We are moved into the Christine Apartments in June 2023, into the first building that opened. I wrote this review to be honest about our experience. Some of the recent “good” reviews are suspect because they have started raffling off gift cards if you give a good review. I reported a few reviews and they were removed since they were made by employees of the owning company. The John Flatley Company is the owner and developer of the property.
One of the main reasons we moved here were the promised
...amenities. These turned out to be our main issue. As time has gone on most amenities are available but are too small for the money we all pay.
The pool and fitness center are too small to accommodate the amount of tenants living here, current and future. When the pool finally opened it was not open during the hours in the lease. It is nice to have but was crowded at times when only two buildings were open and there will be eight open this summer.
The fitness center has a nice range of equipment but the space and number of machines is lacking for the current five open buildings. It will be even worse when all eight are open.
There is only one area for garbage for the property.
The buildings are cheaply made and as time goes on we notice corners have been cut. The cabinets are not finished. The floor's glue is still seeping up between the cracks. It takes a long time for hot water to arrive.
Emotional support/service animals are welcome with proper paperwork, but we have noticed dogs who likely are not registered with management. And we find poop bags left on the property.
We knew there would be ongoing construction. This has become more of a bother than expected. The crews sometimes leave hazards around. There are no traffic lines and zero signage for the safety of the community.
I can say that the people in maintenance are great, responsive, and helpful. John Flatley Co has been frustrating to live under. They are out of touch and you can tell they cheaped out on this property when they could have added amenities that supports eight buildings of people comfortably. They chose to go small. We are disappointed and hope management looks into maintaining everyone’s rent accordingly. We know that won't happen. We hope they start doing the right thing by tenants, but we don't have faith that they will.
All this to say, we have made do and plan to stay, but the rent is way too high for the location, size/availability of amenities, and other issues we've had.
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