I moved in to the Yards in August of 07, thinking that the place was okay. About a month later, my college aged neighbors moved in. They are loud, they play rap music constantly, I can hear them smoking pot threw the walls and smell it in the hall. I'm an elementary school teacher and having their living room right next to my bedroom with super thin walls doesn't put me in the best form for my classroom. I've complained to management and they tell me that I have to call and when I do call it doesn't do any good. I'm going a little stir crazy with the lack of sleep. One Saturday morning as I was heading out on a run, I noticed a nice amount of puke in the hallway, what a lovely way to be. I'm paying $900 a month for this crap hole. Yes, there is cleaning on a regular basis, but it doesn't seem to do much good. Seriously though, don't rent here, I made the mistake and am getting out of my so called six (which is really seven) month lease when it is over. On another note, this is low-income housing and near the river front, where many homeless people sleep at night, I haven't really felt safe here in the past few months.

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From: Anonymous	Date: 02/01/2008
As a current resident, I have to agree with almost all of what has been said here. Add to that, the security gates and doors in one building were broken for 5 MONTHS!!!!!!! They have just been repaired but for a very long time all management would say is it will be fixed soon and in the meantime, anyone could walk in here freely whenever they wanted. The managment staff is appalling-especially the assistant manager. He's not only lazy but he is hostile and uses his "power" to make tenants lives awful. There is one halfway decent guy--------but that is it. Unfortunately, I have been here for some time and generally all the management staff has been similar. What is more, they treat their decent tenants worse then others. I have seen so many long term tenants (as in-they were here from its opening) leave because they have had enough. The noise problem is awful. Again, repeating what this review said, when complaints are taken to the staff, they say call late at night and get one of the maintenance people to go listen at the door to see if they can hear the noise. IF you do this enough,they may leave the person a note. May and only after you have made enough calls. What I find disturbing in this review, is the writer's characterizing the low income tenants as part of the problem. A majority of the low income tenants are older and disabled. They are not violent; they don't use street drugs; they are clean; they don't make the loud noise;they are not homeless people. For this writer to portray the low inccome people as part of the problem just shows her snobbery. We know teachers aren't overpaid (my parents were teachers-one, elementary specialist and one, college-but she surely makes enough money to go elsewhere. Frequently,for the low income disabled and most at risk low income people here, they often do not have that option. I personally, after all this time, am looking for another place to be. And this is my second GSL property and actually worse then the other which takes some work.
From: Anonymous	Date: 02/01/2008
One building has its share of people with psychological problems. There was a murder on the floor below me where a bipolar guy smothered his bipolar girlfriend (a bipolar living with a bipolar, what a great idea!). This used to be a delightful place to live, but this management (perhaps to please the owners: let's not forget them) feel the most important thing is to keep the units filled no matter whom they rent to. I have lived here for nine years and, yes, I may leave soon if they don't get things under control and stop renting to so many first-time renters (who treat the place as a dorm or hostel) and don't realize that their neighbors may have to get a full night's sleep in before they get up at 5:30 a.m., and so they stand around on their balconies after 11 p.m. laughing and having a good time while everyone in the courtyard whose windows are open for comfort have to listen to them. They certainly get complaints from outraged neighbors, which they obviously ignore. Another occasional problem is the people who walk through the courtyard at 2:30 or 3 a.m. after having closed a bar and walk through the courtyard laughing and yelling at each other even though they are just inches apart. People who haven't bothered to grow up.
From: Anonymous	Date: 02/01/2008
I agree. I broke my lease to move out of there. The guy next door to me used to beat up his girlfriend all the time, and I could hear her screaming and things breaking through the walls. I called the cops and management but it usually by the time they came it was over and the girlfriend would tell them nothing happened. I finally left because it was so stressful. Management tried to charge me an extra $2000 for breaking my lease and I had to get an attorney to fight them.

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