I just moved out of "The Exchange" today after spending 1 year there. As you can see by the other reviews, this place is the worst (of course, the only postive review to date comes from a girl who liked the apartments because the staff has "hot guys"; she's a perfect example of the kind of foolish people that live here. Oh, and it's too bad that the "hot" manager now has several sexual harassment lawsuits pending against him).

Here is a quick recap of the last 3 days at The Exchange. (1) On Saturday night, July 29th, there was a party with about 200 hundred people attending when shots rang out. It only took the police 15 minutes to send 7 patrol units and the helicopter to the Exchange. I wonder what the new resident will think when he/she finds 24 bullet holes in the living room. (2) Today at move-out, the swimming pool is green--it is completely overgrown with algae, and most of the pool floor is covered in sediment. It hasn't been cleaned for months. I offered a resident $100 to drink a glass of water from the pool (I even flashed him the bill to show that I wasn't lying). I barely finished before he refused. (3) A resident told me today that he threatended to sue the Exchange because the staff found mold in his apartment but decided to hide it rather than clean it up as required by law. He lived with mold spores for a few days before he found out the patch was still there and growing out of control. The staff offered him $2,000 and an entire year free of rent if he would not sue. (4) I visited with my downstairs neighbor for the first (and last) time today. He told me that he stole $11,000 from his grandfather. He first bought $2,000 worth of weed from his roommate (which they smoked constantly) before blowing every penny. Still, he had manners, and he was probably the nicest drug addict at the entire apartment.

What else can I think of' Someone is always parked in my assigned parking spot over the weekend (which I pay extra for), and you can only call the tow truck Mon-Fri before 5PM. The complex is as loud as a KISS concert at night. Empty beer bottles are EVERYWHERE. Even though the staff are nice, friendly people, they are generally incompetent. I'm even taken classes with some of them (they are all college students or recent graduates).

The only postive thing I can think of is that the apartments themselves were pretty nice. Most of them went to hell-in-a-handbasket this year since hardly anyone took care of them (my neighbor vacuumed his carpet and cleaned his bathroom for the first time today... the day he moved out). When the pool area doesn't look like an Arkansas swamp, it can look very nice. There are now grills in the pool area for public use, and propane is provided. Over the summer, hardly anyone has used them, so they've been very available lately. Also, each bedroom has it's own bathroom. The provided furnishings are rather plain and cheap, but they are comfortable none-the-less. The maintenance guys are very nice and usually fix things well. The speed depends on how long it takes the office staff to actually inform maintenance; this was a very daunting task for most of the staff.

Overall, I guess if you enjoy bullets, mold, algae, extremely overpriced rooms (a 2-bedroom is around $550/month PER PERSON after utilities), charming sexual predators, and most importantly HOT STAFF MEMBERS, then the Exchange is the place for you!

