If you value your safety and the safety of your children, don't live at Stonebridge Apartments, that is, unless you can't pass a background check or no one else will take you. Stonebridge doesn't do background checks (at least they didn't with us) and that puts everyone who lives there in danger. For instance, a number of months after we moved in, we read in the local newspaper that an accused sex offender lived on the premises. When I asked about it, management said they couldn't do anything because the accused wasn't convicted of anything yet.

Even worse, an ostensibly violent drug offender and his family moved into a unit near ours a few months after we moved in. The woman yelled and screamed at her kids every day, particularly her young daughter who in turn had constant screaming and crying fits. This daughter disappeared after a couple months and I never saw or heard her again. The man was a violent low-brow redneck with a hot temper who was a menace to everyone around him. While we were in Central America on business, he posted a scrawled, illiterate, threatening note on our door because he thought we had stared at his kids a few days earlier. I came home several days before my husband did and found the note, which terrified me and made me afraid to leave our apartment. When my husband returned, he vaguely remembered an incident shortly after I had left for Central America (he left after I did). He said all he did was look out our door one day when this man's kids were making incessant noise in the stairwell. He hadnt complained to management or said anything to the kids or anyone else. The kids apparently complained to their dad, who reacted by taping the threatening note on our door while we were gone.

We reported the incident to the police and to apartment management. The police said they couldn't do anything. The apartment manager wanted us to meet with our neighbors to "smooth" things out, which we refused to do. We had no interest in meeting someone with a huge anger problem who had threatened us with bodily harm for no good reason. A month later, following a noise complaint my husband made after listening to this same man's kids plus 8-10 of his kids' friends screaming and hollering right outside our door for 8 straight hours, the creep physically assaulted myself and my husband. He slammed me bodily against the stairwell wall, bruising me on my arms, shoulder and back. I was able to escape when my husband, who had seen the man confronting me from our balcony, came out to investigate. The creep then attacked my husband, trying to provoke a fight by getting in his face, shoving him repeatedly, cocking his fist back, and threatening to punch him in the face from the same stance weve seen convicted felons use during TV documentaries about hardened criminals serving time. My husband couldnt get away from him until I diverted the guys attention by yelling at him from our apartment doorway that I was calling the police. My husband was able to get inside our door, but we couldn't get it closed before he tried to force his way into our apartment. He pushed as hard as he could against the partially closed door, bruising me some more, but the two of us together were able to get the door shut and locked without his getting in.

When the police arrived, they first took our story and then questioned the creep, who refused to let the officers into his apartment and instead yelled and screamed at the two officers for at least half an hour on the stairwell outside our door. We overheard the police question him about his prior drug arrest and 9-months drug rehab. That's how we know he had a prior record.

The city attorney gave us the option of pressing charges but said going forward would likely provoke our neighbor into attacking us again. Best case our assailant would have been fined a couple hundred dollars and gotten no jail time, so we decided not to proceed. When we tried to get him evicted, the apartment manager said she couldnt do anything without the police report. When the police report was finally released several weeks later, the apartment manager refused to take eviction action against our neighbor because we hadnt pressed criminal charges against him. Instead she had the apartment's attorney send us a cease-and-desist order demanding that we stop inciting our neighbor to further violence or they would begin eviction proceedings against US! By this time nearly 6 weeks had gone by, during which time we had been living in constant fear of further attack and carried pepper spray with us every time we walked in or out our door. When we got the threatening letter from the apartment's attorney, we immediately demanded to be let out of our lease, which we were.

Before we could move, this same neighbor attempted to ambush my husband again while my husband was out looking for the maintenance man following a storm that had caused us to lose power in the apartment. The only reason he didn't succeed is that the maintenance man showed up just as the guy was again confronting my husband, causing the creep to back off because there would have been a witness had he carried out another assault. We moved out several days later and are now much happier living in a much nicer apartment. Our rent is nearly the same, we have more space, and management does background checks and enforces quiet hours. The man who attacked us still lives at Stonebridge Apartments as far as we know.

If you like living where apartment management isn't a stickler about background checks, doesn't enforce the lease, and takes no action against a violent resident who is a menace to everyone around him even after he has attacked his neighbors, then by all means move in or keep living there. Otherwise, do yourself a favor and look elsewhere (or move out if you already live there). If I had any college-age daughters, I sure wouldn't let them live there! It's way too dangerous. bYr9ljUwtCbMRXE8dRDC

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