1. Overpriced for no services
2. I had bedbugs in my unit because the member of the unit below was an armed forces traveler who brought them from overseas. He left the bedbugs untreated.
3. I had to pay to remove the bedbugs, I had to throw out furniture. Riverplace paid for nothing -- I had to pay for their failed extermination and my own (successful, surprised that RiverPlace is incompetent' No)
They moved me to RiverPlace West, to a smaller unit, and charged me the same (1100) -- that was the remedy.
4. No place that charges that much should have such poor management.
5. The management over privately owned units which are themselves managed by a rental company means that tenants are ----ed; RiverPlace should be prosecuted or sued. The management is incompetent.
Do not go here.
As someone who went to a top 30 college and a top 20 law school, I can tell you that the worst judgment in my life was to rent from these people.
Oh and on safety, yeah there was an arrest 2 weeks ago in the parking lot. x-2PE3sjUIIeetAHoKOk

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 05/15/2009
Thank God you got out in time. You are clearly too good for this place. Perhaps for $1100 you can find a top 10 condominium.
From: Anonymous	Date: 05/15/2009
I live at River Place East, and I'm generally happy. It's not a fancy place (though, as others have mentioned, individual apartments vary), but most of the basics are taken care of, prices are reasonable, and the location is excellent. The major exception, as this poster points out (and as others have mentioned) is pest control, especially in regard to bedbugs. At least with roaches and/or mice, there is a pest control plan for the whole building, and individual residents can report problems and have them treated, without additional charge. This approach seems to work; I saw a roach or two right after I moved in (and right after the pest control people had visited, which perhaps stirred things up a bit), chose to put down some additional baits myself, and have had no more problems. For some reason, despite the fact that all the current advice I've seen urges treating bedbugs in the same way, as a building-wide problem, management/the board insists on charging individual tenants and/or unit owners an exorbitant price to deal with bedbug infestations. This approach discourages people from reporting the problem promptly, and increases chances that infestations will spread, especially since most of the units are connected by pipes, vents, etc., and/or have gaps under the hallway doors, and maintenance personnel are pretty regularly in and out of the units, lugging equipment on which the critters could hitchhike (e.g. shop vacs) along with them. Not surprisingly, the bedbug infestations seem to occur in clusters. And then there's the shared laundry room, where anyone following standard bedbug control advice will bring their clothes and bedclothes to be washed and dried. That was closed for several days earlier this year for "treatment"; when I asked what it was being treated for, the only answer I could get was "I think it's a plumbing problem" (but wouldn't that require "repair," not "treatment"? "Closed for repairs" is far more common phrasing, but that's not what the sign said). In short, while I'd disagree with this poster on the question of value for the money and overall levels of service (and safety -- while it's not crime-free, I think the problem in the parking lot has been thefts of GPS systems -- a pretty common issue in urban areas, about which management has helpfully posted an advisory), he definitely has a point about the bedbug problem: it's scary, and management needs to find a more rational way of dealing with it right away, before it really gets out of hand.

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