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Barrington Lakes Apartments


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MidwesternMermaid

Resident 2015

6/16/2015

This place is a feces-hole in disguise. The management is practically mentally challenged; they can't spell anything right on any of their formal or casual documents, and their maintenance people have no sense of smell or sensitivity to temperature. (I'll get to that later) THERE ARE BUGS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are in a newly renovated unit and oh my LORD have I never seen this many bugs in my life. It's like we fell into a portal to Hades. We have had an infestation of small ants, and flying ants coming from under the ------ floor heaters ever since we moved in. Whoever "renovated" this place was blind and/or extremely lazy because none of the flooring connects up with the baseboards, nor do the walls touch the baseboards. So basically there are GAPS and cracks EVERYWHERE that little demons come out of every hour or so. We have spent so much time and money fighting off the ants, which after about a month, have finally decreased in number, no thanks to management. However we are still running into at least 3 spiders a week( in random places), a centipede here and there, random flying gnat like things that I believe are coming from the sinks and from behind the bathroom mirror, and the occasional silverfish. GROSS!!!! Management had this to offer: "Well we have bugs in our houses, too"..... REALLY?! We don't give a rat's you know what about your nasty barn that you call a house. They sent exterminators every Friday for about a month and they did not help much at all. The bathroom faucet water barely gets hot and the kitchen faucet is on backwards so the cold comes out hot and the hot comes cold. The hallways are smelly and look like a murder setting from a bad indie film. The building lock is old and not trustworthy, and the new gate system for the parking lot is a pain in the butt and not worth it. There are no lights in the living room and no light in the bedroom. Murder scene central. There are barely any outlets, too. The bathroom is so small we could not fit a bath mat! Our toilet paper holder does not fit, and our over the toilet space saver also does not fit. Every time we take a shower the wall behind the toilet gets all wet and nasty with condensation and who knows what else. The base of the toilet also gets wet. Our ancient bedroom AC unit would blow hot air. We scheduled to have someone come look at it(by the way, they don't even tell you when they will be coming by, they just show up randomly in the morning while you are sleeping and come back every hour ringing the bell and knocking like maniacs until you answer), and the guy said " it works well". Um, air conditioners are not supposed to be heaters. So we bothered them again until that person's boss came and they both stood in our bedroom explaining to us how it's fine. Then the boss guy felt the unit and realized it was indeed messed up, so we got a new unit that is from this century. Yay... Also the living room AC smelled weird every time we turned it on, but the same guy(the one with none of the 5 bodily senses) came and said he smelled.....CINNAMON. WHAT. IT SMELLED LIKE DEATH, DEFINITELY NOT CINNAMON. Every time someone on our floor shuts their door it shakes our unit and sounds like someone is trying to break into the room. And at night when our upstairs neighbors get up, the ceiling creaks like it is about to fall through. We were fooled by all the nice looking amenities, which we ended up not even using because we saw how filthy the hallways and laundry rooms are, and we didn't want to take the risk of contracting some strange disease from dirty pool water or a bacteria infested locker room/sauna. This was our first apartment which we thought would be amazing and HASSLE free, since our one bedroom unit was supposedly newly updated. And we thought that paying $1200 a month would leave us somewhere nice. But we were wrong!!! We should have known a complex off of a street called HASSELL ROAD was not going to be simple and nice. This place is worth maybe $500 a month at MOST in our opinion and you can bet we are out of here once our one year lease is up. We wish we had signed up for a lesser term. I do NOT recommend this polished turd of an apartment complex.

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