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Alderwood Apartments


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anonymous

Resident 2016 - 2017

8/1/2017

This place is a rip-off. It's run by a mysterious "163rd Ave Investors" and they don't care at all about the needs of the tenants as long as they keep collecting money. They raise the rent every single year to the point where it's absurd for the location (only lived there 1 year, but talked with neighbors). The lease they make you sign has no opt-out option for the duration of the full year unless you fall deathly ill or join the military. Guessing that's because they've been burned before. Also the price they show you is about $100 less than what you end up paying because of a ~$70 water fee and ~$30 trash fee - doesn't matter if you have six people living there or one. The manager is simply there to collect a paycheck, and changed twice in the one year I lived there. They're so poorly organized (or greedy), that they put a letter on our door telling us our lease was to expire in 2 days (2 months early), and we had to pull out our lease and contest it with them, to which they said, "whoopsies our mistake that's just a generic letter and we forgot to change the dates." When we signed our lease we were shown a nice apartment overlooking the pool and picnic area, then were put in one sandwiched between 2 other buildings 10 yards apart so it felt like living in a fish bowl. Neighborhood is not especially quiet, and the windows are all single pane so they do nothing for sound attenuation. Only half of the washers and dryers work on any given day, but that's "not the responsibility of the leasing office" so they make you call a separate contractor that does the maintenance on them. Mail is contained within the leasing office, which is only open from 9-6, so for anyone with a full time job, simply getting your mail is a massive hassle. Package delivery sucks too, as UPS simply slaps a delivery attempt notice on the exterior gate and leaves. USPS delivers inside of the leasing office, but then you run into the same problem where it's only open during business hours. The buildings are old (70's?), so the plumbing and furnaces are just as old (for about half the units). They use cheap, nice LOOKING materials to do the upgraded "premium" apartments, but they aren't durable at all, and you'll end up paying for it. You can definitely count on them nickel and diming you out of your deposit. One redeeming quality, and the only reason I give them a star at all was that when maintenance HAD to be performed, it was done in a timely fashion. To put it lightly, this place has some things to figure out before they can justify the amount that they're charging to live here. Thanks for the experience Alderwood Apartments, you taught me a lot.

    Review 4 out of 34

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