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Victory Crossing


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prospectiveVisited 2020

6/16/2020

No matter how pleasant, even likable, on-site staff may be, you know upper management policy is to do the prospective tenant harm and play him for a fool, when the leasing agent refuses to give you a straight answer or provide full disclosure as to critical questions that should be the tenant's right to know - such as who owns the property and its history of bedbugs or other problems. The problem here is not the few who work on-site, but their corporate overlords in Annapolis -- the real estate "investment" speculators who place profit before all else, and its front company in the adjoining suite, that of Habitat America Property Management, LLC., and its Regional Manager who seeks to defraud and disadvantage the tenant in every way imaginable. Letters about the problem of this abusive Regional Manager and her bad-faith tactics, were sent to Habitat America's President, Senior VP and others, but were ignored. Sure, the building looks pretty in a real-estate postcard sort of way, and corporate is quick to point out that it is all new construction. This could be a good thing. However, in this instance, It is Not. When profit motive demands the lowest construction bid to yield corporate the highest profit, what results is often if not usually substandard quality. Just look at the rampant tenant illnesses and suffering at another Habitat America apartment building, that of "Victory Square Senior Apartments", nearly identically-sized and constructed only a couple of years earlier than Victory Crossing, and by the very same builder. There are also the underhanded tactics involved in the lease presented to the prospective tenant. The rule of thumb is that the longer the residential lease, the greater the chance the leasing company is out to swindle the tenant. The lease presented, including addenda and attachments numbered 41 pages. After the tenant signs the first 41 pages, their protocol is to spring another 30 pages on him, for a total lease numbering seventy-one (71) pages of convoluted legal double-speak!!!??!!!! Not only does the wording of this absurd self-contradictory and "non-negotiable" lease of theirs demand that the tenant agree to forfeit his legal rights to privacy and quiet enjoyment (e.g. mgmnt. may enter apartment w/ strangers for any trivial reason or no reason without giving proper 24-hour notice), tenant also agrees that he can be evicted for any of a dozen or so pretexts for a "lease violation" (e.g. carrying an unopened bottle of wine home from your car, since possession of alcohol in a common area is also a "violation"). On top of this, should the building burn down as a result of property management negligence, fault or mechanical malfunction, tenant would accept blame for not installing his own supplemental smoke detector, even when such installation would be a lease violation. One would have to be a complete idiot or mentally ill to accept such conditions. For greater detail as regards management's practices, see tenant comments about other Habitat America properties: Riverwoods at Tollgate Apartments, Willow Manor at Colesville, Willow Manor at Fair Hill Farm, Victory Court Senior Apartments, and especially Victory Square Senior Apartments.

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