I am a current resident in The Left Bank and have been dealing with serious issues on a daily basis. Since moving into the apartment in April I have been having to deal with a serious leak in my bedroom. Each time it rains, the corner of my bedroom gets wet and the entire apartment is filled with a mildew smell. Maintenance's attempts to fix the problem were woefully inadequate. It is over 100 days and the problem still persists. Secondly, they use a model of refrigerator that leaks about a cup of water onto the floor every four hours. I have complained about this for the past three months and the answers from management have boggle the mind. After weeks of replacing coils and linings, the defective fridge was replaced with an old defective fridge of the same type and model. The replacement fridge had the same old rust stains all over it, indicating that there should have been every expectation that this unit would do the same thing. After further complaints the replacement was replaced yet again with a unit that had rust all over it and continues to leak water. One can hear the fridge motor struggle to keep things cool as water pours out of it each nite. It is certainly driving up my electric bill. Additionally, likely as a result of the water leaking in from outside, the apartment has an ant problem. Exterminators have been called and the ant problem has not changed. Since I am not at home during the day I cannot even confirm that an exterminator ever really comes when I ask for one.
The apartment was overpriced, but given the location (my wife works in the Penn area and I commute to work using Amtrak) and the advertised restrictions on undergraduate students (not necessarily against students living around me, but I would like to try and do everything I can to ensure I live in a place clean and quiet) I was willing to pay up for a year before I buy a house. This is a disaster. Students do, in fact, live here in large numbers. Someone on my floor smokes marijuana every nite (not the worst thing in the world, but he leaves his windows open and I can hear him coughing his brains out every day. Then he smokes cigarettes afterward, which is a smell i cannot stand...) and the odor fills up the halls and my room. I often find half finished beer cans lying around after the weekend and hear people running up and down the hall screaming and having fun. I am not against people having a good time and the only reason it bothers me is that when you try and get an apartment here they play up the serious, professional living. All in the all, this has been awful experience that has made me question whether I should just walk away from it on just about a daily basis. If it were not for the fact that my wife and I have such a busy professional schedule we likely would have left already.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 08/10/2009
To be honest, the above resident seems like he's just a mad resident trying to make The Left Bank look bad. I have lived at The Left Bank for over 3 years and have had a great experience. Do I doubt that the building has leaks? No, but the maintenance staff at least is responsive unlike any other buildings in Philadelphia. Let's face it, all the buildings in Philadelphia are going to leak at some point. Everytime I have had any type of maintenance issue, they have responded very quickly. It sounds as if the tenant above also refusing to use their air conditioner. If they did, I'm positive it wouldn't leak. Everyone knows that if you keep your apartment warm, a refridgerator will leak. DAH!!! Maybe that is why that person shouldn't own a house. My suggestion to the unhappy tenant is to buy your own house and stop blaming YOUR problems on others. Oh, and the comment about kids running around the halls at night is completely FALSE. They have 24/7 concierge and monitor all the halls. Get a life loser. Just because you don't have a fun like doesn't mean you have to complain about others.
From: Anonymous	Date: 08/10/2009
Sounds like some tough going. I recently moved out of the Left Bank, and I can also attest to the water problem when it rains hard. The problem in our apartment was not nearly as severe as the above resident, but when it did rain hard, we would get some water leaking in through our windows. Again, we never had any mold or mildew problems with this, as it was not a lot of water and it only happened when it rained really hard, but, from the sounds of the above review, the problem is worse in some of the other apartments.

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