After 2 years, I moved out of Hickory Run. I'll start with the good...Hillary. Hillary is the assistant manager and should probably be the manager. So, before I begin to detail the negative portion of my review, kudos to Hillary... I hope she gets a promotion soon. I really liked her.
You will be seriously nickel & dimed to death while living here. $25 per month for trash fees and YOU take your trash to back compactor, which is always broken and emails sent to you to hold your trash in your apt until further notice. I'm serious. Your fees will come with fees, the monthly water costs are way higher than need be, $13 per month for parking per car and no, you get nothing for that except permission to park on the grounds. Cars are parked all over the place with no permit which forces those with permits to park wherever they can. All they do is post on the portal that you must have a parking permit, which is laughable because it's very ineffective and visitors and guests park right near the apts and the rent payers are hiking to their apts. However, if you want assigned parking they will paint "reserved" on the parking spot for you for an additional $30 a month. Speaking of parking, one of my cars had the tire slashed on it while parked in the lot, I'm not the only one...it happened to others frequently. Notified the office by email asking they let everyone know to watch out for vandals...HA! No, they let no one know. I got an "OMG, I'm so sorry" email but they never notified the residents. They did however notify us when someone in one of the back buildings got robbed in the parking lot at gunpoint and let us know when cars were broken in to. So I do thank them for that.
Hickory Run sits back off of Main Street in a semi wooded area. I really liked the location as it was very convenient to my work while still keeping me inside Hendersonville which at the time of my move-in was a better area than when I moved out.
Don't forget when you move, you must give a two month notice and have your apartment cleaned professionally with a receipt as proof to be turned in to Hickory Run. Figuring nothing would be good enough for them, I opted for their express cleaning which is a $90 charge. I received my final move out bill charging me $500 for damages. LOL yeah, I don't think so. I should also mention there was absolutely no accounting or itemization made available for any of these so-called damages. I called the corporate office for the explanation and left a message. Someone did return my call and told me that the charges were still pending as they had not yet finalized it. Ok... so why the bill giving me three weeks to pay it? She had no answer for me but told me I should receive an itemization soon. Fine...I wait. The next week I get a reminder that I have a $500.35 bill to pay and no payment has yet been made. Still had not received the itemization. I called the corporate office again and got a snotty little girl with an attitude who refused to give her name, she informed me that they had 23 to get me an itemization of charges. When asked why I keep receiving reminders to pay the bill she literally responded with, "have a nice day ma'am" and hung up on me.
2 days later I received the itemization via email and it went from $500 to $400. Now, remember the paint statement in the beginning? They literally charged me $249 to paint the apartment. LOL i'm dead serious. Yes, the front bedroom probably smelled of smoke because my son smoked in there but considering they never painted it before I moved in which I'm pretty sure is a requirement, I find it absolutely ludicrous that they would charge me to paint. They also charged me $49 for carpet replacement. There was nothing wrong with the carpet. The front bedroom was a little dirty But I think it was normal wear & tear...but I guess at least they considered the depreciation of the carpet as it was not new when I moved in. They charged me $25 for a bag of trash. There was no trash left in the apartment. There was a brand new vacuum cleaner that I left in the apartment in case someone wanted it. I'm assuming they're calling that trash. They charged me $40 for a missing lightbulb, the drip pans on the stove they said were dirty and they said the bathroom drain plug was damaged. Ok...whatever. The rest was final water, pest control, trash, etc. For the record, I have paid the $400.35 that they billed me for and I owe them zero dollars. I chose not to argue with them because they forgot to charge me the cleaning fee of $90 and they did not charge me for the actual damage that was on the front bedroom wall. So I feel like I win! Based on this review, I'm sure you get that I do not recommend this complex. The one star is because I like Hilary.
Update: After paying the $400, they sent another bill yesterday to pay the $400. I think this management co needs to get their crap to
Update after UDR response. UDR states they have a very thorough process for as read more