The Oak Grove Apartment Hotel will slowly wear you down.

There are two elevators. The passenger elevator frequently breaks, but when you try to use the manually-operated freight elevator the building's maintenance and caretaking staff guard it with a militant fervor - locking it out, telling people to walk the stairs, or complaining and berating anyone else. The elevator situation is the worst I've ever encountered. Several people I know have been trapped inside the passenger one when it broke down - one was there for several hours in sweltering heat.

The staff is mean, angry, and abusive. They talk about the tenants and share personal information from the leasing files (which ought to be private) with each other and with neighbors. They talk back to tenants when any issue is raised and they gawk and mutter when people walk through the lobby. Living there felt more like navigating a prison yard than a residence.

The place smells like dog pee and feces. Dog owners don't pick up after their pets. The dogs piss in the elevators, stairwells and hallways. It's a disaster.

Parking . . . even when you have paid for a parking spot, if you come home later than 8 PM, you'll most likely not find a place available. I think they've oversold the parking in order to make more money and those of us unlucky enough to complain are told that we're lucky to have a parking pass at all. My car was towed from the auxiliary parking area behind the building at a cost of $250.

The residents. Some of them are nice enough, average people, but many of the residents are scary. There are drug dealers and ex-cons throughout the building. I've seen drunks and drug addicts passed out in the hallways, lobby, and front entrance. Some of them live in the building and some don't.

Security. The place has a medico keyed entry with a call box, but there seems to be no end of unsavory people gaining entrance despite these measures. The staff doesn't care and I didn't feel safe in the building. qmzu4EHcaGAPVCPw2Fai

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 12/12/2007
Why did you live there so long??? Seven years is a long time to be miserable!

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