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ROACHES, RATS, and many more pleasantries
From: -Anonymous-Date posted: 12/12/2007
Years at this apartment: 2007-01-01 - 2007-01-01
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I am shocked.
Probably 1 hour ago, I was absolutely horrified to see a mouse/rat/hairy pest bolt across my stove and into the crack before the countertop.
I cannot believe it.
I have lived here for a year in a 2BR and there has been several bad things to happen that prompted me to think of moving.
The fact that the location is unbeatable in combination with fading of the incident into the past has allowed me to stay.
Right now, at this moment, I KNOW that I am moving.
I don't even think I COULD forget how it felt to see a mouse.
I think I held my breath for close to a minute it was soooo disgusting.
I am on this website because not only am I searching for a place by bedroom #, price, location, but by REVIEWS.
I will make a list and if it sounds like something you can deal with, go ahead, but if you have any standard for cleanliness, you won't.
1) sewer backed up...into my bathtub.
Wake sewer came out to fix it.
1 bottle of Bleach to clean.
2) ROACHES ROACHES ROACHES.
big, huge 2 inch ones, much more medium sized ones.
Oh and the complex makes you sign some extermination contract when you move in to prevent you from treating this problem yourself.
I thought it was standard.
So, you report it and they come and "spray" which does nothing.
What killed the roaches was WINTER.
3) Transformer blew out twice and we spent two weekends without power in 1/2 the apt.
Thank goodness for daylight and that the refrigerator was in the powered 1/2.
4) Windows and screens don't fit the frames.
So, welcome "outside"rs.
5) Bathrooms get moldy if they keep any moisture.
Keep window open year round.
Several bottles of Bleach to clean.
6) I have a PGN bill in my hand.
Month of June '07: $137.24, Month of Dec '07: $24.88.
Yup, heat is free because there's big boilers below your apt that feed into radiators all over your house.
Guess what else the radiators do...HOUSE PESTS.
7) Rats.
I just used 1.5 bottles of Bleach to clean every surface in my kitchen.
Just don't do it.
They openly say that they allow 6 month leases becuase they are in talks to sell this land for development.
This was convenient to my life at first (hearing about future school plans, etc), but this is absolutely awful.
They do not/will not invest in this property anymore.
It's just falling apart, slowly but surely.
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| From: jeriwho | Date: 12/13/2007 |
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Be careful with all that bleach. It is toxic, you know. White vinegar is a good cleaner and will harm you a lot less if you breathe its vapors. (But never mix the two. In combination they produce poisonous gas.) The previous owners of Country Club Homes still manage several smaller properties. I believe their number is 787 2599 (Andrew, the owner, and Lucy the Office staff, and Hwai the grounds/maintenance guy). I am renting from them right now, a small townhouse right on Wade. I lived in Country Club Homes for seven years, the first five and a half of which were under the previous managers. They are very good. They are called CCH properties now.
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| From: Anonymous | Date: 12/23/2007 |
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Not to be unsympathetic, but those roaches are known as Palmetto Bugs, despite the best efforts sooner or later you will see some in your kitchen. Roach traps(get the big traps, not the roach motels) and sealing any opening under the kitchen sinks with duct tape can help alot. I dont know where you are from but it's tough sometimes on yankees getting used to the great big ole Palmetto bugs in these parts!
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| From: CM99RENTS | Date: 12/26/2007 |
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I'm sorry you had a mouse run across your stove, I dont dispute this happened, and that it was unpleasant. And perhaps maintenance isnt what you'd like it to be, perhaps everything isnt so nice as you would like it to be - my condolences about that. But can you please tell me what is so bad about the grounds that you rate them a 1 out of 5?! Also what is so unsafe that you rate safety a 1 out of 5 too?! Have you ever been to the projects on N Raleigh Blvd? Admittedly the rent is probably less but if you lived there I think you'd know what feeling unsafe really is like! I believe you are a malcontent to be frank about it. Are you one who moved down here from New York City or its suburbs?(the Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse crew usually arent the complainers like the downstate folk). No matter. Where ever you come from you are a whiner and a complainer.
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| From: Anonymous | Date: 01/13/2008 |
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And you sound like one of the management. Of course Country Club Homes comes out better than the slums! Why not just compare it to living on a street in Iraq? My first five and a half years there, I saw three roaches, total (or Palmetto Bugs, as you like), and two of them popped up during the construction a block away when the entire parking lot and sidewalk of the middle school was torn up, so I knew their environment was all torn up. We used to have exterminators come once every three months and do the cottages inside and out. No more. So the bug population has, indeed, grown. The new management stopped the thorough bug maintenance and only do exteriors now.
Maybe the people who left are whiners and complainers, or maybe the new management is just tight fisted, unkind, and unwilling to maintain the same level of service as the previous management. And maybe you're one of them.
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| From: Anonymous | Date: 01/23/2008 |
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I dont understand why you think it's not possible for a CCHA tenant to give positive statements about living here. Is it your belief money (paid management of the complex in this case) is the only motivation a person can have? If so you are quite cynical. Also why are you saying things are bad in Iraq, according to GW since the surge started it's all peachy keen over there. Anyway though a housing project five miles away and a war zone in the Middle East, now those two dont compare! My point was, how can CCHA rate so poorly in safety as one out of 5? Gimmie a break, how many murders did you see in your tenure like that poor Indian student just killed in a run down Durham apartment complex recently? Also if the grounds well policed for litter, landscaped and mowed on a weekly basis, nice old main courtyard, if that's a 1 out of 5 then I've never seen nice apartment grounds, not by the poster's standard at least. Whoever wrote this article (not sure if it's you or not) while they might have some minor legit gripes, they are going over the top big time and that tends to for me put them in the camp of malcontent not a tenant with valid and reasonable issues to be addressed.
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| From: Anonymous | Date: 03/15/2008 |
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If you can't find parking you must be pushing a boat around. Maintenance has been on the ball since I've been here. All those people walking around all day everyday aren't maintaing this place well enough then you are insane. The only thing they can do extra is waste some water. I'll take the brown grass. If you have rats and roaches... CLEAN YOUR F@#&'n HOME! Last of all if you can't stand it so much then leave! You've been here for a whole year when we only sign 6 month leases.
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| From: Anonymous | Date: 11/28/2009 |
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I do think country clubs homes is a nice place to live, because of the location and inexpensive rent. When I was reading this, I thought- this person must be talking about my apartment. We lived in apartments at Country Club homes and we had a major roach problem in the first and a mouse and rat problem in the second. We have also had lots of plumbing problems, mold in bathroom, etc.
However, I also want to say that the management at Country Clubs homes are really nice and do want to fix things and make the stay pleasant.
I would give the apartment either a 3.5 or 4 out of 5, because, although there were problems, the management tried to fix them and it's a great area to live in and the grounds are beautiful.
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