We got sucked into living here because we needed to move fast and it looked nice from the outside... don't be fooled! We quickly learned it wasn't all it appeared... We were told they were trying to rent to a higher quality of people, yet over the past 2 1/2 years, we've seen them continue to rent to loud teenagers and other loud tenants...

Parents let their children run all over the complex, through parking lots, in front of cars, through the street... Parent's aren't supposed to let their kids play alone in the playground, but there are always a dozen or more kids there when the weather is good with not one single parent in sight! Management does nothing to enforce this rule. I can't count the number of times I've been driving SLOWLY through the parking lot/up the street and kids dart out infront of my car on bikes, scooters, on foot... scary...

As far as this being a "family place", sure, there are lots of parents and children here... However, this should give you some insight into the "type" of families they are... Down at the "family picnic area", parents park their cars down there in the spring/summer/fall with cases of beer in plain view on the picnic tables, they smoke and drink and get obnoxiously loud, even though the picnic area is right next to the playground where young children play... Needless to say, we don't go down there or let our little one play at the playground... I have no interest in myself or my family having to breath in second hand smoke and having to hear the drunken ramblings of the "parents" at the playground... Give me a break... it's a playground, not a bar...

Our neighbors are loud and stomp up the stairs and the walls are paper thin so we can hear everything from the hall... Neighbors in a building across from us are dealing drugs I think... there are at least a dozen teenagers in and out of 2 apartments over there at all hours... Tenants have voiced MANY complaints over the past 7 months, yet they've only been "talked to" by management once and they still continue to peel out repeatedly down the road and blare their horns outside... I can't even count the number of times they've woken me or our daughter up in the middle of the night. When we voiced complaints about them at the end of June, we were told they were being evicted. NH has a 6-month rule, meaning tenants have 6 months from the time they're handed an eviction notice till the time they have to move out. 6 months have come and gone and they're still here. Management was just spoon-feeding us cr*p to try to make us "happy". NOT happy... (EDIT NOTE: it's now May... these problem tenants are still living here... cops have been to their apartment at least a dozen times in the past month, and half of those times have taken them away in handcuffs!!! In April two men from these problem apartments were beating the cr*p out of each other in the street in the middle of the afternoon; the cops were called - I do NOT need my child to look out of our window and see that.)


There are too many apartments for the number of maintenance people they have working here. One of the maintenance men is really kind, one tries to be kind, and the rest are just jerks. No matter how polite I am to them, they don't bother to try to be polite in return... And if you ever have a problem, don't hold your breath until it gets fixed... The doors to our building are SUPPOSED to have controlled access... Doors on both the middle and side of the building have been broken since at least Christmas (I'm editing this review now... it's May). The middle door was being "fixed" a few weeks back but instead of fixing it, they just broke it permanently, so anyone can walk right in, they don't even have to buzz. I do NOT feel safe. The side door only opens when someone buzzes in if it's yanked really hard, which causes the entire side of the building to shake violently. This happened one night when I was in bed, and I thought a bomb had gone off outside because that's how much the side of the building shook. There's a light bulb blown in one of the lights that's in our parking lot... it's been blown for close to a year... notifed management... still out... It's not THAT difficult to change a light bulb, is it' Between the poorly lit parking lot and our problem neighbors, you can imagine how unsafe it feels walking to and from the parking lot after dark...

The laundry room is a joke - we don't even use it anymore. The dryers don't dry just a regular sized load of clothes, they're still very damp when they're "done", so either fork over more $ for another load or hang-dry AFTER "drying" in a dryer... Hmmm...

Parking... the problem neighbors friends park their cars in the TENANT ONLY parking lot over night every single night of the week... Makes it a huge pain for TENANTS, especially when we are carrying huge amounts of groceries or laundry inside... Management does nothing to enforce the tenant only rule overnight for our lot...

Our rent keeps going up and I can't figure out what they're doing with the extra money... NO improvements to our building as promised!!!

I'm sure that there are nice people here like us, but like us, they stay hidden in their apts and the bad tenants have the run of the complex!!!

I could go on but I won't, it's just a nightmare and we can't wait until we can move!!!

User Responses
From: dishman	Date: 09/06/2006
I agree, almost made the mistake of living there. The place turned out to be a dump. The management was very rude and cocky. Too bad for Mr. McGrath the owner of Mayo group, sounds like a nice guy, he probably doesn't know what's reallly going on up here in NH.
From: dimer	Date: 09/16/2006
Actually his name is John McGrail, owner of the Mayo Group with offices in Boston.
From: agholder84	Date: 03/05/2007
I wish I could have read a review like this before moving into the Hole we call Woodland Heights.
From: evil_ol_man	Date: 02/22/2008
Anyone besides me have the guts to start a class action against these slum lords?
From: evil_ol_man	Date: 02/22/2008
Anyone besides me have the guts to start a class action against these slum lords?

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