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Cinnabar Apartments


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razzhere

Resident 2008 - 2010

5/23/2010

I've been in this coachroach infested hell-hole for two years (current 13-month lease ends June 30, 2010). If you are reading this, I beg you to PLEASE, Believe every negative post you read about Cinnabar Apartments. When I original checked out the complex, it did indeed look nicely maintained and managed. The "demo" unit they showed me also looked very nice. The unit I was going to be put in was not ready yet, so I did not get to see it before signing the first lease. If I had, I would have never signed. The day I moved in, I discovered the place was completely infested with roaches (several different species, in fact). I discovered that part of the reason for the fresh paint in the unit was to cover roach droppings, as evidenced by those area having been painted a very dark brown, while everything else was painted a shade of white. By the time I got all my stuff moved in, the office was closed so I called the next day to complain about the roach infestation, only to be told that it would be 4 days before they could have an exterminator bug-bomb the unit. I stayed at my previous residence for those 4 days, to the end of THAT lease and then had no choice but to move in. Oh, the exterminator bug-bombed the place, all right...at 3:30 PM, so when I arrived at the apartment around 4:30PM, I was forced to remain outside for another 3 hours before I could enter and then open the living room and bedroom windows to try to air-out the place. Once I was moved and performed the obligatory "move-in inspection" and filled out the form I'd been given (which had almost no space to report anything). I found: 13 of the 19 electrical outlet panels (2 sockets each) did not work and/or would not hold an electrical plug); damaged cabinetry and countertops, mold/mildew under newly applied caulking in the shower; stove top burner had incompatible reflector/drip covers so burners wobble (one burner wasn't even properly attached and when I tried to adjust it's placement the whole thing lifed out along with some 12 inches of it's electrical wiring); the patio door was stuck and I was afraid to try forcing it after discovering that the borders holding in the bottom glass panels were broken (2 years later and I've still never used that door or the patio); the front door has huge gaps at the top and along the opening side at the bottom 1/4 of the door that doesn't seem due to bad weather-stripping. Months later, I discovered another problem with the stove or rather the cause for the one burner not being attached. I have one of those large "mini-ovens" that I use to bake in, since I'm single and don't want to heat up the apartment and run up the electric to use the regular oven. However, I was baking going to bake some stuff for a company "pot-luck" and wanted to get it done faster by using the regular oven. While I was "pre-heating" it, I began to notice a chemical smell that made me thing that when the oven was cleaned by the apartment's "make ready" staff, they hadn't gotten all the oven cleaner cleaned off afterwards. A few short minutes later, I began seeing smoke and then flickers of light coming from the location of the "unmounted" burner. I rushed over and turned off the oven and quickly removed the burner from it's place, to discover that there was FIRE coming from 2 vent hole between the stove top and the oven space and the wiring of the burner was on fire too. I got all the fire out and called the "emergency maintenance" number to report this electrical/fire hazard. Nothing was done. After 18 months, I finally stopped calling to report anything and simply took to documenting everything. There's plenty more to tell but you get the point, right? And here's the FUNNY part...I just got a letter last week inviting me to renew my lease for a 3rd time and $30 cheaper than my current rent.

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