I have been at Griswold for about six months. I am still undetermined on whether I will be renewing my lease this summer. So far, I have had to request maintenance twice. Once was for a faulty smoke detector and the second time was for a garbage disposal that quit working. They were both fixed in no time. Mangement was pretty eager to work with me when I asked about putting up my HAM radio antennas even though a $150 deposit was required for that. I am a bit fearful that I will not get my deposit back. There were many stains already on the carpet when I moved in and the mini blinds were already damaged. I really do not have any complaints about the maint or leasing staff. They have always been easy to work with when I needed something. My neighboors (on the other hand) are a major problem. I have seen time and time again people getting evicted from this place. It appears to me that a lot of a the people here are trashy, low income, poverty level folks. They are loud, noisy and they like to stand on their balconys and make remarks or stare at guests that may be coming over to visit and it makes my visitors feel unwelcome to come over. The common areas are often trashed with litter, candy wrappers, beer bottles, etc. The stair towers have torn up carpet and are often time filthy. The housekeeping staff does a poor job. The washers and dryers here are very poor. I have to waste well over $3.00 PER LOAD just to dry the clothes because the dryers are junk. The parking situation is adequate, but also subpar in my opinion. The parking spaces are too small. There is hardly enough room to back out and get the vehicle turned without hitting vehicles that are parked behind you. The parking lots were designed with a geo metro owner in mind, not somebody like me that drives a full size crown victoria. I often times park on the far end and walk the extra distance so that I will be assured that nobody will pull in next to me and open their car door into mine, which has happened on numerous occasions. The vehicles that sit around this place are rusted up pieces of junk and it makes the place look dumpy. There are constanly people outside during the summer with loud exhausts reving up their engines and it is certainly difficult for somebody to work who is on a swing shift when you have a group of -------- down below you that blast fiesta music every day starting at 2:00 PM. There are many things that could be improved at Griswold, but it could be a lot worse also.

UPDATE: A lot happened since I originally wrote this review. My car got too many dings from people opening their doors into the side of my car. So I began parking in the overflow area, away from the front of the building. BIG MISTAKE! My car got broken into and they stole my amp and radio. They also attempted to steal some speakers and HAM radio equipment. Somebody ran over the fire hydrant in front of my apartment and it sat like that for about a month. Heaven forbid my building ever caught on fire. The cops were out here MANY MANY times to serve warrents and execute drug busts. A lot more low income folks moved in, and the punks came with them, blasting radios and making noise. This is certainly a gathering place for bad neighbors and shady people. Stay away and look elsewhere!

User Responses
From: darksonnet4	Date: 11/30/2008
You must live in the same building I live in. The fire hydrant was hit out front of mine as well. When we first moved in here, we really enjoyed living here. The field out back was perfect for our dog, and is also a photographer's dream, and I am an amateur. We had problems at first with the neighbors over us with their loud music (and at one particular point, I needed all the rest I could get because I was recovering from pneumonia--the first time). They finally were evicted after threatening my husband and my dog with turning their pit bull loose on them and threatening the manager at the time as well. Every month we get a late motice because I am disabled and our rent is paid with my disability check. I have told them in the office time and time again, and they tell me every time that they have set our account up to reflect that. If the rent isn't in by the eighth, we get hauled into court, nevermind that it doesn't get mailed out until the third or the month, and if that falls on a Friday, then it may be Tuesday or Wednesday before they get it. They do this to us, and they allow convicted felons to live here. Once was just evicted last month and now there is complaint filed witht the Auburn poliece to arrest this man if caught on the grounds, which is fine, but in the apartment directly across the hall from where that man was staying, there is another one who moved here from Florida who is a convicted grand larceny felon. Just about the only comment I do not agree with you saying is concerning the low income people. Many of us are not in that bracket by choice. Eight years ago my husband and I were pulling in a six figure income between the two of us. I ended up falling ill with kidney failure secondary to diabetes and had a kidney transplant and shortly after that my husband totalled his mobile home toter on his way home to me in a snowstorm in Seymour, Indiana. That will be six years ago on Thursday. After that he had to go to work for someone else and I haven't been able to work yet. One reason for that is that I went back to school to get training for a desk job. I now am working on my third college degree and that is in administration (bachelor's) They will probably refuse to renew our lease, and that's fine, as long as we have sufficient time to find another place to live or I find employment back in my neck of the woods so we can move there (close to Wheeling, WV).

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