I moved to Huntsville 3 hours away from my home in a small town of 2,000 people so I can go to Virginia College to get a better education. I should have never moved to these apartments. I have only been living here for a month and I have moved to a roach hotel! Here is what I have experienced in just one month....

When my mom and I walked into my apartment, it had a musky smell to it and it wasn't even five minutes my mom had to
step on a roach on the living room carpet. There were bugs on the wall, big carpet burns throughout the apartment and carpet burns on the bathroom tub and sink, a hole in the bedroom wall and dog mess on the "porch" and on the outside wall. After my mom and I inspected the apartment she called the manager immediately and told her about the roaches, the cigarette burns and the dog mess. The manager said she could not believe there are roaches there and would have someone come out and spray and get the cleaning management to get the dog mess up. I have been living here for a month now and the dog mess is still there after I have done called again a few weeks ago about the dog mess. She said she didn't know about it, even though my mom called in September to let the manager know and still nothing has been done. It doesn't smell that bad now cause it has dried up but it smelled so bad I could stand at the sliding doors looking out and smell it without opening the door.

The noise situations are horrible here. These apartments are poorly built. Someone that lives above me can be moving
about and the cracking is so loud it sometimes wakes me up in the night. Early in the morning someone above me makes
real loud banging noises like he/she is slamming the drawers so hard, it sounds like someone is trying to break in
through the front door. People sit in their cars in the parking spot and have the music booming so loud it
overridden my TV. Sometimes the noise doesn't even come from here. It sometimes comes from the Millstream apartments. People doing the same thing. Late at night they will be in their cars playing loud banging music. Loud music is a HUGE problem here.

This is a small one bedroom apartment. The kitchen is too small. There are only 2 drawers available and there is not even a drawer to have one of those plastic things to place your silver wear in. So my silver wear is just lying in a drawer. One drawer measures 5 inches in width and the other 8 inches in width. So you can tell you really can't store anything in there. There are two cabinets above the refrigerator I can't even use cause I can't reach it. My glasses, cups, plates, saucers are jumbled up together. Since I'm mentioning small spaces, the washer and dryer is small also. I can't put a whole weeks worth of clothes into the washing machine. I will have to wait until next week on what's little behind. I clean every week and because of that I have a lot to wash.

This place may look nice from the road but when you get up close to it it looks bad. The grass around the building
and the porch fence looks like it has been sprayed so the maintance doesn't have to weed eat. Talk about sorry! The
bushes were over grown with vines. A week or two ago I looked out my sliding doors and a maintance guy cut the vines
off the bush and just left the vines on my porch and in the walkway. It is still there! What are they expecting' Me
to pick it up'

Huge, HUGE roach problem. Ever since September 23 I have been killing roaches EVERY SINGLE NIGHT!!! Not day, night!
I might see one or two every now and then during the day time but at night it just horrible! I kill about 6 to 10
roaches a night but now it's gone down to 2 to 4 roaches a night. It's mostly in the kitchen and now I'm having to
kill them in the living room and on the walls. Sometimes I'm not comfortable sleeping in my own bed cause I know
during my sleep and roach is crawling on me under the covers. It is so bad I was begging my mom to loan me
some extra money so I go to the Holiday Inn and stay a couple nights. I haven't seen any mice or a snakes yet but if
I do I will be gathering all of my stuff and out that night.

The manager cannot be trusted. When my mom and I came to Huntsville we looked around at different apartments. The manager told us it is always up-to-date on cleaning and so on. I told her I will have my cat with me and she said it was going to be $150 to have pets. So I was cool with that. I asked can we look at the apartment. She took us to one. Right when we walked in it was so nice. She said it was just painted and said they do paint the walls every now and then. I was satisfied and my mom was satisfied I was getting this apartment also. So, we signed everything and then we came back a few weeks later. Telling us the apartment she showed us is just a display. We were so disappointed. Then she said the pet fee is going to be $250 when she clearly told us it was going to be $150 a while back. While my mom and I were in my apartment we can tell it had not been painted when she clearly told us it was. If it was there would not be a hole visible in the bedroom wall.

My mom has to pay $367 for this' I can't believe some one would pay almost $400 a month to live in a place like this. It is totally not worth it. Before or after the holidays I'm having to get out of my year lease. I
do not live like this and will not continue to live like this. Just incase, I have taken a whole roll of film with
just pictures of live and dead roaches, the apartment and of course the dog mess that is still there.

Like I mentioned earlier, I have only lived here for only a month. It's no telling what I will experience after I post this. If you want to send me your questions or comments here is my email: babey17@gmail.com. Please put Woodway Pines in the subject line so I know it's not spam. :D

User Responses
From: brianw	Date: 10/27/2005
Sounds Like this person is a bit vindictive. I have lived at Woodway Pines Apartments for 3 Months now and it is a great place to live. The rent is very cheap and it even includes water and cable.. As far as the roach problem goes, I have not seen one yet. That all depends on how clean you keep your apartment. It you keep it like a roach motel, its going to be one. The staff is very friendly, helpful, and dependable. The maintenance staff work very hard to help keep up a 280 unit property. Also, this person needs to get her facts straight too before calling someone a liar. I have a pet and it is a $350 pet fee non refundable. That is told to you up front so there are no questions asked. If this person was really knowledgable of the properties situation, she would know that the property has an outside vendor to come in and perform the landscaping duties, which I must say is a very good one. This person needs to get life. Sounds like she is trying to give herself more attention because she is giving out her email address.
From: babey17	Date: 10/28/2005
Well, why don't you trade places and see how you like it. Would love to give it to you and if you want pictures just let me know. By the way I don't find myself being vindictive. I'm telling it like it is and how I'm seeing it. And saying that because I'm not keeping it clean is causing the roaches?? You must have skipped a part in my review....there were roaches to be seen before I moved in so don't give me that crap I'm not keeping it clean. And by the way, how did you know I'm a she?? Don't say it's obvious by my email because your name looks familar. Who are you? The new guy at the office?
From: ADubbel	Date: 12/06/2006
Damn...what a horrible way to live...I'm new to Huntsville myself and judgin by this review and the other for this place I don't think this is were I'll be staying.
From: Anonymous	Date: 04/01/2007
Continued from above...Oh yeah, I forgot,...someone did ask me if I wanted some rocks one night while I was outside, and I know they weren't talking about diamonds! But that was it! The walls are thin, but unless its a brick building you live in, you'll usually hear a lil' something! I mean, it's Bob Wallace for crying out loud! If you want perfection, move to Sparkman Dr. or Madison!!!!
From: Anonymous	Date: 04/18/2007
I lived at Woodway Pines for about 2 months and had the same problems! it was literally a living hell. it's just nice to see that other people had the same problem! And the manager was like that! she would say one thing, then say another! obviously i terminated my lease in advance. i payed them 2 months rent in advance, plus they kept the deposit. Now they have reported me to the credit burrow saying i still owe them for that second months rent. I'm talking to Experian about it and they are working with me and even performing an investigation on Woodway Pines. im sorry but the living conditions there were REDICULOUS...i hope that place goes to hell!
From: Anonymous	Date: 06/15/2008
I live in Woodway Pines and have scince December and its horrible. With the heat outside reaching record highs.. My airconditioner has been broken scince Monday and it is now Sunday.. Ive had to take my 8 yr old son and stay with friends and family for a week because it is literally 96 degrees in my apartment... ----IN RIDICULOUS... I sure as hell wont be renewing my lease.....

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