I lived there about 3 years ago. My apartment had a gas leak from the wall unit heater about 3 months after I moved in. Management does not check on anything to make sure that everything in the apartment was functioning correctly. Apparently, there was a broken part that caused a carbon monoxide leak. The SDG&E guy who came to look at it said that he's surprised that my roommate and I weren't carried out in body bags. Tenant/landlord laws require that management do a walk-through with you 2 weeks before the move-out date to give you a chance to fix things so that it wouldn't come out of your deposit. They refused to do that when I called, then denied that they ever got the call! I had to go through a lawsuit with them when they had the balls to charge me for the paint damage caused by the leak. They were charging everyone for the water and divided up the charge evenly amongst all the apartments of each building. There was a family that crammed about 10 people in the apartment below me and I was paying for most of their water since there wasn't a separate meter for each apartment. It wasn't until I spoke with a lawyer that I found out that what management was doing was illegal. My garage kept getting broken into and management wouldn't fix the lock. My roommate even came home one day and found a guy in the process of taking things from our neighbor's garage. He was breaking into ours to go through the side and get to the adjacent garage! The cops didn't even believe him when he reported it. I came home from Vegas one weekend and found a crack pipe left in there. Also, during that time all the trees in that area had some kind of disease and were all slumping over and eventually started to fall on the cars parked on the curbs. One neighbor went through a lawsuit with management when they refused to take responsibility claiming that it was an "act of God." The guy had just bought that brand new car that weekend and was going to get insurance on it the next day! The giant pine tree that was across from were he parked just fell and crushed his brand new car. He wasn't the only one that happened to. He went around talking to everybody so that he could gather information for his case. An arborist he had sent out there said that the management was supposed to have a specialist check on the health of the trees on the property every other year. The trees were falling down because of a disease that causes the core to soften until it can't bear it's weight anymore. The diseased trees were supposed to be cut down to prevent the other trees from being infected. Management had been contacted about the problem and they still didn't have the trees cut down. When I posted a sign on my window warning people not to park underneath a tree, I got a call from management that same day telling me I had to take it down! The fire marshall had to be called when they didn't remove a fallen tree that was blocking the fire lane. It took them about 4 months from first being contacted about the problem to have maintenance go and cut down all the trees. I knew of at least 3 cars in the neighborhood that had been crushed by these falling trees! You know that the place isn't paradise and that there would be crime in that area, but you shouldn't have to expect the management to try and cheat you out of everything. They certainly should take care of the responsibilities that they have to the tenants with the general upkeep of the property. There were senior citizens who take their walks around the neighborhood, did management care that there was a chance that they could have been crushed by one of their trees' Neglect is not something that falls under the category for "Act of God." You wonder what the hell your rent money is going towards when the place is just falling apart around you. THose people are just corporate slumlords.

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