This is a true story sad to say but am living in this story, watching it unfold day by day. This truly was a hidden gem waiting for me to find when I found this brand new, lovely community when I did. Lovely and upscale sort of features that I find simply charming. Crown molding in the living room, dining room and kitchen. Actual wooden cabinets in the kitchen. Upscale type of blinds throughout the unit where there is no string apparatus to pull to lift up the blinds you just lift up the whole unit to the height you want the blinds lifted to. Nice, laminated wood flooring sort of in an ashen gray/brown color with good quality carpeting and carpet padding in the bedrooms. I was the first one to live in the unit I selected so no one even used the brand-new full-size washer & dryer. A garden tub that's not only deep in depth but also in width too. It takes approximately 15 minutes to fill it for a bath. Superior quality as the base of both tub/showers meaning whatever they chose as the non-slip/non fall texture is wonderful. One of my favorite features is the light that turns on in the freezer when you open it. There are nice quality large sized mirrors in each bathroom. The lighting is actually built into the mirror sort of like a frame would be to a picture. I was told if the light goes out there is no changing a light bulb, but a new mirror is needed to replace it. I told you quality upgrades here.
This is a lovely residence and I take care of it as if I owned it myself. I even requested some paint to use for touch ups if needed on the walls, they filled a little empty jelly jar I provided to maintenance with the matching paint color. Somewhere along the line they let the standards of becoming a resident here down. I was still under contract and had a typed rules pages to live here. It clearly stated no dogs 50 pounds or larger are to live on the 2nd and 3rd floors. It apparently didn't matter when they broke the current rules sheet, I had and let an 80 lb. dog move in with the tenants above me. When I inquired and brought in the rules sheet to the office all they said was it was updated and gave me the new one reflecting there are not breed/weight restrictions for dogs now and which floors they can live on. The ones that fight and disrupt not only those below but also the tenants above them. I asked the property manager at the time several times if they had this problem at the building they moved from to the other building. They assured me each time no and maybe I have sensitive hearing or that no one brought it up about them in the other building they transferred from. I would say I find that odd that all of the sudden they start fighting and never did in the other building unit they moved from within this community. Only to find out after this manager quit that I was told this couple fought like cats & dogs at the other unit they moved from. The best suggestion the office could only tell me was to call the non-emergency police phone number. How many times does one have to go through with this before it is addressed by property management? Just about a week ago the fighting started in the afternoon, so once again the phone call was made.
Now, the update with my new neighbors that say they don't speak English. A little over a week ago I came home from a baby shower and that evening I was watching tv and dosed off. You know, asleep but not completely asleep. I thought I kept hearing loud music. I woke around 11:30pm only to find out it was coming from my new neighbor's apartment in which I could hear it in my unit along with loud voices talking too. I called the non-emergency police number since it was well after quiet time is designated here and the noise travelled to the bedroom area. I think the police came because it quieted down. So, I then go into the office 1 day and asked if the courtesy noise letter was sent out to them. The newer leasing consultant who can have a combative/defensive personality at times begins to say maybe they were having a celebration or celebrating something. I responded back, well after designated quiet time. I actually had to ask them if one of the reminder quiet time letters was going out to them. They did not give me a definitive answer and I said do you need to know their apartment number; they said no because they knew my apartment number. Do you get the big picture here? I had a local real estate agent share with me how this truly lovely community is known as the hood now because it is easy for anyone to rent here and guess what, it is now showing to be true.
We are apparently the word out there is if you are a person that gets a lease then it is ok to let other family/friends move in without placing them on the lease. So that is how paying the rent is affordable, splitting rent with a couple of families/friends makes it very affordable. Then the word is when a unit becomes available, they then move to that unit. Another resident told me of a unit in which bunk beds are set up in the living room area. So far me and my neighbors have seen well over the TN limit of occupants living in the unit happening. When you question this with the leasing office, they say well, when 1 moves out for a night and then comes back into the unit the time clock starts all over again. Isn't that crazy thinking? Who are these people and have background checks been done on them to know we that live in the same building are safe knowing they passed background checks. Then they bring in several vehicles also which take up parking spaces for the rest of the tenants to park. When you inquire about starting some sort of resident program like maybe 2 vehicle stickers per unit and then let the other vehicles park elsewhere on property this is the response from someone in management mind you. We do not have guest parking and it is a first come first served basis. I further inquire if all these vehicles are being registered with the lease/office and this person actually said they never updated the office when they got a new car/license plate stuff and they did it a couple of times so far. My response, aren't you still having the towing company patrolling the property to deal with stuff like cars that have not moved in days or expired license plate tags? I was surprised at their answer when they continued to say aren't you concerned your vehicle could get towed and they responded they were not worried about that because they move their car, so it does not just stay in 1 parking spot. So, you have someone in the leasing office that doesn't even follow that courtesy obligation to notify the office when vehicle or new license plates are on their vehicle. At 1 point the former manager was talking about the parking situation and was going to offer garages to tenants to alleviate the parking congestion, that never happened and when I brought that up the new leasing representative got a bit of a sarcastic attitude with me and said rent a garage for 100.00 a month. Then she spoke under her breath a comment and I asked her what you just said, and she said nothing. I heard them say get a garage. Whatever happened to customer service skills. Gosh give me about a month or so and I would get this place is high standards like it used to be when I moved in. Oh, when I asked when the last time was, they did a property drive thru checking on registered vehicles and not expired license tags was a response that they don't have time in the office and the maintenance person has access to all the info they had and why not have them do that too. Maintenance I believe should do maintenance related tasks and not take on the responsibilities of front office personnel. Apparently in May there was a contest for the best patio per building. The sign still stays up in the announcement area, but no one was selected yet. I inquired months ago about have the winners been selected and the response was it as to hot outside to walk the property to select winners. What were the potential prizes? Goodness' sake if there never was the intent to have a contest which encouraged people to clean up their patios and take down holiday (Christmas) lights etc. then why put up a flyer stating so.
Last night the non-speaking English that live in this property somewhere (I am guessing that also or are they living elsewhere or guests of tenants) must have been having a loud party/gathering after hours maybe by the grilling area and it was loud again. This time about 10:30PM I was just too tired to get out of bed to call the non-emergency police phone number. I just wanted to go to sleep. Apparently, someone else must have called someone about it because it got quiet outside. So, younger in aged kids were talking in a foreign language and it seemed like it was outside my bedroom windows why were parents not with them? Oh, here is the other scenario ... I asked Holy Spirit to reveal the mighty angels around me protecting me to someone in this rowdy crowd and they were shown them and not to mess around anymore and then it got quiet outside. You decide, was it someone calling someone to quiet them down or did Holy Spirit show mighty angels to them?
I have no problem with people moving to our great country because 3 of my grandparents did. They assimilated to our nations ways and were respectful of people around them and also learned to speak English, boy that is a novel idea isn't it.
All in all, I still love my unit I really do, and God gives me great prophetic dreams and insight right here in my abode.
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