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Scotch Hills: Stay away...Hell hole (Not Recommending)

2009-07-17T11:07:15-06:00

From -Anonymous-: THIS PLACE SUCKS.....I CAN'T WAIT TO MOVE OUT. THE PROPERTY MANAGER BEVERLY HARDING IS A TOTAL DUMB BITCH.....I HAD EVERYTHING FROM BROKEN APPLIANCES,TO CARS BROKEN INTO. SO HAPPY TO BE MOVING OUT. ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: Racial Problems - Poor Management - Stay Away (Not Recommending)

2009-05-04T14:47:01-06:00

From leoandjurge: Here is an example of what you can expect if you live there: NEW CASTLE, Del. - May 4, 2009 - (WPVI) -- A black man from New Castle, Delaware, woke up Monday morning to find his car covered with racial graffiti, swastikas, and keyed. It happened at the Scotch ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: You make the decision. (Not Recommending)

2009-02-17T12:10:51-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I am a current resident and its nothing special. There website describing this place as breathtaking and tranquil had me laughing. All the pic's on their website are only in the front of the neighborhood, but if you take a ride around, especially to the back you will see this ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: so far so good (Recommending!)

2008-05-22T15:54:50-06:00

From greengrrl: When deciding to move in here, I really felt as though I was taking a gamble based on some of these reviews. But seeing as the price was right, I gave it a try and...so far so good. Some of the negative reviews are just based on petty personal experiences ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: leaks leaks leaks (Not Recommending)

2008-05-01T15:50:56-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Never seen so many leaks in my life, my apt had 4 shortly after i moved in! You dont want to be on the bottom floor your ceiling will fall down on you! Just not a good place to live! The staff is not very friendly at all, who knows ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: Bad, Bad Place (Not Recommending)

2009-05-04T14:28:46-06:00

From -Anonymous-: For those needing assistance, the BBB refuses to help. Here are options if you are still in state: contacting the state Attorney General's office @ 302-577-8600 or Housing Opportunities of Delaware @ 302-429-0794. ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: Couldn't wait to leave! (Not Recommending)

2007-11-02T16:57:42-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Staff Unfriendly. Person claiming to be the 'owner' is unprofessional which I guess would explain the poor staff. Maintenance never fixed anything, basically used a 'bandaid' so the same problems would occur every month or more. Nickel and dime you for everything! Definitely beware After you move out since they ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: Ghetto (Not Recommending)

2007-02-20T11:12:03-06:00

From -Anonymous-: It is not a good neighborhood and the upkeep is drastically changing for the worse there is garbage shopping carts etc everywhere ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: It just isnt worth it (Not Recommending)

2008-03-06T09:35:48-06:00

From satleon: Its turned from good feeling to Bad Feeling to worse and it only got worse by the day.The initial good feeling was what you get when you drive into an apartment complex to check it out, the locale and look from outside is good but it stops rightthere.The Rental office ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: Glad I'm Out! (Not Recommending)

2008-01-28T21:18:41-06:00

From gobegee: I was able to buy my own home & move out, after a rough divorce. Granted, I didn't leave the place in immaculate condition, but they kept my security AND added about $300 more. I called Sara, the property manager, but was advise that she was no longer with the ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: (Not Recommending)

2006-08-08T01:08:54-06:00

From DeadBearz: I am currently a tennant and the apartment itself is nice good layout and lots of room. The location is nice but that's about where the good stuff ends. There is always noise outside, people shouting, music blaring, children screaming. Right now at 1am there was a guy outside of ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: How long does it take to remove a fallen tree? (Not Recommending)

2006-07-06T10:23:44-06:00

From scotchdrinker: I huge tree branch had fallen on 2 cars in parking spaces on July 2. No one has come to remove the fallen tree and cut down the remaining portion of the tree before it falls on another car during the next storm. It is now July 6, and there ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: More phony reviews from the leasing office. (Not Recommending)

2006-06-21T23:25:59-06:00

From -Anonymous-: You'd think you guys would try and be creative, yet all you do is write up some bland paragraph and give this place 5 stars for everything. You are the ones who are solely responsible for the decline here, and why most of the decent people have left. Besides a ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: AWESOME! (Recommending!)

2006-06-21T22:01:37-06:00

From Beetle1: I am actually a current resident here and I think Scotch Hills Apartments are great!
Nice location with reasonable pricing.
The apartment layout is spacious.
The community is always clean and the
grounds well maintained.
The girls in the office are always friendly and very helpful to me. And on occasion they even let me ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: Scotch Hills? More like Ghetto Hills (Not Recommending)

2006-06-21T16:10:29-06:00

From mrlee: Scotch Hills may look like a nice place, but looks can be deceiving. This place really seems to be on the decline. Look at all the new people that are moving in, looking like ghetto trash which in turn is bringing this place down. Oh and let's not forget all ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: Great Place (Recommending!)

