We spent a year there. We thought it was pretty nice, for an apartment, when we moved in, playground out our back door for the kids, decent size, etc. We moved in around early September. Our air conditioning didn't work, our freezer didn't work, and our laundry doors were missing.
They fixed the freezer the day after we moved in, but the air conditioning was a different story. They refilled the freon in the unit...within about 2 days, it wasn't working again. So, after maintenance looked at it, he said it must have a freon leak. So, he said they could just keep refilling it. Um....isn't a freon leak BAD' So, there's one issue.

Never got laundry doors.

My car got vandalized in late August and around the same time my boyfriend got laid off from his job. So, I used part of our rent money to get the car fixed. I explained this to them, told them we would make it up as quickly as possible.
Well, we ended up getting an eviction notice in Sept. We had been talking to the seemingly friendly manager in the office, and she said all was well as long as we paid quickly. So, we came up with all of the money as quickly as possible, called the office, told them we were on our way to go get the rest of the money and come back immediately to pay. They said ok. When we got back, 45 minutes later, there was a bailiff and two women throwing all of our (and our 3 children's) belongings in the mud behind our apartment. They had been waiting for us to leave to go get the money to pay rent. Not only would they not stop ripping our photos off the wall, even though we had the full amount due, they were breaking our dishes, my daughter's 'treasures' and tearing pictures in half that my kids had painted.

They wouldn't stop doing that until the office told them to stop, so after I called the office, I was told "well, oops. Guess there was some mis-communication. Um....I guess bring the payment up here.". She would not tell them to stop until she had the money in hand, which meant another 20 minutes of our belongings being thrown out our door with no care at all.

My daughter's glass figurines her grandmother bought her on her first birthday: smashed (it was placed on the lawn, then a bed was placed on TOP of it)

all of the pictures my kids painted me for Mother's Day: torn in half

my grandmother's dishes and wine carafe (also antiques): thrown in a box, then thrown on the lawn and smashed...except for one.

my daughter's lavender comforter: in a mud puddle UNDER a dresser.....about 6 feet away from the bed it had been on.

I've read the reviews that said management there is kind and caring. That is a crock. We had made every rent payment until we fell on hard times. We were also told that we would NOT be evicted, because we were paying the rent. We were lied to, and even worse had our belongings obviously destroyed. Plus, all of the dishes and glass they broke was close to a play area. I have no clue how many kids ended up with huge jagged pieces of glass in their bare feet, because we ended up moving, thank God.


The only good thing that came out of that whole mess was that they FINALLY fixed our air conditioner. And I think they felt guilty for all the grief they caused and gave us back our ENTIRE security deposit.

We had a few other bad experiences there, our water heater leaking everywhere and then the resulting mildew and mold problem the remainder of our stay because they failed to properly clean the mess up. And a couple others, but this is long enough already.

I do NOT recommend moving there, unless you are desperate. I know a few other people that live there now, or have lived there, and they have had some pretty bad experiences with the staff there and other things. Although, I hear now that Cathy is out of the office it's a little bit better.

Parking is ok - as long as nobody has company over. In which case, plan on a walk.
Noise level depends on your neighbors. The office never really took care of ANY noise level problems.....or the parties where people vomited over the balcony above us.
Grounds are ok. Pretty well-kept.

User Responses
From: LadyFoxy	Date: 12/19/2006
My congradulations to the writter of this wonderfull peice of Fiction, I feel certain that some kind of award should be sent to her for this creative story. I have live here for 5 years and my apartment also faces the playground. Never in all the time I have been here have I ever seen anyones belongings put outside.

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