I've been at Blair Plaza for almost six months, and I've already started looking for another apartment,in anticipation of my lease running out. It would be a great apartment to live in- the staff at the front desk is friendly, the security is good, Giant is across the parking lot, the metro is extremely close, and maintenance requests are handled immediately. One minor issue is the noise of the reconstruction of the company's parking garage across the parking lot, and apparently the windows are very thin, because we could hear the little bells the Salvation Army volunteers ring outside of Giant, from across the parking lot and up 10 floors, all day, everyday. The problem with these apartments are the roaches. The apartment was infested with German cockroaches (I did my own research trying to figure out how to get rid of them, and found that if you don't get rid of these, 2 alone can make 400,000 in one year) when I moved in. They were all through the apartment. Of course, when we looked at the apartments, we were shown one that showed no signs to them. We set off bug bombs in every single room, and it seemed to work...for a little while. Soon the roaches felt comfortable to show up in the kitchen again...in drawers, cupboards, counters, running across the floors. We had the place treated for them repeatedly (thank God that was free), until we got a memo saying there had been so many complaints that they were treating the entire building. I'm not sure what the pest people did, but the roaches stayed. I contacted the manager and was told the roaches were being taken care of. Three weeks later, the problem still existed. I attempted to contact the manager again to determine the progress...I still haven't gotten a response, over a month later...oh yeah, and the roaches are still there. I understand these things happen in apartment buildings, but I am disappointed with the handling, and am disgusted with the situation.

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From: brwneyez222	Date: 08/24/2005
Hey, I used to live at Berkshire and they had roaches and FYI, roaches survived the nuclear holacost (spelling), they aren't going anywhere. Roaches double, they stay they don't leave. Soemthing you can try is Boric-Acid, keep away from pets and children because it's LETHAL, but it'll keep those nasty things away. I broke my lease bc I just couldn't fatham living with roaches. They are SICKENING and even ask the Orkin man, once they're there, they aren't going ANYWHERE!!

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