Just two blocks down from a shabby run-down strip mall where you can get crappy food and mugged if you are out after dark, and in the opposite direction, the small private Kissimmee Airport. How did you get to be so lucky' Let me share with you...you are POOR. That's how.

My husband and I needed a cheap place to stay while we both finished school. They list regularly on Craigslist, so there was how we found out about this little poop hole.

We did not know anyone in the area, and we needed someplace to stay. Sign a lease, and let the games begin.

These crappy apartments feature SMALL floor plans that are overestimated in size in the office. How do I know' My husband is about to be an architect grad, and he did the calculations. 12 percent lighter in the apartment versus what they put on their sheets in the office. That does not seem like a lot, but if you are renting a 1000 square foot place, you just lost 120 square feet.
The walls are so thin that at times, we could hear WORD FOR WORD what was being said by our neighbors. Intimate times' We heard our neighbors when they were being intimate, and they sure as hell heard ours, I am certain.

When we had problems, it was never a treat to go to the office. Work orders took forever to get processed, and the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing, that is for certain. We would call for updates, and always be shifted from one person to another. If you had a concern, and sat in the office while they were showing the property to potential future tenants, you were made to feel like crap, totally ignored, and asked if you could just write it down and someone would get to you.

Parking seems to be hard to find, depending on what building that you are in. A lot of people have more than one car, because there is more than one person living there. Also, a lot of people work on their cars in the parking lot. So trashy.

When I was checking the mail one night, a guy came up to me and was leering at me and hitting on me. I grabbed my cell phone and called my husband to talk to me while I was walking back to our place. The next morning, I told the office about it, and their response was "But you're fine, so what are you doing here'" , which is bull.

The neighborhood itself is pretty rundown, older places all around, as well as the little airport. Most of the time, the noise from the airport is not anything to complain about, but when they get big planes in there, the sound is very loud. Loud enough that you cannot talk to one another until the noise is over.

Landscaping is very loud. The landscaping and grounds crew seem to like to rev their engines on their portable machinery and see how loud that they can get things. Early in the morning' You bet. Why not, since they are up, you should be, too.

The best part is that they are remodeling. Okay, that is what they are calling it. They are pulling out all of the old and tired linoleum and vinyl flooring and putting in cheap fake hardwood. They are replacing the fake brass hardware with fake nickel hardware. It is still crappy at best, and horrific at worst. But they are raising the rents like crazy, because after all, that flooring does not pay for itself.

Twice we were sent packages that were delivered to the office, and we had to go in multiple times for each package. (Different reasons each time, but it was always weird random crap)

We did not move from here because we knew that it would be a hassle to find a new place. We also did not have extra money to come up with a second deposit while we waited on a refund from this place. Both hubby and I felt like it would be a battle to get the money back.

Our car was broken into once while we lived here. A window was popped, and a TOWEL was taken. That's right. My Honda was broken into for a highly valuable, highly collectible towel that I used to keep my seat from getting hot in the summer. Office reaction was that "sadly, it happens". No offer to help with replacing glass, no notice of activity was ever sent to other residents.

I took a part time job at a local amusement park to pay for rent increases as well as the cost of electric, and it was at the job I learned about a place that was available for LESS money in a safer area.
We moved, and I am telling everyone I can about Heron Lake Ghetto Apartments. Oh, the post right below mine' Looks like an office manager trying to bring her ratings back up. Not gonna work. There are a ton of us leaving, and we are not gonna take it anymore.

User Responses
From: WatchOutPeople	Date: 08/27/2009
What you are saying rings true, based on my drive through of the complex. I stopped and talked to a couple of tenants, and they were not at all happy. Apparently there is a problem with graffiti as well?
From: Anonymous	Date: 11/20/2009
I LIVE THERE ABOUT A YEAR AND THE PEOPLE ARE RIGHT THE COMPLEX IS CRAP AND FULL OF ROACHES AND THE LESING COMPANY DID NOTHING ABOUT IT THIS PLACE SUCKS

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