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arthurmerle

Resident 2010 - 2012

1/3/2013

DO NOT GO THERE IF YOU HAVE THE CHOICE. They will simply try to take all the money they can from you, the apartments are expensive and they are really annoying. I had to deal with them for two years because I wanted to live really close to the Northeastern University campus as I was studying there. I am telling you this advice for several concrete reasons: -First, if you do not pay your rent before the 4th of each month they will charge you a late fee of $50 and send you a letter telling you that you will be kicked off from the flat if you do not pay within 15 days. And this, EACH time you do not do pay before the 4th. -Second, they always take money from your security deposit for no reason when your lease is ending. for example, they took money from the security deposit from our first apartment just to pay for the painting of the whole place and we had nothing to do with it as the wall were not dirty at all. They did that TWICE and this is only one example. -Third, each of their apartments are infested with rats (they will off course not tell you that when you are going to take the flat). I called several times to make them kill the rats. They pretended that someone came but I had to deal with rats the whole two years and they have never been able to change anything. -Fourth, each time I rented an apartment with them, something was not working or something was broken: Either the blinds, the ringing bell, the oven etc... And they take forever to repair it. -Fifth, the apartments get regularly robbed and they do nothing to improve the security of their buildings. We have been robbed in our second place and they did not care at all. -Sixth, they increase the price of the lease EACH YEAR. And if you choose to not renew your lease for another year they make visits in your apartment all the time. It can be three to four times a day and you have to keep telling them that it is too much until they understand. THEREFORE MY BIG ADVICE WOULD BE TO TRY TO DEAL WITH ANOTHER REAL ESTATE OFFICE IF YOU CAN. ALL THEY DO IS TAKE ADVANTAGE FROM STUDENTS THAT DON'T KNOW BOSTON BECAUSE THEY HAVE FLATS THAT ARE WELL SITUATED. ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS YOUR MONEY. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE CHOICE. TRY TO BARGAIN A LOWER PRICE WITH THEM FOR THE MONTHLY LEASE. I KNOW THAT IT WORKED FOR SEVERAL OF MY FRIENDS. AND BE REALLY CAREFUL WITH THEM. I HOPE THAT IT WAS HELPFUL. I AM KNOW DEALING WITH ANOTER AGENCY IN MISSION HILL AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FAR BETTER. Arthur

    Review 3 out of 24

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