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Normandy Apartments


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anonymous

Resident 2015 - 2016

6/24/2016

So. As I'm writing this it is 4:15 AM & I awoke due to the fact that it is incredibly hot in my apartment. I paid the landlord for an A/C unit, and after the first not getting the job done and waking up sweating multiple times throughout the night, the second is significantly worse and I am sitting here dripping in sweat. When I first moved in, almost a year ago, everything was dandy for about a month or two. Then, all of the sudden, bedbugs showed up. Now, I am extremely allergic to bedbugs. These little guys showed up out of nowhere, so I began to complain to the landlord and he began to spray for them once a week. That didn't take care of the job, so I in turn lost a riduculous amount of sleep and had skin rashes thanks to the bugs. Finally, I spoke with the owner and he informed me that I must have brought them in. No sir, my bed is new and I'm highly allergic to them so I would've known if my previous living situation had bed bugs. Also, they were coming from the closet which is the closest to my neighbors apartment. After no help from Dell Properties, I spent a ridiculous amount of money wrapping my bed and box spring and buying bed bug traps, and finally lofting my bed so the bugs could not get to it. Everything was fine and dandy for a few months after that. Dell Properties got a new Landlord for dear old Normandy, which I must say he's quite a handsome fella. Super good guy who actually cares about his tenants too. Funny thing is, a few months after my bed bug problem and the owner informing me it must be me, a notice went up near the elevator telling everyone how bedbugs are entirely difficult to kill and can come into even the cleanest of apartments. Mind you, I had done my research and told the owner all of this. I had heard a lot of problems about cockroaches, but I had never experienced any problems myself due to the fact that I keep things pretty well kept. But, the past two months I have seen an increasing level of random cockroaches throughout my apartment. It's quit unnerving. Actually, I just saw one on the hallway wall before I wrote this post. They finally fixed the elevator doors after months of them slamming loudly and causing problems. I haven't had huge noise issues due to the fact that my apartment is luckily slightly secluded from the rest, but I'm well aware many other tenants had noise issues. And go buy yourself an AC unit, don't pay the building for one of theirs, it doesn't help cool down even a 2 foot radius and you will be worse off than when you began. They "remodeled" some apartments, also raising the price from a halfway decent price to now absolutely absurd for the actual quality this building is in. Essentially no parking, but that's just downtown life for you. All the 10 parking spots in the back "parking lot" are already rented out. I tried to buy one and got a "sorry, but we can add you to a waiting list," and I've never heard back. Don't let the nice lobby fool you, or the handsome landlord. The maintenance crew is pretty nice and solid as well. But get to know the building and the owner, and you will be thoroughly unimpressed. Yes the building is rather old, but the owner makes far too much money on this building and his many others to let it stay so unkept and essentially, one of the worst apartment buildings in downtown Kansas City. -Tenant of a year

    Review 9 out of 31

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