Garden Gates

This is also my first review which I thought opposite of dammh. It is funny how we both lived there around the same year and I actually had a good experience. But then again, I was in the same building as main office so that would make it different. In my opinion, I thought it was peace and quiet, no constant pounding, nor barely gun shots. However, with the hallway, it is true that it smells funny. Other than that, I liked management at that time. But when the lady came in as management(a couple months before lease was over), I wasn't so sure about she didn't know what she was doing. more

This is my first review but I feel it needs to be told. The entire experience with this complex has been nothing short of torture. We some how made it through two years of the hallways smelling of a mix of burnt popcorn, dirty diapers, and urinal cakes. Not to mention the garbage-juice trails down the halls because people can't lift their garbage bags. That was bearable once we purchase a thing to put under our front door to keep drafts of smell from coming in. \r What wasn't bearable was the constant pounding from all neighbors, gun shots in the neighborhood, the 2 in the morning car horns and 10 conversations going on at once outside our bedroom window in the middle of the night, and the random person trying to walk into our apartment if we happened to forget to lock our door while doing laundry.\r The laundry was another storie in itself. The washers would back up, no one could clean their own lint out of the lint traps in the dryers, and good luck finding one dryer between the 4 buildings that actually dried your clothes after 3-4 cycles. \r Dish washers - worked sometimes, but most of the time would just get your dishes filmy and crust on the food. \r No maintanence unless you had a flood. If you could convince them to come out, it took days to get a call back from the manager for the time and date.\r Garages reik of some unknown nostril burning smell, similar to moldy food and cow pies.\r Again, management unresponsive....I can't say that enough.\r This would be the apartment for you if all you wanted was a place to crash for 3 hours a day because that is all you are gauranteed in piece and quiet. As for us - we are running as far away as possible. more