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Ambroselli Properties
Ambroselli Properties is a Wisconsin residential property management operation run by owner Dominic Ambroselli, with apartment communities in Hartford, West Bend, Kewaskum, Waukesha, and the greater Milwaukee area. The entity Ambroselli Properties, L.L.C. was formed in 2010. The company settled a U.S. Department of Justice Fair Housing Act lawsuit in December 2012 — without admitting liability — after HUD found reasonable cause to believe the company and an employee discriminated against a prospective tenant family on the basis of race and family size at a Kewaskum apartment complex. BBB currently rates the business F, citing three unanswered consumer complaints, and tenants have described unresponsive maintenance (mold, a prolonged lack of hot water) in a public community social-media thread. USAComplaints.com has no confirmed complaints on file about this company as of this writing.
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Contacts
- Main office: 4144034271
- Official website: https://ambroselliproperties.com/
Locations
| Type | Address |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | 225 N. Main St. Hartford WI 53027 |
| Branch office | 965 Fond du Lac Ave Kewaskum WI 53040-9162 |
About Ambroselli Properties
Ambroselli Properties is a residential property management operation owned by Dominic Ambroselli, based in southeastern Wisconsin. The company's own website states it has operated since 1984, while the entity Ambroselli Properties, L.L.C. was formed as a Wisconsin limited liability company on September 30, 2010, according to a 2012 federal court filing.
The portfolio spans apartment communities in Hartford, West Bend, Kewaskum, Theresa, Juneau, Caledonia, Franksville, Waukesha, and the greater Milwaukee area. Dominic Ambroselli has also personally acquired large multifamily buildings in recent years, including a $6.85 million purchase of the 55-unit Castings Place Apartments in Milwaukee's Harbor View neighborhood and an $8.5 million purchase of the mixed-use building at 234 W. Main St. in downtown Waukesha, according to Milwaukee-area business press.
The company's website lists a business office at 225 N. Main St., Hartford, WI, describing it as a remote office with in-person meetings by appointment only. The Better Business Bureau's file for the business instead lists 965 Fond du Lac Ave, Kewaskum, WI — the address of the Rustic Timbers Apartments complex named in the 2012 federal lawsuit described below. Both addresses trace to sources this profile treats as current; readers dealing with the company should confirm which office applies to their situation before sending anything.
Is Ambroselli Properties Legitimate?
Ambroselli Properties, L.L.C. is on record in federal court filings as a Wisconsin limited liability company formed in 2010. This profile could not independently reach the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions' corporate-records site during research (the connection timed out repeatedly), so current registration status is sourced to the company's own court filings rather than a fresh state registry pull — a gap, not a red flag.
Property owners who lease units they themselves own, rather than managing units on behalf of other owners for a fee, are generally exempt from Wisconsin's real-estate broker licensing requirement under Wis. Stat. § 452.09. Public records reviewed for this profile describe Dominic Ambroselli as the owner of the buildings his company manages, consistent with that exemption. No evidence was found that Ambroselli Properties manages units it does not own or holds a separate real-estate broker license, but a direct license-registry lookup could not be completed during this research pass.
The company is not BBB accredited and holds an F rating, the Bureau's lowest, based on three complaints the business did not respond to (BBB file opened 2006).
The company's most significant public record is the U.S. Department of Justice Fair Housing Act lawsuit described in the case record below, which concluded in a December 2012 consent order. The Ambroselli defendants denied the allegations, and the order itself was entered to avoid the cost and uncertainty of further litigation — it is a settlement, not a court finding of liability.
What Tenants and Consumers Report
BBB lists three complaints against the business, all closed on the basis that the business failed to respond; BBB's public profile does not publish a category breakdown for these. A separate BBB customer review from a person identified as "Christina S." alleges she was left on a waiting list for months after a rental inquiry while a white coworker calling about the same property received a callback within 20 minutes. This is one individual's allegation, not an independently verified fact, but it echoes the race-based theme of the 2012 DOJ case above.
In a West Bend, WI community Facebook group (April 2026), a tenant posted photos and video of what she described as mold in her bathroom and said repeated requests to the leasing department went unaddressed; the post drew 57 comments. One commenter, describing what she said was a different unit in the same building, said she went "almost a year without hot water" and separately reported mold. These are individual tenant accounts on a public social-media thread, not independently verified findings, but they point to a maintenance-responsiveness theme common in property-management complaints generally.
As of this research, USAComplaints.com has no confirmed complaints on file naming this company. A same-surname landlord ("Charles Ambroselli," posting as "Pastor Charlie") with complaints already on this site operates individually in Smyrna, Georgia, and is a different person in a different, unrelated situation — not this company.
Court & Public Records
| Case | Authority | Dates | Type | Outcome | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States of America v. Dominic Ambroselli, Ambroselli Properties, L.L.C., and Steven Szczerbiak Docket 2:12-cv-01155 | U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin | Settled | Settled The DOJ complaint alleged that Dominic Ambroselli, owner of Rustic Timbers Apartments in Kewaskum, WI, and employee Steven Szczerbiak violated the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. sections 3604(a)-(d)) by denying a rental to a prospective tenant family on the basis of race and familial status, after HUD investigated a 2010 complaint and found reasonable cause. The Ambroselli defendants denied the allegations, stating the matter resulted from a misunderstanding. On December 13, 2012, the court entered a Partial Consent Order between the United States and Dominic Ambroselli / Ambroselli Properties, L.L.C. (not an admission of liability): a $50,000 payment to the complainants; an injunction against discrimination with no stated expiration; mandatory fair-housing training for staff; required nondiscrimination notices; and DOJ monitoring/reporting, with the court retaining jurisdiction to enforce the order for three years after entry (extendable if either Ambroselli defendant violates its terms). The order resolved the case as to the Ambroselli defendants only; this profile found no further public record of how the claims against co-defendant Steven Szczerbiak were resolved. | Source |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Ambroselli Properties a legitimate company?
Yes — it is an operating Wisconsin residential property management business tied to a named owner, Dominic Ambroselli, and a Wisconsin LLC (Ambroselli Properties, L.L.C., formed 2010) confirmed via a federal court filing. Being a real, operating business is separate from its complaint record, which includes a BBB F rating and a 2012 Department of Justice Fair Housing Act settlement — see below.
Did Ambroselli Properties settle a housing discrimination lawsuit?
Yes. In November 2012 the U.S. Department of Justice sued Dominic Ambroselli, Ambroselli Properties, L.L.C., and employee Steven Szczerbiak in federal court (E.D. Wis., Case No. 2:12-cv-01155), alleging race- and family-size-based discrimination against a prospective tenant family at the Rustic Timbers Apartments in Kewaskum, WI. The Ambroselli defendants denied the allegations. In December 2012 the parties entered a consent order: a $50,000 payment to the family, a 3-year injunction and DOJ monitoring period, and mandatory fair-housing training for staff. The order was not a finding of liability.
What is Ambroselli Properties' BBB rating?
F, the Bureau's lowest rating, based on three complaints the business did not respond to. The company is not BBB accredited. (Observed August 2026 — BBB ratings and complaint counts change over time, so check BBB's page directly for the current figure.)
What do tenants complain about most?
The most clearly documented pattern is unresponsive maintenance — tenants in a public community Facebook thread described mold and, in one case, close to a year without hot water. Separately, BBB's file and a customer review raise concerns about differential treatment of rental applicants, echoing the theme of the company's 2012 federal Fair Housing Act settlement. Reliable, systematic complaint-category data (such as a full BBB complaint breakdown) was not available at the time of this research.