Shari M.

I HAVE NOT SLEPT IN MONTHS NOR CAN AFFORD TO PAY THEM TO BREAK MY LEASE. This has added to my depression and currently in therapy ( not lying ) I had to live through construction for months !!! and I mean hard-core you cannot even talk on your phone, kind of construction where it wasn't livable and nails where were flying through my wall. ( they fixed it but still). This was when they were changing the color on the outside of the apartment complex. Several neighbors and I were talking about damages me to our walls and items, thankfully, my items werent ruined, like some of my neighbors. It's was a total utter nightmare. They worked past 8pm sometimes too! Like you got lucky if you were able to sleep. the floorboards are very thin. You can hear every step your neighbors take. This is beyond hearing door slamming and thumping, and a little stomping that's normal in apartment complexes. I'm talking about hard-core TV, and mirrors are shaking. Very earthquake feeling. When I have guest over, they always comment on how I'm able to live here. I take baby steps when I walk in my own place because I'm afraid I might disturb the people below me so I don't comfortably live here. On top of the floorboards already being very weak, I've experienced water damage from a neighbor above me, who I found out, died in her apartment, well, when the cleaners were cleaning, water started pouring on my bedroom floor from my ceiling, they fixed it however, there's still a water stain that I can still see and that was about a year ago from now with that being said, there are squeaky ( nails on a chalkboard) squeaky in my room above me and my upstairs neighbors step on those parts for long periods of time. So I haven't had good sleep here in months. If I were in property management, I would literally consider letting someone out of their rent for the excessive noise, it's not regular apartment noise. As a human I'd be upset that I collect money from someone who can't sleep in their own home. I am forced to sleep in my car some nights when the sounds are that bad or crash at a friend that I can find all while still paying rent here I would consider all of this before you move in if you are someone from New York City, etc. this might not be that drastic for you. If you are trying to get away from a noisy complex, this is not the complex for you.. What sucks is that they get to decide if the noise levels are loud or not, not you or the company that comes over and hears all of this shit. ITS BEEN AWFUL! I've complained multiple times. It doesn't matter. UPDATE: I moved out and a week prior I tried contacting the leasing office. No one called me back. No one answered until I reached out to them with a blocked number, and then was rerouted to manager of bentree. She contacted me a day after my move out date ( after me begging and calling ) and are charging me for a cleaning fee ( I paid to have cleaners over 200$ ) and wanted to get in contact with someone so that they can review the apartment for me to get my full deposit back and they made sure to not contact me or return my calls I had to beg and beg to have someone give me a call back and the manager who I've had problems with my entire time living in that community decides that the apartment is not clean I asked for pictures she said her partner took pictures of the place not being clean, but I asked for them to compare them to my pictures of my place being clean, and she did not respond back to me. ( the cleaning service asked for those pictures because they told me they would give me a refund and she won't even at minimum do that, send pics if it's true). I feel ripped off, and taken advantage of. They can pretty much do and treat you anyway. That manager at that location is unprofessional and not easy to go to with any issues. I wouldn't let this place take your money they do not care especially the manager AFRAH OMAR ! It is nothing more than just a job for her. She does not care how you sleep at night. She does not care if you have degrading issues and for her to contact me after my move out and gets to decide that my place wasn't clean with zero proof. Trying to contact them just for them to make sure my apartment was up the standards after the cleaning was not easy and again, they contacted me after that move out date and it just feels like I was robbed. I've lived in other communities where they go about it professionally. That manager is horrible. What apartment complex contacts you after your move out date instead of before when you've reached out to them? I don't understand how she even got that job and it's really sad for the community there. I am not the only complaint regarding her. There are other neighbors who have had their fair issues that I've spoken to. I would just beware of living here save your money and move somewhere where the people actually want to do their jobs.