I moved here about 1.5 years ago. I renewed my lease for 6 months because I was getting ready to purchase a home. We found a home and will be moving in about 3 weeks.

Where to start with my complaints'

The first problem we noticed upon moving in was that the ceiling and floor were VERY "thin". I could hear the tenants upstairs going to the bathroom, walking, talking, playing music. I could have written a journal on their lives...when they fought when they had sex how often they urinated. Great qualities if you intend on studying the human animal but not one for a place to call home. I can't count the number of times my 4 year old woke up and came to tell me that the "people upstairs are keeping me awake daddy".

The same goes, to a lessor extent, for the neighbors downstairs. Obviously you don't have all the walking sounds but I could certainly hear their music way more often that I would have liked.

One day I'm taking a shower and washing my face. I finish washing the soap off my face and open my eyes and realize that I'm being showered by brown water. BROWN. So I call the main office where I am told that I should call the water company. So I call the water company and they tell me that they don't know anything about it and that I should deal with the leasing office. I call them back and they say they are going to flush the fire hydrants because there is built up rust. MONTHS and MONTHS of brown water..I have the pictures to prove it... is just disgusting. This is my drinking water...bathing water. They never did do anything to remedy the water problem other than flushing the hydrants once in a while. I had the water company come and test it on two occasions but test results were negative for bacteria. They believe the old water pipes have a build up of rust and the apartment complex should have fixed it some time ago.

Someone else made a comment about parking. They were on the money. If you arrive home later than 8pm, good luck finding a spot.

The outside is well cared for but when do they start mowing the lawn outside your window' 7am. Some of us don't work 9-5 and are trying to get rest at that hour. The office is uncaring.

Leasing office staff is just plain rude and uncooperative. I had a situation today where I opened the door to leave for work and there was a notice saying they had to enter my apartment to measure the counter top for replacement. I have no problem with this but the letter was dated 6/30/03 and said they would enter the apartment today 7/1/03. But the letter was NOT delivered yesterday, giving us 24 hours notice, it was delivered TODAY. So I called and refused entry until they can give me sufficient notice and they sent another letter reminding us that they can enter the apartment with 24 hours notice. Basically lying about the delivery of the first letter. Things like this seem minor but are very irritating. I wouldn't let them enter as we were using the counter to sort things for packing and I don't want them to get comfortable dropping off letters any given day to enter the apartment now that we are preparing to leave.

Another poster mentioned that they pay rent on time and don't cause trouble and maybe that is why they had such a good experience and I would like to state that my rent is paid on-time and usually early. We don't cause trouble, we don't bother anyone we just live in our apartment. I paid rent late once in the 1.5 years I lived there because I ran out of checks....it happens. I paid my fee on top of the rent and went on...this is by no means the reason for my problems.

About 4 months after we moved in a couple with some children moved into the bottom floor apartment in the building next to ours. The woman who lives there apparently runs some kind of day-care or at least it appears that way. Its not uncommon to see her supervising 5-10 kids while they yell and scream and use foul langage towards other tenants as well as hit balls (with a bat) into the parking lot.

The rent is about average for a 2 bedroom apartment 850/mo on a 1 year lease but by no means is it worth the hassle if you move here.

I do have one positive note and that is the maintinance. After doing our weekly shopping we realized (at 12am) that our refridgerator died. We called maintinance and they replaced it within an hour. I've had a bad run in with other maintinance people:

Like the time the dumpster was full and I placed my trash bag next to it and was yelled at by someone from maintinance: "THE TRASH GOES IN THE DUMPSTER!"...well duh moron. And then there was the guy that used to sing to himself as he worked about killing people.

But for the most part the maintinance has been great fixing any problems we have quickly.

Overall this place stinks...thats about the nicest thing I can say about canterbury apartments. A lot of lower income families with thier scummy little kids running around make bringing my son to the playground not an option.

His mother brought him there once while a woman in her bathrobe (3pm) came outside and screamed at her kid who was playin "GET YOUR F-ING A-- IN THIS F----ING HOUSE NOW"...great thanks for teaching my son new words.

Ammenities' None-existant. You have a pool and a basketball court where kids hang out to smoke. Thats it.
I guess I"ve gone on a bit here but I think its important to let anyone else looking at renting here a heads up on what this place really has going for it...nothing. Look elsewhere.

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