Review for The Durham Apartments

Overall I am not impressed with this apartment. When I first checked out the Durham apartments it seemed like it would be a nice place to call home, the staff is nice and over-all the common grounds & areas looked okay. I have lived here about a month now and almost regret ever moving here. Once I moved in and started getting settled in I started to see how filthy everything was, I spent a good day just scrubbing the grease off the counter tops, and the cabinets. The dishwasher is a dinosaur; it doesn’t really work all that great, and was full of broken glass and food debris from the previous tenet when I moved in. The bathrooms were disgusting as well; the floors were sticky and the tanks on the toilets are full of mold underneath the tanks (I have two bathrooms) and to top of the laminate was falling off the countertop in my 2nd bathroom.

The maintenance crew here is less than capable; I have had maintenance here many times for stupid little problems that should be fixed the first time – however it seems to be common for maintenance to have to come two or three times before something gets fixed completely. So far I have been without heat in the main part of my apartment; maintenance has been here four times to “fix” the furnace and never seems to get it fixed right. It just blows cold air. It took two times for maintenance to fix the laminate in my second bathroom; it has taken maintenance three times to get the mold cleaned up in my bathroom – still not completely gone.

The building itself is run-down. I have seen mold throughout the building; white and black fuzzy mold anywhere there’s moisture. On a couple different occasions I have looked up in the ceiling when ceiling tiles were pushed up and seen a plentiful amount of this mold. If you have allergies like I do, I defiantly do not recommend moving here! My allergies have been worse this year since I have moved here then they ever have. The underground parking here is not all that great either; the roof leaks when it rains, or when the snow melts.

This building also has a strong odor of curry – it smells like a china buffet on a daily basis. I have sealed off all of the “vents” in my apartment due to the smell of other peoples apartment’s coming into my home – I just recently did this due to the smell of other people’s bathrooms coming in through these vents, along with other various odors. I cannot believe something has not been done about this problem.

Overall I do not recommend moving here; the building is not kept up very well and there’s mold everywhere! Maintenance is incompetent and never seems to get problems solved without first getting a major headache over. While the location is great; the apartment is not.