LogFAQs > #947185600

This topic prompted me to go looking at other apartments in my area and read their reviews.

I had expected and hoped, both, to find better than where I'm at now, but my current place is basically on average for the area, with its complaints being the same complaints in half or more of the other locations (druggies, cops coming all the time, lots of noise, hit-or-miss maintenance crew, etc.). Then the higher-rated ones either have very few reviews at all or are flooded with one-line "This is good" reviews from alleged people with one or two reviews per Google account, versus the more wordy reviews that rate lower coming from folks with numerous Google reviews under their belt.

It's disappointing really. I'm here with another year's lease, but it has been . . . an experience residing here. From the lack of any tour, to difficult stairs for carrying anything sizeable, to the unit being stupid small (and the bathroom being ridiculously huge for the little that's in it), to heaters being right under the windows so curtains are a no-go due to being a fire hazard (and oh yeah, the bathroom one still doesn't work despite calling maintenance on it), to the apartment being filthy and reeking of cigarettes when I moved in and miraculously being so much better when I scrubbed it down, to obvious druggies doing their thing in broad daylight, to loud neighbors at all hours, to one neighbor chasing a security person with a hammer before pulling a fire alarm at 5am on a day I had hoped to finally sleep in after a long week at work, to management misplacing paperwork I had filed because the girl filing said paperwork had quit when things needed to be processed.

If I had the time and energy to care for my own place, I would consider saving up and just buying a house, at this point. Then again, West Oly is a wee bit pricey in that regard. <_<

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