If I could give -100 stars, I would do it in a heart beat. Living on 5th Street apartments, my property manager Marquita Jackson ignores any communication you tried to make with her. When she does communicate with you, she does not address issues and necessary repairs are left undone for an extremely long time. Recently, there was a leak through my ceiling at the start of October. There is popcorn ceiling in the entire building (absolutely disgusting by the way) and the popcorn ceiling in a large area of my living room came right off because of the water. I notified my property manager about this and the statewide enterprises office and the ceiling was looked at a couple times and nothing was done to fix it. Towards the end of October when it rained one more time, my ceiling once again was leaking, and this time I found mold growing where it had peeled and in the surrounding area. As anyone familiar with mold knows, mold does not just grow in a matter of minutes. I started to suspect that the multi been growing since the first time the ceiling had leaked, and considering the amount of damage it caused the first time, possibly it's been growing for even longer. Finally after about 2 weeks statewide enterprises sent someone to test the ceiling for mold and asbestos. I was never given any kind of update as to what was going on or what the results had been, but the man had told me that the results would be in by Monday and he had come on a Friday. Come Monday, I still have not received the results so I contacted say white enterprises to see what was going on with the report. They answered me saying that they had received the report but that it was an internal document and therefore they could not send it to me. The only way I could see it was by going to the office and looking at it, but I was not allowed to have a copy of the document. Then, they sent the same company to contain the mold which meant sectioning off almost half of my apartment because of the mold, even though I still had not been told what the results were. That same day, I was then forced to stay in a hotel and they offered a measly $200 a night to stay at a hotel for two people with two cats as I live with my fiance and a horrendously low $35 a day for two people to eat. Recently, my property manager emailed me and told me that asbestos abatement was occurring in my apartment meaning that there must have been asbestos in my apartment and yet I'm still not being informed of the results. I'm extremely worried because since the day that I moved in the ceiling has been Disturbed as some of the ceiling came off when it was hit by my couch while moving in. Learning now that I might have possibly lived with asbestos in the air and on everything we owned since the day we moved in is incredibly disturbing. As of this point, for about the last 2 or 3 days both my property manager and the statewide enterprises offices have been completely ignoring any contact from me. I even called several times on one day and was never answered, but when I called from a different phone number, they immediately answer the phone. Trying to find hotels for $200 a night with two cats and two people and not having a single cent to be able to pay out-of-pocket for any of this, and also not even being willing to do so, has been an emotionally heavy burden on me and I have not been able to relax or even think straight since October began. I'm in desperate need of legal help because I need to sue this company for emotional harm and I need to get my money back because I paid rent for this apartment and have been paying rent the entire time while I was living with a cancer-causing chemical. If there's anything I can impart on anyone, please do not run from any building that's they'd whiten prizes owns. You will not be taken care of. You will not be treated by a human being. All they want is your money and they don't care what happens to you. And last point if anyone can point me in the direction of some kind of lawyer who can help me, I am looking for any kind of help. I have no money to pay a lawyer out of pocket, but absolutely a portion of the money that I would one from the case would be used to pay the lawyer.
TLDR: Do not EVER rent from Statewide Enterprises. Marquita Jackson is god awful and should not be a property manager. Luisa Barajas is also useless and should be fired. Cindy Gonzales is even worse so don't even try to get the office to help you. Statewide Enterprises should not be allowed to be in business any longer. If anyone can point me in the direction of a lawyer who wouldn't need an upfront payment but instead take a portion of the winnings from the case to sue my landlord, please send them in my direction. read more