L A.
Yelp
When I first moved in, I was really satisfied with my experience, but it did take me a little bugging to get a reply every here and there. I lived on the 21st floor, I was super happy with my view, and my layout, but then I realized how unprofessional my move in really was. As somebody who works in property management, I was severely disappointed in the way they fixed my unit prior to me moving in. The walls were not fully painted, just spot touch ups you can see in the light, paint on the shower doors, outlets etc. The floor were disgusting and the apartment continued to smell like rotten eggs and sewer despite how clean it was while I lived there. I also moved into a unit which was occupied by a previous employee, and the washer and dryer was FULL of dog hair and it smelt so bad. The hallways smelt so bad, elevators barely worked, appliances in amenities needed to be fixed, and I also cut my foot twice at the pool area because they failed to replace broken tiles (It wasn't too big of an issue for me at the time because I was already dealing with a lot). My neighbor was an employee who I had to submit a noise complaint about 2 days after he moved in, not even knowing he was an employee, which made sense to why nothing changed. I tried to brush it off my shoulders because the staff was over all nice and maintenance was quick, I could tell they sometimes tried their best, and everybody minded their business. My grandma recently passed away and I had to move out of state last minute because my mom wasn't taking it well, she's still struggling mentally and emotionally which is why I moved out. I emailed corporate which like usual, they just forwarded my email back to the office, expected. In my request I asked to be released from my lease due to the circumstances but I think I held back from expressing more than I should have. I got an email back, and all they said was "This will be considered a skip, sorry for your loss" in summary. I recently received an email stating it was my last notice before Collections, and I think its absurd how much they are not willing to help me out. I understand paying for what they had to trash out, but given my circumstances you'd think they'd work with me a little bit. The funny part is, looking back at the email chain, the manager, Gilbert completely disregarded my request to be released from the lease. It didn't matter if I had all the supporting documents to show my grandmas death, my moms paperwork or my bank statement showing how much I had to give to my family just to lay my grandma to rest. It's so sad. I don't recommend living here, their goal is to collect money which I understand, but I don't see them ever cutting anybody slack to do a good thing. Even working in this industry, I always do the best I can to help my residents out while meeting my goals because outside of work, I'm human too. So now, I won't be able to live anywhere until this collections is paid off, not even that, $8k in 30 days is crazy, especially when half the staff probably couldn't do that if the roles were reversed. I've had 4 of my friends tell me they wanted to live there over the last 2 weeks and I told them not to even waste their time. I will be posting this review on all platforms and am requesting to speak to corporate once again.