When I moved to Austin, I was just a poor student, so I lived in Section 8 housing. Then, I got a nice job, and I decided to move out of East Austin and in to a nice "luxury apartment homes" complex. I chose the Waterstone. My experience here has made me miss living above a family with six children, a drug dealer, and next to a woman with an abusive boyfriend who set their kitchen on fire twice.

When we first moved in, the only people next two us were a family who had lost their home to the mortgage crisis. A mom and dad, and two twins who were perfect angels. They were pleasant, and we liked them. Then, they moved people upstairs. The people directly above us have children they leave alone at random times of the day and night. The children proceed to drop bowling balls repeatedly in my kitchen (or, at least, that's what is sounds like) and in the middle of the night, there are booming, pounding noises coming from their master bedroom floor.

We live around the pool area. The view is beautiful, but at night, there is always a loud pool party with loads of children running around screaming. In the building adjacent to us, there is a group of people who have parties until around 5AM. I woke up one night to hear them playing Rhianna as loud as humanly possible from speakers mounted on their porch while one of their buddies climbed on to another guy's shoulders in order to throw beer bottles at the window of the tenants above them. I got video of this, presented to the leasing office, and nothing was done.

They water every single day of the week at 7AM,7PM, and 11PM, despite the water regulations for the City of Austin. Our water bill is usually around $70 and is due attached to your rent. If your water is paid late, it counts as part of your rent, and you are charged an initial $50 fee along with $20 a day. This place is desperate for money.

Desperate for money, and yet everything in the apartment is cheap and falling apart. Our blinds began to regularly break from normal use after about a month. The bathroom fixtures randomly fall from the bathroom wall. The paint chips. There is a growing lump under the fake wood flooring in our kitchen. The grass is over watered, and the ground is always slippery and muddy. The lights in the pool are broken.

People keep breaking into apartments. More than once, I have woken up to the sound of someone tugging like crazy on my front door. In addition, homeless people sneak in and sleep on the grounds.

My lease ends in about two months, and I cannot wait. My only fear is that after I bust my butt cleaning the apartment after we leave, the money-hungry, negligent management will try and charge me for bogus problems with the apartment and refuse me my deposit.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 10/16/2008
you should call the city's water hotline and report them! dial 311 to call the city of Austin and report water waste.

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