Perkins Place

 

Oh, where to start...well, here's a good place to begin.

Unless you plan to do any required maintenance in your home yourself, you're in for the wait of a lifetime!!! Here's my experiences with Perkins Place....buckle your seatbelt!

My husband and I moved into Perkins Place in mid July of 2007.

Prior to moving in we met with the current office manager who is here now.

We were delighted at that time to hear of the MANY repairs and updates that would be taking place prior to our moving in.

The day we finally took possession of our apartment, little to no updates had been done, and there was a very LONG-LONG-LONG list of repairs still needing to be completed.

In addition, the walls were still wet as they had been painted just prior to our arrival.

This matter caused unexpected damage to several pieces of furniture and some clothing items as you might well imagine.

We immediately took note of other issues that we believed should have been addressed prior to any tenant moving in.

Perhaps the most important of these being that all the windows in our apartment (there are 9 of them) had screens with holes in them, or no screens at all.

One window frame in our bedroom was so badly damaged that the window couldn't even be opened as part of the frame fell from the second floor upon trying to do same.

We filled out our move-in inspection sheet and returned it the the office within a few days of moving in.

Items on the list included but were not limited to, a door with broken hinges; unfinished installation of kitchen counters; doors and walls that were filthy and had never been painted; filthy window blinds in every window; a faulty clothes dryer that was requiring more than 70 minutes to dry as little as one item; and the list goes on.

Over the course of 14 months, it was a constant fight to get only some of the items on our list repaired, most had never been addressed at all.

Those that had been addressed were only given attention after constant nagging to the office manager about the lack of service on maintenance requests.

One issue that really bothered us was that shortly after moving in we noticed a foul odor in the area of our bedroom closet that strongly resembled that of cat urine.

It was later discovered (when it began falling apart) that the bottom of our closet door had been the target of a cat's urine stream.

It took more than one year, YES I SAID MORE THAN AN ENTIRE YEAR, before this issue was addressed.

How was it addressed' I'm glad you asked.....the door was removed, painted and put back!!!! You heard right, they put the same urine damaged door right back in my bedroom.

How's that for service''' Heaven forbid you should have pets in your home.

You will NEVER get any maintenance requests handled.

You know, the same pets that Perkins Place charges their own rent to live there.

Yes, the same pets that have every right to be in your apartment 24/7.

We once received a notice on our door advising us that the office had sent an exterminator to our apartment, but couldn't get in because the dogs were there unattended.

It should interest you to know that the note was dated for the NEXT day.

On another occasion I was told by the office manager (the same one who is employed there to this date) that the exterminator was unable to get into my apartment because my "dogs wouldn't let them in." Imagine the surprise reaction by the office manager when I stopped her dead in her tracks and called her a liar, as both my dogs were with me in my car and riding back home from a three day out of town trip.

Talk about tripping all over your own tounge!!! We have now been residence of Perkins Place for 16 months and to this day, there is still a list of unresolved maintenance issues dating back to the day we moved in.

These concerns have gone completely ignored and unanswered even as I have begun as of 9/4/08 making all my requests, no matter how small, in writing directly to The Time Group.

Although I've sent to date a total of 3 letters by Registered Mail with a signature required, and asked for someone from the Time Group to contact me personally, this has STILL never been done.

Another interesting bit of information is that each and every year you reside at Perkins Place, the rent increases.

As a new leasee, you pay the lowest price to move in but will continue to pay a surprisingly high rent increase with each passing lease renewal.

Let's end with one more "lie" we were told upon moving in.

The office manager assured us that the pool located in the community across the street, was utilized by Perkins Place residence for a low fee of $5 per person, per year.

Imagine our surprise this past summer when we learned that the cost to use this pool (the same one the office manager lied about) was $5 per person, per day!!!! When I addressed this issue with the manager, her response was the one I expected..."Oh, I don't remember telling you that." All in all, Perkins Place is a complete joke.

You'll be promised the world until the day you sign a lease.

After that, all they are concerned with is getting that rent check every month.

Current residence are of no concern to Perkins Place or The Time Group once you've moved in.

It's probable that I will be leaving this pathetic environment within the next 6 months.

In closing, RUN-RUN-RUN.....find another place to consider and don't even bother to stop by here.

(Although there is an extensive list of other problems and concerns we've encountered during our stay at Perkins Place, I'd be here forever if I attempted to tell you about each and every one of them.)

Last updated: 11/11/2008

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