Where to begin...
I guess i will elaborate on the rating topics.
Parking, noise, grounds, safety, construction, maintenance, staff, overall.
.:PARKING:.
Total Nightmare - Half of the parking lots are taken up by covered parking that costs about $50 extra a month. Not worth it at all in my opinion. The open spots are really close together. I found it really hard to back in/out of the spots because you come less than a foot away from the covered parking posts.
.:Noise:.
Occasionally noisy - As with all apts, you can expect noise from your neighbors. The noise was minimal except for the front door slamming every time it was opened and closed. The main reason was because the "security" door with the electronic entry pad was broken and was set to be unlocked until they fixed the key pad.
.:Grounds:.
Poor landscaping and upkeep - I view it as poor. The front of the development was ok, but when it got to the complex i was at, the front yard was a big mud pit. Overgrown shrubs, holes in the sidewalks, and rusted out and noisy AC units in the front yard. They also tore out and replaced most of the water pipes for the complex so their are construction areas and holes in the road all over the place.
.:Safety:.
poorly lit.
.:Construction:.
The inside of the apt was ok, nothing special. The overall construction of the building was OK. It definitely showed its age (20 years old).
.:Maintenance:.
NON EXISTENT - My heat stopped working about 3 weeks after I moved in. It was a battle until I decided I could live with out heat no more. The first time I had to call in broken furnace it took about 3 calls over a week. The second, time I called countless times and totaled about 14 work orders and it never got fixed. I only lived there for about 4 months, Oct - March, and the heat only worked for 3 weeks. You have a maintenance number that goes to a call center. That call center then pages the on-site maintenance person. Most of the time they couldn't get the maintenance until the next day or later. The only solution to fixing the broken heat is to give you a little space heater and then taking it back, knowing that your heat is still broken about a week later.
The maintenance people enter your apt with out you knowing it or giving you a little note that they were there.
Besides the heating issues, i also was fortunate to have 2 or 3 outlets that spark when you plug in your vacuum or light or what-have-you. Serious, fire hazard in my opinion.
.:Staff:.
Not helpful at all. Sure, when you are going to give them money they are nice to you, but when you have an issue they ignore you or ooze attitude. Multiple emails to the corporate office also "fell into the spam folder". I don't like my cry for help being ignored by everyone.
.:Overall:.
Ok I will admit, my perspective is a little skewed. I lived there and things didn't go well, so naturally my review is on the negative side. I will also admit that i read all the reviews and ignored the warnings. I figured, how bad could it be' Trust me, It can be your worst nightmare! I couldn't take not having heat in the dead of winter and them not fixing it, so i decided that i would break my lease early. In retrospect i should have just dealt with it.
I had a 12 month lease. They called me early and asked if i would move in 2 days early, no charge, to help them meet a quota. I did. They screwed me with no heat, so i put my 60 days notice in, about 3 months in. They charged me for rent up to the move out day. They also charged me for breaking my lease, about $1700, and remember the 2 free days i got in exchange for helping them out' Yep, they tacked that charge on too. I went through the walk-through and had no damages, handed over my keys. The rent was all paid up but i didn't do the 1700 for breaking the lease right then and there. I was going to wait for my security deposit first. Next week, i get a letter from them saying that i have to pay $7000 for the remainder of the lease in addition to everything else.
long typing short....
$10,000 to live in an apt for 3 months, where the majority of the time the heat was broken.
That's the story, as best as i can remember.
BEWARE....or pray to God you don't have anything go wrong.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 03/27/2009
No judge would make you pay that money after having only 3 weeks of heat in the winter. Get a lawyer, take them to court and sue for legal fees as well.
From: Anonymous	Date: 03/28/2009
I agree...You are an idiot if you don't fight them on it. Get documentation. Ask to office for the work orders you put in for the heat, get your phone bill and hgihlight when you called, get witnesses, etc. Unless you are exagerating about the "no heat for 3 weeks" you wont have to pay....
From: Anonymous	Date: 05/15/2009
I remember when those were kind of ritzy apts - how quickly they declined into a DUMP!

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