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Old Farm Shores Apartments


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Resident ā€¢ 2014 - 2015

5/7/2015

I would not recommend this place to others. When we were apartment hunting, we called Old Farm Shores and they had a loft available. I made an appointment for the next day. I drove over an hour to get there and when I arrived, the staff told me they had already rented it out. No phone call or warning. I really should've paid attention to that red flag. Instead, stupidly, I asked if they had any other apartment available. When we moved in, the staff member who handled all of our paperwork got our rent price wrong and didn't know it. We signed paperwork, moved in, and one week later got a call from another staff member requesting that we come in and sign for the new rent, which was higher. They weren't even apologetic about it. They should've just taken the hit for their staff making an error, not us. I couldn't believe it. My car was broken into one night - shattered window and some little things stolen. Nothing major and not the staff's fault, but a safety concern. Makes me feel a little less safe, especially since we don't have security entrance (the staff member who worked with us told us our building did - I should've checked myself before signing like an impulsive idiot). They're really terrible at giving enough heads up when anything major is going down. Just this week, we received half of a day's notice for roof reconstruction and to move cars out of their parking spaces. I feel bad for anybody who went away for more than a day and had their cars left where there was falling debris, or valuable things on their patio where there were tons of things being thrown from the roof. It was also incredibly loud. I live on the bottom floor, and it sounded like they were right above me, hammering and drilling and scraping, for 10+ hours. The dishes were rattling in my cupboards. Just irritating that they really didn't give us much notification. A lot of things were wrong with the apartment when we initially moved in - hole in the utility room ceiling (we told maintenance about it and they were going to fix it, hasn't happened yet... it's been nine months), the slider door lock didn't work (still doesn't, we use the back-up one at the top that slides halfway down), one of our blinds fell out after only a few times of use, the outlet in the bathroom constantly goes out, an Ethernet outlet doesn't work, etc, etc, etc. We just don't bother calling maintenance about these things anymore because it's all never actually fixed. The layout of our unit takes any heat from our stove and causes our fire alarm to go off if we don't have a fan blowing directly at it. It happens when we just boil water. There are quite a few other problems here, but this is turning into a novel. Bottom line: a professionally sloppy staff who makes the whole experience of living here not worth it. It's all just a facade. We will not be renewing a lease. Only giving higher than 1 star rating because I like the bike trails and the lakes.

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