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Lotus Apartments


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Resident 2000 - 2010

4/1/2016

We lived at the Lotus from 2000 to 2010 saw and experienced much of what others have posted here including gunshots fired and SWAT teams coming to extract various offenders involved in drugs and who knows what else. By the time we left, our last year we experienced roof rats jumping out of the toilet and in one room that we used as a guest room because we had left the door closed for over 6 months rats somehow managed to make a hole in the floor of that room and nested in the guest room mattress! Unbelievable! For anyone interested in knowing, The Lotus Apartments are owned by an absentee owner who lives in the Philippines who comes to visit the building maybe once per year and the truth of the matter is, she is a slumlord! Built in 1964 my husband saw it being built as a kid! In the 1970's The Lotus Apartments was actually a luxurious complex owned by a Hawaiian developer and the original theme was oriental with Bonsai style landscaping, a small bridge over an artificial running stream with a badminton court and a sauna (which is now a junk/maintenance room) It had a nice mix of working professionals, teachers, firemen, and refinery workers and rent was around $300 per month. Yes, The Lotus Apartments is well overdue for renovation or demolition, heck, many of the back decks on the 2nd and 3rd floors are decaying and when we left already a few of the units with these dangerous decks were vacated and definitely not being rented out because of the hazard! Do Not Rent here unless anything has changed indicating complete renovation and unless your lookup for sex offenders reveals that there is no more than 1 in the building (generally in most cities sex offenders are usually at least 1 to 3 miles apart!) PS: 3/4 or more of tenants at The Lotus Apartments are Section 8 or Housing for ex-cons released from prison and there were at least 18 sex offenders that we would post the pictures of periodically to let people know who to watch out for and would replace them as soon as they were taken down from the corkboard in the laundry room.

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