Halfmoon Heritage Apartments

DO NOT RENT HERE. The maintenance crew is very noisy when working on apartments in the same building. Our smoke detectors have all been replaced twice due to malfunction. I can hear my neighbors music every night when i go to bed. Our appliances are terrible (fridge makes knocking sound very loud) i have to pic up drano for the sinks every 2 weeks because they get clogged. At first glance these apartments look nice. Don’t get fooled. in addition if you have more than one car in your family get use to moving them around every morning because you can only park in your garage and in front of your garage.

In 2009, I started looking for local apartments to move into, and I absolutely refused to live in ANYTHING owned by Solomon Apartment Management. I never knew this place even existed, so when I heard about it I drove right over and checked out the model apartment, and OMG I fell in love. The interiors were BEAUTIFUL. Gas fireplaces, built-​in wood blinds, spacious kitchens with over-​the-​stove microwaves and LOTS of counter space, balconies, laundry rooms with washers and dryers included, GARAGES, and plenty of storage. But more than this, it was the little details that make SUCH a difference – the finishing touches on the cabinets, the type of carpet, the paint and tile colors. A one bedroom apartment with a garage included was $ 875 a month. It was the most beautiful apartment I’d ever seen in this area and I was extremely excited about moving in. I went home and told my mom about it. A couple of weeks later I went back and found out that during that brief time, the rent had gone from $ 875 to $ 900 a month. Undeterred, I wanted to move in. There were no units available and I was told there was a waiting list, and they would call me when they knew what unit I would be in. It was a couple of days before I got the call – it was on December 16, 2009 in fact – and I was told that the unit they had available for me was still being built, and wouldn’t be ready until June, but I would be the first one to live there. I was very excited about that. I wrote a check for the $ 300 refundable deposit to reserve that unit – they told me that about a month before I moved in they would contact me again and I would give them the other $ 600 for the total deposit.
Fast forward to late March. They call me and tell me they are behind schedule on building that apartment, so it looks like it’s going to be ready in July instead of June. Fine, no problem, it’s just a month and I live with my parents so it’s not like I have to worry about giving notice.
Fast forward to June. They call AGAIN and say that the apartment is still behind schedule and they don’t really know exactly when it’s going to be finished, but probably August, September at the latest.
Meanwhile, I know exactly which apartment is mine, and I like to drive by it just to see it and drool over it. I noticed that throughout this entire time, they had done absolutely NO work on it. The apartment was at the exact same stage for over nine months. I assume they had a permit pulled or something, because it had just stalled.
Well, that June phone call was the last one I got. August came and went… September came and went… and in October I went by to request a refund of my deposit. They didn’t argue at all or try to convince me to wait it out, and I received the $ 300 check in the mail on October 22. In retrospect, I may have dodged a bullet here… as disappointed as I was about not moving in, I have heard some frankly TERRIBLE things about this complex, and upon checking the various apartment review websites, the ratings are rock-​bottom. Very unfortunate, that such a beautiful-​looking complex has so many problems.