Almaden 1930 Garden Apartments

POOR INTEGRITY/POOR BUSINESS PRATICES From: -Anonymous- Date posted: 1/15/2006 Years at this apartment: 2004 - 2005 1 response   My wages were cut by 50%, my renter's broke their lease and left me with hundreds of dollars in utility debt. I asked the manager for grace with the last month of my lease and was told that short of loosing my job, no grace would be given. I then gave over a 6 week notice, and left a full week prior to the end of my 11th month of a 12 month lease to give them plenty of time to rent my apartment in y 12th month. I cleaned and painted and left everything in even better shape than I found it. I asked that they please replace the carpet----that I had told the they did't need to replace for me when I had moved in--as soon as possible so I could get another renter in. They told me---even with a 6 week notce keep in mind---that they probably would'nt be able to do that for me. I lined up a renter just in case and told them about this...instead, within about a week of my departure, they rented my unit to a person that would not move in until the beginning of the following month ): I had called several times to ask that they get a new carpet in so I could get a new tenant in that I was lining up..did'nt help a bit. I also called 3 or more times to insure they had sent my deposit check, they told me all was in progress. After it was over a week late, I then called to ask where it was to find out it had not been put into progress after all. I received it almost 2 weeks OUT OF COMPLIANCE. I then spoke directly to the owner/administrators office to share the above frustrations as well as unspeakable issues with the maintenance manager at the end of my stay. I asked for a phone call back from the owner, but never heard back. I was never mean or nasty..but told them I thought if they cared about people they would want to call me and hear about my experience..hopefully to make things better..that did not happen. Also know I have heard from neighbor friends that the management has broken plans and promises..overall disrespectful/low integrity things. Anyway---take this as the warning that it is. On the bright side---some very great tenants..and GREAT weekend office employee!!

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