Don't do it. DON'T. I was fooled by the model unit…read more
Broad overview: a dead body, awful maintenance, lots of bugs, broken appliances, unhelpful management, awful communication, and pointless added fees. Headache after headache that left me wanting to break my lease one month in. Worst apartment I have lived in.
Dead Body: you come home from work and you see news crews, coroners, police cars, and crime scene tape all over your building's parking lot. Not one piece of communication from management at all, but hey, at least it was in the news days later.
Maintenance: Good luck getting help. When maintenance would finally come over, they would leave a massive mess and used my own cleaning supplies to clean up the little that they did. But that isn't the biggest issue- on THREE occasions, they left the key to my apartment door in the lock (at one point, for over a week while I was out of town) allowing anyone to go in, take what they want, or who knows, hide in there for my return. Feels great after a dead body is found. Management did nothing about this until after the third time when new management took over.
At move in, I noted multiple issues ranging from the smell of cat urine from the previous resident, to a broken AC, to only warm water in my unit. I was told there was no issue with my water heater. During my last week of living there, they replaced my water heater because it began to flood my apartment. Wow, now I have hot water! I was unable to use my dishwasher for the full year because despite me alerting staff that it was leaking badly on day three of living there, maintenance came and "fixed it" 3-4 times, with no progress. It continued to leak so I gave up. Move in- apartment was disgustingly dirty- covered in cat hair from previous resident, floors caked with dirt, you name it.
Bugs: The sheer amount of bugs that would crawl in from the gaps in the window moldings/trims and all the other gaps from poor maintenance was insane. Countless spiders, roaches, ants after a rain, and everything else. PLUS, tons of air from outside driving up your bill. If you move here, get adhesive insulation blockers because that is the only thing that will work since maintenance won't fix it.
Poor communication: Halfway through living there they mention that they will be adding WiFi- the company will be here on X date. X date goes by with nothing then 3-4 weeks later they are asking to enter my apartment to install WiFi that requires drilling through the ceiling and moving all my stuff again. Don't worry, the mess they left ruined some of my furniture and materials from the white ceiling residue. Or, you need to move your car by tomorrow so we can have the lot paved or else it will be towed- that's great unless you are out of town. Thanks for the heads up! Things like this occurred all the time.
Fees: why was I forced to pay for "valet" trash when no one would pick it up from outside my door? I live right in front of the dumpster too! Crazy.
Outside: broken down & abandoned cars that sit in the parking lot for 6 months, very poorly maintained roads (the parking lots are solid sheets of ice in the winter and tons of potholes), dog poop all over the green spaces in front of units.
Here are the two pros: 1) new management seems to be better than the last, but that bar was below the floor. 2) it's a cheaper option in the Indy area.
