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4th & Plum Apartments


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mrdowntowner

Resident ā€¢ 2004 - 2011

1/13/2011

This is a unique building with interesting and fun apartment layouts. One main concern with the apartments is that the walls are paper thin. Believe me, you can hear everything that is going on next door. Great location, with the exception of the new club on 4th street. Be wary that these bar patrons are loud and obnoxious at bar close time. While all of the car break ins on the streeats around 4th & Plusm and the fights and noise in the streets late at night aren't all necessarily related, they do occur. Now on to the building management. Generally they are decent, however, like others have said, the overall response from them is "no one else has said that..." or "we are working on it". The maintenance crew is nice enough, but many times they are in over their head and won't admit it. I am sure the building management folks won't let them job something out, unfortunately. DO NOT try and park in the garage after 9pm ANY night without having to be creative. THEY OVERSELL THE GARAGE and won't admit it. I have heard many times that people are forced to park on the street as it is a warzone sometimes with cars everywhere due to their space limitations at night. Also during the time I have lived here I do know of many cars that were broken into. When I moved in, the apt price was reasonable, however new management 3-4 years ago began increasing rent $25 a year with the only explanation that it is to "get it to market value". Bulls*it. They refuse to update the bathroom or kitchen or carpeting from the 80's without jacking up rent another $25. The building is not a value buy anymore. Now on to the pool. A selling point to 'wow' potential renters. It is heated, HOWEVER they refused to hook up the new heater last summer!! "They were too busy fixing air conditioners" The pool should be open in April and closed in October. The weather does permit, and it is heated. If not, then just close it and build another crappy studio apartment right there ! Management is always "working on something else" and "will get to <insert issue>". The maintenance on that and the building in general is shotty at best, also. Everything looks run down except for the gaudy new blue awnings. All of the plantings (that looked great for part of the summer) died as the watering system broke and they were "too busy" to fix it. The pool furniture is a night feature, if it wasn't all broken and the new stuff was cheap and broke, also. Keep in mind most of the people in the building are either alcoholics or at least binge drinkers, so when something is going on, you will hear about it if that person is your neighbor or lives on your floor. However, I can say I have met some very good friends in the building as it is a very social place to live.

    Review 29 out of 59

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