It may sound nitpicky, or strange, but maybe because it is. The Contact Page is only one example of this, and it’s isolated, but every ounce still counts, so take this with or like the grain of salt it is.
EMAIL link is broken. The only way to find the email address, sadly and strangely, is to dig in to the source code of the page and get pretty intuitive with how code is written. This isn’t a big lie, perhaps, but maybe more of a great and sweeping incompetence.
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My security settings are such that I haven’t been able to fully vet it myself, but I’ve found a web site that looks awfully good for finding each and every felon living in your neighborhood, and it’s called Felon Spy. From what I heard on the brilliant, award winning (if a bit off color) radio show “The Sh*t That Irks Me”, this is the real deal.
Check it out and find your own neighborhood criminals and know best how to save your kids from whatever trouble they may face.
www.FelonSpy.com isn’t just great, it’s pretty good, and sadly, the best we have so far.
Very few states let landlords charge tenants for carpet cleaning after a period of tenancy greater than six-months. Even if your state does, it will still come down to a judge’s decision, ultimately. When you rent an apartment, you have the right to live in it. When you leave, it is legally assumed that it will be worse only for the wear and tear. If someone is trying to charge your for carpet cleaning when you move out, you have the right to fight it, no matter what your lease agreement says.
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Before we moved in, we were told in no uncertain terms that the water was included in our rent… mind you, it is, but only in the fact that you pay it straight to management on top of your rent. It’s not included “free”, it’s just included in that you pay it to the front office… that was a bit misleading, and we didn’t find it out until we sat down to sign the lease… but it might be more even than your worst expectations.
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When we first moved in, there was a flier in the lobby that had an offer pretty good to entice us to accept a garage unit. We didn’t need one, but we had a few things that needed to go into storage, and since the Pathfinder didn’t have a working lock on the back hatch, we figured it might be worth the while.
We didn’t take the flier, but we both remembered it saying that the first month was free. Apparently, not the case.
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When I first launched this project, I wondered what would happen if Heatherwood senior management (not Charito or any of the golf-cart queens, but the real powers-that-be) saw my efforts, stepped up and offered me a quiet bucket of hushy-hush cash. It’s always a very real possibility, but one I didn’t want to think about, because this effort is so much bigger than me.
Let’s face it, I already got back an amount of rental deposit I was willing to accept. Sure, it’s still heavily discounted by an assortment of frauds rife in the entrenchment of Heatherwood management, but every man has his price, and I’d be lying to say I’m no different.
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My experiences and grievances, though very real, are legit and important, but that’s never been the point of this site, and the goal of this site has always been to create an open forum (with a thin veil of anonymity) by which tenants and those with knowledge of the apartments may have a place for the open airing of compliments, grievances and general questions.
Without offering a Forum or Bulletin Board it would be painfully difficult to expect any sort of open discussion. It’s a database editing and management nightmare, but I have all the files needed and am now configuring them so readers will be able to start and continue their own discussions as they wish.
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If you wonder how honest the folk at Heatherwood Apartments are, I challenge you to look no further than their very own site at www.HeatherApts.com. There you’ll find more half-truths, mistruths and outright lies than any rumor I could ask you to believe.
So let’s start with the Home Page:
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South Everett has this thing about garbage, and it’s a real hassle for most of the complexes wishing to build there. In short it says that you can only have ONE single, central place for dumpsters. You can imagine how tricky this gets.
Why, at Heatherwood Apartments in Mill Creek, Washington alone, there are apartments fully 1/4 mile from the dumpsters, so how do landlords deal with it in ways that keep the tenants happy?
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When we first found Heatherwood, we couldn’t believe our luck. From before the first day the whole thing seemed too good to be true… and maybe it was.
Despite our good credit (good enough we rented the past two houses without problem, and our credit got no worse) we had to take on a co-signor. It was a real struggle to get one, but my ex-brother-in-law stepped in when others stepped out.
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The Heatherwood was a brilliant concept in profitability by whomever conceived it. They get tax credits for permitting that YMCA on site, and far more credits still by catering to Low-Income tenants… but that doesn’t mean they have to give a discount.
They way Low-Income Tax-Credit apartments works has nothing to do with how much the residents pay, but rather, how much they earn.
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