I thought when I moved into this complex that it was a great steal for the location and - at a glance - niceness of the complex. That didn't last long before I realized I had backed myself into a hellhole year lease that I can't wait to ------- end.

This place is for low-income residents, flat out. There may be a few respectable tenants, but you never see or hear a peep out of them because they are so pissed off at being stuck in these leases, too. This is a minority complex run by a minority stuff who give preferential treatment to minorities. To say the least.

FIRST major problem - The roaches. I am a bit of a neat freak and I cannot for the life of me get rid of them. It started when I moved in - they're EVERYWHERE. Bathrooms, bedrooms, kitchen, you name it. They were supposed to spray before I moved in - and, guess what' They didn't. First they tell me that you have to be put on the list for that month. So I'm put on the list. Turns out it's just a guy coming in with a couple squirts in random places - not enough to get rid of the roach infestation of this caliber. So I complained and complained and finally they tell me that they are going to do a "extensive" pest treatment where I have to take everything out of all my cubbards and cover everything that I don't want roach spray on. So on the day that they tell me they are coming, I do just that - and they never come! I was furious. Then they just show up at my door on a random day at 8am in the morning and tell me they were there to do the extensive pest treatment. I couldn't get all my ---- out on that short of notice - I had to go to work! In any event, after a huge confrontation with the office, I had to take everything out a second time and it got sprayed. BUT IT STILL DIDN'T TAKE CARE OF THE ROACHES!! I've had roaches crawl across my face while laying in bed, while watching tv on the couch, and much much more. I got them to go away briefly by spraying bengal everywhere and doing all kinds of traps, but it's like my neighbors are so dirty that they keep coming back to my apartment after a while.

SECOND major problem - THE NOISE IN THIS PLACE IS UNBELIEVABLE. There is a pack of little kids that run around until all hours of the night, with no regard for anyone else in the complex - and their parents LET them and ----- out anyone who tells them to be quiet. The apartment managers insist that they tell the parents that they have to be out there with them, but the parents never are. And it seems like when they are, the kids are even louder anyway. During the summer, people are in the pool way after hours screaming and laughing and splashing and the kids run around until 11 or 12 at night sometimes with no one watching them. And these are kids who are 4 - 10 years old!! Where the hell are their parents'!! These kids tear up the pool furniture, stomp by your windows 100 plus times, screech at the top of their lungs, leave trash everywhere, pee in the beds underneath your window, mess with the screens on your windows, and stomp through all the landscaping. On a GOOD night, they may be in their apartments by 8:30 or 9:30 pm - what kind of parent lets their kids run around unsupervised disturbing other people and their kids'' BESIDES the kids, people play their music loud at all hours of the night, whether it be in the apartment next to you or in their cars "bumping" through the complex at all hours of the night - probably the NUMEROUS drug dealers that you see selling in the back of the complex and which have broken in to numerous cars since I've been here.

THIRD major problem - EVERYTHING in this complex breaks. The maintenance guy is usually fairly quick to come and fix it, but it usually breaks again within a week. Every apartment I have been to in this complex has these crappy doorknobs on the washer/dryer room that refuse to stay on. My air condition completely broke down and it took them three days to fix it - in the middle of the summer!! I had to stay somewhere else with my infant child for the entire time because it was like a sauna. In addition, for four months in a row, my ac bill was outrageous because there was something wrong with the unit downstairs, as well as the flip switch. If you even got the thing to turn on, it would flip back off on its own. So I'd have to get up repeatedly during the night to flip the breaker so we wouldn't swelter to death. The toilet broke in my apartment and someone else's I know. The sink was clogged when I moved in. The ac froze and dripped all over the damn bathrooms. The screen on the patio just fell off out of nowhere. I know there is more but that's all I can think of at the moment.

Other things...There was construction on the parking lot and absolutely NO parking for several months. The management tried to force people into parking on the streets (there is nowhere to park anywhere even remotely NEAR the complex and it's all ghetto anyway so who would want to just basically ask a car thief to steal their car''). Eventually I think she offered some kind of monetary incentive but all the people who she gave it to still parked in the complex anyway. You couldn't have guests over for months, either, and they would tow at random. There is also supposed to be a size limit on the dogs that you can have, but no one obeys it - they just wait til management is gone for the day (which, by the way, is usually by 4pm and they don't even get there til 9am and leave for lunch for an hour or two!!!) and then out come these HUGE ASS DOGS who leave HUGE ASS SH*TS everywhere!! There must be at least 3 or 4 pitbull mixes hiding in the apartments which the management does nothing about. Management (or I should say the "manager") is a huge ----- who gives you attitude about everything and tells different people different things. She should be fired because she is entirely incompetant and does nothing to better the complex. Hey, she doesn't live here so why should she give a ----, right' Because she obviously doesn't.

