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Belcrest Apartments


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anonymous

Resident 2011 - 2012

8/8/2012

You think that this apartment building is nice when you move in. Because they have a pool and it's conveniently located on Cass Ave you think that you're getting a good deal fro your money...wrong. 1. Your heating bill will be high every month (can be in the $200/month range with DTE, I know)-there is no insulation in these apartments. They had us give all of our personal information for some heating program that they were saying the building was picked for that would lower our bills...while I was there that NEVER happened, yet they got all of our personal information? Why, again? 2. Parking is dumb. They make you pay for a parking pass just to park in the back where there are never any spaces, and you have to move your car at weird hours if you don't pay for a parking pass (newsflash Belcrest, this isn't New York). 3. There are bedbugs! They will claim that they are going to send someone to your apartment to spray, but nobody ever comes. Ever seen a whole mattress or couch in the dumpster area? That is why! 4. They do not fix things when you ask for them to be fixed. My kitchen sink drain was backed up for almost an f-ing month. Then, the landlord Michael actually tells me, a tenant, that it is not fixed because the handyman (or whoever was going to work on it) is blind in one eye. WTF? If you've got a blind handyman, hire one! Also problems with doorknobs (that exist before you move in), sink drains, shower heads and knobs, etc. 5. No ventilation in the bathrooms. For almost the whole duration of living here, one of my bathrooms smelled like cigarette smoke (and I am not a smoker), probably from another tenants bathroom vent. 6. I have not received my security deposit of $350 back in over six months, despite my efforts to collect. Everytime I call I am told by the landlord that, "I though that it was taken care of..." WTF??? If you're the landlord, who else is supposed to take care of that, especially if you were all too eager to collect it from me when I moved in? smh 7. In the dead of the cold season, the water was turned off intermittently. One time, the hot water was off for two days-two whole days and we weren't notified. Prime time for cold-catching season, and what if you've got kids? I'm just saying. 8. Elevators are in constant disrepair. There is usually only one working at a time. 9. The front door is in constant disrepair. You have to use either a swipe card or call yourself on the phone to buzz yourself in. -I had to wait almost three months to get a swipe card when I first moved in just because I had a 313 area code for my phone and could easily? buzz myself in by calling myself (that doesn't make sense, but it was the rationale that I was given when I moved in). The Only Pros 1. The view 2. They hold packages for you 3. They allow pets 4. The pool 5. The woman who you see cleaning in the morning-she says hello. These good things alone probably won't satisfy you enough to stay after hearing all of the things that will bug you that ARE the most important. Would I move here again? Absolutely not. You can find more bang for your buck elsewhere in the Midtown area, and I did.

    Review 17 out of 79

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