I spent a little over three years at Hunters Crossing, and I should have seen the writing on the wall before I even moved in. When first looking at apartments, it was made abundantly clear that I had two small pets. I was shown the available apartments and told be in touch with management as soon as I was ready to move in. I asked for the ground floor apartment that I had been shown and was still available, only to be told that it was not available to me because it had new carpet and I had pets. Why was this apartment shown to me in the first place' Instead of the ground floor apartment I wanted, I signed a lease for a third story apartment in the noisiest area of the complex.
In what was a revolving door of 20-something students, I found myself up all hours of the night listening to shouting and loud parties. My neighbors were less than courteous and unresponsive to requests to keep it quiet.
Shortly after moving in, my dish washer stopped draining. I had to wait at least two days with rotten smelling water in my dishwasher for maintenance to come fix the problem.
From the time I moved into the apartment, my sister complained of the smell of cat urine in her room. Maintenance told us that the previous renter kept the cat's litter box in her closet. We were ecstatic when we were told that the carpet was being replaced, hoping the smell would be gone. When the team came to replace the carpet, it wasn't the oatmeal colored carpet that we had throughout our apartment and that was in every other apartment we saw, it was a dark brown carpet. The installers cut about two inches into the carper in her room, so the brown carper stuck under he door and was visible in all of her room. How nice! Maintenance also told us that the previous renter had been charged for the pet smells and hair left in the carpet, so we would not be charged for the carpet. We were.
When we first moved into this complex, a young man was robbed in the parking lot. Instead of behaving responsibly as a management team, last summer, when all of the exterior lights went out on my building, we went more than a week with no lights at all, except inside. This complex is not gated, there is a history of violence, and many of the young students work and study into the night on campus or nearby. This was not safe and was not fixed with repeated requests until I requested the regional manager's name. I didn't get the name or contact information, but the lights were fixed that day.
When I moved in, I was told there were strict limits to the number of people that could live in my apartment. I guess as evidence to the tough economic times, just before I left, a group of at least 8 workers moved into an apartment in my building. Please know that none of the apartments have more than two bedrooms.
Not once, in all the time I lived at Hunters Crossing, were the landings or common areas cleaned by the staff. When the buildings were painted, we had to look at primer on all of the buildings for over a month.
This was a terrible renting experience, and it reminds me of the value of local management that care about the renter. I would strongly discourage anyone from renting at Hunters Crossing!

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 04/07/2009
After 3 years???? If it was that bad you should have up and left right away. Guess it wasn't. This review just wasted 2 minutes of my life....
From: Anonymous	Date: 04/07/2009
Maybe I'm mistaken, but if you "up and leave" right away, you don't get a penny of your deposit back. You also have to move all the furniture you just moved back down the three flights of stairs. You might take a drive through that complex. There are fewer and fewer residents every day...
From: TRumbo	Date: 05/06/2009
After 3 years and no legal action taken? You did have rights, you know and options. Sounds like a "whiner" to me. Should have said "NO" when your lease did not match the apt that you were shown, you would have gotten you money back and saved all the trouble of moving your furniture up and down steps. You lost the battle when you excepted the key of the 3rd floor aprt. It's your own fault.

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