Apartment Review for The Gateway At Tempe

Living in the dorms last year I was so excited to get into an apartment. I toured Gateway no less than 3 times and was so excited, I even had my parents fly out to sign my lease. After they lied and told me that the first month would be prorated, and only let us in one day before classes started I got my key. When I opened the door, you could say i was very less than pleased. I have a 3x2 with a private bathroom. My bathroom had not been cleaned from the previous tenant. How do I know this? there were still bobby pins on the ground plus one of the girls reluctantly renewed and she said she was there all summer and they didn't clean the place once. Which is bull because the whole reason we weren't allowed to move in on the first was so they could clean. The quality of everything in the apartment is poor, my desk is being held up by bricks, my drawers break every week, the furniture is a joke. Maintenance? Yeah right, it takes months to get an easy request met. In august, no air conditioner? Oh they said it was just because the sun was out. Plus they get free rent and have like 7 people living in their apartment. Our microwave broke, so they finally brought us a different one, that doesn't work, but didn't feel the need to take the other one away.
The walls are so thin my neighbors like to play music loud all night long and the stupid rent a cops do nothing to all of the underage drinking, most of the time either funded by or with the CAs who don't deserve free rent. Speaking of CAs, the office staff is highly incompetent, I've asked them for very simple things, like giving me a code for the gate. He disappears into the back and returns maybe 30 minutes later? and gives me a code, to some random persons cellphone. Every time you ask them to do something, if you can find anybody in the office, they just disappear into the back and don't actually do anything.
Instead of training employees or improving the shoddy apartments, they spend all their money on pool parties and gift cards to hand out to people wearing green shirts on tuesday. Really? Plus, the yard staff likes to do their work very early in the morning, and although I appreciate the fact that landscaping is the only thing gateway does right, they shouldn't start it before 8 am when the walls are thin and wake everybody up.
They also advertise their "Roommate Matching" program, which is a complete bust. I am an asthmatic so I said no smoking. Got a roommate that smokes. If you say you want people that clean or match you on the stupid short questionnaire, they don't really care they just put you with anybody they feel like. Plus you don't even get to find out your rommates until like a few days before move-in. Their move-in deal has to be illegal. Plus they tried to raise my rent, while i'm still under lease. Really? The whole point of a lease is to lock in a price. It isn't a difficult concept.
Everybody at gateway is so inconsiderate and rude. Incompetence doesn't even begin to describe the staff that do nothing to live for free except for party with minors. DO yourself a favor and don't sign. Now I have to go find a new apartment. I hate it here.