Landlord stew...
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10 Reasons You Should Avoid Park Place Development
(and for those of you keen on libel or slander laws, this post constitutes neither... because it's 100% true!)
10) Our neighbors have littered in our front yard - literally as we stand nearby, watching.
9) The free gym membership cost me $20 in "card fees." The gym card is a home-laminated piece of copy paper with the Park Place letterhead and a number on it. It appears to have been cut out by hand.
8) We were told during the tour that we would have a refrigerator, a separate storage unit, and a clean back-yard at move-in. None of those were available or completed upon move-in. We called on on three separate occasions and waited two months for those to happen.
7a) The shower-head makes a loud, high-pitched whine when in use. So loud, in fact, the neighbors complained.
7b) The bedroom and bathroom doors have a 1.5" gap underneath. A nothing problem... until you realize how much you can hear through 1.5".
7c) The dishwasher leaked for the first two months, damaging the kitchen cabinetry. The landlord's initial response was "Well, is it working for now?" It was fixed after four maintenance visits.
6) Though parking is unassigned, other tenants will be territorial and claim spots. I was threatened by an old lady on the first day parking my car in the complex. I had another tenant complain to my face that I took up one of the two spots she uses to diagonally park her SUV.
5) There was a rusty nail in the water line running to the kitchen sink. Don't worry about our health - it popped out in March, causing a constant flood in the kitchen. The maintenance crew ripped a hole in our back wall to repair the line. It's still there - fiberglass insulation hanging out, water line exposed, and all. We no longer have running cold-water from the kitchen sink. Oh! And we were told that there were probably nails running through water lines all over the complex, though they only became an issue when they became rusty like that.
4) After discovering termites in Jeanie's bathroom and the hole in the kitchen wall, the landlords sent over the maintenance crew to set some poison in the floor for the bathroom. When the termites there returned, we notified the landlords again. Their response: termites are unavoidable. Both colonies (or maybe one giant colony?) still remain. Jeanie put a hamster cage over hers.
3) After not receiving a bill for water/sewage during May or June (it's not a fixed expense, so we have to wait on the bill to pay it), we received our July bill and a past-due notice charging for May & June.
2) They lost their record of our rent and water/sewage payments in the spring. We received an eviction notice because of it!
1) With two and a half months left on our lease, I've been given a 24-hour notice of the landlord's intent to show the apartment. For me, that means I need to paint and clean my apartment so that a complete stranger can have access to all of my worldly possessions while I'm out.
10 Reasons You Should Avoid Park Place Development
(and for those of you keen on libel or slander laws, this post constitutes neither... because it's 100% true!)
10) Our neighbors have littered in our front yard - literally as we stand nearby, watching.
9) The free gym membership cost me $20 in "card fees." The gym card is a home-laminated piece of copy paper with the Park Place letterhead and a number on it. It appears to have been cut out by hand.
8) We were told during the tour that we would have a refrigerator, a separate storage unit, and a clean back-yard at move-in. None of those were available or completed upon move-in. We called on on three separate occasions and waited two months for those to happen.
7a) The shower-head makes a loud, high-pitched whine when in use. So loud, in fact, the neighbors complained.
7b) The bedroom and bathroom doors have a 1.5" gap underneath. A nothing problem... until you realize how much you can hear through 1.5".
7c) The dishwasher leaked for the first two months, damaging the kitchen cabinetry. The landlord's initial response was "Well, is it working for now?" It was fixed after four maintenance visits.
6) Though parking is unassigned, other tenants will be territorial and claim spots. I was threatened by an old lady on the first day parking my car in the complex. I had another tenant complain to my face that I took up one of the two spots she uses to diagonally park her SUV.
5) There was a rusty nail in the water line running to the kitchen sink. Don't worry about our health - it popped out in March, causing a constant flood in the kitchen. The maintenance crew ripped a hole in our back wall to repair the line. It's still there - fiberglass insulation hanging out, water line exposed, and all. We no longer have running cold-water from the kitchen sink. Oh! And we were told that there were probably nails running through water lines all over the complex, though they only became an issue when they became rusty like that.
4) After discovering termites in Jeanie's bathroom and the hole in the kitchen wall, the landlords sent over the maintenance crew to set some poison in the floor for the bathroom. When the termites there returned, we notified the landlords again. Their response: termites are unavoidable. Both colonies (or maybe one giant colony?) still remain. Jeanie put a hamster cage over hers.
3) After not receiving a bill for water/sewage during May or June (it's not a fixed expense, so we have to wait on the bill to pay it), we received our July bill and a past-due notice charging for May & June.
2) They lost their record of our rent and water/sewage payments in the spring. We received an eviction notice because of it!
1) With two and a half months left on our lease, I've been given a 24-hour notice of the landlord's intent to show the apartment. For me, that means I need to paint and clean my apartment so that a complete stranger can have access to all of my worldly possessions while I'm out.