Angelica Bocian

Review of Portiva

We have been here for a very long 8 months. It has...

We have been here for a very long 8 months. It has been nothing but issues from day 1 but they make it nearly impossible to break your lease unless you have thousands and thousands of dollars laying around. They offered all of these incentives when moving in and they make you pay those back if you move out early, on top of all of the move out fees. There is absolutely no parking, so if you get home after 7 forget finding a spot. Most of the spots here are compact anyways and everybody's car gets beaten up because they're all too big for the spots and people have no respect for others. The elevators never work, gates are always messed up and the fire alarms are always going off.. yes even at 3AM and it's all blamed on lightning strikes all of the time. You have to pay for "Valet trash" and they just pick it up and take it to own own dumpster.. not worth the $25/month when there's so many rules and regulations when it comes to that too. You also have to pay for "pest control" and in the past 8 months there's never been anybody in my apartment to spray for the millions of bugs this place has. The outdoor grills are disgusting and never cleaned or taken care of. It's supposedly a "smoke free" community and they will make you sign and "no smoking contract" yet there's still so many people that smoke and cigarette buds all over the place. The hallways are gross. Full of trash and smell like dog piss because everybody here has a dog and they let them poop and pee everywhere, without cleaning it up. The poop bags are always empty too. The dog park is always flooded, full of poop and the things in there are always falling apart. You will hear every step your neighbors take because they decided it was a good idea to put laminate on all floors. Dogs are always barking and they said their was a "1,2,3 noise warning system" but they don't do anything about it.The appliances suck. There's been like 4 different management teams in the past 8 months and nothing has changed. They respond to everybody saying they'd be happy to talk and come up with solutions or whatever they say, but when you do go to them with suggestions and "solutions" their response is something about how they're working on it or aware that there's an issue. I guarantee you that if they had to live here and they were the one's having to PAY to deal with all the BS they'd get some pep in their step and do something, but they don't.. lucky them!!! Their oh so awesome coffee machine they try to bring you in with is always broken. They don't have proper drainage and the tiny little grass areas are always full of water because of all of the rain and the sprinklers always coming on and these are the only areas people walk their dogs due to the fact that other than the dog park there's hardly any grass areas for people to walk their dogs. Long story short, save your money and go someplace else. If you have enough money to live here, you can go get a lot more for your money elsewhere.