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FROM A FORMER EMPLOYEE
From:
-Anonymous-
Date posted:
8/16/2004
Years at this apartment:
2004
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2004
Wow! This is my first time checking back here in a while... This is crazy that so many people share the same sentiment regarding these people. It truly is unfortunate as this is a rather beautiful building. What a shame that they felt the need to cheapen it by adding so many surveillance cameras...makes you feel really safe doesn't it people! Says a lot about their approval process if they still feel the need to install that many cameras AND have a security guard that they doctor up as a "monitor." What idiots...each of you at the Ranaissance Companies, of course barring the staff over at the main office.
Okay, let me fill you in on some of the reasons I speak the name Ranaissance Companies with such disgust. These people are in the business of providing affordable housing. That means that pretty much all of their other properties are piss poor and smell of urine... The elevators never work and the bloody carpeting is the cheapest grade berber you can find, akin to that fake grass stuff. In fact, the "former" property manager of Renaissance North once resided in one of these other properties... that being said, how could she have ANY idea how to market OR interact with those capable of paying $2,200 a month for an apartment alone.....not a good mix.
I recall an incident that that same property manager mentioned to me regarding a fair housing sign that needed to be placed for all to see. Housing had provided 2 copies of the poster; 1 in english and the other in spanish. Well the owner, I believe vice president, did not allow the manager to post the spanish version of the poster and remarked, "This is America. People need to speak english." What''' Mind you, they speak only 1 language themselves and degrade those have a greater grasp of language as a whole than they do... Getting the idea here' Something else that I used too find peculiar is that they could sit on their high conservative (very conservative) horses and ridicule those who were not as great as thou, yet neither the property manager nor leasing director could speak proper english. Do you know how many times this woman would use the term, "irregardless"''' What''' How funny that she opened up to me and confessed that though nobody would think, she was actually white trash.....I think we've figured that out by now, the very moment we met.
These people definately enter people's homes without notice. PUT EVERYTHING IN WRITING FOLKS...everything. That is illegal for them to do, without giving 48 hours notice unless it's an emergency, and I don't call installing a door knob an emergency!
I became friends with a receptionist that quit after only a month of employment. She couldn't handle bigots. These are people whose mission is to provide affordable housing, etcetera, etcetera, yet they seem to speak and look at all who walk through the door with such a condescending attitude.
Oh, and don't try to sublet. You'd better be positive that you will not be moving, in fact as they break the law there too... I know of 2 residents who needed to break their lease as they were very unhappy and management refused to allow them to do so... Both of these residents provided 3 qualified candidates and all were denied. What''' Have you ever heard of an application taking 2 weeks to process' It does take thaqt long at RN... Why' I've since left the property and manage an 1100 unit building in another state and can tell you that I approve leases within 3 hours regularly and have a 97% occupancy rate......
RN still has yet to fill a measly 59 units...Why can't they fill 59 apartments' Because of piss poor managemnt.
So why hasn't anyone sued these people yet' Why do they stand for such failure in management' WHY''' Remember the resident who had people walking in and out of her apartment at all hours of the day without notice(she took a shower with her bathroom door locked) as well as had 3 sublets denied' Well she was well on hher way to doing so....She had a couple of lawyers working the case pro bono and they definately had their lawyers involved. Well after holding her up for 2 months that she didn't need to be paying rent, they allowed her out of her lease ONLY AFTER she agreed to sign a statement that she'd never file a lawsuit against them or speak of the incident again... WOW!!!
Do you want to deal with these kind of people' Take it from the horses mouth...YOU DON'T! Old Town has plenty of new apartments at affordable rates these days...get one of those...
btw, you can see all of the people to which I am referring on their website. They have all of their photo's there.
Can someone tell
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