Review for Mt. Ridge Apartments

I have been here for quite a few years, and let me tell you, the current management is the worst yet, and they have been progressively worse over the years. Getting something fixed practically requires a judicial edict, and they are constantly changing the rules without telling you. Let me explain.

When I first moved in, Parking was fine and dandy, but over the years, as they've catered to more and more college students, the parking lots have become more crammed. Their solution? To tow vehicles with expired plates. It doesn't matter if you belong there, or perhaps are having a problem renewing for some reason, the criteria is, expired. Except that they don't tow all expired vehicles; just the ones that the tow company finds easy to tow. There is a vehicle parked in our lot with NO registration, and it will have been there a year come this April. There also uised to be lines in the lots, but no longer, which means that people park far enough apart that at least 10-12 spaces are taken up every night.

As noted, repairs are also a problem. They tell you they will do things, and then never, ever do them. It took almost five years for them to fix holes in my exterior walls, due to a serious roof leak in 1998. They fixed the roof right away, but it took until this past fall to get them to repair my wall, which in the end they only patched. They promised me a new toilet two years ago, when they had to remove mine to root out the sewer, yet the old one is still there. Not only that, but it's not attached to the floor, because the bolt was stripped. They repaired a hole in the wall beneath my shower nozzle in the fall, as well, but they didn't fix the leak that had caused the hole in the first place, and the hole has reappeared.

Several years ago, someone abandoned some cats under our building, and they have since reproduced several times, and every spring, we are greeted by the sounds of feral cats in heat and mating under our building, and the building next door.

Also, they do paint, but only once, when you move in, so if you decide to move here, don't plan to stay for more than a year. Although they do require 75 days notice before you can break the lease, and the lease contains provisions for automatic renewal should you not give them proper notice. IOW, be careful when you commit to living in this place. It's cheap, but there's a reason for it.