DO NOT RENT from this apartment complex. Yes, the views are beautiful, however if you value your…read morehealth do not rent here. I lived here for 2.5 years, specifically in the 901 building. I felt ill around 5months after living here, with weird syptoms arising, and constantly getting sinus infections, coughs flus, etc. MY son was constantly sick as well. My doctors could not find out why my blood work was coming back so off, when it was previously perfectly fine. I had zero feretin levels, and suddenly developed high cholesterol,blood pressure in the matter of a 6 month span.
Come to find out two years later when the dry wall fell off the wall that my son and i were indeed breathing in black toxic mold. Despite over 45 emails, and maintenance request to the office there was nothing done. Marina Key by Arium paints over mold and simply signs on another renter.
After two surgeries due to complications from mold I am lucky to be alive. I was becoming septic, and my son has developed severe asthma. After letting the office know for the 100th time that there was mold in the unit, they still barely admitted it. I had the unit violated by Lake Park code enforcement and this is where their retaliation began. Little do they know they are about to get hit with a massive lawsuit. This apartment complex literally put a single mother and her child on the street because we could not live in the unit anymore. We were so sick!
Deidre is a disgrace of a human being she does not care about anyone, and she lied so many times and made so many mistakes. My attorney is still looking through all her the mistakes so we can nail them. She is clearly highly uneducated, and showed multiple times in her actions that she knew about the situation and did not care. She definitely buried herself and the company she works for in writing. In fact, Arium and RMR did not even know what was going on because she tried to cover it up.
There were multiple settlement requests regarding compensating me for my belongings that had to be left behind. In addition, one of the code enforcement violations stated that Marina Key left my door propped opened while they were completing the remediation, I was in the hospital at this time hooked up to an IV because of severe anemia. During this time 2,200 was stolen out of my apartment. We pretty much had to start all over because everything was so contaminated with spores, and mold. Marina Key agreed to let me out of my lease, but only if I signed a NDR which means I would not be able to let other people know of their disgusting practices, and I would not be able to take them to court and get compensation.
About two weeks ago I came down with the FLU, on top of our already mold toxification it was a very bad situation, and my son and I again found ourselves in the hospital. We have both developed asthma from Marina Key's neglect, and came down with walking pnemonia because our immune systems have been so compromised after 2.5 years of breathing in toxic mold. Oddly enough my pprimary care physician used to live in the same building as me one apartment door down about 5 years ago. He informed me that Marina Key did the same thing to him, and when he complained about it they gave him a 5k mold remdiation bill. Marina Key practiced the same retaliation against me as well. They agreed to let me out of my lease, and when I refused to sign the three different termination letters, and had them violated by code they filed eviction and called me a "holdover tenant." They refused to give me the remediation report showing that my items were safe to be moved, they ran their remediation under my electricity bill and stated that I was living in the apartment. They had my new physical address and did not provide the address to the clerk of the court, and stated I was living at Marina Key, when in fact I left the apartment for fear of our lives on August 15th and only returned to get clothing that I had to wash at a laundrymat with white vinegar.
If you have been a victim of their illegal practices, please let me know so I can provide you with the civil court case that is moments from being filed. Marina Key is now renting that same apartment at 3k a month, they are absolutely immoral beings, and they do not care about you or your family. There is still mold in this apartment, I had a friend take a tour and she took pictures of the mold that is still visibly growing in the master bathroom wall. Mold can kill you, and over a 2.5 yearr exposure our bodies were beginning to shut down, they could not fight it anymore. Deidre laughed at me when she inspected the unit, she stated "I dont smell mold," as there was visible black mold falling off the wall in cake like manner.
Again, please reach out if you want more information, there will be a news story out shortly displaying there illegal practices. IF you are feeling ill and live at Marina Key, it is mold! People have contracted cancer in this place it not a joke.
