Let me be the first to say, DO NOT RENT HERE! I say this, not lightly. I've lived here for just about 5 years with no "real" issues. These last months, have been devastating to our family. And we've been through dog poop and pee, dripping from above, for 3 months. And a whole year of dogs banging their tales, on the walls. But that's not the "real" issue. The real issue is, in November, a lady moved in above us, with 2 kids part time, & a boyfriend who frequents the place. Now, mind you, they put in linoleum flooring, throughout the upstairs.
The noise our autistic daughter makes is LOUD, without any insulation in the apartment above. And it annoyed the lady immensely! And likewise, the noises we hear from upstairs are like sonic boom's. But no we were willing to stay and deal with everything, if the Apartments allowed us.
The lady upstairs, she has called the cops upmteen times, with no end in sight. I got so sick of it. Mind you, I'm under duress and dealing with a whole other set of issues, with my eyes, and I lost it one night last week. I screamed out to the upstairs, call the cops you dumb bitch, just like any normal person would do after the cops being called that many times, obsessively and I might add.
We took off for a couple days and just chilled out away from the apartment to have a break from it all. When we came back I had a big surprise waiting for me. The manager asked me to leave as soon as possible. Now that's another story in itself. First, she told me we could break the lease early if we found a place. Next she tells me to find a place but she needs a 30 day notice? Um what?
The other issue is we have a disabled veteran and an autistic child and cannot move so suddenly. We have limited income. So I've decided to just stay throughout our lease. Which is February 28, 2020. Chantel, Consider this, my written notice.
This manager, has been ignoring us, hard to get a hold of, ignoring our maintenance request, saying the vendors going to be there and then they never show up. It's been going on for about three weeks. First with our dryer and now with our washer. My guess would be that she is trying to get rid of us. I called the ACDL, last week, and I got some good advice. There still deciding if they're going to take our case or not, but it doesn't matter, we're gonna leave on the 28 of February.
Yesterday, Chantel said, we are responsible to fix the washer lid and the lock. Which my husband broke, out of frustration, trying to get our laundry, to dry at the laundry mat. I said, well will be trying to recover the charges from going to the laundromat, to which she replied, oh you can hang your clothes up to dry. With an autistic child there's no less than two loads of laundry a day, and it's freezing cold outside. I stopped talking with her as politely as I could, and got out of the conversation and went back to my car.
I miss Barbie very badly now. She was the best manager this place ever had, and now she's gone! This new company sucks!
Update: The new manager, yet again, is named Marquita. She was very polite and nice, and reduced and prorated the rent. It went from $822 to $670. And She didn't make us pay for the washer. But she gave us a LOUD replacement. When I say loud, I mean super LOUD!!!
UPDATE: Today we received our final notice of money owed. Not only did they keep our $500 deposit, they want an additional $728.93. For tile repair no less. There were FOUR leaks in our apartment when we lived there and the floor ripped up because of it. And boy did they take their time fixing it. Every maintenance man said we would not be responsible for the repairs but lo and behold when we moved out they charge us. Again I'll tell you, DO NOT HERE here! Mind you, when we moved out of the one bedroom apartment into a two bedroom, we got nearly all our deposit back. The problem with the new owners Chamberlin and Associates, is they try to get the tenants to finance a remodel of the apartment. Not gonna happen, sorry. We're happy where we are now. We're paying less rent for a bigger place and it's a house no less. And we don't have to go anywhere where we will require a credit check for a long long time.
They DO NOT VALUE the tenants. You'll get used, like a addicted gambler, with an ATM card. I think they've gone through seven or eight managers, in the past year, just FYI. read more