I've lived here for two years. The "area" is great, the marina is nice, however if New Orleans did the same amount of construction that goes on here on a constant basis - that city would have been rebuilt already. However, the construction process is poorly managed and just drags on. First they re-did the docks - there is nothing quite like hearing a piling being hammered in all day. When I resigned my lease, they said they would be "finishing up" the construction shortly.

Instead, I get a DVD (post signing the lease) of the major reconstruction planned. We aren't talking about re-paving the street - try cutting out the front half of your apartment to remove the window (it's 72" wide to give some perspective) and replace it with a floor to ceiling window. Sure, that's nice, however, it takes these retards a month to complete it. 50% of the property is covered with scaffolding. Then they made everyone empty out their bedroom walk-in closet so they could cut the walls to run new ethernet cabling (this was done 3 months ago - still no new "service" over the newly run wires and that won't be coming for several more months if we are lucky. Oh, and they did the roofs a few months back - being on the 3rd floor they came in and wrapped my entire ceiling in plastic (to catch any debris and asbestos that might fall on your head). So I lived in what can only be described as a tent for "5 weeks".

Then to make matters even better, we find out that they are going to be demolishing "all" the pool/tennis court areas. These are in between the buildings and are roughly the size of a football field. Why' who knows. However, they estimate the time for the demo and reconstruction to be 4-5 months. That's 4-5 months of jack hammers going off for 8 hours a day. So if you are on the pool side, which I am - it's going to be unbearable.

So how to they plan on compensating people for this luxury of living in a construction zone' $300 - total and as a favor, they won't have a "rent" increase. Lucky us. It's insulting, plain and simple.

If you own an HDTV - forget it, they booted the local cable company and brought in some 3rd rate company that delivers direcTV via a community dish. The dish however, doesn't support SAT3 - which is where all the HD programming is on DirecTV.

The internet is 3 T1 lines -- for everyone to share. For those of you who aren't technical, a T1 = 1.5mbps.. so 3 = 4.5mbps for everyone to share. Put that in perspective - comcast offers 5mbps for "1" person and verizon dsl = 3mbps for 1 person, not everyone to share. Both those companies are $20 cheaper then what we are forced into. We are too far from Verizon to get DSL, the cable company was booted, so no cable modems. Intead we get stuck with another 3rd rate company - ygnition.com. $49 for broadband speads circa 1998. 500kbps tops - and that is only late at night. Try using it at peak hours and smoke signals are faster. Talk about a back room deal...

Then you have the management and staff. There 4 people here who are friendly and as helpful as they can be (with their hands tied behind their backs due to management policy). Gallen (sp') in leasing, Carla in resident services, Anne who runs the leasing office and Karen - a sweet lady who greets people. The rest of the staff is not only completely incompetent but can only be described as petulant. They tell you that you're lucky they are letting you live here during the construction. Well, at $1850/mo - there are a lot of other options in the Marina, and you don't have to live in a construction zone with a staff that you'd have to add 1 to get to zero for the level of helpfulness they offer.

Parking is a mess, they have no idea who is assigned to what spot. Instead, they use the residents to figure it out. "park in spot 104" - you go to park there and a car is already residing in that spot. Go back and they say "hmm.. try 109..."

The worst of the bunch is the Resident Business Manager. She has the charm and manners of a disgruntled postal worker. All questions are immediately addressed in a demeaning tone, defensively (as she knows the oomplaints are valid) and in a completely disrepectful manner and tone. The best part is if she wasn't working here, she'd be lucky to be licking stamps at a direct mailing company. In the 2 years I've been here, they've gone through 3 of these folks, each progressively worse then the last. The head manager of the property - isabella is a ghost. I've requested several meetings with her and not one has ever materialized.

The pisser is this is a nice "location" - it's shame it run by a company and staff that borderlines criminal.

I can't wait to leave when my lease is up.

Oh, and the summers here are horrid. The apartments don't get any sort of breeze. During the day, the digital temp guage I've got reads 85-89F. That's with fans on and all the windows and doors open.

Currently there is a lawsuit pending for the construction issus (class action). As they didn't disclose "any" of the stuff that has occured to date is what is planned in the near (weeks-months) future. I hope they get slammed in court.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 06/21/2007
I live in this mess - how do I get in on the lawsuit? E&S Ring Management already has an "F" from the Better Business Bureau - they deserve to be out of business altogether
From: Anonymous	Date: 06/22/2007
send an email to boraboratenants@gmail.com to register.
From: Anonymous	Date: 07/13/2007
This place is getting out of f-ing control!!! How do I get my my hat in the arena regarding the lawsuit?? I have so much to add!
From: Anonymous	Date: 08/10/2007
I am getting in on the lawsuit as well! thank you for posting this!!!

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