Review for Silk Oak Apartments

So the place seems cool, I'm sure it was amazing back in the 60s and 70s but the new owners are slumlords. Lets start with my move in day. When I viewed the apartment I was told that management was fixing things and making some upgrades from the previous tenants so I wasn't concerned about the fact that the place was a little messy and had some problems, I assumed they would be fixed. On move in day the floors were covered with dirt, leaves and trash, there was rotting food in the refrigerator, crap in the toilet and a bathroom door off it's hinges in addition to none of the painting being done, walls covered with skuffmarks, ceilings cracked and several of the door latch mechanisms were installed incorrectly and did not work.

The common facilities were the same story. The rec room was a disaster filled with bottles, trash, turned over furniture and crack smoking supplies. The saunas didn't work and were filled with junk, dirty bathrooms and graffiti. The pool was constantly dirty and the pool area was filled with dilapidated furniture such as an old moldy upholstered couch that the landlord ditched there. The tennis court was in total disrepair and left locked with a chain although when we toured the place we were told it would be fixed up and opened within the month after I moved in, of course this was a total lie.

Laundry machines are constantly broken and ridiculously expensive. The so-called repair guy was completely incompetent and his general idea of fixing things is to take down the "out-of-order" signs so that people would continue to put money in and get nothing in return.

The front gate is constantly broken as well as the front door at the main entrance, neither of which do any good since kids, who constantly steal stuff from tenants, come in and out through a hole in the falling down fence next to the gate which management refused to fix. Management's method of fixing a broken window on the facade was to duct tape the glass shards together and hope they don't fall on your head when you come through the door. Their method for reattaching the heavy electromagnet that is supposed to lock the front door was to zip-tie it, which not only was ineffective as a locking mechanism but also broke on several occasions swinging down and narrowly missing tenants and guests. I suggested installing heavy bolts that could actually hold the weight of the mechanism and was told by the "repair man" that he did not have a drill so he couldn't do that.

If you want a pool that you can't swim in, saunas you can't sweat in, doors that don't close, yards that cant grow grass, piles of garbage everywhere and a handyman who doesn't fix anything or even own a drill I highly recommend Silk Oak to you as long as you can also put up with constantly barking dogs, police arresting ghetto tenants' children after knife fights in the parking lot and constant rent increases.