Beautiful apartment until you move in. This place must have been built on the cheap!!! Sound proofing is almost nonexistent!! You can literally hear the neighbors next to you and above you do everything. Someone talking in the hallway outside the door, feels like their in your apartment. Someone lets the front door close on its own, apartment shakes and the loudest bang ever!! Neighbor with a barking dog, now feels like you own a dog. The flooring in the main living space is glued to subfloor and you can tell!! No actual room for a dining table if you want to access ur laundry and second bath. Living room is probably the smallest we have ever had, smaller than the actual bedroom and can really only fit a couch and TV stand. Kitchen is probably the thing I hate the most!!! We were in building one, not sure if building 3 is the same as it was built a year prior but the space from the bottom of the upper cabinets to the countertop is small. So small that you can't even put a regular size coffee maker on the counter, paper towel holder or a kitchen utensils holder. Which makes the use of your counter tops for really nothing but food prep! My husbands coffee maker had to sit on island the entire time we lived there. Other things like blenders and utensils had to be stored away, in a tiny tiny kitchen. Whatever brilliant person decided to hang the tall uppers way lower then they are supposed to be. Everyone we talked with there has the same issue. They are completely aware of the issue and have no plan to resolve said problem. Pour layout in main bedroom/bathroom with walk-In shower. You don't realize it in the model they show but you can't have the bathroom door open at the same time you want to use the toilet or open the closet door. Horrible bathroom and one of the huge pains in the butt if sharing the space with someone else.
Complex is surrounded by wetlands, which at first seems beautiful until you realize that your tiny porch is basically unusable because the mosquitoes will literally carry you away!! Will never understand how these "luxury" apartments don't have screened in porches!!! We also had a huge issue with our cheap fridge, called maintenance several times and just kept hearing nothing was wrong. Food in freezer would not stay frozen, freezer pops were slush, and more importantly everything in the fridge expired so quickly because the fridge temperature was in the 40s most of the time!! We had to buy milk so many times because it expired prior to the expiration date. With a toddler at home who drinks milk EVERY single day, I found myself running to the BP to by milk way to regularly. I can't even imagine the amount of food that was wasted in the cheap fridge!!! We had even pulled it out into the kitchen space more to allow more airflow in the back of the fridge. Which in a tiny kitchen is horrible.
I will also add in poor drainage in parking lot and common areas. Coming home after it's raining, good chance you will need to remove your shoes to walk through standing water in parking lot and walk ways. Walking to check your mail or go to gym? Probably need to wear sandals or remove shoes as not to end up soaking your sneakers!!
Let's talk about the $500 non refundable pet deposit, that doesn't go toward any repairs/damage after moving out. Never have I ever had to pay $500 for a cat and a monthly pet fee and then get charged another $500 for the damage the cat did to the carpet after accidentally being locked in the closets/bedrooms. Completely unacceptable in my opinion and the $500 pet fee should have went to that but the little bitch in the office refused to and said read the contract that fee isn't for that. What's it for, all the pet amenities my cat used. Then she sent us to collections when I tried to argue about the bill after we moved out. Mind you, we weren't even 30 days past receiving the bill in the mail. So we ended up owing 3 months of water, which is nuts cuz water gets paid every month with rent, at the exact same time on the app. When I asked to see proof that they were behind in the water bill statement, she refused and never showed any proof what so ever of the supposed back water bill payment. I will add we pay them for water and they pay the water company. We don't actually receive a bill for water. I'm not the kind of person to just sit back and believe the BS a business is saying, especially when they won't show you that the bill is behind. If it is behind because you didn't pay it, show me that we didn't already get charge and you're not trying to charge an extra $300. read more
