This is my first apartment and it is horrible! If you can, avoid living here at all costs! Im a student at University of Hartford and was tired of the tiny dorm rooms. My boyfriend and I moved into a studio apartment at 30 Forest St. The apartment is really tiny & has many problems. INSIDE: The water changes temperature rapidly and I have been burned in the shower several times. My "kitchen" consists of a stove/sink/fridge all right next to eachother, no counter space, and no room for a table. I had to buy a stand to put the microwave on. There are three cabinets, but I cant reach all the shelves inside of them. One of the cabinets is over the fridge so you cant reach it unless you stand on a chair. The oven is very tiny and has no temp. dial on it, and the coils get hot when the oven is on. The kitchen is carpeted too. The rug is this nasty brown/grey shag-like rug. The bathroom is tiny and the tub was stained when we moved in. The only outlets are behind the mirror/cabinet(which is hard to slide open) and you cant get to them unless you take off the glass light cover. Some of the tiles in the bathroom are cracking too. The whole bathroom is black & yellow, its really ugly, but thats the least of the problems. The boiler is directly below us and makes the floor shake. The girl upstair has techno music on all the time, and our neighbor across the hall had the police called on him by his girlfriend, and the police questioned us. The manager of our building is a witch, to put it nicely. She even over charged us for a one time late fee! When we first came to look at the apartments, she promised us a nicer room which she gave to someone else the next day, without telling us. So there I was with all my stuff in the uhaul and the manager gave our place away! Im from NY and she told us that we were "lucky because there is another apartment available". OUTSIDE: There is a high school directly across from us and the kids like to roll tires down the street at on-coming traffic. They also get into fights all the time when they get out of school for the day. Its a good thing they have cops and metal detectors. But the worst thing that ever happend was that my BOYFRIEND WAS SHOT AT LESS THAN 100FT FROM MY FRONT DOOR!!!! He was almost hit by another car because they had hit some ice. My b/f got out of his car to see if the guy was ok, and then the guy gets out of his car while singing along to some rap song, pulls his 22(gun) out of his pants and fires three shots at him! He filed a police report, and they found two out of the three bullet shells that were fired at him. They never caught the guy so hes still out there somewhere. All of this is 100% true! Trust me, do not live here! My boyfriend almost was killed for trying to help someone! I will be moving out asap!

User Responses
From: mpc2000	Date: 01/31/2009
sweety, I believe you, I have a friend who lives there and I know about that neighborhood, it's right next to a street that has crack for sale. It's not a great pl ace to stay in and the damn people are horrible. My friend complains all the time about people knocking on his window adn there's always something going on at his building. I believe that someone shot at your BF becuase I've heard of that. The crazy thing is that if the guy recognized your BF, he would've retaliated for being told on, had he gotten caught. That's good ol' Hartford for ya if you'da lived closer to UHartford, then it might've been better. I'd say around the West End would've been, better, but the rent is higher

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