I could go on about the fiasco of getting our security deposit back (after leaving the place spic and span), but I won't. I will only caution you strongly against renting from these people unless you don't care to ever get ahold of your landlord, be treated unfairly when you do, live with God-knows what kind of neighbors, and pay an arm and a leg for it all. If a nice space is all you care about and you truly don't care about the rest, then by all means go move into our apartment. It's probably still empty.
First of all let me begin by saying that the spaces themselves in these apartments are actually quite nice. High ceilings, nice porches/balconies, decent kitchen space for an apartment. So when my husband and I first signed our (year-long) lease we were pretty excited about finding one of the nicer apartment buildings in town.
The final straw came when my husband and I had found a new place to live (obviously we would not be renewing our lease) but there were two weeks to spare between the time our lease was up at Century Park and when we were able to move into our new place. We requested a two-week extension and we would pay half a month's rent, but when we finally got a response - two weeks after we asked - we were told they would let us stay but only for a full month's rent, plus 15%.
Oh how deluded we were.
We lived in the downstairs unit of a two story building, and we knew there was going to be trouble when new upstairs neighbors moved in about 3 months after we did. The ceilings proved to be immensely thin, and that combined with the fact that the unit above us had hardwood floors throughout allowed immense amounts of sound to bleed into our daily lives. The people above us had a 4 year old child who ran, jumped, played basketball, and screamed day and night. Now, I understand that a kid needs to let out some energy, and we did our best to be forgiving, even when our ceilings were shaking, but at Christmas time they bought the kid a drum set. Yes that's right, a DRUM SET. In an upstairs apartment! Not two weeks later they came home with a puppy. It was absolute hell to live under. All day long starting before 7 am with the dog barking and shaking his crate (right over our bedroom) and the kid banging on the drum set, which literally shook our entire apartment, I might add, and all manner of absurd noises. (If you still decide to rent an apartment here I HIGHLY recommend an upstairs unit!) We asked them several times to be more considerate, but when that didn't work I called management. Which brings me to another reason to never rent from these people - they drop off the face of the earth for months at a time. This is not a joke. The landlord, maintenance, or even just an office worker were next to impossible to talk to. I called at least 4 times about the drum set, and finally a week later my call was returned with the answer that "there was nothing they could do, I would have to file a noise complaint with the police." And according to this incompetent person it would take 3 separate complaints before they could take action. Which is the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard but what could I do? I called multiple times again and was never called back. (THE DAY WE MOVED OUT was the first time I'd seen our landlady since we signed the lease, and that was for the walk-through during which I mentioned our issues with our upstairs neighbors. She sounded quite surprised and said she had no idea that I had called so many times.)
This is going to be long, but trust me, if you're thinking about renting here you'll want to read this firsthand account.
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