I could go into minute detail about all the problems we have had, but it's not worth the time and effort. We were treated horribly, we lived in VERY poor conditions
(formica peeling off countertops, carpet laid over rock hard items, fiber board in bathrooms has a horrific odor and was swelled up, drawers stapled with a staple gun multiple times and would fall apart when you opened them, chipped mirrors, rusty light fixtures, mildew that's been painted over in areas that have high moisture, non working appliances and then huge gouges in our laminate floor from maintenace removing said non working appliances, rusty hinges on cabinets, holes that have had enormous amounts of spackle put on them and then painted over and over again which results in chunks coming off the wall! Way more, but off the top of my head..) and we ran as fast as we could as soon as our lease was up. The apartments are GROSS, if you want to lease here, do a walk thru of the actual unit, not the model because if not, you are in for a rude awakening. When you move out, don't expect any deposit back and don't bust you butt cleaning it because they will charge you for things that are immaculate. They charged us for "box removal!" They took our neighbors personal property (2 boxes set right outside her rented storage, not near our door) and then CHARGED us for "removing them" When confronted with the fact that they stole someone else's belongings, we were called liars. They didn't care that now our old neighbor is missing her personal belongings. All in all, this place is the most horrible place I have ever lived. I can deal with a lot, but I can't handle being lied to and living in a place that is downright dangerous for lack of maintenance!!!

You will find a "review" below by the lovely management at La Paloma. Number one, no resident was ever in my home, so the reference to "inside and out" says it all. The apartments were just too tiny to entertain in, so we all sat outside and talked. Number two, the misspellings. We always got these lovely "memos" from ------, the manager, that always made us laugh. I am not sure if she doesn't know how to use spell check, or what. My guess is that even when spell check changes a word for her, she's so confident that IT is wrong and SHE is right, that she ignores the recommendation. Furthermore, my children are trained well in keeping up after themselves. It's a very strict rule we have, however, there were always at least TEN children hanging around the outside of our home, if not more. Ten was the minimum amount. I would find snack wrappers and coke cans stuffed in bushes after they would play. Snacks and beverages we didn't ever buy, let alone allow our children to leave outside. They would have been disciplined for such behaviour. One little girl was a latch key child, and two others had much older parents, so they were always at our home (let's not talk about the condition of THOSE apartments which we DID see into...) The two children across the way would climb the small trees, break branches, mess with OUR screens, as in try to take them off and nothing was ever done about it, so I am a little peeved that *anything* is being said about the condition of MY apartment on the outside when management did absolutely nothing about the reckless children running around tearing things up. It sickens me that the home with more than the average two children is automatically to blame for those things. We were the ONLY house that did not allow our children to play without parental supervision in the whole entire complex. We run a tight ship with our "too many children" and do not put up with rowdy and reckless behavior. Nor do we live in any sort of comprising health or safety conditions. Our children are taught from a young age to complete chores, pick up after themselves and take care of the things they have been blessed with. The apartment was a tight fit for us, and therefore our belongings crowded the small living space, but we knew it was only for a year. We were looking for a place to relax, take one year off from house repairs, yard maintenance...someplace that had a little green to it, like back home. And the previous management welcomed us with open arms and a friendly smile, nothing like the scowling, "I don't know what to tell you, I just work here" attitude that now encompasses La Paloma. We never intended to live there past a year, so the "this person got kicked out" crap is actually kind of funny. You were never in my home ------, except on one occasion for an inspection and you know my house was immaculate, unless you consider children themselves to be "bad living conditions..." but after having dealt with you, that wouldn't surprise me in the least. Good luck with the massive vacanies you now have, and good luck disputing all the crappy reviews you have here that reiterate everything I have said.

(**I AM NOT THE SAME PERSON WHO WROTE THE OTHER REVIEWS. IT DOESN'T TAKE THAT LONG TO TYPE A REVIEW, AND WHEN REPLIES ARE MADE YOU GET EMAIL NOTIFICATION, SO PLEASE NO WORRIES THAT I AM JUST SITTING HERE HITTING REFRESH TO SEE IF ANYONE REPLIES. IT'S A SIMPLE MATTER OF CHECKING MY EMAIL, WHICH EVERYONE USUALLY DOES DAILY. AS FAR AS SPENDING TIME WITH MY CHILDREN, I AM NOT SURE HOW BEING ABLE TO CHECK EMAIL EQUATES TO NOT CARING FOR MY CHILDREN. THIS WAS THE MOST HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE I HAVE HAD LIVING SOMEWHERE AND THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS ENTIRE WEBSITE IS TO SHARE THAT EXPERIENCE, SO TO CHASTISE SOMEONE FOR USING THIS REVIEW SITE FOR ITS VERY OBVIOUS INTENTION IS RATHER IGNORNANT**)

