My husband and I moved in to Salem COurthouse November of last year, just as they were changing management companies. The apartment was FILTHY when we checked in: muddy footprints on all the floors, the carpets had obviously not been vaccuumed, nor had the walls been properly painted. The leasing agent was incredibly nice, told us it would all be cleaned by the time we moved in the next day. Most, though not all of the problems were fixed, and it took another week for everything to be in livable condition. The dishwasher also didn't work, upon move-in.

We had very little reason to call maintenance while we were living there, aside from one major issue. Our upstairs neighbors had a water heater that started leaking, and the water soaked through the ceiling, to soak the entire hallway, our bedroom floor, and our bed. That took two days to dry out, and when maintenance came to fix it, the guy who came sprayed it with Kilz to kill any mold, and promised to be back the next day to repaint. Six months later, when we moved out, that still hadn't been done.

Honestly, the biggest two issues we had living there were the noise, and safety. The apartment walls are VERY thin. We could hear people exiting and entering the building all the time, talking in the outside hallways... We could hear our upstaairs neighbors' toilet flushing, their vaccum cleaner, the televisions of our neighbors. The list goes on and on. It was VERY frustrating. And whenever anyone started arguing in the hallway (which happened more than I wanted to deal with) it woke up the entire building.

All of this was annoying... The thing that made us decide to move was the fact that the cops were called out to my BUILDING (not the complex as a whole) three times in a month and a half. Twice for domestic disputes (one of which resulted in one of the parties smashing the window in the common hallway) and once because four cars in the parking lot had been broken into, and the radios stolen. Mine was one of them. The parking lots in my area were reasonably poorly lit.

It took maintenance a week to even board up the broken window (they just covered it with a sheet of plywood on one side, leaving jagged glass in the edges of the frame) and another month to actually replace it. It took almost two weeks for them to get al the broken glass off the floor.

When we started talking about moving, the decision was clinched by the fact that they wanted to raise rent an extra $40/month, despite the fact that incoming renters were being offered the same floorplan for $100 less than what we were currently paying.

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From: Anonymous	Date: 12/15/2007
How sad. We lived there in 1986 as newlyweds. At the time, it was a very nice upscale, and to use an 80's term, "yuppie" complex. We had a 1 bdr back by 465. Our apartment had brand new almond appliances and brand new chocolate brown carpet. This last summer, we were in the area and for fun decided to stop by and look at an apartment. The leasing agent was to be kind, unprofessional. We were actually shown an apartment in our old building. Not the same apartment, but just below. Shocking. The apartment had exactly the same appliances and carpet that was there 21 years ago! I feel sorry for the current residents.

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