When we signed the lease I specifically asked if any cats had lived there because I have a severe allergy to them that makes my throat to swell and I weaze when I breath. The person checked and said that no pets were on the lease and when the carpet was pulled up there were no pet stains on the padding. As we were moving in I kept saying that there had been a cat there. I said it all day as we moved in and as the day went on I had to stop helping move because I couldn't breath. The little girl next door was the same age as our daughter and after a couple of days I decided to ask her if she had seen any pets here, not leading her by asking if she'd seen any cats. And of course she answered a cat. They moved out 2 months later and a middle eastern family moved in. They used curry in every meal and I could tell when they were making each meal because I could smell it. Sometimes as early as 6 or 7 a.m. Open the garage and it just smelled horrible. I complained to my husband when we moved out the stuff we'd have to throw away because the smell permiated into some stuff and ruined it. You could also smell it strongly in the master closet because it was directly above our garage and above and next to their kitchen. When new people moved in on the other side of us they thought the smell was from us because they could smell it in their place two units down. The guy only had one speaking tone, screaming. I could tell when he came home because the kids yelling and throwing a ball against the wall stopped in one bedroom. All I heard was screaming. In the master bathroom I could hear whenever someone opened and closed the door to the stand up shower and run the water. I could hear when the males would pee and you could hear the toilet flush. In the winter the upstairs was so cold except in one bedroom. We complained and were told to close the registers downstairs to push the air upstairs, which never worked. My husband and I slept downstairs on the couches and NOT on the floor(I'll get to that). We set up two pack and plays and put our two young children( 6 months and 18 months at time of move in)in them to sleep in for the winter. With that we had to endure the cold air leaking through the huge sliding glass door. The office told us to put up plastic. My thought was for $1000 a month I expected to not have to worry about leaking air in the first place. The neighbor guy talked to my husband but not me. He asked about our back door leaking air and he said he was told the same thing and he told them for $1000 a month someone from maintenance could do it. When it blew hard outside you could hear a whistling and the vertical blinds would move. Water would leak in and settle in the tracks of the sliding glass doors. Then that would freeze. We finally taped up plastic and each winter the plastic would "breath" as the air would fill up a bubble then go back down. Try telling two toddlers to leave the bubble alone all day long. In our unit the sun was out back for most of the day. So when we'd have those warm winter days the back door was covered so we couldn't open the door and have the screen door closed. There are no windows downstairs unless you had an end unit. It would bake downstairs on those days but then freeze again when the sun went down. In the spring we learned that rain flooded the tracks so we just resorted to stuffing a baby towel in the one track and leaving it there. The windows upstairs leaked air. But for some reason the one bedroom stayed hot in the winter and really hot in the summer. Our oldest had the window cracked and a fan running in her room in the winter and two fans in the summer. One regular and a clip on on her bed facing her. The entire upstairs was hot in the summer. We had the air cranked and fans running upstairs just so we could sleep up there. The biggest complaint I had were the spiders. At night downstairs you'd see a spider run across the floor, which is why it took only one time for a spider to run across my "floor bed" to make me never sleep or lay on the floor again. They'd climb onto the couches but not as often. I was more concerned about them climbing on or biting our two youngest. Which was one good thing when it got warmer and we could sleep upstairs because you hardly ever seen them upstairs. They were big and black, red, brown or sometimes clearish but you could tell it was the same kind of spider. My son who is 5 now has a fear of spiders. He woke up a few times screaming in his playpen at night just smacking at himself. So of course my first thought was spider, pull him out, turn on the lights, and pull everything out to see if there really was a spider. Not too often did I find one, knowing it was probably crawling on him and made him have nightmares even when they weren't on him. I looked in the cracks to see where they were coming from and I pulled back the carpet a little and the foundation was cracked clear across the glass door but they came out of all the cracks downstairs. Then I noticed that there was no padding underneath. The carpet was on straight concrete. No wonder it hurt so much when my kids fell. Then I thought how did they check the padding for pet stains if there was no padding underneath to check' These cracks allowed ants to come in when it was warm. If my kids dropped a crumb on the floor, I'd know cuz there would be a brown moving pile on top of it. My kids were 1 and 2, then 2 and 3 and I was vacuuming constantly in fear of 100 ants coming in if I missed any dropped food. Then there was the car brake ins( we were hit 3 times). The people not picking up the dog poop in the commons area, which is basically your backyard and having your kids step in it, saying as you clean it off at least they were wearing shoes this time, which did happen without shoes. The sidewalks weren't shoveled in winter. In the winter we'd see people sitting in the area where the trash compactor was late at night( garage like area'), I wouldn't go there alone at night. Kids hung out everywhere including the drive in car wash area. People did drive too fast through there. The playground was up front so people would pull in there from Roberts Rd. driving fast. I yelled a few times at the cars only to have the stupid parents stare at ME for yelling. Don't try to protect your kids just be appalled when I do it for you. I had a friend ask me throughout the time we lived there why pay almost a house mortgage payment and put up with that ridiculous stuff.

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