Luke Davis couldn’t wait to move back to Lincoln. He’d looked forward to his summer back home with his parents in Bellevue, but before long he missed the freedom that living in Lincoln gave him.

But when he moved into Prime Place, he thought staying home for a few more weeks might not be a bad idea.

“I climbed the stairs to my room on the top floor and opened the door,” Davis said. “When I looked up, I literally saw the sky overhead.”

Davis is not the only one who reported a missing roof in his top-floor unit. Nearly every tenant on his floor lacks shelter from the sun, wind and rain.

“We knew when the move-in date was from day one, but we still had trouble fully completing the building by move in day,” said building manager John Watkins.

He added that they had to prioritize projects in the complex, and things like painted walls and clean bathtubs went to the backburner compared to things like the swimming pool in the middle of the building.

“We just wanted to make sure that the tenants have access to the amenities that they expected,” Watkins said.

Watkins would not provide exact details as to when the building would be finished. However, he mentioned that Prime Place was making “a shit ton of money.”

“I’m basically paying twice as much as I need to for rent every month to live here,” Davis said. “You’d think this building would be done.”

Davis and other tenants sought help from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and city government, but they were not useful, he said.

“Helping out college students? You aren’t very familiar with the last 20 years of public policy, are you,” said Building and Safety Manager Will Rosenberg to a stupidly optimistic DailyER reporter.

Although major issues in the building are slowly being fixed, Davis said that dissatisfaction is still the room temperature on his floor.

“Actually, room temperature is whatever it is outside,” he said. “We still don’t have roof.”