Hold onto your hats people. This is candid!
When I moved into The Arbors 2 years ago it was terrific. Today I can say it is horrible. The staff are very stuck up and rude. These 8 dollar an hour wanna-be diva's are high fallutin and don't have a goddamn thing to be fallutin about.

I had a dead animal that was recently caught in the vent producing a wonderful smell in my apartment and phoned the office first thing that morning. I went in that evening to follow up and the wanna-be Mrs. America stated "oh that was you that called about that'" She stated that it was not an emergency and she would call maintenence tomorrow. She asked if the smell was really that bad' You would have to have the brains of a tuna fish sandwich to ask a question like that.

The maintenance crew looks very unprofessional, almost scarey. The diva's in the leasing office would rather sit on the back porch by the pool and smoke cigarrettes all day (especially on Saturdays) rather than address your problems or concerns. On the weekends, it is really a fiasco as they have only one "diva". They always arrive late on Saturday's leaving several residents/future renters standing outside wondering why the office is not open. Sometimes they will arrive as late as an hour opening up the office. However, I am sure the manager is unaware of this because she is rarely there on Saturdays.

Cats are a huge problem at The Arbors and the management could care less. We have more stray cats than the Osbourns. The leasing agent informed me that we should feel lucky to have so many stray's because they help keep the "river rats" away-- WTF'

I once had a dead cat just outside of my apartment that sat there for 3 days in utter decay. It was a nightmare and the smell was enough to make a mortician vomit. I notified the leasing office immediately and the girl had no idea what to do and acted as if she couldn't care less. After some aggressive follow up with animal pickup, I got it removed-- 3 DAYS LATER! I was furious.

One day after a resident left the office one of the diva's informed me that she "hated" that resident because he was from New York and that she was a "true southern gal." She then said that she was out west once and that they were all a bunch of left wing nuts from a different planet. I then told her that I was from California- open mouth insert foot!

If you like huge rent hikes, redneck leasing agents who think they are better than you are in spite of the fact that they have no formal education and a southern acccent that makes you want to hurl, cats running wild/animal planet, ashtrays laid about the porch of the leasing office from the agents smoke-a-thon, then the Arbors just may be right for you. Just don't inform them that you aren't a redneck from the south.

User Responses
From: Shutupandlisten	Date: 07/10/2006
People like you love to make a mountain out of a mole hill. Could you imagine having to deal with over 300 hundred whinny brats on a daily basis? Especially those who have that greater than thou attitude like you. You are making assumptions about their education and you don't even know these people. You could have simply used this forum to state your problem and the way it was managed, but is it necessary to make assumptions based on the staffs dialect, education, and assumed rate of pay? As for their southern accent, where do you think you are? You're in the south and more than half the people that live here have southern accents. Does that make they them any less than you just because you're from the west coast. People like you make me sick. Why are you living in the south if the accent makes you want to hurl. If you don't like, move!
From: mouthofthesouth	Date: 07/12/2006
I think that your ranting on is very cruel. People use these forums to post helpful information and what you have posted is not helpful, it is just plain rude. It sounds to me that you have personal issues with the staff and you are finding a way to get revenge. You have offended many southerners as well as people who work every day trying to make a living. If you are that unhappy then maybe you should move out of the south and you won't have to listen to their accents.
From: pocohall	Date: 08/30/2006
Perhaps shutupandlisten would be better served if he/she would take their own advice and reread my forum. Whinny brat huh? I don't think that requesting that a dead animal be removed from my air shaft as being whinny. Yes, I can make certain assumptions about an individuals educational status based on the vehicle they drive, the vocabulary they use, etc. I can certainly ad that if you drive a car that is 20 years old, barely runs, and sound like a hick working for 8 dollars an hour in a leasing office but think you are Paris Hilton, then it can be safely assumed that they are a moron and that life didn't quite go according as planned. If you ever decide to leave the south you will realize just how hick Memphis really is. As Paris says " thanks -----."
From: austinstephens	Date: 01/04/2007
Hey, I drive a 20 year old car, it's a 308 GTS Ferarri, red of course.I'm from Memphis, I have a degree in aeronautics, and I speak with the "hick" southern accent you loathe so much. California huh??? The best things to come out of there is Anchor steam beer and I-40 East....
From: sthrnchic	Date: 03/02/2007
Wow...so much for the all welcoming open-mindedness of Californians. As a former resident of the Arbors (for 5 years), I never had any such experiences. As for the judging a book by its cover...well, my husband is doctor (yes...an M.D. since that seems to matter) and drives a 12 year old car that sounds like a lawn mower because a fancy car is not a high priority on his list. I have a Masters degree and also don't drive a brand new car. If you hate this southern atmosphere so much, the last thing I have to say is...there are two ways out of here...I40 and I55...take your pick!!!
From: looknmemphis	Date: 03/06/2007
This all is just too funny to me. Either way the rating is way too long and I will not be moving to the Arbors.
From: Anonymous	Date: 04/30/2007
You are soo right! Unfortunately, it seems to be a Southern requirement: in order to be the manager of such a ------ complex, you also have to be an uneducated idiot!!! Go California and NYC!!!!!!!! You should also see Riverset for comparison, somebody actually named it the ghetto on the island. Soooo right!!!If you think it can't get any worse, try that one (rather not).
From: Anonymous	Date: 05/01/2008
i agree about the staff. i lived there for 4 years and the staff was constantly a nightmare. They really had an attitude, and i can't believe the girl stated that she hated a resident to you. Reading this great review made my morning. Thank you for the laughs. The lack of care towards the cats, the constant smoking on the porch, etc. I actually captured a couple of cats and had them spayed but there were just so many. i asked the office to help me with the spaying costs once and they refused.
From: Anonymous	Date: 06/29/2008
The post and repsonses are really funny. I used to work for Gables, and it appears that some things never change.

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