Looks quaint but is very run down. The halls stink, the rooms are dark and stuffy and my new apartment leaked the first time it rained. The stairs leading up to the loft are impractical. I thank God that I rented month-to-month instead of the 1 year lease. I'm outta here as soon as the month is up.

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From: Pinaydreams	Date: 12/25/2006
First, I was drawn in because of the "move-in" special rate. At the time I had a very low paying job and all I could afford was a meager studio for $650 per month on my own. I was happy to rent and finally have my own place. Yes, this was my first apartment. Management gave me keys and showed me my prospective apartment on the map. I was to go check it out first before I sign the contract. I went to the first location and it looked so bad. The apartment door looked like it belong in the slums in NYC. I declined to take that apartment. They asked me to check-out another. The next one was not too bad. Early on, my move in went well. However, I didn't like the folks that "hung-out" making so much noise and loitering. The studio looked freshly painted and etc., nothing out of the ordinary. I was in love with the little place. Finally I could relax. I had my own kitchen, my own bathroom. No more sharing anything with ANYBODY - yes, what a wonderful world. Weeks went by, one day I finish cleaning, showered, and was ready to go to bed. I collected all my trash, put it in a plastic bag by my studio door. I??????d planned to take it to the green dumpster outside, in the morning. I was half asleep when I heard the bag rattle a few times. I thought I must be dreaming, and that maybe the noise was coming from outside my apartment door. (My bed was near the door). No, it was coming from INSIDE my apartment, not outside! I raise up from my bed and saw a furry rodent zip across the foyer, under my bed and then to the space heater along the wall. OMG it was a mouse! My first time seeing a mouse in real, WHOA not good! I was afraid, as I was not used to living like this. I went to the bathroom, maybe I would be safe there I thought. My tub was clean so I grabbed a pillow and slept in my bath tub. Next morning I called management and they told me to get sticky pads and place them in common areas. WTF? Why couldn't??????t THEY come and get the mouse, deal with it so I won??????t worry anymore? Why do I have to pay for sticky pads? They told me a serviceman came out to the place like every other Thursday or something like that and I had to move everything to the middle of the floor and empty out all drawers, shelves and etc. OR I would be fined over $50. Hm mm, NOT! I will do this on my own and rid myself of the mouse (so I thought it was only one). Later, I get pads and place them down, sure it took me awhile to catch the mouse, and I also caught some of his friends too! Hint: Where did the mice come from? Well, I believe they lived in the space heater along the wall. If you take down the white metal boards you can see the pipe that runs along the wall through the whole unit. It has a hole on the wall so that the pipe can cut across through other units. I got brave and plugged those holes with thick cloths. I never had to worry about the heat coming on, management never turned on the heat anyway. The mice other favorite hang out places seem to be the stove area, and the fridge. I put down many traps and caught many in my kitchen area alone. My kitchen became a WAR zone of sticky pads, mice poop and dead little Mickey??????s. During my stay at H on the P, I caught a total of seven mice. Funny, one time the exterminator payed me a visit, and he told me "Damn, you did most of my job for me!" He noticed the sticky pads and holes I plugged etc. What were the mice eating? I was clean and I made sure I vacuumed after each meal etc. I think they were eating the roaches! Yes, I came across the occasional roach. They would come out of nowhere after I had a bite to eat. Can they smell food? Any how, I sucked them up in my canister vac - my recommendation for pest control! Aside from my adventures with roaches and mice I had another problem...the place was falling apart! In my bathroom I had a drip from the ceiling inside the shower area. Turns out, the folks upstairs had a major plumbing problem. The drip turned into plaster falling down and a tub a quarter full with debris mixed with tainted water. I now had a decent baseball size hole in my ceiling. Every time the folks upstairs took a shower, guess what happened? I told management, and it took them forever to visit me. Guess what? They stopped by my place not because of my calls but because another resident had a power outage..ha! So I said hey take a look at this hole huh. They said oh boy "we have to cut a bigger hole in your bathroom and fix the pipes up there." Did they say that to discourage me? Who wants half of there bathroom ceiling missing while they occupy my apartment for days on end? Not me! I just put up with the dripping and debris cocktail from the leak. False promises from maintenance is routine at H on the P. I remember maintenance surveying the paint damage on my kitchen and bathroom walls. They said someone would come the next day to repaint it. I got every thing ready for them, moved things around etc. Guess what? They never showed up. After like the third day of waiting I put everything back in its proper place. Oh how naive I was to believe what they say. One night I woke up to drilling and banging from upstairs - WTF its early in the morning - what the hell are they doing up there? (I called the police on them before for being unruly) Should I call again? Well, back to sleep I go, or at least I try. Later that day I come home to find mini streams of sludge water leaking from the ceiling in my kitchen and bathroom. It made the paint on the wall crack, bubble and blister and the water smelled bad. I put pots down to catch the water and plastic bags underneath them so it won??????t damp the carpet. Come to find out that the folks upstairs had a backed-up toilet! WOW. Oh well, I would clean-up the mess every time they had toilet problems or one time let the water in the kitchen sink overflow. Idiots. Awful, but this is what I had to endure for sometime. I had mildew around the dripping hole in the bathroom and also mildew on the wall above the AC unit. I??????d spray it with Tilex every time it got out of control. What else could I do? Where else could I go? I can??????t afford to rent anywhere else. I struggled to pay the rent and I was always late. I??????d come home to that late pay notice on the door and later I get a court summons in the mail. Management only cared about their money. What about my problems? My living conditions? It took them forever to replace the light-bulb outside my apartment door and the glass door downstairs someone always shattered constantly. My apartment was unsafe. A person was killed in the courtyard behind my apartment. I swear there were shady drug dealers in my unit and I always thought there was a brothel upstairs in one of the apartments. I asked to get out of my lease but they scared me away with the huge fee I would have to pay plus the damage a broken lease would do to my apartment rental history. I never knew I had the power to report them by calling government housing on them because of my living conditions. Maybe I could walk away from the lease with no negative reporting and etc?. Wish I knew that then. I felt helpless and when the time came to end it all I NEVER renewed. H on the P was the worst experience I ever had! I lived there long enough to get my car towed by Henry??????s. I swear someone was on the look out in one of the units. Be careful where you park. It cost me over $100 to get my car back. You must have Maryland tags to get a parking sticker, if not, you have to park further down along the street. After a certain time street parking is hard to find. What about other residents? Well, I had to call the police one time because a drunk man would come bang on my door at night. He had the wrong apartment building! I think he lived in the other units next door - what a loser! I don??????t recommend this place to anyone!! Never rent here!! This IS the ghetto in every sense of the word - trash, noise, filth, rodents, drug-dealers, drunken bums, and death in your courtyard

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