The apartment unit itself was clean and nice, I liked it.
But apartment management was a huge mess.
The shortage of parking space resides in this apartment and this burden is imposed on residents.
The assigned parking lot isn't enough by default, I saw two beds unit still has one spot.
Additional parking isn't affordable price, still I wanted to go for it. But the management just let me line in the waiting list and never get back to me..
So people park on the guest lots and they were always full. You should come back home early if you don't want to park where you should walk back home for a distance..
I also doubt the security in this apartment. Unfortunately, a car theft and a gun shot happened in the apartment while I was staying for 7 months.
I also personally experienced a theft in the parking garage. My husband forgot to lock the car, so the thief stole all valuables from the car.
It was his bad, but we were shocked because his car was in indoor garage. Considering the car theft happened in this garage earlier, we couldn't get off the suspicion that this indoor garage is vulnerable to the external access.
Not to mention miscellaneous complaints..
No walking distance restaurants.
The elevator near my unit smells always bad, full of pet odor. (I like pets but the management could have cleaned in time.) Also, I personally didn't like the smell after their cleaning as well, stinky acrid smells.
Mail packages are so disorganized in the office, it seemed the packages are piled up without order, they browsed one by one to search one. Really, imagine how it was in Black Friday.. I believe there must be some package missing, which I luckily didn't face it tho.
The business office runs out of paper in most of time. One day, I told the management about it and the reply was just 'yeah, it's used up'.
I think what made me irritating was their irresponsible and unprofessional stance on any management issues.
They have resident referral system and my friend who moved in applied a form on behalf of me. Never get heard back.
This approached the climax at my move out.. Near the end of agreement term, the apartment business manager, Jazmin, sent an email to check if we want to leave or stay. We replied that email to notice our leave, but she didn't check and charged us the penalty fees. After we called her, she refunded it but I should say she doesn't check emails.
The experience that I gone thr with her which was horrible after the move out demonstrates it.
She sent us email for move-out statement after about a couple of weeks. In short, we had to pay more, the deposit couldn't cover the remaining maintenance fees (Btw, I don't know why the fees for last two months were doubled..) and additional painting fee that was charged on us. We weren't informed any defects at the move out inspection, so I replied the email that we don't agree with the painting fee. No reply for a week, so called her. She said they paint unit every 3 years, but they had to paint it earlier because we moved out after 7 months, so the painting fee for 29 months were charged on us. I didn't see or hear any sentence related to it on the apartment agreement. I tried to present unfairness to resolve it but it didn't work.. I might not be so smooth and clear on my speaking as a foreigner. Anyhow, what I heard back was 'you are open to take any legal action if you have second opinion' or 'talk to our attorney'. I actually.. contacted a mediator but no wonder she refused it. It's long story anyway, several times of emails and calls back and forth, also visit.. And each time she never replied me. Funny thing is she emailed me when she had sth to say..
At last, she sent me the photos where they checked on the wall after we moved out.. Some mild smudges on the wall. I am still cynical about the 3 year routine charge system which wasn't mentioned on the agreement. But, it must be the better if they pointed out at the moveout inspection with us, or at least, if she sincerely tried to help us to understand the charge with these photos rather than stimulating me to go on that 'legal action'. Why did she only mention a routine thing which made me confusing at the beginning and didn't open the inspection details on their hands? We've (she also must be) been so bothered for this mess for a long time.. One of the reasons could be my miscommunication, but I wasn't the only one having this move out nightmare(I heard from my neighbor) and I blame their unorganized and irresponsible work the most..! read more