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THE WORST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE!
  | | 09/01/2007 | | Parking: |   | | Grounds: | | | Safety: | | | Construction: | | | Cleanliness: | | | Noise: | | | Maintenance: | | | Office Staff: | |
remember her name. Isn’t that just the way it always is?).
OFFICE STAFF: The entire staff is, however, completely incompetent (even the nice one). They will condescend to you and treat you like the low-income plebian you feel like because you have to live here. The manager will never believe a word you say and will patronize you to death. Any verbal agreements you make with her or the staff will never be honored and your integrity will come into question if you try to hold them to
their promises. Ironically the entire staff will volunteer and readily make such verbal agreements with you constantly, and each time you ask for it in writing will look affronted at your lack of trust.
MAINTENANCE: The maintenance crew will come into your place a few times
per month with little or no warning to you, and then there’s that little matter of them having to change
all of the locks this summer because their maintenance people were stealing stuff out of people’s apartments.
NEIGHBORS: You will be subjected to rude and loud neighbors. You will hear domestic disputes at any time of day or night from above/below and on either side. Your apartment will often smell like the cheap pot your neighbors are smoking. Any belongings not inside your home or car will be stolen immediately and the police presence will be a daily part of your life. This is not to say that your car’s contents will be safe – many vehicles are broken into here (someone actually stole a tire off a guy’s truck a few months ago). Your
neighbors will practice their mad DJ skills all night long and all day until your light fixture is rattling with the bass vibrations. They also do this in their cars parked outside your kid’s window all night long – literally until 5 AM on weeknights sometimes.
THE APARTMENT: I say light fixture because there is only one. None of the
bedrooms have any light whatsoever – if you don’t bring a lamp you’re sunk.
The walls are paper thin and you will hear every tv show your neighbors watch, every thing they say, when they snore, cough, gargle, sneeze, spit, wash dishes, flush the toilet, etc... The wind will blow your curtains even when your windows are shut. (Our windows stay shut because most of the mechanisms are broken and they won’t open) They will not let you see an actual unit until you rent it and pay for a move-in date, then your apartment will resemble the model the office showed you about as much as my Uncle Beatle resembled Princess
Diana, may they both rest in peace. The shower stall in my master bedroom is straight out of a 1972 era
mobile home.
THE ENVIRONMENT: Do not plan to be home during any holidays or you will
be subjected to drunks lying on the ground outside your window at 3 AM howling, fighting and breaking their beer bottles in the parking lot or throwing them against the side of the building. Should they cause any damage to your patio or it’s contents the management and maintenance crew will flatly refuse to help or even come and look at said damage from their office a few doors away. Also, loud and profane lovers' quarrels and people revving their car engines
like the ludicrous street racers they think they are, while blaring their music on cheap car stereos because
nobody here can afford a decent sound system, will help you ring in these various holidays. (If I was
listening to quality maybe I wouldn't be so annoyed.)
NOT KID-FRIENDLY: If you are a parent I strongly advise against bringing your children into this environment. If you bring children here they will witness drug abuse, alcoholism, dysfunctional families who all seem to hate each other, young women being confronted loudly and pushed around by their teenage boyfriends, racial slurs yelled out of upper-story apartments to friends in the parking lot below (The "N" and "B" words are still degrading even if said between friends and you don't want your little ones saying it!), and a very visible gang population (most of whom live in the townhouse down the street along with a veritable who's who of sex offenders -- check the registry!).
If you’re just desperate to live somewhere inexpensive and you think this is your only option -- it’s not.
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