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anonymous

Resident 2012 - 2014

10/26/2014

I think your experience will depend on if you move into the old apartments versus the new ones. (The old ones are the one bedroom apartments.) I lived in the old ones, so I really did not end up enjoying living there. What drew me to Chatwell: . These are the only 1 bedroom apartments I've ever found where no one lives above you or below you. You just had neighbors on each side. . Every 1 bedroom place gets a little patio with some grass so you can plant things and design it how you want. . Even though the apartment is small (600 square feet) it has a lot of storage - such as an attic, a large closet in the bathroom, etc. . The office ladies are super nice. It's always helpful to live in a place when the people you talk to aren't jerks when you need something. These are the negatives I experienced from living there which FAR outnumber the positives: . Maintenance may be fast, but they always did a poor job. I perpetually had to call them back (once when there was an issue with my dryer I had to call them back 5 times - not because it was a difficult problem to solve, it was just that they didn't want to do it so they kept leaving it for the next person.) . They had a maintenance person work there (who has since left) who did such slop jobs, I had to ask that he not be permitted to work on my apartment anymore. When I was locked out of my apartment (because my deadbolt essentially broke), he came on a weekend to break my knob off to let me in. He confessed that when he got there, he preferred not to be there because he, "...already had 3 beers." Soooo drinking and then driving while on call? He was never fired. He never fixed my door appropriately after the deadbolt was broken off. So then that was ANOTHER thing I had to call 3 more times for to have fixed. (The first time I called they didn't know what was wrong and left it, giant airhole and all. The second time they "fixed it" but put the plate in the wrong area so it didn't lock. The third time was fixing my door so it actually locked.) The same guy who broke stuff and drank also tried fixing my dishwasher and hooked up the cold water to the dishwasher. So the water never heated up and mold grew on my dishes. AWESOME. So you see the theme here? CONSTANTLY calling to fix mistakes of maintenance calls I'd already made. . Because the apartments are so outdated and old, the electric bills are ATROCIOUS. You would think in a 600 square foot one bedroom it would be pretty low. Um nope. I had 2 jobs, lived alone, and kept the heat in the wintertime at 63 degrees. I received 175-200 dollar bills every month for the electric. One of my neighbors told me that when she left her apartment for the day she'd just plain ol turn her heat off (which you would think would damage the pipes, but she didn't care. She didn't want to pay the insane bills.) Why is it so expensive? Old windows, little to no insulation, and an old heater that heats from the front of the apartment. Ice would build up on the roof - pretty clear indication of where it was escaping from. . My apartment was DIRTY when I moved in, and I mean dirty. The blinds were stained yellow from previous smokers and they didn't bother replacing them. They had to put one of those anti-odor bombs in twice to get read of some of the smell. The bathroom sink was stained a permanent yellow. Etc. There were dust and cobwebs all over the ceiling. I hired someone to paint my walls for me and she commented how it took her over an hour to even clean before she could paint the area. . They're pretty cheap here. Essentially whatever appliances are in your apartment when you move in, rest assured that unless they light on fire, those will be the same appliances that will be there when you move out. My stove was the tiniest, oldest, most outdated thing ever. The top coils kept going out and breaking, they continuously replaced those. Eventually the inside heaters in the oven broke, then they replaced those. The same thing kept happening with my dryer, it would keep breaking down and they would keep trying to fix it. It broke down again before I moved out and I didn't even bother calling it in. . The neighborhood was...low income a lot of times. There was a lot of violence in my section, something I had never seen living in an apartment before. The neighbor across from me attacked his girlfriend and beat her up. She went running from the apartment and he chased her. Just...stuff you'd see on Cops happened here more often than not. My other neighbors that moved in my second year there would scream at each other with their windows open when he came home dropping the F-bomb constantly. Awesome to try to block that out when my boyfriends 6 year old son would come visit. . The kitchen is so small there wasn't a place to put the table and chairs I had so I got rid of them when I moved in. Very little storage for food and kitchen items as well. I bought some bookcases to keep in the laundry room to store my stuff. My first year was okay, but by the second year I was just done. I left and found a nicer apartment closer to my job. I don't regret leaving because I have much more peace of mind here, I feel safer, and I can trust maintenance at my new place to do what they're supposed to do. I have space to have a kitchen table and chairs and my electric bills are NORMAL. Would I recommend Chatwell? 100% not EVER - that is if you choose to live in the 1 bedrooms.

    Review 15 out of 47

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