Lofts at Tatum

Lived here for a year, don’t expect much out of the management. I spent my first 4 months fighting with management to fix the electric in my 1 bedroom apartment. Half the place was without power. Once they FINALLY sent some ghetto looking electricians out to my apt, they left 6 HUGE holes in the wall and never filled them up. Bugs and cockroaches entered my apt through those holes and i had to tape them over with cardboard. 2 months go by with the holes and the FINALLY send someone to fix the holes, but never painted them. I just moved out, and with the walk through the manager Nancy was like. ohh whats those, what did you do? this will have to come out of your deposit. i opened up my computer and showed her the emails to and from her. She suddenly remembered. The apartments (except mine) do not come with blinds of shelves in the closet. I spent over $ 250 outfitting a total of 10 windows with the cheapest blinds and over $ 100 with wire shelves in the closets, also upgraded the light fixtures because the apt came with 2 light bulbs sticking out of the ceiling. I left all that there because why should another tenant suffer on their poor business management. Lets not forget, my apartment had 2 doors to enter from… both doors had no weather stripping under them or on the sides. I fought with them my entire 12mo lease to fix that. i got weather stripping to fix around the doors but couldn’t find anything to work under the doors (not my problem to fix as a renter). Rain, cockroaches, and palmetto bugs all came through. I had to seal one door shut with tape, and the other door through the kitchen, had a towel at its base. When I told Nancy about the problems, she pretended like she didn’t understand and never resolved it. When I mailed a check, with the home depot receipts deducting the amount of cash i spent on the weather stripping she threw a fit. saying i needed to pay her, the $ 32.19 or we would be charged the late fee of $ 75 for not paying rent on time. I told her if that was the case I can get my lawyer to contact her and she left me alone. Lets not forget the building code violations this complex has. they are always having inspectors come over and doing random work. with railings. Look for the railings with pieces of wood spray painted and screwed on to add the correct height for building code. It looks beautiful on the outside, but they don’t screen the renters. The drug dealer on the first floor moved out a few days before I did, so that’s a plus. if only the drug dealer on the top floor would move out this building would be dealer free! But the units are noisy, with no sound insulation between the units so you hear EVERYTHING happening next door, under you or above you. My neighbor under me would ask how Tropic Thunder was, cause he herd it and my volume wasn’t even that loud. Paper thin walls, no help from management, and they love to shut off the water for several days during the day only and then you get a letter 2 days after it starts informing you that there will be water interruption. Vadalisim has happened to cars parked infront of the building and in the parking lot on the side, the little kids from across the bridge love to throw pieces of asphault at the cars parked infront of the building and break into cars parked on the street. Its also a great hangout for lil thugs to sit on the front steps and smoke weed. i’ve called 911 twice now becuse someone broke into (yet another, but differant drug dealers apartment) apt #24 upstairs at 3am. How nice to know that happes 3 units away from yours. at least they stole all the drugs, the police dogs found the rest. Another time, I caught 4 little punks running out of the apartment across the way from me. They climbed up the exposed brick side (if you see it, you’ll know how they did it) and climbed into these empty flower/​planters that adorn the 2^nd floor. Went through his window, and when I came home i heard some commotion and walked over (cause the neighbor was a real nice guy who lived alone) and when i went to the one door and knocked (same setup with 2 doors like mine) these 4 punks came running out the other door, down the stairs, and ran across the bridge. Yea… its not that safe, not quiet, management doesnt care about the tenants only the money. And dont go by what the website shows, the building isn’t as sparkling as it looks online. never built to the same design nor advertisements. The windows arent green, they are not high impact. they are single pane standard clear glass. No water feature, no beautiful lanscaping features. Such a disapointment in all areas.