Jess Paulik

We were not impressed with Waterford Village at all. We loved our apartment when we first moved in. We did notice that there seemed to be a lot of turnover in the building, however- people were constantly moving out and then new people would move in. We wondered why, but then when our lease was up we discovered it was probably because of how high the rent gets jacked up. One of our new neighbors that moved in was a BSU student. He threw wild parties that were extremely loud and lasted all hours of the night. We let it go for the first couple of months, hoping he would get it out of his system and then settle down. No such luck. We e-mailed Jaeson, the community manager, about the situation and never heard back. A few weeks after that we went into the office to talk to Jaeson, because the parties were happening every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night, with occasional Wednesday night parties as well. We told Jaeson that we had talked to our neighbor and asked him to keep the noise down, but he continued to throw loud parties. Jaeson said he would talk to our neighbor and take care of the issue. Whether he talked to our neighbor or not, I don't know, but the noise never stopped. Some of our other neighbors called the cops on the party apartment multiple times, and still nothing changed. It was completely ridiculous. I assume Waterford won't renew that particular tenants lease when it is up, but the fact that nothing was ever done to stop the parties is absurd. As if that wasn't bad enough, when it was time to renew our lease, they jacked the rent up more than $100/month, and rent was already higher than what the apartment was worth. Completely ridiculous. We were basically living in a frat house and they wanted to charge us over $1500/month for a one bedroom. We called Aimco to see if it would be possible to renew our lease at the rate we were currently paying (which honestly, the original rate was still too high for what the apartment was) , especially given all the unresolved noise issues in the building. They would not budge. We then asked if it would be possible to do a month-to-month lease until the summer since I am a teacher, and moving would be a lot easier for my fiance and I in the summer. They said they would let us do month to month for an additional THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY dollars a month. That put us right around $1800/month for a one bedroom in a crazy loud building. We were next to a party Bridgewater State University kid, and couldn't even sleep with our windows open because of how loud all the college kids were walking in front of our building on the way into the complex. There was no way we were paying that kind of money for that kind of living experience. We moved in February. We now have a beautiful 2 bedroom apartment in a quiet neighborhood overlooking a lake- and we're paying less than what we would have paid if we stayed at Waterford in our one bedroom. SAVE YOUR MONEY. For the outrageous amount Waterford charges, you can find a much nicer apartment. As if all of these issues weren't bad enough, when it was time to move out we were told that if we didn't want to lose our security deposit, we would have to pay to have the apartment professionally cleaned. When we moved in, the office told us that they covered the professional cleaning. I assumed that meant that Aimco paid for it. Nope, they charge their tenants to have the apartment cleaned upon move out- it comes out of your security deposit, so you don't get the whole thing back even if you have no damage to the apartment and leave it clean. Overall, Waterford is a terrible place to live. They clearly do not care about their tenants, all they care about is money. We have a friend who is having the same issues with Waterford. She plans on leaving when her lease is up this summer. We're in our 20's, so we always seem to have one friend or another moving for a new job/to move in with a significant other etc. We've told all of our friends to never consider an Aimco property because of how bad our experience was.