The buidlinga appear nice on the outside, the neighbors are mostly nice, and everything was moving along ok until after going month to month for a number of months it was time to 'sign a new lease or leave', management was perfectly within their rights to ask me to do this, but I apparently chose the wrong option.

Starting from the beginning, the apartment appeared in great shape when I first moved in. It was all nice and sparkly. Loved it. In fact I enjoyed living there for about 3 years, maintenance was always timely and always done right. The maintenance guy I met was a very nice guy.

Apparently there was a turnover in management while I was living there.

One day, after being on a month to month lease for 2 years I got a knock on my door and was told I had 30 days to sign a new 12 month lease or 90 days to vacate the apartment. No problem, I think they are within there rights to ask that of me, the problem was that I apparently chose the wrong option. As soon as I said that I wasn't going to sign the lease, but would be moving out I think I went onto some kind of bad list in the office. Maintenance became very slow to respond.

With 60 days until I was to vacate the premises Management started putting a notice on my door saying things like 'there will be a showing of the apartment from 9am to 11am on Thursday'. No problem. I would get the place straightened up as best I could given I was in various stages of packing up all my stuff and make sure I would out of the place for the time period.

One day with about 30-45 days until I was supposed to be out I got a call at work saying that they had wanted to show the place in 15 minutes and would that be ok' For a few reasons I wasn't comfortable with having strangers walking through my place that day so said I would prefer it if they didn't. Ok no problem. About 5 minutes later I got a call from Tim asking again. I explained to Tim that for a couple of reasons I would prefer it that they didn't go in. Tim got quite angry with me on the phone telling me that I should let them in no matter what - and I quote - 'last time I checked we own the place, not you!!!'. When I got home that night there were 6 notices posted to my door. There will be a showing 9am - 6pm Mon, Tues, Weds, Thurs, Fri, and Sat. It continued like that until the day I moved out... How petulant.

Since I moved out and bought my own place I realised that the construction of those apartments must not be quite as good as it appears. My 1,800sqft house costs about 20% less in energy costs month over month compared to my 1,200sqft deer creek run apt.

Now I'm sure Tim will come on here and post another 5 out of 5 rosy review. Maybe even accuse me of being bitter about being charged for repairs after I left. I'm not. One thing I was actually pleasantly surprised about after I left was what I got charged for the repairs, I was expecting to have to fight rediculous charges, but I think they ended up being pretty fair.

To sum it up, over the time I was there I spent over $36,000 on rent. Never in my whole life have I spent close to that amount of money with a company and come away with such a bad taste in my mouth.

User Responses
From: perkalicious11	Date: 10/02/2008
very helpful and thorough, thank you

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