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Ashwood Apartments


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anonymous

prospectiveVisited 2015

7/8/2015

First: Thank you everyone for speaking out against the discrimination or unfair practices happening at this Ashwood Apartment complex in Columbia, Missouri. Along with your reviews please take the time to visit the City of Columbia at 701 E Broadway or look online at -------------------- to file an official complaint and look into legal actions against the management if you feel it's necessary. If you need to send any documents to the complex direct them to -------------- because she is the property manager. The complex address is 1021 Ashland Rd Columbia, MO 65201 and the phone number is --------------. Summary of Complaint: The maintenance worker, -----, and the apartment complex manager, -----, collaborated in what I believe was discrimination against me and my girlfriend. Complaint: My girlfriend has lived in the apartment complex for the past year. Initially when I would come over and park in the visitor spots I didn't have any problems. However soon after -----, the maintenance man, saw me get in or out of my vehicle problems began to arise. I am a ----- male, employee and current student at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Once ----- caught a glimpse of me from what I assume was his ----- truck, I couldn't see his face, that's when I started having problems. One morning when I walked out to my car I saw a note saying that I was parked there too often and that my vehicle would be towed if it were there again. When I went inside to talk to the management they said ----- claimed my vehicle was parked at the complex for days in a row without moving and implied that I was living at the apartment complex without a lease. These allegations were false because I have my own home and visit my girlfriend a few times a week so that she doesn't have to drive across town in the mornings to get to class. When I stay the night with my girlfriend I come to the complex usually after 5:30pm and park in the designated visitor parking spot. The following mornings I am gone before 8:30am or 9:00am so that I can get to class or work on time. Since I am not a tenant of the complex -----, the manager, said that I would not be able to meet with her. My girlfriend met with ----- and -----, and she told me that ----- reiterated his lies even though he had no evidence my vehicle was there for days in a row. I always text my girlfriend when I'm on my way to the apartment complex and each message was after 5:00pm, because I work and study during the afternoons. Even when she supplied these messages ----- and ----- still weren't convinced. Eventually ----- made the excuse that she just wanted to make sure other visitors had the opportunity to be at the complex and didn't want me constantly occupying parking spots. However, almost every time I've parked at Ashwood there have been multiple visitor parking spots available. This led me to believe that this might be a way for ----- and ----- to hide discrimination. Another incident arose after my car was towed. Admittedly I was not parked in a visitor spot and forgot to move my car when my girlfriend and me returned to Ashwood after a date. In the morning I noticed my car was not in the parking lot and figured out it had been towed. A few weeks later I saw a ----- truck was parked outside of the office building in the complex and man was outside on his phone. I was on my way to class so I pulled in the office parking lot and looked at the vehicle and the man on the phone for a few seconds, because I had never seen ----- before since I was not able to arrange a meeting with -----. As I drove away ----- hustled inside the office and came back outside pounding his chest in a "you want a piece of me!" manner. I stopped and rolled down my window. ----- aggressively said that I was attempting to intimidate him and brought up the fact that my car was towed even though I never brought the matter up. ----- came out of the office and said she didn't want problems and that I was not allowed on the property anymore. Her and ----- said if they saw me on the property again they would call the cops and have me arrested. I left the complex and haven't returned since. The same day I called ----- and apologized because ----- made an unnecessary confrontation occur with his belligerent gesturing and irrational fear based because he thought he was being intimidated by me. She simply said she appreciated the call and said she didn't want problems because she has too much to deal with on a daily basis. We left it at that and ended our conversation. After looking through these reviews I'm happy for the people who haven't encountered issues at Ashwood but I definitely empathize with people who have felt bullied or discriminated against by the staff there. Once again please file official complaints and let friends and family who are looking for an apartment know your experience there.

    Review 9 out of 37

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