At first, we picked this place because at first glance, it looks pretty nice. There are trees everywhere, the grounds seem nice. But within a week or so of moving in, we noticed the trees are actually dying, and so often, branches are falling out. And we're talking about big branches, not twigs. A couple times, trees have split in half and fallen into the street over the gate and were left for a couple days. The sprinklers are broken so there is often flooding just from that, but when it rains,
...it's much worse. We were told, because we specifically asked about it, that our water bill wouldn't go higher than max $90, that it was unheard of, but I honestly never saw it below $100 and usually was at least $120. I do wonder if the sprinklers are on the tenants' dime. I've also seen maintenance people use the faucets on the buildings for their power washing, which I think also contributes. Kids also often just leave the faucets running, further causing flooding.
All of the flooding, in addition to being so close to the river, brought A LOT of sewer roaches outside. I would find them dead or near dead in the shower and next to the dishwasher within the first couple weeks, before we had even really moved in or even bought food. As a result, we never used the dishwasher because we didn't want to attract them with the water, but we also thought it entirely possible that it wouldn't even work anyway. We also stopped opening the windows because we saw roaches coming in through them, and the sliding glass door. Once, a roach ran in through the front door and it took us a half hour to catch it and get rid of it. It go in our couch, so we got rid of the couch just in case (it was really old and needed to be replaced anyway). Mind you, we were on the 2nd floor. Walking to the apartment, in the dark (because a lot of the lights do not work and have never worked), you have to dodge the roaches.
The neighbors directly mirrored behind us, so therefor sharing the entire length of our back walls with us, were always screaming in the middle of the night. I reported it to management, nothing changed. They had a child, my guess max 6 years old, that would scream and cry and kick my walls, often screaming Stop. There was a man and a woman's voice, as well, that would be screaming. Often, this would all start around 9pm. I struggled to sleep, and wish I'd called the police.
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