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Abbey Villas


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anonymous

Resident 2014 - 2015

3/6/2015

After my husband and I got married we needed to find a place to live that was cheap and close to family, so after visiting the complex during the day, we decided that Abbey Villas was the place for us. The apartment unit itself was really spacious and overall nice. After 2 weeks of living here, our good feeling had gone away. The safety in this complex is pathetic. It is right across from government housing and in the 2 months we have been here, there has been 3 shootings. If you plan on leaving your apartment after dark, it's a bad idea. Weird people hang out in the parking lot, and one night, there was two guys hanging out in the parking lot, and they stood there and started walking towards my car and I took off real quick and came back once they were gone. The entire parking lot is just pot holes. You will destroy your car trying to get it in the lot. Residents keep the main door propped so that their friends can come and go as they please, so there really isn't any safety. Maintnence is overall good at getting your problems fixed quickly. The Maintnence team does have some odd men though. They don't necessarily seem all with it. (Meaning if you're a younger girl, I would not let them come in your apartment when you are home alone) The biggest scam that we encountered while living here is that when we first moved in, we were told that electric and heat would be around $60 on average a month. Our first month living here we paid $270. We used little to no heat, and wore our winter coats around the house and could literally see our breath still. The hallways here have no windows, and when a light goes out, it is pitch dark. The hallways are also disgusting. They get cleaned maybe twice a month. A light has been out in the main hallway for a week now and it is pitch dark if you come home at night. I let Maintnence know about this 4 days ago and they still haven't done anything. (Living with all black people, you can clearly see my concern.) We have only been here 2 months and because of the lack of safety, we have decided to move. We should not have to feel this unsafe in our own house. We called to ask what we needed in order to break the lease, even though in the lease it said we needed 2 months rent, we called to make sure. She told us that we had to keep paying rent until someone else rented our unit. I called her out on it and she goes "uhhh let me talk to my manager, hold on." She comes back and says "yeah I guess we can do that for you." It was clearly written in the lease, and If you don't read over your lease, they will try to scam you! Oh! And you are RIGHT NEXT to the train tracks. You have to yell over the train to even talk to someone sitting in the same room as you. The neighbors have no manners, and blast their music until all hours of the night. I extremely don't recommend this place if you have children. Oh and one last thing. This neighborhood is purely a black community. Nothing against black people, but it would be nice to see some of my kind again. There are a bunch of weird men that hit on younger girls and it happens to me and makes me extremely uncomfortable. Pros: It's dirt cheap (minus electric) The apartment unit itself is spacious and overall nice. I don't recommend this place, the safety is the biggest factor. I have never felt so unsafe in my life. Between the shootings, being chased by men, and the sketchy laundry room in the basement. (Don't do your laundry here) Pay a little more money to get in a good neighborhood. You will move out of here quicker than you moved in. We leave in a couple weeks and I couldn't be more excited! This place is a joke!!

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