2006-06-21T00:15:24-06:00

From -Anonymous-: We have had nothing but good experiences here. All the staff is always warm and caring, the place is well kept and I would recommend it to anyone. It is also close to everything we need and like to do. The people who live near us are all nice and ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: its not worth the money (Not Recommending)

2006-06-16T00:27:11-06:00

From -Anonymous-: The apartments themselves are very nice, but tis not worth the money that is spent for crappy service, it takes the maintenance 3 weeks to complete a project, upon move out, they do not refund te security deposit and make up bonus crap to charge you for, and i think ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: THIS IS A GHETTO (Not Recommending)

2006-06-14T15:45:44-06:00

From awful1234567: THIS PLACE HAS MORE CHARGES FOR THINGS THAN ANY OTHER PLACE I HAVE EVER HEARD OF. THEY CHARGE FOR THIS AND THAT AND THEN THAT. IS ALL THIS CHARGING LEGAL? I HONESTLY WONDER. ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: thisplaceblows (Not Recommending)

2006-06-13T22:22:37-06:00

From thisplaceisghetto: I hate this place. It's so GHETTO!!! ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: this place blows (Not Recommending)

2006-05-28T06:42:56-06:00

From thisplacisaghetto: Could this place be any worse? I get changed $759.00 for a GHETTO. I can not wait to move.

They have roaches here and they blamed me. We have filthy neighbors with trash all over next door. I called leasing office and they refused to ask them to clean it up. ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: I hate this place (Not Recommending)

2006-05-14T12:42:47-06:00

From ihatescotchhills: My husband and I moved in here in around 3-4 years ago. It was a decent place to live for the money. One day there was all new management with out anyone saying why. Ever since then we have NOTHING but problems.

They lost a rent check and then blamed ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: work hard for the money (Recommending!)

2006-03-24T22:32:28-06:00

From lovelifelive: Scotch Hills is an affordable place to live, if you compare it to surrounding complexes. Stone-bridge is an arm and a leg, apple-by has curry and roaches. The rest in the area are section 8 housing.
In recent days, I have noticed management trying to make the area look better, ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: Refugee Rentals (Not Recommending)

2006-03-24T09:49:58-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I believe this apartment complex is one of the worst in New Castle County. I would suggest getting police reports on how many times have the New Castle County police have had to come out to the complex for problems along with how many reports of apartment and auto break-in's ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: no such thing as perfection (Recommending!)

2006-03-23T10:18:31-06:00

From SH2004: If you want your living experience to be perfect, stop renting and buy your own home, and even with that it will never be perfect.
... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: OK...but beware of charges after your leave (Not Recommending)

2006-03-21T15:07:13-06:00

From -Anonymous-: These folks are ok..the neighbourhood is fine...BUT remember they have a very unresponsive team when it comes to money. And yes they will try and milk out every penny from you when you are leaving.
I doubt if anyone has ever got his/her deposit back ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: It's Ghettotastic!!! (Not Recommending)

2006-03-20T13:38:19-06:00

From scotchhillsblows: Scotch Hills has gone down greatly in the last 3 years. When I moved in during the summer of '03 the staff was professional. Overnight, about 2 years ago they got rid of everyone in the leasing office.

Today, they lose rent checks, don't honor receipts they've marked paid in ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: whos going to know if nothing is said (Recommending!)

2006-01-27T13:47:35-06:00

From -Anonymous-: everyone hs a valid reason to write any comment in this "blog" posting. But I pose the question being: "how is the people responsible for the community going to correct situations if no one speaks up?"
I have been in these apartments for well over five months. Personally, I do not ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: Good Place to Live (Recommending!)

2005-12-02T10:18:44-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I can only speak where my apt was (the road in front of leasing office all the way down). For my less that 6 months my stay was enjoyable. I kept to myself and those around me did the same. It seemed everyone was single so it was quiet.

The ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: Ghetto (Not Recommending)

2005-11-29T09:42:25-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Scotch Hills has everything from daily presence of police vechiles to nightly outdoor entertainment of your favorite mariochi band to constant knocking of the doors from all the people coming by to pick up a quick fix from their drug dealers. How many illegal immigrants can you have in 1 ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: DONT CONSIDER SCOTCH HILLS (Not Recommending)

2005-11-27T10:54:38-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Although when I was living there I had no complains, when I was ready to move out and gave 30 day notice (job transfer), the lease office staff had no intentions of giving my deposit money back. They were uncooperative and gave lame excuses why they won't refund deposit. It ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: I regret it (Not Recommending)

2005-11-04T14:04:25-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Find out the answers to these questions and you may agree with me:

Who do they have doing the balconies: Rumor has it they are replacing them, but they had to come out and do my building 2 times because it didn't pass inspection of something

y is the pool decaying? HAs ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: Considering Scotch Hills-Help to decide (Not Recommending)

2005-10-27T18:01:45-06:00

From bill302: I curreenetly live at Beaver Boork-#2 rated at 71% approval, I'm consdeing a large 2 br end unit on the first floor, those who have lives at scotch hills can tell me I'm sure which are the better locations/sections to avoid dogs, also is there an over 40 area of ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: Be aware of bed bugs.... (Not Recommending)

2005-09-20T13:44:13-06:00

From ptlshilpan@gmail.com: staff sucks, blamed me of bringing bed bugs in. ok let say i did bring them in but they were suppose to take care ove it as its their property. they made me pay $350 for the treatment plus i had to live in a motel for two weeks which ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: (Recommending!)

