DON'T MOVE HERE!…read more
Because we work from home, we are generally in our apartment 24/7. Like all tenants who signed a lease here, we also expected to live in a comfortable space. Instead, due to rowdy and trashy neighbors, poor pest control, cigarette smoke, and lousy maintenance, we have been unable to live comfortably at all for an entire year.
First, the neighbors are generally friendly, but some of them are rowdy because they talk loudly and play loud music outside. The walls are thin and as such we hear these loud noises all the time throughout the day and in every corner of the apartment. Furthermore, some of the neighbors are trashy and leave items in the breezeway such as strollers, trash, couches, ashtrays, and cat food for the stray cats which has left an unpleasant sight to behold in the front of the apartment as well as a breeding ground for roaches and other pests. We also cannot help but smell strong cigarette smoke or weed every time we enter and exit the apartment. The noises and smells have caused an incredible nuisance for us.
Second, roaches have been sighted all over our kitchen and living room. We maintain a tidy household by cleaning regularly, but the roaches continue to invade our space. We see at least three large roaches per day. Even after returning home from a week long trip, we found pests had invaded the sofa, living room floor, and kitchen floor. Pest control does check the unit on a monthly basis, but unfortunately this has not controlled the pest problem. We have sighted roaches in every crack imaginable in the kitchen and it is disgusting! As such, we have avoided using the kitchen to cook. The apartment complex needs to properly seal cracks and crawl spaces found throughout the unit to reduce the pests and improve its pesticide.
Third, I'm surprised this place allows its tenants to smoke cigarettes inside its units. Cigarette smoke brings down the property value of a place substantially and obviously results in health issues and interferes with quality of life. The cigarette smoke from the neighbors has seeped through our vents causing a nauseating smell in our unit. As such, on a regular basis, we open all of our windows and leave them open throughout the day even when temperatures dropped to reduce the smell. We've also spent close to $500 in cleaning products to remove the cigarette smoke smell including a brand new vacuum cleaner, various deodorizers, and a HEPA filter. Our clothes and furniture smell like cigarette smoke every time we leave the apartment and it is disgusting. It is incredibly difficult to remove cigarette smoke smell from clothing and as a result we have had to throw away some clothing.
Also, the cigarette smoke smell has not only interfered with our quality of life throughout the day, but also at night and as such our quality of sleep. We often wake up throughout the night coughing, adjusting positions to avoid smelling the smoke, and have experienced itchy or scratchy throats.
Lastly, maintenance and apartment staff are generally friendly and have tried to assist us on a timely basis. However, there were a couple of instances where we were promised by maintenance to have an issue fixed, but the issue never got resolved. For example, we asked about the cigarette smoke problem and called maintenance almost once daily to have someone assist us. Maintenance eventually provided a deodorizing spray, but also promised a filter system to remove the cigarette smoke from the air. No such promise was kept. Instead maintenance staff passive aggressively left us a post-it note on our door stating that they do not assist with cigarette smoke.
In summary, rowdy and trashy neighbors, poor pest control, cigarette smoke, and lousy maintenance has made this one of the worst living experiences I have ever had. DON'T MOVE HERE!
