Let me first start off by saying, Yes I did live there, let me finish that statement by saying THANK GOD I'M NOT ANYMORE!
I got married and we needed emergency housing, someone pointed us this way because we saw it on a website but weren't going to. They said they were cheaper though than the other place that we were gonna move into so we decided to give them a shot.
Now let me "paint" a picture for you... you see a ghetto-ey gas station to your left as you're coming down the road, and suddenly around the slight curve you see BRIGHTLY colored trailers, to your right, to your left there are your normal greys and whites and they were so bothered by the colors they put up a fence!
These aren't your average colors, there is actually a trailer as you pull in that looks like big bird, I shit you not, big bird! Yellow on top and big bird orange legs on the bottom.
So their "office" is painted all mural like, now Mardine is nice, she can make ya laugh, and you'll catch her riding her unicycle sometimes, or walking their dog Rocky (who by the way is not friendly so if you have kids go elsewhere) as for her husband or boyfriend or whatever he is, John, he needs to lay off the creatine powders and steroids or whatever he's on because his moods change like a light switch and he's rather agressive and I don't mean in a good way.
One of my friends who was very pregnant locked herself out one night with her daughter and it was raining (her daughter was a year old) she called maintenence and they wanted to charge her. She said no thanks and that she'd get into her own place.
He called the cops on her. It turned into a whole spiel, he wound up cussing her in the streets and everything at one point too and it was pathetic.
Even the cops tried breaking into her place! You wanna cuss anyone, cuss them!
Anyhow another one of the girls I knew they NEVER charged for service calls, and she caused more drama that I knew than my friend who had some bad luck.
I was broken into TWICE! while I was there. My front door never locked properly and I told them that, maintinence came out and "fixed" my door, he explained I had to play with the lock.. Play with my deadbolt?
Basically I had to put all my weight on my doorhandle and PULL as hard as I could and should be able to wiggle it to lock, then I have to wiggle to unlock it.
Ummmm yeah. In case of fire wiggle yourself out.
I had a small child though and the thought of playing with locks wasn't appealing, I asked them to fix it again, never did.
So I was broken into twice.
All they did was put a plate on the door.
That didn't stop them they went for the backdoor the next time.
We had things stolen right out of our front yard too.
Their lawn maintinence crew are jerks, I planted a small flower garden along my sidewalk leading up to my place, they mowed it over everytime.
Even after I asked them to stop, they could see exactly where it was.
There was constant gang activity even with increased police drivebys and this is MILITARY personnel involved in this.
Do you really think a cop is going to stand up to several soldiers that are in a gang that just came from a deployment? Prolly not, just gonna say have a nice night boys.
Drug dealers everywhere in that place too.
Not safe for kids at all, I wouldn't let my daughter out of my sight, and I was pregnant at one point and worried about my baby due to the breakins as well.
Also people are of course judgemental there cracks me up, you buy something nice for your kid you're suddenly shunned because you saved up the money to do it.
Anyways the best thing for that place is for the guys at the military base to come do their tank exercises there. read more
