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phoenix131281

Resident 2008

11/8/2008

I am just waiting for my lease to get over and I am out of this apartment. Typically when I rent an apartment I would search for ratings for the apartment. Unfortunately, this time I couldnt find any rating for this apartment. And based on the nice pep talk by the Manager (David), I rented this apartment. So the bumpy ride starts, the day we signed the lease. I am told that we dont have a covered parking space so was allocated an open parking space, till they find a covered spot. Not a big deal as such, but thought they should have told before we rented the apartment. After that, once we moved into the apartment, and a few weeks have passed, my wife started noticing 1 -2 roaches at times. My wife is a cleaning freak ! so there is no question that the roaches are coming from somewhere else. I tried searching the net and bring some baits for the roaches for a few months. Now it was almost 4 months, and if I wake up in the night I could literally see roaches in the kitchen. The prob lem was horrible. In the meantime, I had sent 3 written complaints to David & Karen (Apartment Manager), but to no help. They would say it is not their problem and they have never heard of roaches in the Apartment in 10 Years. Lie ! Lie ! Lie ! I have heard from other residents as well that they have few roaches, except that our problem was getting worse day by day. I was to a point, to vacate the apartment, because the situation was getting really bad and this was affecting even my professional life. But I couldnt do so, as I still did not have my lease documents. And we had asked for those for like 5 times after we moved to the apartment. I was even thinking of going to a lawyer for getting rid of the apartment. When I asked David, as to we want pest control to be done in the apartment. He said that I would need to pay for that. I googled on it immediately as to who is supposed to pay and asked him in writing the same. He refused. They got a ------ Pest Control guy who didnt do his job and I had to finally get my own handy man to make sure that he fixes all crevices /holes in the apartment, so that there is no place for the roaches to come in the apartment. The only plus side for the apartment is there are some nice residents. But on that note, there are equally weird people in the apartment ! - The list goes on ! My suggestion, dont think of taking an apartment without a rating on Apartment Ratings / Or some other website. Also check with the neighbors as to how is the apartment and if they have any issues and things likewise, look for another apartment. Unfortunately there are not many consumer courts or govt oversight in apartment renting, which is one of main reason for such kind of places / management to have existence. Anyways life is an experience in itself. And this also was a learning experience, albeit a bitter one ;-). Well on the plus side, I became a self proclaimed expert on how to get rid of roaches !

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