1.) Poor management. They've had several managers over the past three years. Most of them were sarcastic, unhelpful, and just plain don't give a damn about anything other than collecting your rent, which goes up every time you renew your lease.
2.) Poor maintenance. They've also had several maintenance persons over the past three years. They had to re-key all the apartments to lock out a master key because one of them probably had a set he didn't turn in and was less than honest. You'll also find that the grounds are not kept up properly and the work done is shoddy.
3.) Poor upkeep. You will find that the balcony railings are loose and unsafe and haven't been painted in two years. Exposed and protruding nails, warping wood, and deteriorating trim. Also, the concrete on the stairs is crumbling. Prepare for slips and falls in winter when ice forms in the stairs.
4.) Poor appliances. They found the cheapest ones they could get. The stove is completely uninsulated and when you use the oven, the whole apartment turns into a blast furnace. The burners are all cockeyed and not even a cast iron skillet will stay level on the burner. The washers and dryers bang so loud, you cannot even hear your TV. The dishwasher wouldn't wash a speck of black pepper off a glass plate.
5.) Cold! These apartments are so poorly insulated, you will freeze your ass off in winter even with the heat full blast. The windows and door are sources of drafts as they are not insulated properly.
6.) Noise. They do a lot of six month leases with people who are noisy and obnoxious and you will have no recourse or solution from the manager who couldn't give less of a damn. They'll tell you they need "police reports" about the noise (the lease says NOTHING about that) before they can do anything. But, guess what' Once they get those police reports, they STILL won't do anything!
7.) Trash. Do you like to wake up to beer bottles, piles of dog feces, and McDonald's bags and cups outside your door in the morning' This is the place for you! A whole bag of chocolate chip cokkies was dumped in the prospective resident parking right in front of the manager's office. They were never picked up and cars ground them into the parking lot. You can still see the grease stains there. Ravens had more class than to come to that crappy place to eat them.
8.) Overflowing dumpsters. They cut back on the trash pickups to save money. The dumpsters fill up and the overflowing trash winds up all over the parking lot (to keep the beer bottles and dog crap company, one supposes.)
9.) Poor interior. The carpet begins to come up at the seams and the linoleum looks to be Soviet Union surplus and heavily stained.
10.) Poorly laid out. The apartments have very little ventilation and the Soviets built better constructed apartments.
11.) Poor drainage. Prepare to stand ankle-deep in water when you take a shower. The toilets routinely clog, as do all of the drains.
12.) Crappy kitchens. The refrigerator is placed so that when the door is open, you cannot get into the kitchen. The stove is butt up against the wall and you cannot use a larger skillet on the wall side burners. Plus the grease splatters the wall. The oven will burn everything you cook, which is amazing since you'll swear most of the heat is escaping from the oven (which it is.) The oven alone will cost you an extra $20 a month in electricity if you use it often. If the directions on your lasagna say 45 minutes, better make it two hours with that POS. And strip down to your underwear to suffer the heat.
13.) Poor heating. The heater is a rinky-dink POS hooked up to the water heater. Couple that with the poor insulation and you can rent out your place to the army to do cold-weather training in there.
14.) Crime. The managers do not live there and do not see the dirtbags that come around there at night.
15.) Rent increases. Every year you renew your lease, they will bump up the rent at least $20. You will not get anything more. Oh, they'll promise you a free carpet cleaning which you'll never get. And when you move out, they'll try and charge you to clean the carpets. One time they gave away a coupon book full of coupons that were not valid, expired, or not usable. What a bargain!
In short, this place is worse than an apartment I lived at in Los Angeles that was built in the 1920s!

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