This place is run by slumlords. I can not wait to move out in 8 days!!! Hey if you want you can rent my apartment. They just lowered the price another 100 dollars because they can't get anyone to move in here. However the management who spends their time writing false reviews on here will treat you like crap, so it is not worth the hundred bucks.

I can understand the tenants desire to whine and complain. As consumers it is their responsibility to whine and complain if a product they are paying for is not living up to their standards. However, that said, it does not give the faulty company the right to retaliate smearing hate across the internet, or getting into verbally abusive arguments with tenants.

Now for my review of the actual apartments:

I have lived here for almost a year now, and i can honestly say this is the worst living arrangement I have ever had. The walls are poorly constructed, i.e.: You can see where the painters were too lazy to paint all the way up the 15 foot walls, the drywall looks in some places like it was hung by a 3rd grader working on their big 3rd grade drywall project. Did I mention that the walls are paper thin. Luckily, I like my neighbors otherwise I would be rather upset having to hear every word they say. I am awaken every morning by my neighbors above me walking around their domicile in heels, it sounds like ponies walking on cobblestone. The cabinets in the kitchen are installed backwards, they just open wierd.

To warn about the lease, in the lease you will sign that you will give River City 90 days notice. Otherwise your lease will be automatically renewed at a much higher rent. They claim this new rent is the fair market value. Don't be fooled. If the fair market value of a poorly constructed building in the middle of a fuel refinery, a waste treatment plant, and a crime ridden neighborhood is MORE, than an apartment in the fan, than I'll be a monkey's uncle. But at the time you sign it you'll think well 90 days isn't too bad and it seems nice enough. I am warning you now, do not make that mistake. Nowhere in my life have i had to give 90 days notice and that they can enter your apartment to show it to potential tenants WHILE YOU ARE LIVING THERE!. Did I mention it is your responsibility to find someone to rent the apartment after you. Sounds easy doesn't it' With the economy what it is, that will be no easy feat. The leasing company can't even get new tenants what makes you think you will be able to. Plus that will mess up your Karma if you trick someone into moving here.

In addition to the 90 day notice clause, their is a clause that states River City Real estate automatically keeps 300 dollars of your security deposit " to cover expenses from routine maintenance and care." Well they won't fix anything and their sure as heck won't care, so get your checkbooks out and hand over the 300 bucks now.

Let's talk about the awe-inspiring windows for a moment. The windows,if you are so forunate to get an apartment that does not face the interior of the building, loook great in photos online. In reality they suck. they let in entirely too much heat during the summer and they let out all the heat in the winter. Additionally, if it rains they WILL leak. According to the laws of Virginia, "Landlord to provide locks and peepholes...Lockiing devices which meet the requirements of the Uniform Statewide Building Code on all exterior window." I have not read the building code's lock requirements on windows, but if a screwdeiver jammed in the lock is acceptable to keep a window shut, God help us all.

I could go on all day long but no one will want to read this.

I will end with this, Every negative review on here is TRUE. The property IS run by
slumlords who care not for their tenants, but for greed and greed alone. If you do decide to live you here you will feel imprisoned by your lease agreement and the leasing company. Every positive review is clearly written by the agents or an affiliiate thereof. I am not a "slacker," or a "disgruntled loser" as River City Real Estate would have you believe. I am a professional and an employee of the federal government. End the charade River City, You can not win against your tenants, just fix the place up and listen to your tenants complainits. It is not that hard.

P.S. to anyone looking to move into #225, after the toilet above you leaked for four hours and sent sewage down your walls all night. River City DID NOT re-drywall or replace the walls they simply painted over them and called it a job well done. So if you start to not feel good, now you know why.

Sincerely, local lowlife busybody.

User Responses
From: heidi1233	Date: 10/16/2008
WoW... those twicky meanines! I mean, actually expecting tenants to READ their lease!
From: Anonymous	Date: 10/16/2008
Well said, You would think that if they management was actually doing something they could fix all the problems the tenants have rather then posting lame comments on how great that -------- is
From: Anonymous	Date: 10/16/2008
What I find most interesting is the BBB status of Unsatisfatory, with one filed complaint per month for the past 36 months and at least 2 of which remain categorically unresolved. Please, everyone, do your research, there are plenty of respected and professional leasing companies in the area who will gladly maintain a reasonable standard of living for their tenants, instead of using these draconian methods of bullying their tenants around.
From: Anonymous	Date: 10/17/2008
Yawn...
From: Anonymous	Date: 10/17/2008
Dearest Heidi, I never said that anyone was twying to twick anyone, I simply stated that tenants should read their lease thoroughly and be aware of some of the points that when you sign may seem fine, but down the road may not seem like the best idea in the world. I was simply twying to inform potential future residents. I was in no way twying to imply any one is a meanine, whatever that is!??! I rather enjoy your typographical speach impediment though! Sincerely, Author of review. Care to open a dialogue?
From: Anonymous	Date: 10/17/2008
Oh, author of weview, you are so qwehver! Your twicks are so twicky getting everyone to think this is a bad place to live. Poor Heidi won't know where to work ... er, live, I meant live ... next.
From: Anonymous	Date: 10/17/2008
Is the president schlepping the property owner's daughter or something? I can't believe any respectable businessman would allow someone like moron McLoserface run all of his holdings into the ground.
From: miserablytolerant	Date: 10/17/2008
I completely agree with everything you said in this review.
From: RyanSucksIt	Date: 12/02/2008
WoW. this sounds like the ramblings of a raving lunatic. I'm glad you can spend your evenings filled with internet message boards, you lonely, lonely woman. DIENOW!
From: armstrong_hater	Date: 12/02/2008
Wow. This sound like an ACTUAL review, unlike the obviously fake reviews that are on here. I think I would believe a tenant over the leasing company. Thanks for the great, honest review. Keep them coming. --LIVESTRONG--
From: Anonymous	Date: 12/04/2008
Actually, let's be very clear here - in your lease, it does not actually state that the $300 fee comes out of your security deposit. It simply states that there's a $300 refurbishment fee - nowhere does it state how it is to be provided. Again, false representation and misinformation given by River City.
From: Anonymous	Date: 01/09/2009
awesome review man......keep up the good work. although i'm sure it will only be a few mins before an rcre employee posts some silly counter to this, claiming the parachute factory is in a great booming neighborhood and everything. it's in the middle of a CRAPPY part of town.

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