OT: House rentals

[keith smith]

What about the landlord and the maintenance people.  I had a hole in my ceiling due to condensation from un-insulated ducts.  Was collecting about 16 ounces of water a day in 2 buckets. 20 phone calls, 6 visits, and 32 days later the problem still existed.  They would not let me know when they were going to come and I had to continually call to get someone to come back to continue the process.

At day 32 the drywall guys showed up and refused to put the ceiling back up because there was still water dripping. The manager and 2 maintenance people arrived to assess the situation.  It was the first time the manager has come by to look at what was going on even after several conversation with her about it. I blew a gasket and ordered them out telling them not to return.  The VP of operations told me they had the right to enter anytime because it was a water leak making it an emergency.  I asked him if it was an emergency why had they not fix the problem.  I went on to say on day 2 or 4 it might have been an emergency but on day 32 he could not play that card.  

They left me alone and let me move promissing a partial refund for that month.

I moved and got a partial refund for that months rent.

I will never live in a complex again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh and the noise - trash truck at 5am, car alarms all the time, very loud thumping  music and the loud Mexican music.  And people from the neighboring complex would jump the fence and use out complex as a short cut.  

Forgot to mention non-residents using laundry facility.........

Heather Ridge
4707 E McDowell Road
UNIT 1139
Phoenix AZ 85008
http://www.heatherridgeapartments.com/
 
Management company was : 
Morrison, Ekre & Bart Management Services 
http://www.mebmgmt.com/




Jim <arizona.anorak at gmail.com> wrote: eric wrote:
> At this point, I have no car, and thus am dependant on bus 
> transportation.  I work in the bike shop in downtown Tempe from 9-1, 
> come home for a quick shower, then head down to 48^th /baseline from 
> 3-midnight.  As it is, I only have about 20mins float time between the 
> two places. 

I'm in the same boat.  I want to get out of the city, but I don't have a 
car so I'm stuck with the buses.  You say you work in a bicycle shop. 
Do you ride one?  If you do, you're a brave man.  It's my understanding 
that valley drivers like cars with hood ornaments because they use them 
like crosshairs - to better aim for their target - the guy on the bicycle.

> I’d actually really like to get away from the city,

I live on the west side and would love to get a place between Sun City 
and Wickenburg, but since the buses don't go that far, I'm stuck.

> and I _/really/_ 
> don’t want to sign a 6 month or 1 year lease at an apartment, as 
> frankly, I _/hate/_ living in an apartment.  

Ditto.

> It’s the apartment itself 
> that I dislike, it’s waking up to the blaring stereo of the neighbors 
> below me, then attemping to go to sleep with the screaming kids next 
> door (although I occasionally enjoy getting the volume up a bit, and 
> don’t want to disturb the people on the other side of the wall, lol). 


In my case it's not the neighbors next to me or above me.  It's any one 
of several people who live in an apartment several doors away.  They 
like their Mexican oompa music so much the like to share it with 
everyone else.  A lady did that one day and I got my revenge.  I took a 
loud radio outside and let her listen to Rush Limbaugh. :-0

Good luck with your apartment finding.

Jim
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