I can honestly say living at the Palisade was the ...

I can honestly say living at the Palisade was the worst living experience that I have had in over four years in Madison. Beginning with the tour, we were shown a newly renovated apartment, and were told that it was the model unit. We then signed for an apartment with the exact same floor plan one level higher. What they did not tell us was that the apartment we signed for, and that they did not show us, was not renovated like the model unit. Move in day was also a disaster, the apartment was a disaster. The blinds were broken, the floors were filthy, and the walls were torn to shreds. All of this was filled out in a maintenance report and over the course of the year no maintenance requests were fulfilled. We then selected the option of moving out one week before the lease expiration, under the assumption that we would save more on the security deposit (staff informed us of the options). Our security deposit was then deducted $1,810 for many of the things that were originally wrong with the apartment. Included in this $1,810 was $400 to repaint the entire apartment which was destroyed before we moved in, $400 for a new bed (the bed was $20 craigslist quality when we moved in), $400 for 7 bags of trash removal (zero chance this is true), and $100 for broken blinds which were already broken. The entire experience was absolutely absurd beginning with the backhanded tactics used to get us to sign the lease. DO NOT LIVE HERE.