The good and the bad reviews are both right
From:
-Anonymous-
Date posted:
11/1/2007
Years at this apartment:
2006
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2007
1 response
The good reviews point out that the staff does a great job fixing things quickly- and that is correct.
The negative reviews point out that the staff is aggressive, maybe even overly so, in hassling people for misconduct. This too is correct. But this is with good reason. Because Mandarin is basically a homeowner-oriented, suburban neighborhood, renters tend to be working-class rather than upper-middle-class as in more mobile areas like downtown. (When I lived there I never saw anyone wearing a tie from work except for Orthodox Jews, who live there because its one of only a couple of apartment complexes in Jacksonville within walking distance of synagogues).
A garden apartment complex filled with working-class people has very little margin for error: if you let in people just a little less orderly than the current tenants, disorder starts to multiply and the place deteriorates real fast (as has happened to some of the nearby complexes on Sunbeam Road, two of which have been murder sites in the past year or so).
So to prevent this deterioration, the management probably feels like they have to police misconduct more vigorously than if they were an expensive high-rise in downtown or Riverside.
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