At first the staff at Simco sounded wonderful. Our landlord owned the unit and Simco owned the building. The landlord came off like a snake when we found COCKROACHES in our apartment after living there for a month.
Staff from Simco showed up immediatly after I called to alert them of the problem, helped our landlord arrange for pest control to come in (and I even noticed the light that had been out in the elavator since we moved in was fixed immediatly following that vistit) I thought "great! all of this will be taken care of". We were informed this was a building issue Simco was aware of and working diligently to fix.
then - nothing.
The cockraoches continued to multiply, and the phone calls I placed stopped getting returned. The pest control guy would call ME to let him in to the building to perform his maintenance because Simco never aranged for a staff member to be there to let him in for the "shared spaces" in the building. They refused to come unlock what used to be laundry/garbage rooms on each floor (now half of them are just locked so the building only has to pay for a washer and dryer on every second floor) even though many of the apartments infested with roaches happened to be next to these garbage shute rooms. Eventually I called the City health inspector but even they couldn't do anything because cockroaches are not considered a health issue (just the feces and bacteria they HAPPEN to track in to your home on their disgusting bodies IS)
After 6 months of nothing improving I start hearing a drip coming from the apartment above us right above our tub. I informed Simco immediatly, the next day they had a plumber out, informed me they oculd not find a leak anywhere and to call the onsite manager they had recenlty hired the very second I heard it happening again. The next week at the exact same night and time I heard the drip and placed the call. It was late in the evening so the onsite manager said they would have to wait until the next day to check out the issue with a plumber. Same story, plumber comes in Simco calls me and says at this point I am making it up and hearing a ghost noise, call if theres any sign of water. The access pannel they used to get up there is now hanging on by 1 nail, I can see in to the hole, and all I can think of is that there are roaches up there!
Finally, the third week same time same hour the water starts dripping again, this time it comes IN to my tub from the ceiling dragging all the disgusting stuff up there in with it. I make the call, they bring in a different plumber the following day and low and behold the problem is so bad there was a leak for weeks (maybe longer!) and this second plumber finds enough mold the City tells us they want us out of our apartment in 10 days so they can remediate.
Thank god this counted as our landlord breaking the lease, we got out of there in double time, but the landlord refused to do a walk through and return our DD until after the remediation.
Again, I am on the phone with Simco and every single time I called they refused to give me any informaiton on when the apartment would be done even though they knew about everything I had been through, that my landlord was a snake, and that I needed to get back in to recieve my money back. My landlord was refusing to answer my calls, Simco was dodging me, they are all terrible - AVOID AT ALL COSTS. read more