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Central Palms Apartments


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anonymous

Resident 2012

1/30/2012

I lived here for a year and would not recommend it on any level. The area is dangerous, with lots of transient foot traffic, garbage pickers, squatters in the alley/park and abandoned house next door. (This house was a sleeping spot for the many homeless people in the area. They were generally quiet, but did occasionally fight and cause disturbances, but just in general made me uneasy). While I lived there, there were two break-ins (in the apartments) and three murders in the neighborhood. Also, my car was broken into 4 times (but there was nothing to steal!). Apart from the neighborhood crime, the apartments themselves are not safe. MY APARTMENT DID NOT HAVE A SMOKE DETECTOR - and it was not the only one! Also, and THIS IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW -the landlord rents primarily to people who are receiving some sort of housing assistance - ie they are physically or mentally disabled, mentally ill, previously homeless or homeless/mentally ill veterans with subsidies. There were about 30 or so tenants when I lived there, and only about a dozen or so of us actually worked - the rest were on some form of disability. This being the case, I am sure you can imagine what the atmosphere there is like - people screaming in their apartments at night, pounding on the walls, occasional manic or psychotic episodes of running around naked/pounding on doors/threatening suicide. So these were my neighbors... Remarkably, it was not the crime, strange neighbors, lack of smoke detectors (a MAJOR city codes violation), or occasional violence that made me move out before my lease was up - it was the bugs and vermin. There is a community of feral cats that the complex neighbors feed. While they probably keep the rats/mice away, they cause a big tick problem, and will also bite/scratch pets. Also, there were other bugs in my apartment. Another important thing to know is how the billing works. The reason some other reviewers are calling the landlord a slum lord or slimy, is because you pay your utilities on a shared system ie the water and electric are not measured in each apartment and there is no way to tell how much you are actually using there is a lot of room in this billing method for a landlord to overcharge, which I am pretty sure he was doing.

    Review 9 out of 11

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