I moved into Northwoods Apartments in April 2005 and throughout the five months that I lived there; it was the worst experience of my life. My car was broken into just six days after moving into Northwoods Apartments. Upon reporting this to the local police, I was told by an officer that; on average, there are four cars per week reported as stolen from Northwoods Apartments' parking lots and the surrounding areas. And that's just what's been reported. Through investigation, I eventually discovered that it was the residents of an area called "the highlands"; a frighteningly ugly, overcrowded little poor-town sitting at the top of a hill not more than a quarter of a mile from Northwoods Apartments, that looked like it had been airlifted out of the Nineteenth Century, i.e. prefabricated housing, tenement buildings, crowded conditions, and dropped in modern-day rural Connecticut, who're responsible for all of the car theft in the immediate surrounding area. And the police knew it too, but did nothing of course. The toilets wouldn't flush, and the carpet that had been laid one day prior to my moving in made the bottom of my feet black from walking on it. A gutter broke and was left hanging for months. It could have completely separated at anytime and fallen onto one of the many tenants who were constantly hanging around under my bedroom window, walking their LARGE dogs and allowing them to defecate right outside in the courtyard and then NOT even bother to scoop it up and throw it away. No one ever cleaned up after his or her pets. One day, I dove into the pool at Northwoods Apartments, and I was nearly blinded by the high levels of chlorine present in the pool water. Maintenance had failed to warn anyone that they were in the process of cleaning the pool and that there were high levels of chlorine present in the pool water. They didn't bother to rope off the area around the pool, or even put up a sign warning people not to swim. When I informed maintenance that this had happened, they stonewalled me. I had teenage solicitors come to my door once, telling me about some party. I tried to explain to them that they shouldn't be soliciting me at my home, and sent them away. They responded by insulting me. Horrid cooking odors from other tenants would fill my apartment almost everyday. God only knows what they were cooking. Probably road kill. Tenants would barbecue practically every night on their decks. The stench of charcoal and lighter fluid was always in the air. It was like a State Park; Camp Northwoods. And here comes the best part. The hot-water heater located in a utility closet outside the bedroom sprung a leak and created a flood. And of course, black mold appeared. It ate through the wall right into my bedroom closet. There was even a clause in the lease that said if BLACK MOLD was discovered in your apartment, you'd be moved to another apartment within the complex free of charge. So obviously, something like this had happened (probably MANY times) before. Enough times so that they'd put a clause in the lease about it. What the hell is wrong with this place'! The BLACK MOLD had been making me sick for a period of time, and I didn't even know it until I discovered it. I immediately terminated the lease and got the hell out of that awful place. Then they tried to tell me that I needed to give them two-month notice to move out. They did that specifically to keep people from moving out of AIMCO-managed apartments. If you have to give them two-month notice and then give another complex that you're moving to a one-month notice, you can't ever leave! I refused to pay any of their ludicrous concession fees ($2,000 to terminate the lease & move out'!, I don t think so). Management was afraid of me. They didn't even argue. They knew I wouldn't hesitate to sue AIMCO for the BLACK MOLD. They agreed to pay my medical bills with no argument at all. Management (at 1 Dove Ln) would actually sign for and keep packages, so I'd have to walk all the way to their rental office to pick up my packages. Ridiculous. One day, the rental agent actually sighed when I walked into the office to collect my packages. She sighed a Post Office/DMV type of sigh; a deep sigh. And then on another occasion when I entered the office to collect my mail, the rental agent had chocolate all over hands. I suppose she sits in that office all day long and just gorges herself on chocolate while waiting for tenants to come in to pick up their mail so she can sigh at them. And the maintenance people (you know, the ones that ride around in those goddamn golf carts all day never going anywhere); they were clueless. One even cut his hand and started bleeding profusely in my living room while trying to replace the screen door. What a tool. They all looked like Cretans too.

User Responses
From: cmsucks	Date: 12/18/2006
Sounds like you're exaggerating because you're pissed. It's understandable with what happened to you, but who cares if the management lady sighed when you walked in? I do that all the time. And so what if the guy cut his hand? What does that have to do with the apartment community? It doesn't necesarily mean he doesn't know what he's doing.
From: nwrnr4d89	Date: 12/25/2006
<< From: cmsucks Date: 12/18/2006 Sounds like you're exaggerating because you're pissed. It's understandable with what happened to you, but who cares if the management lady sighed when you walked in? I do that all the time. And so what if the guy cut his hand? What does that have to do with the apartment community? It doesn't necesarily mean he doesn't know what he's doing. >> Yeah, you??????re right. Towards the end of the review, I was ranting & raving. I don??????t ever want to see Northwoods Apartments or Middletown, CT ever again. Not even on a map. You have to understand; I lived in Westchester County, NY my entire life (twenty-one years) until I moved to Middletown, CT sight unseen. It was a bad decision. So I moved back home (Westchester County, NY) where my heart is.
From: Anonymous	Date: 07/30/2009
Wow. Seems like you really just don't like anything. You should probably save up your pennies and buy a house if you can't handle apartment living and are afraid of everything. This is an APARTMENT REVIEW website, no one cares what you think about Middletown or people from other communities. Go back to your little sheltered yuppie life if you don't like it here. I've lived here for almost a year and I love it. Yes, there are dogs, which is great since a lot of places don't allow you to have pets. If you don't like them then why did you move there in the first place? And of course you will smell food cooking at dinnertime in the hallway, duh. If you had maintenance issues, you should have called the office. The guys are great and have responded to me within a few hours every time I needed them. And EVERY lease at any complex is going to have a "mold clause" and of course you have to pay a fee to break the lease. Have you never rented an apartment before? And letting a little leak get that bad is your own fault for not noticing it and calling it in. I have not seen any kind of crime at all while living here either. Cars get TOWED every day, not stolen. That's why they have parking stickers, to keep the parking lots clear and protected. No one has ever come to my door to solicit, and if they did I would call the management and have them removed, not go online and whine about it. And maybe, if you ever ventured out of your bubble, you would know that there is a TON of stuff to do in Middletown. The chain stores in the area are CONVENIENT. If you had opened your eyes instead of your mouth, you might have found some great restaurants and hiking trails and sights. Oh well, your loss!

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