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anonymous

Resident 2012 - 2014

10/6/2014

Honest review from a former tenant: Good and bad. **If you read nothing else below this line, please at least read this: YOUR HIDDEN FEES WILL BE OUTRAGEOUS. You will pay for a gate fee even though the gate is never closed. A $20 some trash fee. An "administration fee" whatever the heck that is. And a community electric fee which I can only assume goes to powering the main office, gym, etc. All this on top of your electric bill which was also strangely high. We paid $70 some at the cheapest in Spring/Fall. Up to $120 some in the Winter and Summer. We are people who keep the thermostat set at 70 highest in winter and 80 lowest in summer in a one bed, one bath apartment. Add $100-$200 a month on top of your rent to account for this crap. Now... Onto the Good: Location is amazing. You can't beat it. You are within walking distance of just about anything you could want (fast food, hair salons, clothes shopping, best buy, Target, Meijer, post office and more). The rooms have a very nice spacious lay out for an apartment. The vaulted ceilings on the third floor are really great. Most the neighbors are quiet and friendly. The ladies down at the main office are always friendly, even if I've never seen them before (more on that later). Unfortunately, that's about it. Now the Bad: Maintenance is slow at best. You won't see them for a few days at the QUICKEST when you call in about a problem. At the slowest, you'll be waiting a few weeks. Emergency maintenance was a joke. This past winter was brutal and our hot water heater exploded due to the freezing temperatures and it BEING OUTSIDE. Poor design. Anyways. We manage to manually turn off the water and call emergency maintenance at about 7am. The guy isn't even on site, or anywhere near. He lives in Kentucky so it took him a couple HOURS to get to us in morning traffic. **Oh, and your hot water and heat are somehow magically connected. How and why, I don't know. But if you want a hot shower, you need to turn on your heat. And if your water heater explodes, you will be sitting in a cold house until it's fixed.** The girls down in the main office change about every 6 months or less, so you will never know who is working down there, and they will never know you. Dog crap everywhere. No one picks up after their dogs. Geese crap everywhere as well. Don't even think about having a stroll around their "lovely" ponds. So many geese.... One dumpster for the entire complex. It overflows often. Overall? Yeah, you can live here. It's do-able if you're a patient person. But there's a lot of annoying things you'll have to mess with on a monthly basis that make me say I can't recommend this place.

    Review 52 out of 174

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