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Chaparral Apartments


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anonymous

Resident 2008 - 2010

4/30/2010

Can't wait to leave!

Let me start off by saying, 50 bucks says all the pleasant stay reviews were done by Gail, the manager. Because anybody with half a brain can see these apartments are terrible! They may be good for somebody who spent their entire live living in the slums of Bossier, but to anyone with the smallest bit of class, they are awful. They have jacked up my rent since I first moved in, and for absolutely nothing. They haven't done any improvement to the units. And some may think I am lying but come look for yourself, they haven't mowed the "grass" (if you want to call the baren little shrubs that sprout of the ground grass) since I have moved in. Sometimes I feel like i live in the Amazon! They make the front apartments look absolutely wonderful, but the apartments in the back of the complex are simply awful. I have never been so P.O.ed about anything in the world as much as I am with this complex. The apartments are extrememly outdated. My cabinets still have the original manufactures sticker on it, from 1980! And it hasn't been varnished or painted over, so that tells me they have never been redone. They are faded around the corners (where one would grab it to open it)They wood itself doesn't even match. It looks like they were put together with mis matched materials. I can see daylight under my sliding glass door, thanks to the idiotic maintenance. There was something wrong with it opening and closing, so after 2 months of trying to get them to fix it, they finally came down. He said it was off balance, so he "balanced" it, and when I pointed out you can now see under neath it, he simply said "That's as good as its going to get" To top it all of the door still gets stuck. The insulation is terrible. During the winter time when I have to run the heater I have to constantly wipe the windows of condensation. I have my bed set up against the wall, because the bedroom is too small to put it any other place, and I have to line the wall with pillows because it gets so cold! Yes, the wall itself gets cold. I dont know how many times I have had maintenance barge into my house while I was sleeping. I know get out of bed when my husband leaves for work so I can lock the dead bolt. One time maintence came by to do a fire extinguisher check, I asked him to wait outside while I brought it, and he ignored me, pushed my door aside and proceeded to go into my kitchen to get it! Last week I had the manager come by to look at a problem I was having, she knew I was home and going to be expecting her. When she gets to the apartment ( I was throwing on some clothes) she knocks once and then puts her key in the door! I'm glad I had my dead bolt locked. Just because I am expecting to INVITE you in, doesn't give you the right to enter on your own accord! I had have complaints about my patio, saying it was messy ever since I moved in, one of the complaints was my patio was spotless, except for a medium sized mirror up against the side, it was an art project and it was drying. I got a notice on my door saying I needed to throughouly clean my patio and they were going to do an inspection 48 hours later. Yet my neighbors, who had lived there for about a month, were using their patio as a storage! When I told Gail why the picture was there and i explained to her it had spray paint on it and was drying, she jumped my --- and told me I had no business spray painting on the patio. I told her I lay garbage bags down, which I do, and she said she didn't care. I was not allowed to spray paint ever again. She seems like she doesn't like younger kids, I am 20 and my husband is 22. We had some friends who lived here, and they had the same problems with Gail. She treats elderly people politely, but anyone under 30 better watch out. We have lived here for a year and a half (due to financial circumstances) and have been late on rent 2 times, one time was because my husband was having to do some odd jobs just to pay bills (which I understand is not an excuse) and more recently it was because stupid Chase bank atm ate our card and we were unable to pull out money, and it was Sunday. So we couldn't go into the bank. Which I understand again, is not an excuse, but it just shows we are not irresponsible people. I get blamed for stuff that I don't do. Last week I got a notice on my door about playing loud hip hop music, from midnight until the early hours of the morning. Excuse me, for starters, I'm a country fan, and my husband is a classic rock fan. Hip hop is like blasphemy in our house. Second, my husband works 13 hours a day, 5 days a week at US Support Co. He goes to bed at 11. So is my apartment being broken into and somebody is playing hip hop on our stereo while I am asleep? They didn't even bother calling to ask if it was us, they just said it needs to stop, you are being a disturbance blah blah blah. *sigh* Thanks for letting me rant about this awful apartment building. I know i have more complaints but I am getting overly mad right now lol. If you have questions or would like to see pictures of the real apartments, and how crappy they are, please feel free to email me! jcmarch@ymail.com We are moving in 2 months and I couldn't be happier. Oh I forgot to mention, I agree with everyone else who said this, I was not allowed to see the apartment before move in. I didn't see it until after I got my keys. As did at least 3 other people I have spoken with in my building. Thanks

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