Avalon Danvers

Don't be deceived

From: -Anonymous-
Date posted: 7/19/2009
Years at this apartment: 2008-01-01 - 2009-01-01
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This place looks good from the outside, and appears peaceful and tranquil at first glance, but don't be deceived, the peace and tranquility end once your lease is signed and you step across the threshold. The walls, ceilings and floors are paper-thin and you can hear people sneezing (and doing everything else people do--and I do mean EVERYTHING), as well as barking dogs, in surrounding apartments. I've lived in apartments and condos for the past 40 years, and never have I encountered anything so shoddily constructed. Everything in the apartment is cheap and hastily installed as if everything was done in a hurry, and it probably was. There is no pest control to speak of--roaches were in our apartment from Day One although no one else had ever lived there--and management is the least helpful I have ever encountered. It is as if all the owners want is your signature on the lease guaranteeing you will pay an exorbibant rent--considering what you get, almost any rent at all would be exorbitant. The outside, as long as you don't get close enough to the buildings to observe the substandard construction, is inviting, at first, but try taking a walk and you soon discover no one picks up after their dogs--not that it is safe to walk outside anyway with the criminal element that comes with the Section 8 tenants that Avalon doesn't bother to tell people about when they sign their lease. There is no size-limit on dogs, so some of what is left in the path of the unobservant walker is quite large, covered with flies in summer, stinks to high Heaven and will make you gag just looking at it. There is also way too much outside lighting and the lights are way too bright. When you drive in from the dark highway, the lights are blinding and it won't be long before someone is badly injured, or killed, because a driver, blinded by the light, ran them over! When will apartment owners learn that too much light is worse than no light at all! Another problem is snow removal--or lack thereof. The plows push the snow up behind the vehicles and you have to dig out! A lot of the local people say the patients in the old insane asylum were badly mistreated and the place is haunted by their restless spirits, and there does seem to be a sense of unease and foreboding about the place. I figure that a few years in the future, the spirits of disgruntled residents will probably join the ghosts of those patients as we wander the grounds protesting our mistreatment by Avalon and asking ourselves how we could have been foolish enough to be taken in by the slick advertising and empty promises.

Last updated: 10/1/2009

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