During our time at Lakeshore Apartments, we dealt with many serious incidents that were either caused by or ignored by management staff. A small selection:\r
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It seemed like the police were there very frequently. It made us feel very unsafe, who did we live next to that was being visited by police so frequently? In our last weekend there, we were approached by a police officer who told us they were investigating one of our neighbors that we shared a building with, and asked us questions about this person. Scary!\r
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Many issues with marijuana smoke entering our apartment. It was such an issue that warnings were posted a few times by management, but this was an intermittent issue our entire time as tenants.\r
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We had tremendous difficulty with our upstairs neighbors. Our apartment was flooded by clogged toilets in the upstairs unit 5 times over the course of a year. We had two different neighbors over the course of a year and they both had noisy, disruptive late night parties, including 2 different 21st birthday parties.\r
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We had to leave our apartments overnight two separate times during our stay. Once the management decided to re-glaze a bathtub in our building in the middle of winter without giving us any notice. When we called to ask about the smell, they told us that is what they were doing and that we should open some windows for air. It was 30 degrees outside. We did so anyway but still found the chemical smell to be too noxious to endure and we had to leave. I complained about this and we eventually received a rent credit.\r
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The other time we had to leave was due to a car alarm going off in the early AM hours, waking us up. It did not stop after a lengthy amount of time, so I visited the front gate and told them of the problem. They told me that they couldn't do anything and that I would have to call the towing company. Still standing with the guard, I did so and the towing company told me that Lakeshore would have to request the tow. (Makes sense, right?) Lakeshore refused to do anything and eventually we had to leave our own home to get some sleep.\r
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I have raised all of these issues, and many others with the property manager at Lakeshore. She was frequently unresponsive and only very rarely did anything to address our complaints, usually after several days of vocally complaining about an ongoing issue.\r
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There are many other things I could say about our time at Lakeshore aparments, suffice it to say our experience was negative enough that I am going out of my way to write this review in the hopes that others may be spared what we had to go through. In the strongest terms possible I would advise looking elsewhere for a home.
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