Crime, Noise, Attitude and approach of management, Tons of fees and hidden costs, Trains, Constant interference of internet and TV from trains, Being stuck for up to four hours from stopped trains, Gang activity, Sketchy neighborhood,
The noise of the trains interfere with the internet, TV, your thought process, your conversation, etc. I started watching the clock. Not ten minutes go buy before at least one train starts going by (there are four sets of tracks). The internet router restarts many times when a train goes by. Furthermore, somehow this City allows the train to stop for 2-4 hours blocking the crosswalk so you are stuck. While I was waiting, two people jumped through between two cars. The police on the other side issued them tickets.
There have been several times when gangs outside my bedroom window start yelling at each other and fighting. The police are here a lot! Someone threw rocks at my window for looking out at them.
The property has locked gates that get broken 1-2x/month. If I had to guess, I believe they are broken more of the time than they work.
The hot tub is not very warm. I still feel cold after sitting in there for 20 minutes (the length of two timed bubbles functions).
The fire alarm in the hall goes off nearly every day. Three days ago it was going off from 2:20am until after 8am.
The hallways are pretty gross. The vents and floor boards in the hallways have been peed-on by dogs and brown-yellow build-up has gotten so that you can not really tell that the vent was originally white.
My kitchen sink has fallen into the cupboard below twice in six months. Maintenance does not seem to want to fix it right. There has always been a one-inch gap between the sink and the counter where water gets into the cupboard below. It does not seem stable and I continue to wonder when it will fall again.
The staff that was here when I moved-in were wonderful and professional. Then they had two complete turnovers in two months. Now, suddenly, there are all these new rules. We are not residents, we are potential fee payers. If you are not out of the pool by the very minute it closes, security is there to issue a ""citation"". There is no clock anywhere around the pool area, so make sure you are out of the locked area BEFORE closing time or you will be literally locked-in and waiting to be issued a citation. For six months I paid my rent two weeks early every month. Then I started getting 3-day eviction notices posted to my door. I checked my bank online and Bridges had received their rent paid up front for more than the next 5 weeks. It was due to some fees. NO one bothered to communicate with me. The first attempt at communication was a three-day eviction notice.
When I try to communicate, I am told in an I-told-you-so voice that it is all spelled out in the lease agreement.
It is now like a competition between management and the residents.
If you plan to live here:
Pay your rent early, make sure to include all fees that are not obvious before they can double each day, obey every rule to a ""T"", have commercial-grade ear plugs, don't rely on the internet being consistent, leave for your appointments 2-4 hours early, and make sure you are extremely patient with competitive know-it-all personalities.
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