This review is for Fairfield Falls in the village of poert Jefferson off of Dark Hollow road*. My husband and I lived in a one bedroom ground floor apartment for two years. It wasn’t the worst place but we were 100% ready to leave when our lease was up. Pros: We had great credit so we only had to put down a 500 dollar deposit. Awesome location, we are in our mid/late twenties and loved being able to walk to nightlife. Super pet friendly(even though they say no pitbulls or large dogs everyone had them but everyone was also professional and really good at cleaning up after them. No trashy dog people here) Really nice professional neighbors(a lot of graduate med students, software engineers, social workers etc) The balconies were tight but it was great to have an outdoor space. The maintenance guys were super nice* We actually received our deposit back but we were charged for new rugs. We were told rugs were included and they were old and tattered when we moved in. Wasn’t worth the headache so we just bit the fee. Cons: Super small apartments. The«dinning alcove» was worthless and there isn’t a good wall the set a TV up and put a couch in front of it. We tried every conceivable set up and they all failed. Very cramped. Outdated apartments. Carpets were torn and stained when we moved in and the paint was literally peeling off the walls. You could tell the kitchen had flooded previously because the floor was soft in front of the sink. Expensive for the space you get. We have an apartment twice the size for literally the same price right outside NYC. Although we no longer have an outdoor space we have assigned parking and two bedrooms with a huge living/dinning room. Crazy amounts of spiders… eeck Not enough parking spaces. Some two bedrooms had 4 people, so 4 cars. We lived in the last unit on presidents drive and we would have park by the other units because there were like ten spaces total. Plowing in the winter is a joke. These apartments are on a very steep hill to enter. The plow guys would never come and I missed a lot of work(and got in trouble for it) because Fairfield found the cheapest company to plow. It was a tiny truck with a plow on it. When coming home late from work in the snow and dark none of our cars could make it so you would see cars abandoned down at the bottom on the narrow to lane road or we would have to park all the way by the highschool and then walk back. It was easily a 15 min walk in freezing temperatures and snow. Whenever we would call to complain there attitude was too bad. Although the maintenance guys were sweet as pie, they were overworked. All of Fairfield’s complexes were covered by these poor overworked and underpaid workers. There just wasn’t enough people for the amount of work that needed to be done. Paper thin walls. You could hear everything. They didn’t send you your rent bill until the 1st of the month, so when there were holidays that messed up the mail schedule Fairfield would charge you late fees. Paying online is a joke, its an extra 20 dollars a month to pay online. That’s 240 dollars a year in fees for the«convenience» to pay online.(It costs 25 cents per online transaction. Why are you charging me a fee?) There were a couple of incidents(domestic violence) were the cops had to be called. I witnessed a fight outside where the husband/boyfriend was hitting his partner. This wasn’t the first time the cops had been called on him, although the women would change every so often. When I called to ask about what could be done about a violent individual residing next to us(several female tenants complained about feeling unsafe). I was told it wasn’t Fairfield’s problem. Two small closets for the entire apartment. Storage was non existent. Two washers and two dryers for 8 units. They were small and outdated. They cost 2.75 and no matter what setting you picked it was scalding hot water. We wound up bring our laundry to Sunshine laundry mat which had brand new washers that were bigger for the same price. We had great neighbors and a nice location but we couldn’t wait to get out of there. For the money the place is a rip off. The winter alone, dealing with the plow people made us hate the place. Uncaring staff aside from the onsite workers.
