Look down a few posts to the guy who said "Welcome to your new 'hood."

They're right. This place is terrible. Management hasn't done anything about the electrical sockets in this place (they won't hold in plugs) and gave me instructions to "bend the tangs" on my plugs. Gee, never would have guessed that such a rampant design flaw was present, why don't electronics manufacturers put angled prongs on their cords' Wait, that's because MOST places don't have buttsprung wall outlets.

Not to mention the showers, my hot water heater has been LEAKING for 8 months, and after repeated attempts to get management to fix it, I've given up and resigned myself to paying $150 a month for my electric bill.

And then there was the flood a few months ago during which some "upgrade" to the sewer system went horribly wrong and backed it up, flooding three buildings with raw sewage. Of course, the neighbors upstairs didn't speak any English and continued to take showers and flush toilets and such, adding further to the problems downstairs...
This was not fixed for two weeks, and when it was fixed, the only cleanup that was done was steaming the carpets and putting in dehumidifiers. That would be fine if the sewage hadn't seeped through the walls, potentially causing growth of mold inside them.

The air filters, as was mentioned, are not changed by management, you have to go to the office (if you can catch them in there during the what seems to be 5 minutes a day that staffers are present) ask for a filter and install it yourself.

I have several "repairs" in my home that were not done correctly. For instance, several holes in my wall that were there before I moved in seem to have been repaired by simply gluing a piece of cardboard over the hole and painting it. The wall deflects when you push on it. Isn't that fun'
My shower's drain leaks into the floor, which is probably causing mold to grow.
My water heater leaks (management has "tried" to fix this by sending out a repairman who said that it wasn't a problem when clearly it is.)
My kitchen's ventilation hood fan blows air instead of sucking air, so I get cobwebs and years worth of dust in my food if it's turned on by mistake.
The on-site repairman tried several times to install the glass door on my shower, first installing it upside down, then installing it backwards so the door couldn't be opened, then upside down and backwards so that the door opened into the sink and then finally correctly, but after having drilled so many holes in the wall and in the metal frame of the door it leaks everywhere.
There is a severe ant problem, but what's much worse are the FLIES. Living here, you'd swear that the complex was built on fill-dirt over a swamp.

It seems, also, that the management doesn't stay on premises unless there's a problem of epic proportions, or something minor that they want to chew residents out over.
For instance, during the flood, my neighbor had to call the manager's manager to get her ass out of bed so that she could call someone to fix the problem.
And when my car leaks a little bit of oil onto the pavement I get called into the office like a second-grader going to the principal's office. I quote the manager: "If anyone complains that they tracked oil into their apartment and ruined their carpet, I'm giving you the bill."
A week later:
"Twenty people have already complained about oil on their carpets."
Trouble is, I had put down oil absorbent to pick up this minor spill on the day I became aware of the spill, and the manager still tried throwing her weight around with a big. fat. lie.

It would seem that the only reason the management is on the premises is to pick on residents.

As it goes, the other residents are great, with a few exceptions but that's to be expected in apartment life in a crummy neighborhood.
People steal things from the laundry room, in which the driers don't work well if at all, so it routinely costs $6 just to do a single load of laundry...
And speaking of crummy neighborhoods... Just last week I was outside walking my dog and someone a block away was murdered. MURDERED, one block from this apartment complex, likely over one of the fights that occur nightly, courtesy of the two bars next door.

And since police were involved, let me make a note about them:
I was out walking my dog around 3am because he got up and started whimpering to go outside for a walk when suddenly a patrol car shines the "intimidator light" at me and turns on the sirens. I'm sorry, but I wasn't aware that walking a dog was a CRIME.
And parking enforcement is ludicrous. I had my car towed away with the hatch open while I was unloading it because the police "assumed it was abandoned."
A few weeks ago another "abandoned" car was towed away, but only after the officer who wrote the citation OPENED the car with no probable cause and searched it.

I think that about covers my current list of gripes, and $10 says that as soon as someone from Summer Hill's management reads this (which they will), I'll get called into the office again, as anyone making any kind of statement against this complex is given "verbal counseling" like you got when you were in elementary school.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 05/21/2008
all what u wrote here are very much true as it happened to us too especially the flood that we can't move in our apartment as we have to moved our things not to get wet, carpet just dried with a fan and vacuum, leakage from upper tenant to our bathroom and they just keep on drying the ceiling and repainted that after a week mold come back again and again. It took 1.5 - 2yrs before they end up to the solution that the ceiling need to replace. Whew! Obviously the apartment management don't do any good especially when it comes to tenants concerns/problems.

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