User Responses
From: hollywood876	Date: 08/04/2006
I totally disagree with this waste of a space person with their review. First of all I have lived here since it opened a year ago and have renewed my lease for another year. About the only thing she got right in her review is about the hot guys in the office. They are extremely good looking, especially the tall one. I have never heard of these rumors about the property manager sexually harassing somebody, more than likely she got shot down by him because she had the personality of dog ----. As far as this party, I was home that night, and nor did I hear "gunshots" or 7 patrol cars or helicopters...please don't get this property confused with Star Ranch! To comment on the pool, its because of irresponsible people like her that the pool has to be shut down by company policy so the other residents don't get hurt. If this passive idiot would have had the nerve to step up and be mature enough to make sure other residents dont bring glass into the pool area then management wouldnt have to shut the pool down because of broken glass in the water. I think this person has the wrong idea of what the management's responsibilities are...they are to manage the apartment complex, NOT BABYSIT your immature friends when they bring Bartles&Jaymes(thats all she could pry get a hold of out of mommys liquor cabinet) into the pool area. This girl has complete and outright lies in her review, $2000 for a gag contract...come on! I'm sorry you got placed above a "drug addict," welcome to the real world sweetheart, this isnt your parents house where you would look forward to bouncing on daddys knee... With any apartment complex with more than 500 apartments you are gonna have some bad apples here and there, that is a fact of life....its people like the genius who wrote the review above that makes it hard to function smoothly 100% of the time...I'm glad the dumb ----- moved out, makes it easier for me to enjoy some sanctity with normal people that aren't closed off to the real world and how things work...it's a apartment complex, not a concierge service. The Exchange is a great place to live that I recommend to any that is looking for a one-stop shop for an apartment, furniture, and all utilities included, including one less daddy's girl living here!
From: tucsontucson	Date: 08/05/2006
I don't know who the ---- this little funky ---- ----- is but it sounds like he has his mommy's panties bunched so far up his ass he can't even feel it when his dad pulls out his meaty ---- and shoves it in his ass. Sorry for the explicatives, but this review is just ridiculous. I have had a great experience at the exchange and feel that all the members of the office staff are like friends to me. While it is run by a relatively young staff, my experience has led me to believe they are more than capable. I'll continue by reveiwing each of the poster's paragraphs. ... First of all, the manager has no sexual harassment law suits pending against him. He shoulod probably launch some against all of the little girls in the community becaue i see the way they treat him, but he is patient, puts on a smile, and deals with it. It sounds to me like you're bitter because he ----ed your chick. Come to think of it, your little ------ ass could never get a chick that was even in his league, so that probably didn't happen. Or maybe he shot your chick down and then punked the ---- out of you when you tried to come to her defense. It figures a little ----- like you would write something like this on line cause you don't have the ------- sack to say it to someone's face. I guess I don't blame you cause from what I hear teh guys in the office don't ---- around, but if you're gonna bad mouth somebody, at least have some substance to back it up, don't make up --------, and have the balls to say it to their face. I actually know a few of the guys pretty well and if they saw you they'd probably rip your eye balls out and skull ---- the ---- out of you until your brains oozed out your ears. Then they'd probably impail your queer ass on a ------- saguaro and leave you there to get eaten by rattlesnakes, gila monsters, crows, and havolena. Sorry for the rant but people like this little mother ------ are the bitter ones who seek out sites like this to spite people. On to the next paragraph...so what do we have here. Ok you ignorant little ----, what do you expect to happen at a college community on the last weekend people live there. Parties? No ----! I didn't hear any gunshots, and say for some fluke reason there were...1. management has no control over the ------- pulling the trigger 2. they prepare the apartments and make them like new for residents before they move in so nthe new person would have no idea if there was ever any kind of hole in there apartment from anything and 3. if sheltered little spoiled ----s like yourself didn't hit the gates with your cars, then maybe the would stay closed and work. And again, I don't know if you take the time to observe andything before you write and shove your boyfriends ------ in your mouth, but the pool is not green with algae. Pools can get green when it rains and debris and other things get in it. And in case you haven't noticed, Tucson has crazy ass monsoons, so if a pool gets green after a monsoon, blame mother nature you dumb worthless sack of ----. And on a side note, your friend who refused the hundred bucks is a ------- ----- too. Maybe both of you should go let the guys in the office beat your ass. Next is your ridiculous claim that someone was paid to keep quiet about mold. Youre ------- retarded, that never happened. Even if there was mold in someones apartment, it's not managements fault that it grew. It is simply their responsibility to respond and remedy the situation. And I don't know what your neighbor stealing from his grandfather has to do with anything. Sounds like management is just lucky that all of you little ---- bags are out of there. Hmm, what else can you think of, consider this, go take a long walk of a short bridge, or maybe get a running start and run full speed face first into a ------- cactus. You little commment about your parking spot is again ridiculous. What, does the staff have a valet service and purposely park someones car in your spot? No, they don't -------. They can't control the person driving their car, and they don't make that person's decision on where to park. But as a courtesy to you they do offer the 24 hour towing service. ----, you sound like such a little ------ that if I kinew who you were I would have purposely parked in your spot everyday cause I know you wouldn't have done a god damn thing except go to apartment ratings.com to complain about you ------- -----. Ok, well you little ------, I think I've stretched your ------- far enough for one sitting, and to all the readers out there, I know this response may be crude, but people like the individual writing the review are pitiful people who may have had one bad experience and they try to turn it into a huge deal. You can let this little bastard bad mouth the complex all you want, but the results speak for themselves. People are happy enough and have spread enough positive word of mouth that the complex is more full this year than it was last year. They are actually cancelling leases because too many people want to live there. Probably a bunch of girls like this -------s girlfriend who want some ---- from the hot charming manager.
From: SheilaMFarland	Date: 08/06/2006
Haha...I totally agree with the reviewer above about this short-d icked mother f ucker. You can tell a person that makes up a rumor about the manager of his apartment complex definetly pulled more a ss then he ever could. I lived at the Exchange for a semester before I had to transfer schools and enjoyed this place, the staff is extremely nice and took care of every need I had. The poster is obviously mad because 1) his dad put his hand down his pants too much as a youngster 2) his dad still puts his hands down his pants 3) his boyfriend wouldnt swallow last night 4) his boyfriend is cheating on with an asian and he said the asian was more MAN than he ever was 5) his brother is retarded and a tall good looking split end peed on him in junior high 6) he has a sweet limp 7) he got his crutches kicked out from under him in elementary school 8) his mother told him she wish she would have fell down the stairs when she was pregnant 9) people like me use to beat you up in highschool...that is enough for now, a little rant about how depressed this poor individual must be to make up rumors about an apartment complex and its staff...here is a suggestion for "tucsonishot" go play in traffic and run towards the light. Trust me, its not only good for your sake but for the rest of us. Get a clue, you are just sperm your fathers boyfriend should have wipped off his chin....people looking to move into this complex must be aware that this douchebag definetly had a bad experience because the property manager had more personality than a rabbit turds and his girlfriend/boyfriend had a crush on him. Thankfully the guy who ran that place has standards and doesnt date ----/ and or retards in wheelchairs (I'm sorry if you are in a wheelchair, but that's funny...PERIOD)
From: ninreznor	Date: 08/16/2006
It looks like all of the people who are responding to the original negative post are residents at the exchange in tucson. Interestingly enough, all of there replies included harassing language, cursing, lewdness, sexual explictives, and threats. Hmm, I wonder why the original writer didn't like the complex?
From: drumminforev	Date: 08/26/2006
Of course they are you ass. Its a ------- COLLEGE COMPLEX. COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE CRASS, harsh, rude, WHATEVER. You live here because THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT, a life thats full of fun, excitment, a few interesting conflicts, and you know that it will only last a few years. I live at The University House, and its basically the same. Life is real. Some won't accept that.
From: asua85	Date: 09/06/2006
hmmm, sounds like the first folks to reply are staff members not residents. funny

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