Review for Fairhaven Downs Apartments

This is a horrible apartment complex. The manager lies to everyone. In fact, all of the prior *positive* messages are from the manager herself. That's easy enough to see as who would say something like, "the money [to fix up the place] has to come from somewhere" and "[my neighbors don't like it,]...but I have no problem because I follow the rules." She doesn't really follow the rules. She has violated at least a dozen of her own rules.

Maintenance is always understaffed and so work orders and apartment turns aren't done on time nor are they up to any good standards. The current maintenance staff doesn't know what they are doing. If you doubt this, then rent here and have them complete a work order in your apartment. Lately, it looks like they have hired some temp. service workers to help them out. At least, that's what they told me when I asked the office people if they had hired new maintenance people. I wonder, then, why these "temporary workers" are wearing Fairhaven Down shirts, carrying radios and going into people's apartments?! Did they have their background checks? How do I know, if they come into *my* apartment that they aren't some psycho killer or career thief?!!!

Parking: Management wants to make all of the parking spaces "reserved". That means you have to *pay* for your parking space if you want to park anywhere on the property. So, forget parking your car there unless you want to pay "extra" for the privilege to do so.

Noise level. There are lots of younger people here for whom this may be their first apartment, or they just don't care, as well as a few older people who don't seem to care about the rules. There was an obviously gangster-type drug dealer that was living here on the property for a long time before he finally left. He threatened many people here. There's also this guy who walks his dog around the property and shows off his gun that he has openly strapped to his side. That's just crazy! You'll probably see him walking his brown dog if you live here now, or if you consider living here.

Obviously, there is no security here. Several cars have been stolen from this place. Even in broad daylight!! There is a sheriff's substation (an apartment reserved for them) here on the property, but they're not here very often and really don't do anything here on the property.

This place has always been bleak and dreary since I moved into to apartment three years ago. The buildings are all brown, the lawn is always muddy, even when it's hot and sunny outside! There are lots of kids running around everywhere breaking things like the fences and taking garbage out of the dumpsters, recycling bins and compactors and getting this garbage everywhere. Cigarette butts are everywhere from the tons of smokers who don't care about where they throw their butts. The grounds are quite filthy with the trash and cigarette butts.

My apartment was horrible when I moved in. The carpet smelled like dog pee. I complained to the manager and she told me that I wouldn't be charged for it. What?! Not only that, but there's this big black spot in the middle of my living room that appeared shortly after I moved in. They told me I had to live with it. Since I moved into this place, it has been one thing or another. My ceiling leaked water and made a big bubble. My bathroom fans do not exhaust any air...I looked and it just blows air into the space in the ceiling. The whole place is a mold trap! A lawsuit waiting to happen. The windows all leak...they are all old aluminum windows that won't seal. When my neighbors are smoking their cigarettes on their patio downstairs their smoke comes into my living room from the sliding glass door. I complained, again, to the manager and she told me that there is nothing she could do about that.

In summary, the place is an over-priced, poorly managed slum. Do not rent here!!