First off, NEVER rent a lower floor apartment at Tiffany Square. List of things that have gone wrong in the 10 months I've lived here, due to maintenance (or lack thereof):
1. Backwash from upstairs neighbors in our kitchen sink. (Soil, egg shells, coffee grounds; rotten, swamp-like odor) This persisted even after maintenance came out to "fix" it twice.
2. Backwash from upstairs neighbors in our bathroom sink. (Hair shavings, mucus w/ blood; again, rotten & swamp-like odor)
3. Bedroom door's lock
...did not line up with the corresponding part in the door frame; maintenance had to fix it just so the bedroom door could be closed and locked.
4. Bedroom window did not line up properly, could not be locked, could easily have been lifted up and broken into from the outside; maintenance had to come and fix it.
5. Only half of the laundry machines "work" at any given time, and by "work," I mean they operate. They don't do a good job of cleaning even small loads with minimal soiling. The dryers also can't even fully dry a small to medium load.
6. Cockroaches are rampant outdoors year-round due to poor management of the community garbage dumpsters, and even if you take the best care to keep your apartment clean, you WILL encounter them inside your dwelling at Tiffany Square at least once every few months. "Pest control" is a joke around these parts.
7. If you don't want to smell your neighbor's cooking or even occasional "bathroom odors" coming from your own heating/ air conditioning vents, then don't live here; it will happen.
Also, on a note unrelated to maintenance, if you don't like to hear rowdy children running around yelling outside and even occasionally banging on your door before running off, then this isn't the place for you. They're also almost always playing on the street in the warmer months, and this is where I find another fault in Tiffany Square's priorities: Their monthly newsletter will sometimes mention this, but tell residents to drive slower because of it; they never, EVER tell parents to take responsibility and teach their kids not to run out into the street after, say, a ball.
All in all, if I could rate Tiffany Square a negative number, I would, but the lowest available number is 1/5, so here we go. I want to say "you get what you pay for," but you really don't. Faulty laundry machines are not in the fine print. Other residents' food waste and even bodily fluids washing up in your own sink is also not in the fine print. In a word: Shameful.
