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Words Can't Describe How Bad It is - And I never post reviews like this
From:
-Anonymous-
Date posted:
5/15/2006
Years at this apartment:
2005
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2006
2 responses
I never follow up on things like this, but when I moved out of Cobbler Square a month ago, I swore I would post a review of how bad the place is.
Where to begin... For starters, the noise problem cannot be fully understood until you live there. You can hear anything next door and above. You can even hear people urinating in the bathroom. Not only does noise get through, but smoke does as well. The clothes in my closet smelled of smoke when my neighbor had a party and the smell of cigarette smoke would wake me up in the middle of the night.
Secondly, I went to a pretty fun college, and crazy things would happen in the dorms, but nothing like I saw at Cobbler. Somehow they seem to rent to complete degenerates, who don't seem to have regular jobs and can stay up partying all night, any night. And not just on the weekend. I can't tell you how many days I showed up at work on 2 hours of sleep because my neighbor had a party till 5am. My job performance seriously suffered after such nights.
Besides the parties, two pretty disturbing incidences occurred while I lived there. The morning after the Sox won the World Series, I went to grab my paper on my doorstep and head to work, and instead I found that someone defecated and vomited on my doorstep. Then one evening I woke up and looked out my window and saw fireworks outside my window. I could hear the neighbor above me lighting fireworks in the middle of his apartment, aiming them out the window and shooting them from about 10 feet away. It is scary indeed to have someone shooting fireworks off inside a timber loft building.
Calling the front desk or police never did me any good to complain about the parties or the noise. They wouldn't open the door if the doorman came, and since the police didn't have a search warrant, they could not do anything about it either. Management was just as useless about it. The first time I called to complain about repeated parties from my neighbor above, the person in the office, who acted totally rude and aloof, responded, "well, he's a really nice guy." Additionally, legally it is almost impossible to evict someone because of noise. Trust me - I tried my best.
Not only did I not feel safe because of the poop/puke incident and the fireworks incident, but also because of the fact that someone broke into someone's apartment while she took her garbage out down the hallway. So much for having a doorman and cameras. Management's response to this incident was their typical complacent, useless response. They sent a letter out saying that if anything happens like that again to call the police. Now that's good advice I didn't know before. They didn't address the important things like how the guy got into the building in the first when there is a doorman or how they planned on upgrading or changing security procedures so that it wouldn't happen again.
To sum it up, I had the worst experience EVER living there and am grateful everyday that I donāt live there anymore. I do not feel it is a safe building, the noise problem is horrendous, and management is useless. Not to mention the fact that the rent is ridiculously expensive to begin with and that they tried to increase my already expensive rent by 8%.
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User Responses
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From:
building
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Date:
05/18/2006
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I have heard similiar complaints about this building and if justice can be found the management will find itself with a very large vacancy.
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From:
Anonymous
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Date:
01/06/2008
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Don't you know that tenants, even inconsiderate ones, have more rights than landlords? They can't evict even if someone doesn't pay rent, so how can they evict for any other reason? All they can do is not renew leases. They certainly can't refuse a potential tenant based on impression unless there is a criminal history, or it would be disriminatory. Blame it on the law.
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