reads.\nHoward said as someone who moved to the area after two years at Jones College in Ellisville, he was shocked the county didn\u2019t have a code enforcement officer or building codes for apartment complexes or other residences.\n\u201cI think that there almost needs to be some kind of county representative that inspects these buildings themselves,\u201d Howard said. \u201cI would say there needs to be somebody hired for the county that comes in and inspects these buildings because they\u2019re just screwing people out of money. \u2026 It\u2019s false advertisement at its finest.\u201d\nCounty response\nWayne Carpenter, county administrator, said the board of supervisors ultimately cannot do anything to deal with these sorts of issues.\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tWayne Carpenter\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\n\u201cThe county has no apartment codes or rental codes or anything of that nature,\u201d Carpenter said. \u201cWe\u2019re treating this the only way we can treat it, which is, this is a civil matter, breach of contract between the lessee and the lessor.\u201d\nBut issues like those at Yugo highlight the need to implement something, District 2 Supervisor Orlando Trainer said.\nThe board since February 2025 has been mulling over the implementation of county-wide building codes as part of its updated comprehensive plan, which covers county goals, land use, transportation and community facilities. During public discussions for that plan, residents voiced concerns over the implementation of invasive zoning and building codes, but there was largely support on the board for implementing a baseline.\nIn January, the board approved moving forward with the first phase of that plan but left building codes and zoning out for the time to develop a better idea of what it wanted to implement.\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tOrlando Trainer\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\n\u201cYou have got to have guidelines,\u201d Trainer said. \u201cPeople have got to know what the expectations are. And it\u2019s like there\u2019s no way you can know all the laws on the book, but the law needs to be on the book to where if you (have) an idea (then) you can research it, and your research will give you what you need to be in compliance. \u2026 It\u2019s just a process where we (have) got to have something in place, and we (have) got to move on it. And I\u2019m not saying the sky\u2019s falling, but this thing didn\u2019t just all of a sudden happen.\u201d\nDuring a supervisors\u2019 meeting Monday, there was discussion of developing a staff position to handle code enforcement as well as deal with planning and development broadly in conjunction with the county engineer and other county departments, Carpenter said.\nTrainer said for that position to really have an impact, the county needs to flesh out a foundation of building ordinances that is specific in their requirements for homes, apartment complexes and other properties built in the county.\n\u201c(We have to) try to cover it from all angles,\u201d Trainer said. \u201cI mean, there\u2019s no way I can spin it or twist it. I mean, just start with something, and then one thing about a law or code, you can always come back and amend it. 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