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curmudgeon99

Resident 2011 - 2012

7/29/2012

I lived in Pickwick Place Apartments for one year. The staff are nice but the units are a mess. Here are some details: Grounds are filthy. Dumpsters are a festering pile of rotting trash. Staff has no desire to keep them orderly. Garbage disposals drain into the dishwashers, leaving a festering pile of stinking sewage. Often run the dishwasher just to get rid of the filthy water. Have run dishes through it once or twice but they were not cleaned. Just a dirt-cheap dishwasher. The unit was full of half-assed maintenance fixes, including holes in the ceiling. Bathtub is half-width. The water heater is under the kitchen sink and it allows for about 1 1/2 inches of hot water until a half hour passes. The locks on all the windows are terrible and given the class of people they have to rent to because the units are such crap, I could never leave my window blinds open out of fear of inviting thieves. I had to wedge wood into every window because they were sliding and could easily be opened. Had to chain my computer to a bolt in the wall--inside my apartment--out of fear of thieves. Trash is allowed to pile up in the alcoves in front of units, leading to confrontations with neighbors. Bottom line: the units are so terrible they are forced to set the bar low on the people they rent to and there were two fires in the year I was there. One fire destroyed an entire row of units. The exercise room has a treadmill and two ellipticals but both of the ellipticals were broken for the entire year I was there. Unusable. There were two weight machines but no pins. The laundry facility featured ancient machines and not one had hot water. Not one. The carpeting was very nice, though.

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