The Consulate Apartments

Absolutely do not live in the Consulate! From: beerandie Date posted: 6/30/2007 Years at this apartment: 2003 - 2007   You will regret moving to the Consulate. I have lived there for four years and am moving out in about a month. I was happy with the place up until our last year here. When we signed our last lease, management gave us no warning at all that they had plans to do construction on the pool within the next several months literally right outside of our apartment. The jackhammering for the pool construction went on for about 6 months. It was so loud in our one bedroom apartment, my fiance and I had to yell to hear each other across the room. Watching TV was not even an option -- our TV wouldn't go up loud enough to hear it over the noise. The vibrations from the jackhammering broke several items in our apartment. It was absolutely hell. I was trying to study for the bar at the time and my fiance was undergoing chemotherapy and we had to live with this terrible noise. The apartment management treated me very rudely when I asked for a rent abatement for putting up with their construction noise. We received no rent abatement, and in fact every year I have lived here with the exception of the first year, they have increased our rent significantly. For what the Consulate charges, there are much better finds in the city. Just check out craig's list. And they seem to be doing construction continuously -- so don't think that just because the pool is done, the noise is gone as well. Almost everyone I know that lives here right now is planning on moving out as soon as their lease is up. Also, like other people have written, the electricity bill is outrageous. When you're figuring out rent, add at least another $150 each month to equate for the added cost of electricity that you would not pay elsewhere. So, if you take my situation -- we pay $1450 for rent for a one-bedroom, $150 for parking, and an extra $150 for the added cost of electricity, we are paying about $1750 to live in this crap hole. If you want to know the good things, the maintenance is pretty good, the desk people in the lobby are nice, the neighborhood is safe and close to the metro. But if you're looking for those things, I'd look at one of the other apartments down the street.

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