Here's the TLDR: Living at the Redstone Lofts was not worth the 2k in rent/utilities/parking fees I spend each month.
-I'll start with my most recent gripe before addressing all the other issues: possibly most infuriating of anything on this list, I spent several days deep cleaning the apartment before I moved out. Then, I received a letter informing me that my security deposit was not only going to be kept, but also that I owed the Lofts extra, because my apartment was not clean and had trash all over. There wasn't a single speck of dust on the floor, much less trash.
-The wifi in the apartments turned off regularly with no warning-- once or twice a month at least. Sometimes it's out for 20 minutes, sometimes it's out for several hours. In my last week, it was out for over 15 hours; I received NO warning about it ahead of time or for the first 10 hours of the outage. About 10 hours into the outage, they emailed residents and said the wifi would be back up in less than an hour. It stayed down for 5 more hours, and we received no additional updates.
-The only elevator is out of service at least once every other month, usually more often.
-FedEx isn't allowed to deliver to this location and won't notify you of this, so if you're not able to walk a mile down to the FedEx office before your 5-day pickup window closes, you just won't get the package.
-When I moved in, I reported that several pieces of furniture were broken, and that one of the drawers in my bathroom was unusably broken. After 5 months, my broken bathroom drawer was "fixed" by Lofts maintenance by being ripped out and never replaced. It was left that way all the way up until I moved out almost TWO YEARS LATER. Over the course of several months, they sent multiple maintenance men to my apartment who each said "to fix this, we'll need to rip out the entire bathroom counter/sink/cabinet/drawers". I kept telling them when I'll be out of town so they could fix the bathroom while I'm not using it, but they never did.
-I asked if maintenance or I could remove one of the broken pieces of furniture, since it was taking up a lot of space for being barely functional. They told me no, I am required to keep all of my furniture. I asked if they could replace it, since many of the other apartments had recently received new furniture. They told me no again; they then replaced it just two weeks before I moved out (I lived there for almost 2 years).
-The windows open but have no screens, so even opening them a tiny crack will let in tons of bugs. I only opened my window twice while living here and my apartment has had bees, ladybugs, flies, wasps, dragonflies, and more.
-In addition to the lack of screens, the windows are also not insulated and do not securely shut-- on windy days, you can feel the cold breeze throughout the apartment despite the shut window.
-For almost 4 months the key fob on the disabled entrance of my building was so broken that I had to scan in 10-20 times before it would let me in. The Lofts knew about this, told us they knew, but took several months to actually fix it. (Before fixing it, they removed it entirely--it was this way for more than a week. This was the ONLY disability-accessible entrance from that side of the building.)
-The mattress provided to me in my apartment was 15 years old. I notified the Lofts of this when I moved in. I never received a new one.
-There was some mold in the shower when I moved in.
-Every time maintenance came in during winter, they would leave muddy/wet boot prints all over my floor.
-The staff is extremely hard to reach after hours (5p) or on weekends. There is a line you can call to reach the general property office, but they know nothing about the Lofts and I'm not totally sure why they even offer that line for after-hours issues.
-When I moved in there was a lot of poster putty and tacks on the walls. Instead of filling the holes or removing the poster putty, Lofts just painted over everything in white paint. A couple tacks were also left in the ceiling. read more