Review for Arbor Place Apartments

We had to move to MS on short notice due to the military. Housing is very limited so we quickly took this offer after a while of searching. NOTE: To hold the apartment we had to pay nearly a month of rent before we officially occupied the unit... Long story short... When we first opened the door our breath was taken away by the spacious apartment. We proceeded through the place and noticed several holes in the wall (larger than an inch) amongst other small problems. The circuits for half of the lights, the stove, hot water, and other things were still off. We figured they were easily fixable and continued to be positive about our new place. The next day after using the sink several times we look in our cabinet under the sink and the cold water has leaked everywhere. We begin the look at the apartment closely as we fill out our move-in checklist... you can tell the walls were spray painted b/c in every single corner of the apartment there are white specs of primer visible... the dry wall tape can be seen under the paint. Now we are trying to be thankful for having a place b/c of the hurricane last year but this company obviously has a lot of money and we are paying over a $1000 a month for... The problems continue. The hot water begins leaking under the sink. We notice the carpet wasn't tightened at the baseboards and doorways and it's bubbling up. We have called about all of this so many times. Some things get fixed others still haven't. Turns out the people who were contracted to do the carpet and paint feel that they shouldn't have to come back out to fix problems b/c they were rushed to put everything together!!! Have you ever heard of anything like that. We paid for cable a month before we moved in... we get our tvs and the cable doesn't work. A few of the biggest things... our sidewalk to our apartment is constantly flooded from sprinklers every single day. You can't walk in the grass b/c your feet go straight through to the mud. Sand sticks to your shoes so your constantly vacuuming your vehicle. There are 240+ units on the property and they had several dumpsters for trash... We just received a notice that the dumpsters were temporary and we would have one compactor at the back of the complex and one one small dumpster at the front. 240+ units! This is ridiculous. I feel like we are being robbed. We can't just pick up and move even though we could easily get out of our lease. That would cost thousands. Oh the "hardwood floors" yeah... it's vinyl. As you can see I'm very disgruntled. As for the security here. You notice a big gate at the front of the complex to where you have to have a card or a pin to pass... well if drive around to the side of the complex there is a open entrance directly to the apartments. Come in everyone. What a waste of money. There are so many things that I didn't even mention. They have problems with the hiring of maintenance here... I'm sure the leasing staff is stressed out from complaints. We go to the pool every other day and hear people complaining. We are really nice people but when things don't fixed in reasonable time and we feel that we are getting *bleeped* on we leave things like this. If you hear about Arbor Place please pass this experience on. The staff here is nice but smiles don't handle everything. Good luck on your search for a place to live! :)