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Steeplechase Apartments


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badboybob1

Resident 2012 - 2014

2/1/2014

There are both good and bad aspects to Steeplechase. It has a good central location to a lot of stores, and it is a safe complex. I'd say the staff is great, but they change out so often that I don't know who any of them are from month to month. The few times I have needed maintenance it has been take care of quickly. The two biggest issues I have are First Billing, and the tactics they used to get me to renew my lease. Before I get into those issues my rent is $650 and $150 for first billing, $800. I also pay about $100-150 to DP&L. so my total monthly expenditure for a small apartment is $900-950. First billing covers things like water, sewage, trash, electricity for the complex, internet and cable. I have a one bedroom and it usually cost me about $150 a month. The kicker is the internet and cable that you HAVE to pay for as part of first billing. It constitutes $80 of the $150. The internet is mediocre at best and the cable is abysmally bad. The cable is not digital, and was sold to me as having about 100 channels. What they should have said was it has channels 1-100, but many are missing or fuzzy. The leasing people say that they negotiated that special rate of $80 How about you give me back by $80 and I get my own internet for less? I don t even watch TV; I only stream Netflix and HULU. The second issue is how they got me to renew my lease. They told me my rent was going up $100 (a 20% increase) but I ll be receiving all new stainless steel appliances, new light fixtures, and towel racks. I said So for an additional $1200 a year I m getting all new stainless appliances, and new fixtures? They answered in the affirmative so I renewed. It was only after they installed appliances that were silver-grey and black in color (i.e. not stainless), door pulls that were installed crooked, and towel racks that fall off the wall that I knew I d been bamboozled. There are many more issues, but they are common to all apartment living, so I won t comment on them now.

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