We were moving site unseen to these apts from out of state so we had to rely on apartments.com. I was so happy that we found a nice complex. I should have known something was up when they agreed to hold the apt. for us for 3 months and rushed us to sign the lease in 3 days. Since I had never found an apt. using the internet I had no idea there was a site you could check the ratings. When I read the reviews there was no way I was moving there with my 6yr. old son, who is very active and loves to play outside. I was scared. I called them 2 months before our move in date to let them know we would not be moving there. Managment said we would only have to pay the reletting fee to be released from our lease. We began paying it but had some financial problems and have about half to pay. Geri is so two faced and I can understand the frustration the residents have with her. She tried to place all the blame on the previous manager saying she didin't have anything to do with making a payment arrangement with us when it looked like she might get into trouble with coporate, now she is threatening us with having to pay the full amount of our lease. I am not taking this lightly. I will go to court if I have to because this apt. complex is so crappy, they have to prey on people who didn't know about all the safety issues there. I will tell anyone who will listen just in dealing with the management DON'T MOVE HERE. I found a much nicer complex to live in, they held our apt. for 2 months and didn't have to sign the lease until we arrived. In the mangement response to the review written in May,2006 most complexes don't have problems with gangs,swat teams, and murders it is almost like you consider those activities "normal" and that is really sad! Please disgard the ratings for an actual tenantthe site requires you put something.

User Responses
From: havingityourway1	Date: 10/10/2006
It is amazing to me the degree in which an individual will utilize a website such as this to release stress and frustration and even go so far as to slander and use a persons name. So Swan if you are going to be so open and then use a name you should at least be truthfull... but I understand! For the record, Geri isn't the individual behind your personal issues and the Management team here at Austin Parke is an outstanding team. You signed a lease contract and then did not show up to move in. Technically you are responsible for the entire lease agreement. The way the information was documented and handed over to the remaining staff, was some type of verbal agreement that involved your reletting fee. This was not what was being asked from you at first, but because we are a caring Management team, an agreement for the reletting fee was reached and you set the terms of your payment schedule (one in which you failed to honor on more than one occassion). I have never bad mouthed or insulted any manager in this line of work, nor have I been called "to the table" by corporate because of your failure to pay your bill. To my knowledge no apartment has been held for the period of time that you are reporting, nor do lease signings take place via fax; however, because of the nature of your request and the hardship that you personally expressed, not to mention all of the other scenarios that seem to keep changing when you choose to share information, obviously something happened because a lease contract was certainly signed by you. Since, Geri was not involved in this lease signing transaction, a person can only deal with the paperwork that currently exhist. So what are we talking about, a lease contract that has not been honored. As for the other information you have chosen to include in your write up, for the year that I have been with this outstanding corporation, no one has been murdered, I have yet to see a member of the S.W.A.T team, I know that "gang" activity happens everywhere, and again, I haven't encountered or come in contact with a "gang", and finally, if you have chosen professional representation, maybe they will be able to explain what all is involved when you sign a written contract. I am flattered that you have chosen to advertise a person whom you clearly know nothing about, but even I did not write the lease contract!
From: Anonymous	Date: 08/14/2007
Glad you wrote this I wont be moving in
From: amandaa111	Date: 02/10/2008
I won't even consider this place anymore. What type of manager releases the information of a possible resident that never occured. It is apparent that there is NO confidentiality and shows how the apartment management is really ran.
From: shortstack31	Date: 04/08/2008
I lived there for two years about 4 years ago. I bought my way out of my lease. The SWAT team HAS been there. It happened when I lived there! A man freaked out in the 2ND STORY APT and said he had a little girl in there at knife point. He set the apt. on fire and then JUMPED OUT OF THE WINDOW!

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