This complaint has already been sent directly to corporate on 8/26/25, with no acknowledgment. This review incorporates events since that date.
I signed a lease in April under the promise of 2 available garages, being told there were half a dozen or so empty. Upon our actual move-in, no garages were available immediately. After 3 weeks of back and forth of me going to the office and maintenance looking at one supposedly empty garage (which were occupied and just not documented) every couple days rather than checking all at once, I finally got a garage. However that garage was unusable for a portion of that time due to a malfunctioning door that wouldn't close all the way, leaving my property at risk of theft. Each time maintenance has serviced it, it's been a quick fix that only lasts a couple days. They finally contacted a third party repair service, who showed up 8/26 without no one in the office knowing he was coming somehow. I'm called in the middle of the workday to bring the remote. I arrive in less than 30 minutes (as I said I would) and they let the repairman just leave the property. I was left waiting again with no timeframe when he would return.
The other garage we were issued is one accessible only by key. It has needed service a few times, each time requiring us to hand over our key, with the office and maintenance claiming we have the only one. However, we have entered the garage several times to find the light switch turned off when we left it on. On the weekend of 8/23 we experienced a large theft from this garage, finding it unlocked rather than broken into. Either someone on staff does have an undisclosed spare and has been unlawfully entering our garage; or a previous tenant kept a copy and has been stalking our movement and waited for a lull to steal thousands of dollars of irreplaceable electronics. The former is astronomically more likely than the latter. The office confirmed the locks were only changed on our actual apartment before move-in, not the garage unit. We reported the theft to management immediately upon discovery and, management never rekeyed the garage, despite there still being a clear security threat.
We requested a new garage and experienced the same runaround about them not knowing which garages were unoccupied (one of which was their own leasing agent's). Eventually the garage we did get had a broken door, which he had to point out and get fixed before occupation. Eventually we we got so frustrated with the garage situation that we just gave them back and are now parked in the lot.
We also had extreme difficulty obtaining our renter's insurance policy information to file a claim against the theft. I visited the office virtually every day, with the one staff member who allegedly had access to this data conveniently not being there. After a week, we finally find out that the policy, through the parent company Bridge Property Management, is property liability only, already a misnomer that implies that it covers our personal property, and we're out of luck. Any person could've brought up our lease and seen this rather than forcing us to drop by the office repeatedly. We then tried to obtain the complex's insurance information to file a claim against, to find out they only have liability on their property as well. They are ultimately liable for the theft because, by their own employees account, the garages are extremely easy to break into and they did nothing to upgrade the locks to prevent these incidents.
Issues separate from the garage are the unruly tenants of surrounding buildings. For weeks, we were experiencing harassment from a group of children beating on our door, ringing our doorbell repeatedly, throwing water balloons and even rocks at our windows and into our porch, nearly injuring my dog. All incidents were after office hours, so I couldn't report them real time. Each time I informed the office of these incidents, I was told nothing could be done because I didn't know who they were or which units they lived in, implying that I record and follow these children home, causing me to break the law and risk harm from the inattentive parents. These same children had been chasing and throwing rocks and sticks at the Canadian geese and mallard ducks, both of which are federally protected, and I've had to intervene more than once. A previous staff member there were kids torturing and killing these birds, with zero consequence, meaning those kids are still here continuing to commit these crimes. It didn't matter which kids were the culprits, as the office could've sent a blanket email out to all residents about respecting other people, property, and animals. They send out announcements for every other little thing, so why not this?
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