This facility has an extremely cheeky and pretentious way of going about things…read more
Apartments are run down and musty; I'm not sure many facilities in this city even abide by an enforced building code for safety.
Aside from that, I locked myself out of the main entrance after briefly stepping out to move my car for parking. I did not have the key to the bottom public entrance, although I still had the key to my boyfriend's apartment. My boyfriend was still sleeping with is phone on silent as we both work later hours. This would not have been an ordeal, I would have waited in a coffee shop, but unfortunately, I did not have my wallet, cell phone, work-laptop, or purse because they were inside. Not to mention I was braless and in my pajamas still.
Also, I planned to travel from Sioux Falls to Chicago on this particular day.
After 45 minutes of waiting trying to call my boyfriend (who was sleeping) from a business phone, I was told by the owners of the building, who run the laundry mat next door to talk to the management (which is Legacy Real Estate) and ask them to open up so that I could get back in. I reluctantly went up to the 4th floor of the Dillinger Building and told the management what happened. I approached the front desk and tried explaining, when a mean lady interrupted. She didn't even care to know my name, my boyfriend's name, or the situation. She claimed she had no idea who lived or was on the lease in the apartment that I mentioned.
Shouldn't a building management company know who lives in which apartment?
She did not care to look it up, as she was hostile from the start. I held the key to get in my boyfriend's apartment pleading for an escort from the management so that I could retrieve my wallet. The stupid, short-haired, ill-tempered lady started yelling at me, and kept repeating herself like a broken record:
"We Can't Open UP the Doors because LEGALLY WE COULD GET SUED for letting someone in."
(Really? You can't escort a guest inside the main entrance to a building to help them retrieve their purse? Why was I just escorted through your Dillinger building last week then, when I was interested in an apartment as a potential renter?)
The only thing that I can see Legacy Real Estate getting sued for is the rotting wood stairs covered in old carpet that feel like they are about to cave in.
The ridiculous lady ended with the advise that I should "wait outside till someone randomly exits" implying that creeping around for an opportunity to sneak inside while someone exits is a better way to safely and legally enter a building vs being escorted by management? Absurd.
She was still yelling, even as I walked away. I was almost in tears pressing the buttons to go down the elevator not saying anything and she was still yelling at me.
I considered walking to the police a few blocks down but I did not want to make a bigger scene than she had already made for the sake of my boyfriend. My boyfriend, who works afternoon to evening hours, eventually ended up coming down quicker than expected after two hours of this ordeal, waking up earlier than usual and seeing my purse still there. Otherwise it would have taken 4-5 hours by the time he normally wakes up, and by then, I would have had the police there. The police may have then "bothered" Legacy Real Estate to open up. Who knows?
This was a potentially panicking experience and the building management made sure I panicked. This was a bad situation made horrible, absolutely horrible, by Legacy Real Estate.
So to express their negligence, short-sightedness and pretentiousness, I should take photos of the molded wood siding that is flaking off in the run-down bathrooms in their managed building next door and the garbage that is so high it is drowning the fire escape in the back.
The quality of rentals in Sioux Falls is sad, like the people who run facilities like these. There are few buildings that are up-kept tastefully.