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Flamingo on the Lake Apartments


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anonymous

Resident 2014

5/10/2014

I do not recommend this apartment building whatsoever. I had seen all of the bad reviews online but chose to ignore them because I thought the apartments were good and were a good price. I wish more than anything I could go back in time and heed the advice of the reviews and not have signed a lease here! I moved in about a month and half ago, and I wish hadn't. I would give anything to get out of my lease and move somewhere else. First of all, I have to say that the number one thing that has turned me off so far is that the leasing agent/manager etc acts SO nice to you when you are looking and contemplating signing a lease, and yet the minute you move in they are no longer nice or friendly at all. Apparently, once they get your money and lock you into a lease their real colors come out and they treat you like dirt. I had a number of issues when I moved in, all of which I overlooked. Things like misplaced documents, not having the issues I was promised would be fixed in my apartment before I moved in, etc. I am a laid back person, and I understand mistakes are made, and therefore I did not get angry or upset or anything like that. And yet THEY acted rude to ME! I haven't done ONE THING that would be questionable at all. I try to be exceptionally quiet in my apartment for fear someone might complain. I have done everything asked of me, and yet I am treated badly. Believe me, it sure doesn't feel like a "home". Quite the opposite. I don't want to go into specific details regarding all of the MANY issues for fear that they will then know who I am and treat me even worse. After I moved in I overheard them talking to a prospective tenant on an apartment showing and the tenant asked about all of the negative reviews online. She responded to them by saying they "know who those people are" and would "rather not even have them as tenants anyway." Or something to this effect. I think that alone tells you a lot about the building and management company. I also do not like the front desk at all. I wish there wasn't a front desk staff or that there was a way to enter and exit the building to avoid them! There are two gentlemen that are VERY sweet and nice, but the rest of them have attitudes, are rude, are always asking weird questions, and never seem to remember who I am. They have literally harassed me several times when entering into the building asking me "do you live here?" like I am breaking and entering. Again, doesn't make me feel very welcome. When I moved in I was told that I could use the service elevator and that I could pull the truck up to the door. Well, it was a total nightmare getting the truck to the door because the alleyway is slightly narrow for a truck and there were cars parked around. But, I managed to get the truck in the area to unload after a 20 minute ordeal. Then, not even an hour into moving, the maintenace guy basically forced us to move the truck so he could get his car out! Apparently, he had parked his car there even though I was told no one would be parked back there and that I would have a few hours to unload the truck! It became a total nightmare -- I ended up breaking my TV and several expensive items in the process of having to close up the truck, move the truck, and get it back into the alleyway. Then, as we were moving in, a group of people came through the loading service area. One guy had a huge KNIFE on him. He proceeded to THROW IT towards the dumpsters, literally missing my head by an inch or two! Why did he have a huge butchers knife on him in the middle of the day that he was throwing over the wall past the dumpsters? And I couldn't believe that he basically threw it while I was standing there, almost hitting me. I mean, it literally could have killed me if it hit me in the wrong place. He threw it like you would throw an ax, over his head with all his strength. It flew over the wall in the alleyway next to the loading area, and I heard someone scream. I ran over to see if it had hit someone, but by the time I got to the other side by the next door building I didn't see anyone hurt. I hope no one got hurt. This speaks volumes to the type of people that live here. I've seen/met some nice people, yes, but there's a lot of riff-raff as well. The day I was moving in there was someone moving out, but apparently she didn't have the move out "planned" even though she had very little stuff to move, and from what I saw management gave her a hard time. I was talking to a girl that just moved out last weekend, and she told me how happy she was to get out of the building. So, it's not just myself that feels this way. Anyway. To the next drawback. Then there's the fact that Bar Louie is downstairs. At night, the entire area is full of drunk people acting rude and loud. A friend of mine was over, and she got harassed while walking to her car right outside of the building by the drunk guys at Bar Louie. Another tenant told me that the AT&T guy told her that someone was murdered in this building by someone posing as a Comcast person - now, I did find that a little ironic that the AT&T guy said the guy who murdered someone in the building was from Comcast LOL but I wonder if this is true? If so, that does not bode well for the safety of this building! Either way, there are just so many drawbacks to this apartment it is unbelievable. The building is old, my apartment was filthy when I moved in, the hallways look terrible and even though they are supposedly remodeling them a tenant who has lived here for years said that while they were remodeling apartments it was a total mess, they were starting construction super early which woke people up that were in units nearby.

    Review 3 out of 13

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