UPDATE: Since the meeting in which discrimination and threats took place as well as addressing the previous discrimination that was done to me; the property manager has informed me that the director wants to meet with me in regard to this google review (screenshots below) What needs to be discussed in regard to my experience and my free speech? I initially agreed out of pressure, but I do not want to meet with them. (Update: the director did not even end up following up with me). So this is now added anxiety and stress.
REVIEW: I have been living here since they first opened up (April 2023). Seasons at Plainfield Property Manager Ilene and Assistant Property Manager Stacy are prejudice and discriminatory. I have never dealt with the blatant discrimination that I have experienced from any other apartment community that I have ever resided. I came into the office on August 8th, 2024 to make a noise complaint and it was turned around on me. No action to remedy the situation was ever taken for my complaint. Although, action was immediately taken for my other neighbor (they're white) when a complaint was made about me. In the meeting, I was treated as the problem. I was berated several times for "going to my neighbor's door" to respectfully address the issue.
When I asked what was going to be done, Ilene says, "Well, you don't have any proof." They require audio recording proof for noise complaints, crazy right? I've never needed proof to make a complaint against a neighbor anywhere else that I've lived. I told her I did. I played it and they looked at me with a look of annoyance and said "That's not good enough." I was threatened by Ilene that I would now see a "bad side to them" and essentially become a target when I said that I was recording the meeting for my records on my phone when they asked me. When I confronted them about the racial discrimination, they stonewalled the question. They yelled at me and said that the conversation was over. Ilene yelled that I needed to get out of their office and if I did not leave, they would call the police on me.
I left their office crying and in fear. I left my apartment after that "meeting" to stay with my parents for a while because I was that afraid. Later that day, I received a distastful email from Ilene, not addressing my complaint from earlier that day, but reiterating to me to never knock on any neighbors doors to address an issue again, but to "come to them." She stated that if I did knock on a neighbor's door again that I would face consequences (this is not even stated in the lease). Why would I continue to come to you when I have been discriminated against NOT once but twice, threatened and yelled at? I've been dealing with anxiety, ptsd and depression because of all of this.
In regards to the apartments, they may "look nice," but they were built extremely fast and dirt cheap. The paint is cheap. The paint job that was done upon me moving in was sloppy. The caulking work is also sloppily done. You will see globs of smeared on dried paint everywhere and nails sticking out of the walls. The balcony is unsealed exposed wood. I have cut my feet on it several times.The bathtubs are unstable and they make cracking noises every time you get in.You feel as though you will fall through it.
The trash areas are always overflowing. You will have to walk around to find an open dumpster. These apartments can be described as matchboxes or better yet box forts. You will HEAR EVERYTHING! Neighbors doing normal daily activities. I hear my neighbors walking, talking, doors, tv's, dogs barking 24/7 and even using the bathroom! (I kid you not). So, if you're sensitive to certain noises as I am, you will NOT have any peace! I currently feel like a prisoner in my own apartment that I am paying rent for! I am anxiously waiting for my lease to be up so that I can leave this nightmare behind me. Please do yourself a huge favor and continue looking elsewhere because if you choose this place you will regret it. DO NOT MOVE HERE!! read more