My wife and I moved into Aspen Lakes thinking we were going to be living in one of the premiere apartments in Lansing. The only thing premiere about Aspen Lakes is the price ($1,350 / month for a three bedroom). The apartment building we moved into was brand new, we were the first tenants in the apartment. From day one, the maintenance staff was rude. The entry door had a bathroom type handle on it so you didn't need a key to get in, just a paper clip. When I called maintenance they said that was impossible that that type of handle was installed. The same week we moved in, another couple moved in above us. Because the apartment was a larger footprint than the one above, we ended up with two different tenants above us. The couple that moved in the same weekend was so loud we thought they were playing basketball. The apartment of the other tenant was situated in such a way that the kitchen was above our MASTER bedroom. Not good when the tenant is a night owl and wears hard soled shoes on the hard kitchen floor. Needless to say, we were glad when the tenant went out of town because that was the only time that we had a chance to get a full nights sleep. We have two children, three years and an infant. By the time we moved out, our older child was so scared of sleeping in her room because of the noise. We mentioned the noise problems to management and they said that could not be as no one else had complained and that we were in a brand new building. Next we encountered a leak from above apartment that never was correctly addressed. The maintenance guy kept telling us that it would be correct, it did finally dry up but the ceiling remained stained for the duration of our stay.

The final straw, was the furnace that malfunctioned. It spewed black soot throughout the apartment and then the maintenance guy tried to tell us that the candle that my wife burned caused the soot. Come to find out the filter was never changed causing the furnace to burn rich.

The only nice thing that they did was let us out of the lease early because of the numerous problems that we had.

This is an overpriced apartment complex that I would not recommend.

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