Review for Fairway Woods Apartments

The cost of living at this complex is pretty good, considering the apartments are in somewhat decent shape and you get to use the pool from Memorial Day to Labor Day. My maintenance requests were always handled in a timely manner. There were a few things I didn't like about living at Fairway Woods. The first was the snow removal policy. Cars are towed at the owner's expense if they are not moved by 8:15am or thereabouts. This isn't a problem during the week, but what if you and your roommate/spouse/whatever have two cars and you take one out of town for the weekend? I was fortunately never towed, but the policy of towing your residents is ridiculous.

My biggest complaint with living at Fairway Woods is with the charges that were assessed at the time of move out. My wife and I left the apartment in good condition. The floors were thoroughly vacuumed, cupboards cleaned, and no personal property left inside or out. We overlooked a few parts of the cleaning document about needing to clean underneath and behind the refrigerator and stove, but in my opinion, the apartment was in better shape than when I had moved in. We were assessed $110 for cleaning charges with most of them under the kitchen category, which supposedly took four and a half hours to clean. An hour and a half to clean the kitchen floor that we had personally swept, vacuumed, and wiped down with wet cloths? Half an hour or more each for the refrigerator and stove?

When I sat down with the manager to dispute the charges, she wouldn't budge on any of them and tried to refute my claims of cleanliness by recalling the state of the apartment from her own memory. Due to holiday travel and the period of time it took to receive the letter from the management, it had been a month and a half since the apartment had been cleaned. How could she expect to recall it from memory? Needless to say, I would have given this complex a good review had it not been for my experience at the end. I would not recommend living here for those reasons.