DO NOT MOVE TO THE ARBOR AT HALLEY RISE: REASON #1
EXCESSIVE CREAKING OF FLOORBOARDS ABOVE YOU. Unless you live on the top floor...7th in west tower and 8th in east tower...whenever anyone walks (stomps) in the apartment above you, you will hear the floorboards creaking...creaking...constantly creaking. There is no way that a wood-frame building built just a year ago should have floors creaking like this. Sad comment on the construction of this building. When the property manager finds this review, he will post some bs...believe his pathetic explanation if you want. I know better and you will too if you make the poor decision to move here.
DO NOT MOVE TO THE ARBOR AT HALLEY RISE: REASON #2
INSUFFICIENT OR NON-EXISTENT SOUND INSULATION IN THE FLOOR/CEILING ASSEMBLIES BETWEEN FLOORS. It is only wood between floors above the 3rd in the west tower and above the 4th in the east tower. The concrete slab might lessen the noise from the unit above you if you're on the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd floors in the east tower. (There are no apartments on the 1st and 2nd floors in the west tower.) For the floors that are not on concrete slab, the floor of the unit above you is laid in this order:
Wood flooring on top of
1/2 inch gypcrete (this is only for fire suppression) on top of
¼ inch foam (this is supposed to be for sound insulation; I can attest that it does nothing) on top of
¾ inch plywood subfloor on top of
Wooden floor joists
Then the ceiling of the unit below is constructed by attaching something called hat channels to the floor joists. This is supposed to somewhat isolate the ceiling from the vibrations of the floor above...notice I said "supposed to". Then the drywall is attached to the hat channels and that is the ceiling for the unit below. When the property manager finds this review, he will post some bs...believe his pathetic explanation if you want. I know better because I've done research, submitted a FOIA request to Fairfax County and spoken with the Fairfax County building inspector; he hasn't.
DO NOT MOVE TO THE ARBOR AT HALLEY RISE: REASON #3
FREQUENT SMELL OF POT THAT PERMEATES MULTIPLE FLOORS. The apartment is allegedly smoke free...ha, ha, ha. There have been multiple complaints about this problem. One of the responses from the management staff was that a resident had admitted to smoking pot but not in their apartment...there is no smoking in the garage and the courtyard...not just your apartment. And when this resident walked in the hall back to their apartment the smell from their clothes lingered in the hall. This in no way accounts for the strong overwhelming smell that frequently permeates multiple floors and the stairwell. Did the management staff really believe that we residents would swallow their ridiculous explanation? When the property manager finds this review, he will post some bs...believe his pathetic explanation if you want. I know better and you will too if you make the poor decision to move here.
DO NOT MOVE TO THE ARBOR AT HALLEY RISE: REASON #4
DOORS FREQUENTLY NOT CLOSED COMPLETELY SO THAT THEY LOCK. Apparently, folks are too lazy or simply don't care and don't bother to make sure that the doors from the parking garage in the west tower close and lock. This is supposed to be a controlled access building but only when the doors are closed securely. When the property manager finds this review, he will post some bs...believe his pathetic explanation if you want. I know better and you will too if you make the poor decision to move here.
DO NOT MOVE TO THE ARBOR AT HALLEY RISE: REASON #5
YOU WILL BE AWAKENED IN THE EARLY MORNING BY THE RACKET FROM THE UNIT ABOVE YOU. This morning, I was awakened at 5:43 by stomping, knocking, bumping and other loud noises coming from the apartment above me. I assume that the residents had just arrived home from a New Year's party and had no regard for those of us who were sleeping. There have been multiple times when I was awakened by loud noises from the unit above me. When I complain to the management staff, they always twist it around to make me seem like I'm the problem because I'm not willing to put up with the excessive noise intruding into my apartment. So far, the only solution offered to me is to transfer to another apartment...an apartment that is also not on the top floor. This is neither a workable nor a compassionate solution. When the property manager finds this review, he will post some bs...believe his pathetic explanation if you want. You will find out how little they care if you make the poor decision to move here. read more