We've lived here for about eight months, as of late summer. It was the best choice among few for proximity to the airport and amenities. Having lived in five states and rented in three, we understood "luxury" to be above and beyond "basic". Oops! Silly us! The lake is beautiful, but the laundry facilties were inconvenient to us so we have our own now. The (one!) pool area is very inconvenient and lacks shade. No one on staff knows anything about the equipment in the work-out room, like for instance how to set it, or even when the obviously broken machines will be repaired or replaced. The "security gate" has been broken so many times that it is now only closed on one side at night and never during daylight hours--like all rapists, burglers and drug addicts are nocturnal! The staff is polite and apparently well-trained, so that's improved. We were emphatically warned by staff when we signed the lease to not walk around the lake alone for "safety reasons" but when we asked what had happened, we were told they had been told by corporate they couldn't discuss it with us.

All of the cupboards lack handles--no, they aren't the kind that have indentations routed into the backs. When I spoke to the latest manager about the cupboards I was given permission to buy and install my own, at my expense but according to their standards, but we'd have to leave them when we left! When we do open them the shelves aren't adjustable so it's anybody's guess where one is supposed to keep bottles, boxes and pitchers that are taller than ten inches! The master bedroom, which opens onto a balcony and therefore has a door but no windows, lacks a screen door so there's no way to open that end of the house without flies. The gas fire place is nice but expensive to run, adds no warmth which might cut-down on heating bills, and looks pretty weird in a furnished environment for lack of a hearth in a traditional setting. Door locks require two hands--one to tug at them, the other to turn the key, very inconvenient if you're holding anything! There are the abolute cheapest of cheap almost everything from appliances and kitchen cupboards to bathroom fixtures (the "luxury soaking tub" excepted, except that what looks like hard-water staining and/or grease smudges is really worn-out places, but after five long years of actual use, what would you expect' Staff-locked blower-motor closets only get their filters changed every six months--as often as we were told on the intial tour that the windows get washed. We haven't seen either so far. I was told just today that they missed us for filter changing in April and in five years or so, the windows have never been cleaned!

I recently jokingly told my daughter's sister-in-law, who works as an architect for an apartment-building firm in CA that I could just see some thirty-something, mover-and-shaker laying awake at nights trying to think of even more ways to save a dime, like perhaps painting the kitchen and bath sub-flooring rather than laying lenoleum. She smiled and said paint costs more! So at least now we know cheapness isn't limited by anything but federal and state housing laws and dollar signs!

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