Not someplace I would ever want to live again.
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My time at The District was great! For all of maybe a week or two. I can't tell you how many packages they lost that were being delivered to either my roommate or me. Management is probably the least helpful thing on this planet. My apartment was broken into October from my apartment (yes you read that right) and what did The District do about it? Oh, they did absolutely nothing. I asked to be moved to a different floor, for them to install cameras on the backsides of the complex and they did none of those. The gym and pool is about all they got going for them. The rooms are kind of small, the dishwasher had mold in it all year, the mattresses that are "Tempurpedic" really aren't that comfortable, and the air filters could hardly stay clean I ended up needing to buy my own so I didn't have to call maintenance every other week.
The only decent thing about this place is the maintenance staff. All of them are great guys and so kind when they enter to do work. We got to know our maintenance staff really well considering they were in our apartment every other week fixing something that broke.
My favorite thing that broke was the barstool. When someone was sitting on it, the whole thing just fell apart. She fell backward and hit her head on the ground pretty hard. How fun!!!
The lifeguards at the pool are okay, however, the rules surrounding the pool are quite ridiculous. I have a dog, who is an emotional support animal and a therapy dog (a trained service animal) and has a collar, an ID, a certificate, and a vest, all to prove she is in fact an emotional support animal. She loves to lay out in the sun, just as most people and animals do, and so I thought "hey she's legal to be wherever I am without question, let's go to the pool so everyone can get some vitamin D" well I thought wrong. I was harassed by both the lifeguards and whoever was working at the front desk, that she was not to be in the pool area. I had all the documents needed to prove that she is a service dog and ESA, none of it mattered. They told me she was not to be on the pool deck, but let me tell you how many times I saw a dog on the pool deck.... literally every other day. There was always a dog out there, they were small dogs, but they were out there. And my golden retriever was not even allowed to be out there with documentation.
They want to take as much money from you as possible. They make rules on EVERYTHING and attach fines and lease violations to them so they can take your money and provide poor service. Even though half the time they do nothing about it, for example, the district smells like marijuana 99% of the time. The parents wouldn't know during move-in day or week because all you smell is the cleaning products they used prior to you moving in!
Lastly, because I don't want to have to think about this apartment complex anymore, my charge dispute following the end of my lease term. So apparently, in March, maintenance came in to do a quarterly check. They also apparently switched out our blinds because they were "broken", yet neither my roommate nor I saw any damage to the blinds. They changed the blinds to newer safer ones, cool! Then neglected to tell us that those blinds would cost us $20.36 EACH, not cool! This all happened in March, but the first I ever heard of it was at the very end of my lease when I was moving out. My father looked into the charge and saw it was from March, for replacing blinds. I got very confused and asked management about the issue. They told me that maintenance said the blinds were broken and needed to be replaced. Great no more information than I already had! They continued to restate this every time i got an email back, honey I already know they were replaced because they were broken. So being the smart woman I am, I asked for either proof of damaged blinds or a maintenance request that states someone asked for this work to be done. I got neither of those and instead got a "there is a 30-day charge dispute period." Um, how can I dispute something that I was never made aware of until three months later? That's right, you can't. Someone, please explain to me how that can possibly be a thing.
If you are a parent reading this, love your child and have them live elsewhere.
If you are a college student, love yourself and your friends and direct them somewhere else.
If you are a young adult, this place isn't for you, trust me on this one.
If you or your child are currently living here, keep a copy of your lease on your fridge or somewhere. They try to sneak a lot past you because they think everyone is a dumb college kid who doesn't actually read the lease. Know that thing like the back of your hand and fight back on whatever you can! They should not be able to get away with everything they are doing!
Thanks for reading :)