2005-09-11T17:41:52-06:00

From -Anonymous-: The apts.are great. This is a decent neighborhood...not too much noise and the grounds are well kept. However, the maintenence is slow sometimes and there has to be another way to give a tenant pertinent info. other than hanging it on your door. The $45 late fee for being one ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: Great apartments and location (Recommending!)

2005-08-06T20:36:58-06:00

From Harry1957: You cannot beat Scotch Hills for value, location and staff. This is located near all the major highways, shopping and restaurants. The property manager and staff is the best that I've had at apartment complexes (this is my 4th). They are very responsive to your needs and is willing to ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: nice place but staff sucks. (Not Recommending)

2005-07-07T09:50:48-06:00

From -Anonymous-: place is really really nice, but the rules that they follow r really bad..... stuff like i have been living there for abt a year and half now and have maid payment always on time. but last time i was late in my rent payment just by a day and ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: A VERY NICE PLACE TO LIVE (Recommending!)

2005-03-15T08:43:10-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I live on the first floor and so far it has been very quiet. The apartment is very spacious and the people in the office are very nice. My only complaint is if you get home past 8:30pm you may have to park a little ways from your apartment. ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: A really nice place to live. (Recommending!)

2005-01-12T09:17:45-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I currently live in Scotch Hills, and if it weren't for reasons that are job-related I'd be here much longer.

Let me address the maintenance issues that some seem to have an issue with first. Not once did I encounter a problem with the maintenance staff or speed of their ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: recommended (Recommending!)

2005-01-11T18:40:33-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Office and maintanance staff was always very pleasant and timley with us. Mostly quiet except for a few. Apartment layout is nice. ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: decent for what you get (Recommending!)

2004-09-24T13:29:44-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I am presently living at Scotch Hills and for the most part I am pretty satisfied. The grounds are well maintained, and for the most part it is usually pretty quiet. However, these buildings were cheaply constructed. I can hear my neighbor talking on the phone, it's like there isn't ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: thank god im gone (Not Recommending)

2004-09-23T23:04:12-06:00

From -Anonymous-: this has to be one of the worse complexes ive ever bin in the neighborhood is terriable maintnance stinks you have to wait forever to get a work order done and when they finally come there is an excuse why the work cant be done like i said thank god ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: Great Place to live!!! (Recommending!)

2003-11-20T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I´ve lived at Scotch Hills Apts for 3 years now. The office staff and maint are wonderful. I never have any problems. My apt is beautiful and everyone is so nice. ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: quiet ,beautiful, spacious (Recommending!)

2003-08-24T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I presently live at Scotch Hills Apartments and am very happy with my apartment. The complex is very well taken care of. Any concerns that I have are immediatly addressed. The office staff is very considerate of me in that way. I have lived in other apartments but have not ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: very nice (Recommending!)

2003-07-22T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Scotch Hills is a great place to live. I have lived here for 3 years. The staff is excellant. The maintenance dept responds quickly. The location has many nearby shopping areas. The landscaping is kept very well. I would recommend to my friends. ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: Nice apts, good neighbors (Recommending!)

2003-03-06T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I´ve been living here about 5 months and I have liked it so far. The apartments are spacious and the noise level is not bad at all, at least the building I´m in (can´t vouch for others). Always parking spaces, and I feel safe. Only complaint is that the maintenance ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: highly NOT recommended (Not Recommending)

2003-01-16T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Apartment complex was thinly constructed and thus noise was clearly audible thorough walls and floors.

Maintenance issues were not addressed in a timely manner or not fixed at all.

Personnel was not straight forward about the terms of the lease.
... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: Above avg neighborhood, below avg personell (Not Recommending)

2003-01-07T00:00:00-06:00

From neutrino212: Maintenace requests were often not addressed in a timely manner and required several attempts to fix.

A verbal statement from the staff regarding the lease terms was later not uphelp. It is unclear if the staff misunderstood the lease or misrepresented it. ... [click to read full apartment review]

Scotch Hills: Comfortable, quiet, affordable (Recommending!)

2001-10-05T00:00:00-06:00

From kbohrer: ... [click to read full apartment review]