If I can stop one person from going through what we went through, all of our emotional pain and misery will have not been in vain. My husband and I moved in 2005.

From the FIRST night we moved in the noise from the neighbors outside, and the motorcycles running up and down the street was intolerable. We went to the office the next day with our complaint, and they basically told us that we were hearing things.

The security people that were supposed to come to complaint calls were in the office staff's pocket. They told us we were hearing things, too. We were forced to call the police who came on several occasions. The neighbors were smart enough to go inside when the police came, so we could never "catch" them.

I wrote several letters to the office asking them to stop the noise. I told them what we had done to correct the problem ourselves (namely going to the neighbors themselves to ask for peace and quiet, using the security company that is supposed to be keeping the peace at night,and sending several letters to the manager and United Dominion) I told them that the laws are very clear on noise in Florida and that if they did not begin to enforce the laws, we were going to take their butts to court. Even the lawyer we called to speak to them said that they were like talking to a brick wall.

We finally took matters into our own hands, and talked to the neighbors one last time mono a mono. We were very reasonable, asking them to PLEASE pipe down after 11:00 as the law states. They laughed at us, threatened bodily harm if we did not stop harassing THEM, and finally to make their point, they vandalized our cars. But since we could not positively ID which one of them did it, the police could do nothing.

Needless to say, lease or no lease we were out of there. This caused months and months of fighting collection agencies and going to court and we still ended up having to pay for the "broken lease". The price of human dignity comes too high if when presented with a case of lives being threatened, and laws being broken (on their own part!) the office staff still can't "call off the dogs."

If a lawyer knocking on the door and several police visits don't pursuade the office and that ditz manager that there are some SEVERE problems in that place, NOTHING WILL.

Now to put the real blame where it is due, we should have done better research on the property before we moved in. We should have realized that the neighborhood was far from desireable, and that any kind of apartment for that price would have to fall under the "if it seems too good to be true..." rule.

We will be much more careful next time, but PLEASE, PLEASE steer clear of this place!

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From: Anonymous	Date: 02/12/2008
What this person said about this place is really true. We used to live in Dover Village (Orlando) for 3 years (2003 - 2006). At first It was nice then our neighbors changed for what kind of people... We used to see alll kind of bad people around us. Our cars were vandalized too and the lady from the administration told us "this place is getting better, from when I just start working here" My...! If it was getting better... how was before???? Any way... I have a lot of bad things to say about Dover Village. I DO NOT recommend to any person to live in this place.

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