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Never Again
From:
-Anonymous-
Date posted:
5/4/2004
Years at this apartment:
1994
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1999
I lived in LPT for 5 years.
The weekend we moved in, we unpacked our kitchen, and only THEN got a notice that they wanted to spray for roaches (requiring us to move everything OUT of the kitchen). The apartment was vacant for a month, they could have done it earlier, but nooooooooooo.
Then we got selected randomly by the fire dept for an inspection to see if the apts were safe. The letter Kay sent said, "This is a MANDATORY inspection...", yet included a *consent* form for us to sign (so it obviously wasn't "mandatory").
Then you had one person in the mgmt office who loved to rules lawyer. She would deny parking passes because "We needed to keep spaces open for our residents", despite the policy that said you could have up to X. She'd relent when she'd get reminded of that policy. Not that the Parking Passes mattered. A-1 once towed my mother's car despite it having a visitor tag on it.
We also had a closet that was below the A/C unit. Every summer it leaked into the closet. We learned after 2 years to just not use the closet anymore. No rent adjustment though...
The final straw was when we moved out. They insisted we use their form to give notice. Fine. I declared the final day of my lease to be on a Wednesday, but said I would be doing the moving out on the previous Saturday.
So I come back on Tuesday to get the last few things I had left behind and discover people entering and leaving my apartment! It's being renovated. Kitchen is torn up. Bathrooms torn up. Carpeting yanked. It was unlivable! And MY LEASE WASN'T UP YET!!! LPT VIOLATED MY LEASE! ON PURPOSE!
Mgmt couldnt look me in the eye. The maryland office gave me a "tinky winky" (we're sorry you got mad) apology. Did they not get that they purposely violated a contract' Did they not get that if any of my belongings were missing, they were on the hook for them''' Apparently not.
I called Alexandria Landlord and Tenant and discovered that this sort of thing went on all the time -- they dont want apts to sit vacant and so want in at the earliest possible moment to do the renovations for the next guy. Usually they get away with it. The city govt sent them a "Dont do that again" notice.
It wasn't all bad though. Freda was a nice resident manager. When they fired her (gawd knows why), it went downhill fast.
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