I first moved in here in 2019. I honestly never wrote a review because I planned on living here for a while, and didn't want to be retaliated against (it's illegal if they do, but you never know with Landlords). I am going to split the review up into the various "administrations" of office management i've had to deal with. We should note, that when we first moved here our rent was $1700.
1) Amy
Amy was the first officer person we dealt with, I don't think she was the main office manager, but she was our main point of contact when we first moved in. She was really friendly, but our experience with this apartment complex really started off on a sour note considering that we were told the apartment had been cleaned prior to us moving in. It wasn't.
On our first walkthrough, which my wife and I did by ourselves, we noticed that the curtains, and the outlets looked to have brown stains running down them. I believe those stains may have been like Nicotine stains, like when a smoker lives in a house and just stains the hell out of the interior. One of the tiles in the bathroom had fallen out of place, and was just left there on the bathroom floor, this doesn't affect the bathroom's function so we never complained about it, but it's notable that they just left it there.
During the winter my wife and I didn't want to use the heater that comes with the apartment as we use a space heater to just heat the small area we are in, the outlet we plugged it into began melting....so we never used it again, brought it up to maintenance once when they came to fix a leak, and they just kind of noted it and mustve forgot about it.
The leak mentioned above was a leak in the kitchen sink, when we ran the faucet, some water would leak and pool under the sink, we didn't notice this until the indentation left from previous leaks filled with enough water to have it overflow. This is when we noticed that the area under the sink was pretty damaged from previous leaks, we missed this on our initial walkthrough, but it looks as if though the area had taken severe water damage and had just been painted over. It's highly likely that there is MOLD under there. We brought our concerns of the mold, and the previous water damage up to the maintenance tech when he came to fix the leak, it was not followed up on.
2) Israel/Dylan.
Under Israel, and Dylan we saw a pretty significant cutting of corners. These two became office management during the start of the Covid 19 pandemic. In that time we were not given access to amenities such as the fitness center, or pool (although some people ignored the pool rule and went swimming anyway) which makes sense because of the pandemic, however it made no sense that did not have access to these amenities we paid for, and were still charged a rent increase when we renewed the lease, we literally got charged MORE for LESS. Around this time the pool went green, as it was not being upkept, and the gutters went uncleaned. Several of the lights around the property broke as well, a long with several of the sprinklers...despite these corners being cut THEY INCREASED THE RENT! Israel's excuse was that the pandemic had affected the bottom line, and thus the apartment needed to make the money up....like, bro, the Pandemic affected us, your working class tenants too, many of the tenants lost jobs, had less income, had family members that were sick but FPI Management's response to is to increase everyone's cost of living? Amazing.
Around this time there was also a few times that the mail room had gotten broken into and people's mail had been stolen. So much for security. Around this time my car was broken into multiple times, so much for security. I wasn't the only one either, after talking to several other tenants they had stated that their vehicles had also been broken into, one lady even stated her husband's car had just straight up been stolen. So much for security.
Oh then there was the roach infestation. My building, building 10 had a roach infestation that same year. Along with the cut corners and lack of security I had to deal with a damned roach infestation. My wife and I didn't get it as bad as the other 3 apartments because the moment we noticed on roach we set about placing roach poison and deterrents through out the apartment. Eventually they got a company to come out and spray, but that did almost no good as at least two of the other apartments still had roaches for a solid few months after. Despite the lack of security, the cut corners, the pandemic, and the roaches THEY INCREASED THE RENT! I managed to fight management enough to not have my rent increased by the full 10%, but they still increased my rent. By this point I had gone from $1700 to $1900. $200 more for lax security, poorly maintained property, and a roach infestation. Not to mention how absolutely unreachable management was around this time.
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