I have lived here from 2004 to present - the maintenance is fine. The current problem is due to safety. It is winter now - December 22, 2008 - snow every where. That is the problem, after five days, the new/current manager, Gabriella, has not instructed the maintenance crew to clean off the walkways, stairs, landings, parking lots, entrance and exit roads which are small hills.

Another problem you will find here is that the new manager has raised the rent every year by twenty-five dollars, for the last four years. Rent increase always comes at Christmas time - you are either going to give your family Christmas or you are going to move - which is it'

Also you have to be aware of the hidden fees that the Emerald Group charges their tenants. Water (1 Person)$9.92, Sewer (1 Person)$26.35, Garbage (1 Person)$18.10, Service Fee $3.00. Now these fees increase if their is a couple or a family in the unit.

When I moved in I knew nothing about these hidden fees - I was simply told that I would have to cover the utilities - which I assumed meant the electric and the manager never clarified the difference.

Those fees didn't show up until I was completely moved in and didn't have the money to move again when I found out that I had been lied to.

You should be aware that these apartments were built fifty years ago and shows it. Even though the rent and hidden fees keep increasing, there has been large blue tarps covering the roofs - because the roofs leak and the Emerald Group is to cheap to repair the roofs, there are no screens on the windows, the walkways are uneven due tree roots growing underneath.

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