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 09/18/2008
This review was submitted by a person who was actually had too many children to live in the apartment and was not allowed to renew based on the living conditions in that apartment. The apartment (both inside and out) was an embarrassment to those of us who actually live here and remain living here as the complex is beautiful. Call the office for referral information if you really are scared by rediculous accusations by someone who was not allowed to renew.
From: LaPalomaSucks	Date: 10/01/2008
Read the reply to my review again, and recognized ------'s (the property manager) trademark misspellings.So much for a "resident review." We are a family of above average financial means. We did not move to an apartment for lack of resources. We had just lost our son and had a failed foster experience. We just wanted a break from the big house, the big yard and the long drive from RR (our previous rental) We faced a lot of retaliation from management (as you can see above) when a repair needed turned into a call to management from Housing Code Enforcement because we had to take it THAT far to get a fire hazard in our apartment taken care of. ------ has superiority issues, and does not take kindly to being reminded of how incompetent she is in her position. We did ask if the management changed policies about children because we were pretty sure they did, and if so, our PLANNED move was paid for. If we moved just on our own accord, it was on our dime, not corporate so we did ask, though we did not intend to stay. When it was confirmed we were very grateful, it wasn't a situation where we wanted to stay. We moved into an upscale neighborhood, more within our financial means and were glad to do so. The exterior of our apartment always had children around because we were the one home in the complex that welcomed children. We had several issues with two sets of neighboring children, as sweet as they were, leaving snack wrappers and what not outside, but got no help from management in resolving those issues either. Ironically, the one household that actually kept on top of their children's behavior was the one blamed for the messes the other children in the neigborhood (who's parents often left them home alone!!) made. Lovely how the "big family equals big mess" cliche was used here, and even more ironic that the "inside" was mentioned though no other adult resident was ever in my home. We all visited on the green, the stairs and the pool. If you want to play the "nasty house" card and think it holds any weight due to the number of children in a home, you'll have to do that elsewhere because I am an obsessive housekeeper, who has successfully battled severe OCD about germs, and things in a certain order, so if anyone EVER saw my house "messy" I consider that an immense success. Toys on the floor is not even in the same league as filth, and one thing you will not find in my house is filth. La Paloma is not creme de la creme, so get off your high horse. Our across neighbor was breaking her lease and trying to get a hold of the complex owners to report you, ------, the upstairs neighbor deserted her apartment and left it trashed (as per Lambert, the head maintenance man's report when we asked) and the caddy corner neighbor had WAY more than the allowed number of people in their unit, with tacky sheets up for curtains. The two downstairs neighbors in the adjacent building left, leaving those vacant, and upstairs you had two children who shouted obscenities out at the adults, had huge motorized toys on the porch and tore up the landscaping outside (oh yeah, I forgot, must of been the house with five children right?? Not the houses with absentee parents whose children ran amuck all over the complex!!) You run a slum. Blame it on me, I really don't care, because you know the truth and that is that you collect money from your tenants with the promise of a safe and healthy environment in which to live. You don't deliver on that promise and one day, someone is going to be seriously injured at YOUR expense, for whatever motivation it is you have to do your job so haphazardly and then maybe you'll stop and ask yourself if it was worth it to be "right" all the time. Maybe you'll ask yourself what is SO BAD about tenants who want repairs made, who want the pool and child area to be free from drug paraphernalia, who would like to be treated with some respect and courtesy. Your review really did upset me, but then I realized who I was getting upset about. Everyone in that place despises YOU, by name. Not just "the management" but YOUR NAME, comes up. That would seriously make me fear for my own personal safety, but to each his own. I looked over the referral given to my current landlord by our previous (competent) property managers and their glowing review of the condition of our home, with every dime given back to us from our deposit tells me all I need to know. And I hope others reading this will take a good long look at the reply above, knowing that this was a professional (and I use that term lightly) property manager who actually got down in the dirt to defend the complex that gets these horrible reviews. Ask yourself ???Is this the person I want to talk to when I need something repaired in my apartment???? This lady is a nasty shrew of a woman, who could care less about anyone else. The tenants in this place are great. We had nothing but a lovely experience with our neighbors (oh yeah, I forgot they hated us LOL) and we also had nothing but nice things to say about the very overloaded maintenance crew. They were always nice, kind and friendly. The sole issue with La Paloma is management, plain and simple.
From: Meg81303	Date: 10/23/2008
I will agree with and confirm everything that was said in this post. We lived at La Paloma during the same time frame and I've also posted a very bad review (Worst decision we ever made...) warning people about how horrible our experience with La Paloma was. You can read my review for yourself if you'd like. If not... then lets just say that when the ceiling in the shower collapses ON TOP of a tenant, covering them in moldy insulation and drywall due to a leak that has obviously been painted over several times, there is something wrong. And when managements response to something like that is telling the tenant to put in a maintenance request and they'll "get to it when they have a chance" something is seriously wrong. And then when the the maintenance request is lost over and over again and it takes them almost 3 months and constant reminders from the tenant to fianlly fix the GIANT hole in the bathroom ceiling... you're lucky we just decided to move out and be done with it. The way that place is run is a joke. Don't believe anything that management says. They'll look you straight in the eye and lie to you. After all, how can someone who can't even be trusted to put in a simple maintenance request (after she looks you in the eye and promises that she'll take care of it herself... which never happened)be qualified to run an apartment complex?
From: Anonymous	Date: 10/24/2008
OMG, it seems to me that you people have nothing better to do than to read through reviews of apartments!! If you dont live here anymore what does it matter?? I'm not saying that these things did not happen to you or that you feel very strongly about your experience but give me a break. There are more important things going on in the world than to just sit at your computer and complain. To the past resident with many childern stop sitting at the computer and spend that time with your kids!!
From: jenski8888	Date: 10/24/2008
I just figured out that jiltedtenant and meg81303 are the same people... or maybe different people from the same family that had to many kids to live in their apartment hahahaha read their seperate reveiws, same people hahaha! and they are responding to each others reveiws like they are different people! hahaha

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