FINALLY, to conclude my rant for the moment, the management tried to force me into divulging personal information that they were in no way entitled to. I get home from being out of town for the weekend and there is this notice on my door that I have to provide them with ALL my utility account numbers and information so that they can access my records for the past year to determine my "utility allowance". Now, I don't know what the f*ck a "utility allowance" is, but it's probably because I don't receive government assistance like 3/4 of the people who live in this complex. In ANY case, this notice tells me that they need the information immediately and that if I don't give it to them, it'll be a violation of my lease. First of all, it sounded fishy to me. Second of all, I don't like someone threatening me to do something that I'm not really sure what the purpose is for or why I have to give it if it doesn't apply to me. So when she called telling me she needed the information RIGHT NOW (and I was at work and couldn't do it RIGHT THEN ON DEMAND anyway!), I asked her about it and the manager remained vague. She just tried to tell me that I signed an agreement saying that I would respond to requests for information on the lease and that if I didn't give the information it would be a violation of that. So I asked her to fax me a copy of the lease so that I could review it before divulging that kind of information (because they'd have access to not only your usage information by signing this notice they sent out, but all your social security numbers, etc.). She agreed, said "no problem" - and I never received the fax and she hasn't called me about it since. SOUND FISHY TO YOU' This apartment complex is entirely scandalous and I wouldn't doubt if they were up to something entirely illegal. In any case, I asked a person in the legal profession (I work for the courts) if it sounded shady and they said yes. If you're not receiving government assistance and don't need to have your rent/utility usage calculated to determine the 30% of what you pay for Section 8, you shouldn't be required to provide your usage information. MOREOVER, when reading up on Renter's Rights, I found that if you pay your utilities directly to the utility company, the complex has no right or business messing with that. And I don't remember signing anything like she said, and I don't think this would have fallen in to that category anyway.

OH! No matter how much bleach you put down the garbage disposal - it will always smell. Kids write on your car if it's dirty. People leave their trash in the halways and, if it does make it TO the dumpster, it doesn't make it IN the dumpster. And, by the way, everyone's rent in the complex that I have talked to has gone down for the last few years...but yet for all the non-minority people, it is going up...just food for thought.

That's all for now.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 02/27/2008
Well, Well! I thought that I was the only one who had these same thoughts and feelings. I stumbled up on this information, and am so glad that I did!(So much for playing on the net @ work) But I have sat back and read every one of the reviews and agree with the majority. First let me start off by saying that I am a minority, that lives at this complex and I have kids. However, I am not receiving any type of assistance whatsoever! As far as my kids are concerned, I don't play that crapp- playing outside when I'm not with them. I agree, there are kids that are outside LATE at night, and it is usually a school night. That is terrible, but they aren't my kids- so; it is not my business! I know where my kids are @ 8:30- doing HOMEWORK! As far as mgmt is concerned, I try my best NOT to deal with them, so I don't have a comment regarding that. But I will say this, it is really obvious that they show favorites among tenants- but I look at it like this- they don't bother me, so I don't bother them. I am one of those hard-working tenants, that doesn't bother anybody. I leave for work early in the morning and I don't get back until late in the evening- so if there is a bunch of foolishness going on during the day- I don't know about it. Praise God, my vehicle has never been broken into and neither has my home. But let me talk about these ROACHES!!!! Until I read the other reviews, I was beggining to think it was me! But I see it is not. They are HORRIBLE!! I keep my apartment clean! I have older kids, and I make them clean up as well, and STILL roaches have almost taken over. I haven't even address the mgmt team, because, to my understanding this was supposed to be something that was offered and you didn't have to ask for it. I see that I'm not the only one complaining, so surely they are aware that it is a problem!! I have bought things to take care of the problem, and have purchased foggers to do on my own! I have been thinking about moving when my lease is up, but I must say after reading the other reviews and knowing that I am not the only one that feels this way; REALLY makes me want to move! The construction incident was also horrible. I felt like I had to hurry home, to ensure that I would get a parking spot and better not leave anymore for the night. That wasn't fun. We couldn't have company over, which I wasn't doing any way because of the DAMN ROACHES!!!! As far as the letter regarding my information, I didn't even read it, show you how much I'm not paying any attention to that stuff. But it is in the car, I will go and read it, but I did get the call as well. Also, it is so embarrassing to wake up on Saturday morning to see beer cans all over the place and candy wrapper papers all over the ground from the night before. It is ok to party if that is what you want to do, but pick up your trash! Don't teach your kids to be just as nasty as you.
From: Anonymous	Date: 02/27/2008
I'm glad I am not the only one upset with this complex. I know there are many hard-working families here who mind their own business and keep to themselves (and who do not get government assistance), but the people who are are deteriorating the living quality for the rest of the residents because of their careless, disrespectful, and - quite frankly - trashy ways of life. And these people do it so blatantly that it just makes me FURIOUS. I have a small child and I am horrified that I have been stuck in an apartment complex like this that has such a disgusting roach problem (I've caught her picking dead ones UP before I can get to them!!) and where are the people are so disrespectful as to let their screaming children wake my child up night after night and then tell me that they are "just kids" and have "the right to play"...umm, yes, they do - but my child also has the right to sleep!!

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