This place appears nice and the staff is friendly but these apartments are awful. The cops were outside my apartment 3 times in one month. Had a police chase through the stairwell and the apartment staff had no clue about the incident. I am a single white female and feel extremely unsafe. I've even had a peeping Tom and security did nothing about it. It took the maintenance staff over 2 months to change the security light outside my door, nearly all security lights are burnt out and never get fixed. The parking lots are hardly lit. Don't let the seemingly safe atmosphere fool you, it certainly fooled me.

User Responses
From: onlyinAmerica	Date: 11/24/2009
DEAR BENOLYN: THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP ON THE SECURITY ISSUES AT BROOKSIDE. ALTHOUGH I WILL KEEP YOUR COMMENTS IN MIND WHEN I SUBMIT MY APPLICATION, I FEEL THAT REFERRING TO YOURSELF AS A SINGLE "WHITE" FEMALE WAS TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE. IF YOU BELIEVE YOU ARE MORE PRONE TO BEING A VICTIM OF CRIME THAN ANY OTHER RACE, YOU'RE SADLY MISTAKEN. WHEN YOUR APPLICATION WAS SUBMITTED, WERE YOU ADVISED THAT YOU WOULD BE IN ANY MORE DANGER LIVING THERE THAN ANY OTHER FEMALE? (JUST ASKING). AS A SINGLE "BLACK" FEMALE, OVER 60 YEARS OF AGE, STATISTICALLY, I AM MORE LIKELY TO BE A VICTIM OF RANDOM CRIMINAL ACTS THAN YOU EVER WOULD BE, BECAUSE CRIMINALS BELIEVE I AM MORE VUNERABLE, LESS LIKELY TO FIGHT BACK, OR EVEN LESS LIKELY TO REPORT A CRIME. ADD TO THIS THE FACT THAT CRIMINALS HAVE TO LIVE SOMEWHERE. AND, CONVERESLY, THE CHEAPER THE RENT, THE MORE PROBABILITY YOU HAVE OF SHARING A HALLWAY, STAIRWAY, LAUNDRYROOM, OR PARKING LOT WITH A CONVICTED (OR OPPORTUNISTIC WANNA-BE) CRIMINAL. YOUR CAR IS MOST LIKELY TO BE STOLEN OR VANDALIZED, YOUR APARTMENT IS MOST LIKELY TO BE BROKEN INTO, AND YOU ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE ASSAULTED, RAPED, OR MURDERED BY SOMEONE LIVING IN THE SAME COMMUNITY. IF YOU CAN LIVE THERE, SO CAN SOMEONE WITH A CRIMINAL HISTORY (EVEN THOUGH MANAGEMENT CLAIMS THEY RUN CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS. MOST OFTEN ALL THAT MEANS IS THAT MANAGEMENT KNOWS WHAT THE CRIMINAL HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF). IF THEY HAVE ADEQUATE INCOME, OR A CO-SIGNER, THEY CAN END UP BEING YOUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR. IN TODAY'S SOCIETY, DILIGENCE IS THE KEY. IT NO LONGER MATTERS WHERE YOU LIVE, WHAT RACE OR GENDER YOU ARE, OR HOW MUCH YOUR RENT IS. IF WE'RE NOT CAREFUL, YOU, AND I, WILL BE VICTIMS. PLEASE DROP ME A LINE WHEN YOU FIND THAT "SAFE" PLACE TO CALL HOME.

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