From the first minute I called and talked to the management at Heatherwood Apartments, I should have suspected something was a bit amiss. They really like to cling to their technical, geographic location inside of Mill Creek, which they do indeed technically have… but if the address is undeniable, why did they direct me through a route to drag me through untold miles of needless suburbs to get there? Oh wait, it’s because they are huge liars, and when they can’t lie to you, the least they can do is mislead you… did it for me, and it worked.
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Directions to Heatherwood Misleading, Needlessly Long… Why Is That?
Friday, October 10th, 2008GlossyNews.com News Story – Apartments Find Gold in Housing Crunch: They Mine it From Tenants
Monday, October 6th, 2008The following article appeared on GlossyNews.com recently. It’s reprinted here by permission for your viewing.
Apartments Find Gold in Housing Crunch: They Mine it From Tenants
I’d like to say it’s rare to find a mega-corporate conglomerate that has discovered a new and innovative way to make a few extra bucks legally, and it’s because those types almost always go about it the wrong way. We rarely dip in to consumer protection stories, but the management at Heatherwood Apartments has preyed on its poor, working class tenants like no professional agency I’ve ever seen, and it’s a can of worms, so we’re ready to dip into it. Not because we can, but because we must. These guys are corporate crooks, and they’ve taken advantage of thousands already, and they need to know the world is watching.
According to every tenant I’ve interviewed, they work pre-lease negotiations fraudulently, and write the leases themselves in ways that strain legal believability.
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Site Lies: Lifestyle Page of HeatherApts.com
Sunday, October 5th, 2008If you want to better understand just how honest the managers at Heatherwood Apartments are, I challenge you to look no further than their very own site at www.HeatherApts.com. There you’ll find all kinds of half-truths, mistruths and outright lies in ways that might surprise you. If you’re too savvy to buy in to the rumors, just look at their site to assess it for yourself.
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What it Takes to Qualify for Low-Income Tax-Credit
Saturday, October 4th, 2008Heatherwood Apartments operates under a very unique “tax-credit” umbrella, and a lot of prospective tenants misunderstand the requirements of this program. On the surface it sounds plain enough; they have to rent to a specific number of low-income tenants, and as long as they do so, they get a substantial tax credit. It’s enough to more than make up for the discount afforded, but you’re missing the critical element here… you have to be poor, but they DO NOT have to give you a good deal.
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Site Lies: Amenities Page of HeatherApts.com
Friday, October 3rd, 2008If you’re trying to get a solid understanding of how honest or dishonest the staff, management and corporate backers of Heatherwood apartments in Snohomish County, Mill Creek, Washington really are, don’t take my word for it, but look at their very own site at www.HeatherApts.com. There you’ll find all kinds of half-truths, mistruths and outright lies in ways that might surprise you. If you’re smart enough to consider rumors may lack credibility, look at their site to assess it for yourself and consider the following facts.
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Site Lies: Contact Page of HeatherApts.com
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008It 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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Site Lies: Home Page of HeatherApts.com
Saturday, September 27th, 2008If 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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Signing the Lease
Thursday, September 25th, 2008When 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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