I'm about to end a painful two-year experience with Polo Run. Let me start from the beginning:

-There were a few holes in the walls from door stoppers when I moved in. The maintainance man took note of them and assured me that they would be fixed. Two years later, the holes are still here! Hopefully, they won't try to charge me for them. Yeah right.

-I had maybe 2-3 minutes of hot water use before the water became ice cold. I complained to the office numerous times, and was always rewarded with a skeptical maintainance man blaming a thermostat or other trivial issue. I even threatened to walk out of my lease because of Polo Run's apparent breach of contract. The issue was finally resolved after I befriended a maintainance man and was actually able to get him to look at the water heater. The problem was that there were bare wires completely submersed in static water under the upper lid of the heater! It's a wonder the poor guy wasn't electrocuted! Total time from the first call to the replacement of the heater: 6 months. That's right, I spent 6 months taking cold showers before Polo Run finally replaced my water heater.

-Each of my two winters at Polo Run resulted in loss of heat on several occasions because of faulty/rusted/shorted furnace wiring. On top of that, the furnaces are actually built into the ceiling above the bathroom. The plywood access paneling and ceiling around the furnace is in serious need of attention, due to multiple instances of removal and reinstallation. The maintainance man agreed on that point, but told me that the office is very strict on how much money they can spend on repairs.

-I noticed that the ceiling around the dining area in my apartment is actually starting to settle and break apart around the walls (I'm on the 3rd floor). Naturally, I called a maintainance man about the problem and was informed that fixing it would be 'a huge pain in the butt' and wouldn't be worth his or my time.

-Drafts: There is no such thing as a solid-sealing door at Ghetto Run.

-The kitchens are a joke. All the shelving is made from saggy osb. It looks like my kitchen cabinets were involved in a flood.

-Neighbors: You'd have to expect some amount of younger/louder neighbors at a place so inexpensive. The reality is that this place is crawling with every kind of cliche dirty-ass townie Greenwood has to offer. There's the white trash family on the 2nd floor. They leave all 30 pairs of their shoes and their cat poop scooper on the landing for all to trip over on their way up and down the stairs. They park their dirty-ass mini van diagonally, so that nobody can park in the space next to it. Best of all, though, is that their kids enjoy drawing pictures of penises all over the sidewalk and stairway. I love seeing that kind of thing after a long day working, something that nobody in that apartment understands, since neither of the parents have jobs.
Next is the Hispanic group: They spend their evenings in the parking lot working on their cars and stereos. Don't plan on sleeping in until 9 on Saturday. That's prime fiesta time at Ghetto Run!
And then, there's all the ricers that live here. Apparently, the fast and furious Civic drivers of Ghetto Run don't think noise ordinance and speed limits apply to them.

-Mice: I think the mice living in the walls have more sex in one week than I have in an entire year. Good for them, I guess.

I could seriously write a novel about all the things that suck about Ghetto Run. Cliff notes: Go somewhere else. These people are nothing more than glorified slum lords.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 07/08/2009
You are right - they do look nice from the road. That's what sucks you in at first. I lived there, had the same problems you did, and moved out! I am so glad that I'm out. The grass is definately greener on the other side. The trashy people they let move into Polo Run is absolutely ridiculous. They don't care how you feel, what happens to your apartment, or what you may go through with your neighbors - they just want your money. Nice pictures by the way. I saw a few of those same drawing by my place when I lived there! Real nice to come home to, huh? Good luck in your new place. I'm sure it'll feel like heaven - mine did!
From: Anonymous	Date: 08/13/2009
Another frustrating chapter in my dealings with these people: I just received a bill for replacement of 'bent blinds'. The total charge is $178.10. What is frustrating about this is the fact that my fiancee and I spent two days repairing nail holes, cleaning surfaces, and shampooing carpets. We decided to give the place such a thorough cleaning because of Polo Run's reputation for billing former tennants for so-called 'damages'. The 'redecorating fee' they charge, which is really just a non-refundable damage deposit is even supposed to cover any nail hole patches, but I decided that I'd do the repairs myself, thinking that there would be no chance we'd be charged for ANY repairs. The place was literally not the same unit as it was on move-in day. It was completely spotless. We even went so far as to document the cleaning with several pictures of the floors, walls, surfaces, and cabinets. Unfortunately, we neglected to take any clear shots of any blinds. They weren't damaged anyway. I'm very close to getting an attorney involved. AGAIN, DO NOT EVEN CONSIDER RENTING FROM THESE THIEVING SLUM LORDS. IF YOU DO, YOU WILL REGRET YOUR DECISION THROUGHOUT YOUR RESIDENCY. I CANNOT MAKE IT ANY SIMPLER THAN THAT! STAY AWAY FROM POLO RUN!
From: Anonymous	Date: 12/13/2009
I know it sounds horrible but I'm so happy I wasn't the only one that got bent over by "bent blinds". I just moved out a couple months ago and recently got paperwork stating that I owed $120 for bent blinds. The only problem with this is that when you opened the sliding glass door and the bedroom window, any breeze would immediately suck the blinds up against the screen because the apartments were designed so poorly. I lived there for two years, always paid my rent on time, and never had a complaint filed against me and still couldn't get anything done when needed. My apartment settled and there were cracks everywhere throughout the living room. Plus don't look at your walls in the bathroom too closely, they just paint over any hair left from previous tennants. The --------- working on their cars with the radios blaring is no joke either. I spent quite a few nights putting up with the noise before going down to my neighbor myself and telling them to turn the music down. The hilarious part was that when his lady friend opened the door, he was sitting on the couch with a gigantic orange bong smoking weed! I can't stress how much people need to stay away from these apartments. For those of you reading all the good reviews and seeing how happy people were with Polo Run, DON'T BE DECIEVED! Just wait until you move out and get billed for everything under the sun. You think it's over once you've lived out your lease, took care of your apartment, and left...NO. You'll get the same letter myself and other past residents have gotten for miscellaneous charges including heavily soiled carpet and bent blinds that looked like crap when you moved in.

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