I wound up at N.L. because of job transfer and needed something at short notice. Unfortunately the only place that had an availablilty was N.L. You certainly get what you pay for: 17-yr old buildings and no frills. The walls and floors are paper-thin. You can hear everything going on around and above you. My washer sounds like it's going to take off when it runs and they won't replace it because it still "works". There have been several dryer fires in the complex as well because they don't clean the vents. They hadn't even painted my apartment before I moved in, just touch up the marks on the walls. The carpet was new, but it is very cheap. The bathtub is rusting out and water has gotten behind the walls and rotted the drywall behind the tiles. (Yes, drywall, not greenboard.) The toilet rocks because the waste-stem is broken. Many dog owners let their dogs do their business close to the buildings and don't clean up after them. There is plenty of space at the edge of the property to walk dogs.

Swallows nest all over the place and you get bird-droppings all over you car. Squirrels are everywhere too. Cars are rusting away in the parking lot. They have a towing service that would just come and tow your car at 11pm on Friday if you didn't have a sticker or visitor's tag. After last year's blizzard it took them nearly a week to bring in a bobcat to clear the snow. The dumpsters were over-flowing because the truck couldn't get in to empty them.

The management is the worst I've ever seen. No one on staff is very bright, educated or gracious by any means. After the 5th of each month they post a sign over the drop-slot that say's "YOUR RENT IS LATE AND IT MUST BE IN THE FORM OF A MONEY ORDER!!" All notices are posted in all-caps with 2nd grade grammar.

Everyone I know has ants in their apartment. At first they didn't offer pest control but after MD passed the law that required landlords to provide pest control they now come through once a month.

The maintenance staff is nice but always understaffed - they can't keep maintenance people.

Groundskeepers come through about every-other-week. Fallen trees are left for months at a time before being chopped up and tossed over the banks at the edge of the property to rot.

My advice, keep looking. Maybe when even more apartments sit vacant for months at a time Northlake will get the hint, but I doubt it - they just don't care.

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