Below is a summary of my experience with Philadelphia Management. I had to take them to court at which point they lied under oath. If you read this you should not rent from them.

On Wednesday, November 16, 2005, I left my apartment (624 in ??The Roosevelt??) for the campus of the University of Pennsylvania around 12:00 pm and returned home around 9:15 pm. Immediately upon entering my apartment I realized my computer was not on my desk where I had left it. I next looked and noticed my window was open, which it was not when I left (I had closed all of my windows when I left since it was supposed to rain later that day). Then I saw that my DVD player was also no longer where it was supposed to be, and I realized something was going on. I looked around very quickly, and not knowing if someone was hiding in my bathroom or closet with a gun or knife, I quickly left and went to Philadelphia Management at 21st and Walnut. One of Philadelphia Management??s security guards and two police officers came to my apartment shortly thereafter.

I am completely convinced that the intruder was a maintenance person, a security guard, or some other employee of Philadelphia Management who has or had access to a key to my apartment. It was made to seem that the intruder(s) entered my apartment from a nearby balcony by opening a window in my bedroom. I will explain why this is completely ridiculous and all but impossible later, but for now we will assume that this was the case. A similar break-in occurred in apartment 724 about a month ago, yet none of the -24 apartments were notified to be careful. No bars were added to my windows as they were to the windows of apartment 724. I consider this by itself negligence and a breach of contract by Philadelphia Management.

Most importantly, I would like to focus on why I am one hundred percent convinced that my apartment was robbed by someone with a key rather than an outside intruder. After the incident, both my bedroom window and the window in my living room were open. Why would someone open the window to my living room' It leads to nothing but a six-story drop to the ground. I believe that it was opened in haste to give the appearance that the intruder(s) came through the windows. Furthermore, there were no footprints in or around my windows. As well, the dust on either of my windowsills between the window and the screen was left completely undisturbed. How could someone have come in through the window without touching that dust (there is a lot of it!)' And still further, the windows to my apartment are heavy and do not easily open. How could someone have managed to pry open the window while clinging onto a tiny space of about two to three inches for their feet' None of this makes any sense.

Finally, there are two logical questions that conclusively show that my apartment was entered through the front door by someone with a key. The first is this: Why would someone dangerously and all but impossibly break into the windows of the apartments on the sixth and seventh floors when they could do the same thing on the second and third floors' If you take one look down from the balcony near my window you will quickly realize how strong of a point this is. The second question seals the deal for me. When I returned home, my door was locked. Why would someone break into my apartment six stories above the ground only to leave from the window back onto the balcony, rather than simply leave through the front door' They would still have exited the building via either the elevators or the stairs, a fact very clear to them when they went onto the balcony. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever that someone would climb, with my stuff in hand, back out onto the balcony to flee the scene. It is all but certain they would have left through the door. But here is the point ?? it is impossible to lock the deadbolt to the door unless you are on the outside and you have a key! To me, this demonstrates well beyond a reasonable doubt that my apartment was entered by someone with a key.

This evidence clearly points to negligence on the part of Philadelphia Management. It is of little import that Philadelphia Management has a computer printout of who took out keys to my apartment and when they did so. The bottom line is that someone with a key to my apartment watched my movements to make sure that I would not be there, and then came in and stole my valuables. Since my locks were changed when I moved in, this could only have been someone associated in some way with Philadelphia Management. This is a clear breach of contract.

I would also like to add that both of the police officers who saw my apartment agreed with this assessment, and they both told me I should leave the apartment. One even joked about the impossibility of the intruder(s) entering through the window, ??You think they opened the windows just to make us laugh'!?? When I asked the police officers what they would do if they were in my shoes, one told me very bluntly, ??You should leave. Tomorrow. This person has a key to your apartment, they have been watching you, and now they have seen what you have inside.??

I hope that whoever reads this can understand why I am both disappointed and disturbed by my experience with Philadelphia Management. I am disappointed because I was not provided with a safe apartment building, and I am disturbed because all facts point to the lack of safety coming from within Philadelphia Management itself.

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