I know those who read this wonder, "why have a video camera on hand'" To answer this, I have a nice long list of everything I had to deal with at Woodlands West Apartments.

Well, basically the managers take your down payment/security deposit to paint the walls. That is all. The apatment is not cleaned after the last residents move, whatever mess they left the place in is how you would move in. And quite frankly, the people who lived in my apartment were unsanitary indivuals.

I found pregnancy tests in the bathroom, scooted out of normal sight until you looked in the cabinets (and who wants a used pregnancy test in their home'), grime in the window seal to the point it took several hours to scrape the stuff away, including the paint that seemed to seal the window shut, mold unerdneath the kitchen and bathroom sinks, mold and mildew in the air conditioner/heating/waterheater unit, and a poorly draining pipe for the A.C. (poorly meaning, don't run the a.c. or the murkey rust and mildew filled water would overflow onto the water heater.

To make the bathroom worse, there were two seperate leaks in the pipes behind the wall near the sink, not apparent when we moved in because the water hadn't been used for a few months. When we ran the water to wash our hands and brush our teeth, the leaks became apparent, and became even worse when we ran the kitchen sink. Management fixed one leak, and denied the existance of the second leak until I took our video camera and turned on the water, recording the fresh water running from the wall as if the sink wasn't even there. Video proof got the problem fixed; management replaced the carpet, but refused to replace the wood that had rotted from several weeks of the water leaks.

The gutters are never cleaned, so whenever rain decides to visit, the gutters overflow, and those living in the ground units should expect wet closets and bedrooms, because the water will leak into the apartment; in our case, it caused mold to grow, whose spoors I am allergic too. I was sick for a month because no one wanted to clean the gutters.
Their best solution was to paint over the mold and water stains.

The circuit breaker to my water heater was shorting out, to the point where you could hear the conection arching, but contact was not being made. This left me with about 5 minutes of hot water, then they water heater would stop working. The repair men came twice, said nothing was wrong with breaker; however, they replaced the breaker anyway the second time just to get me to stop calling them about the problem. New breaker, and the problem went away.

I have also had frequent roach problems.
I make sure all trash is put away at night,
and that all the dishes are cleaned and put away. Still, I was seeing roaches, several, every morning and night. Some even hid behind the clock in the stove, where I couldn't kill it. Boric acid around the edges of the apartment, and an influx of spiders, and the roaches don't appear very often anymore. But I do currently have a major problem with crickets, and the afore mentioned spiders.

Most of the other residents are so.... used to the incompetance of the management that they just fix the problems on their own, using their own money and time when that is not the residents responsibility, but rather the responsibility of the managers.

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