Seminary Towers

If You Like Living Under Waterfalls... From: -Anonymous- Date posted: 7/13/2005 Years at this apartment: 2004 - 2005   If you like living under waterfalls then this would definitely be the place for you!! my fiance and I have lived here for 1 year and this has been the worst year ever as far as Seminary Towers goes. we were awaken at 3am one morning to find that our bathroom was flooding from a HEAVY HEAVY leak in the ceiling. water was gushing from the ceiling, the lights and the shower. No one came to fix it (I would think this would be considered an emergency) and we could do nothing but wait and listen to the water coming in and destroying our bathroom. To make the sitution even worse, the water was yellow, and it smelled of... you know that stuff that comes out of horses behinds' that is what it smelled like. when someone did come to fix it, they tore the carpet up in the bathroom (was not replaced), and didn't do anything to compensate us for our trouble. On top of that, they didn't want to reschedule, after they came to my apt unannounced. I didn't feel comfortable having to hispanic men in my apt without my fiance being there. One of them had tried hitting on me before and i refused his advances so he could have tried something. He was the one that gave me a really had time about rescheduling the appt. the smell of the place is horrible when one of the foreign people are cooking their goat, or donkey. i've lived in the dc area almost all my life and dont have a problem with different races, but there should be a limit to how many spices they can use to season their food. do you really need a pound of curry for 3 peices of chicken''' now that it's hot outside it's even worse and the smell can make you puke (it made me puke right outside the door of the building) Here are more examples of why it should be called Cemetary Towers *Kitchen: There is a HUGE gap between the stove and the counter, where I assume the stove used to be. It looks like they had to take a cabinet out to make room for a dishwasher and couldn't come up with a better idea for the space then to just leave it open. The floor is uneven, so when you try to fry, bake or even boil something you literally have to stand guard by the stove to make sure one side doesn't cook faster than the other. My fiance is a big and tall man and he likes his meals to be cooked correctly. I had to convince him that it wasn't my cooking it was the condition of the floor in the kitchen!!! *BUGS: we had a real problem with bugs (I blame it on the immigrants and just dirty nasty people)when we first moved in, to the point that every night after I cleaned up from cooking, I sprayed bug spray and had to leave the light in the kitchen on so that they wouldn't come out. I saw a mouse in my apartment (although I like to say I didn't b/c I'm in denial that I had one in my bleach clean apartment)and when I complained about it, nothing was done. It makes no sense that an exterminator has to come everyweek, and when he does come, he doesn't clean every apartment just those that request it. that's stupid b/c when you clean one they just run into another. foriegn people I don't think mind about the bugs I don't want to sound racist :(, but I think that they lived with them in their country so it's normal. not here it isn't. *Parking: My fiance had to park on Van Dorn street b/c there was never any parking available on the grounds. when he told the management that his sticker had been stolen when he left his window open, they wouldn't replace it, and told him to get a "visitors pass" all in all this place was horrible, and I wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy. the only nice person was Miss. Sheryl who sat at the front desk and was always pleasant. when our keypads stopped working (those were replaced, but with ones that only worked for a few weeks before they stopped) she didn't mind letting us in b/c she knew our faces. The other ones that work at the front desk I believe are mean senile old women who need to be in a nursing home rather than manning a front desk. the oldest one couldn't even make it to the elevators in less than 5 mins. and God forbid you forget your key and no one's at the desk. you might wait 30 minutes B4 getting let in, and even then you better hope sheryl's at the front desk b/c everyone else will harrass you, even if they see you everyday. i wouldn't recommend that anyone move here even if you have to choose between here and living in a box. choose the box, because at least your positive on what your getting for your money. At Cemetary Towers, they tell you it's good, and show you a place that they have "fixed" for you to view, but in reality its a piece of crap, and if you choose this place as your home, you will be highly dissapointed

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