Rather then rant, I'll just give brief snapshots so you get a good idea of what it's like to live here.
Neighbors above clomping up and down the stairs all hours of the night, dropping their cigarette butts on our porch below, and even letting their alarm go off for 4_hours_straight one morning; management did nothing.
Mildew smell in closet, management "couldn't smell anything" and their prized moisture detectors that they're so keen to whip out also detected nothing. Solution: a cherry-smelling deodorizing block. Fark: They painted over the mildew that showed up on the bathroom ceiling (right next to closet) the first week I was there.
Fark x 2: Two weeks ago the bathroom above us dumped circa 20 gallons of water into my bathroom beginning at 6AM ("bad seals" that were redone the week previous). Maintenance clomping in and out all morning. Nasty water marks, cracked drywall, and a sexy black mildew splotch growing above the shower: Solution? Paint over it. My sink wouldn't drain properly - time to fix? 2 months.
Yesterday the water heater above us exploded and it 'rained' in the outside storage room, and leaked down into our dining room. No one had the courtesy to even tell us. As I type, we have a house full of loud fans, the cat is horrified, and I'm expected to 'be around' in case maintenance needs to pretend to do something useful in here, and because the outside fan has to be plugged in inside, so the patio door is cracked and unlocked. I highly doubt they will assist with any additional cooling/water charges spawned from this latest episode of 5h1t breaking.
They have added *additional* speedbumps, most delightfully placed on corners so as to KILL your cars shocks. There are now no less then _9_ speedbumps in the 1/4 mile I have to drive over a minimum of twice a day.
The pool was supposedly closed by Maricopa county a few weeks prior, and their solution is to randomly and frequently shock (chlorene) the hell out of it and the hot tub. Sometimes you can smell the cholrene from the parking lot, and we like to say it would kill a small woodland animal (if the feral cat population didn't get to them first).
Someone also had the bright idea of closing a full quarter of the parking at a time while they did lot maintenance. This made parking during September ... entertaining.
I'll be forking out a few extra hundred when my lease is up to upgrade to a better place. Can't really say it'll take much.