I moved into this apartment in April of 2006, and stayed 3 years. In that time, I've come to understand that the maintenance department is utterly incompetent, the office staff is an ever rotating group of unqualified, inept temps, and the buildings themselves are falling apart.
Over the first 9 month, I'd gotten pretty adept at trapping between 3-6 mice a day from the bedrooms and kitchen. During which time several appointments were scheduled with the rental office for an exterminator, and even a few of those appointments actually resulted in a visit from a very low cost private exterminator who was unable to do anything expect provide more traps and poison. After one evening when I was laying my daughter down for the night and a mouse jumped out of her bed, I demanded that I be allowed to get a cat to help manage the problem. Not waiting for approval, I got a cat, and in the 2 years that followed, mice have not been a problem. So if you're going to stay here.. Have a cat.
The maintenance requirements of the apartment were met with repairs that can only be described as ghetto. On the occasion that something couldn't be fixed with caulk, or extra screws, we had to deal with painstakingly slow response time as the one qualified repair person for the community was overworked and underpaid.
A few other random things to be prepared for before I give the one slightly positive point of the place.. Be prepared to smell your neighbors food. And not just in the common areas. I can usually pick out what my neighbors are having for supper from my bedroom. Thusly, the walls hold no deterrent for noise either. Someone habitually slamming a door or knocking on the bathroom door of another apartment will travel throughout the entire building. The central water-heater is undersized and not cared for, so the upper level apartments get luke-warm water at best during the morning and evening hours. There are regularly people sitting on others cars, and doing drugs in the parking lot. Also in that parking lot, cars and been vandalized, broken into, and robbed. The snow is usually allowed to sit for a couple of days before a proper clearing is done, and the leaves are allowed to get to a good three foot depth before anything is done about it. The one playground for the community at any given moment has broken glass strewn about, and on occasion I've had the displeasure of finding used needles and condoms on the playground equipment. The unit heating and air conditioning systems are in serious disrepair, causing high bills in the summer. And lastly, the common laundry room has only 2 sets of machines and usually one is broken.
Having read all this, which I'm sure most will not. You may ask why would anyone live here. It's cheap. The price is hard to beat. And if you can bring yourself to closing the door and pretending you live elsewhere, then alot of the other stuff can be discarded as minor inconveniences.
I've lived here for 3 years. I move out in alittle more then a months time. It can't come soon enough.

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