I had problems from the moment I moved in. First was the cleanliness of the place. The carpets looked okay, but the bathroom mirror, counter, and cabinets had splotches of paint all over then, and it was obvious they hadn't bothered to dust the vents before they were painted. They were absolutely caked with grime, all held together neatly with sloppily globbed paint.
Ants were EVERYWHERE. They came out of the ceiling, the outlets, through gaps between the windows and walls (the windows
...themselves were either painted shut or so rusted that I couldn't budge them), and of course all throughout the kitchen. They even got into the airtight containers I stored food in. I made a few calls to the office, but never got any resolution.
A couple weeks after I moved in, I get a knock on my door. It's maintenance, saying my bathtub is leaking into the apartment underneath me. Before I can say anything, the guy PUSHES HIS WAY (at the time I was a single woman living alone) into my apartment and tracks mud all the way from the front door to the bathroom. I have no idea if the bathtub was actually leaking, but I do know that Mr. Maintenance Man cracked a tile around one of the taps. The whole tile came off the next day, making yet another path for ants to get in. Again I called for a fix, and never got anywhere.
And then there was the mold... mother of all that is holy, the mold. The ceiling tile above the (warped and wiggly) kitchen bar was so logged with water that it COLLAPSED ON TOP OF ME and covered me in pieces of tile and filthy water. Turns out my AC had been leaking, and probably had been long before I moved in. No way could that much water have accumulated in the scant year I'd been there. I reported it, but when I moved out about two weeks later, still no one had come to deal with it. Oh, and all that water that drenched me when the tile collapsed? Yeah it caused a rash. All over my neck, my chest, my face, my arms... it took two rounds of antibiotics and untold quantities of cortisone cream to get rid of it.
Twelve months in this place was twelve months too long. The only good thing I can say about this place is that they didn't charge me for any of the above disasters.
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