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I am currently living in an apartment run by bieck...

I am currently living in an apartment run by bieck management. It is honestly terrible dealing with them. Here is my most recent experience with them regarding a carbon monoxide leak: I call my apt manager around 4pm on March 24 saying my carbon monoxide detector (that says replace by dec. 2015 on it) went off a couple times that morning and she says... "Ok well close all your windows and call me if it goes off again." It does an hour later and I call her back and she says "Ok well i'll be by to replace it in an hour, its probably just malfunctioning." 2 hours later she comes to replace it with a new one and tells me to shut my windows again. About an hour later the new one starts going off! I call her and am like, shouldn't I contact the fire dept or something? And she says "no they wont be able to do anything i'll come over and shut off your gas heater and stove and someone will be over there monday to see whats going on. So she comes to shut the stuff off and gives me a 10 minute lecture on how i should clean the grease off my stove top (which is basically baked on and not much of it) and how that will attract the roaches. The roaches have been a problem since last year. Multiple tenants have had them and I have only seen 2-3 in my own apt in the past year. The roaches are not coming from my apartment. And honestly I think they are coming from the walls of the building itself but bieck it too cheap to even find out the source of the problem. Not to mention after a recent conversation with a neighbor this past weekend, they told me they were not even aware there were roaches in the building! But that is besides the point, my manager basically said if I didn't clean the stove I would get a letter, this was just a deflection from the bigger problem at hand- WHICH WAS THAT THERE WAS A CARBON MONOXIDE LEAK IN MY APARTMENT. She gave me a space heater for the wait until monday- which i'm pretty sure is a fire hazard in itself. And today the maintenance came and said the reason the carbon monoxide detector was going off was because there was so much soot in the gas heater that it clogged the flue and essentially caused the gas to back up into the apartment! This was basically a result of poor management and lack of maintenance of a basic gas heater that bieck management is responsible for. The way they handled my carbon monoxide detector going off was slow and unprofessional. I had to sit in the apt for at least 4 hours with this toxic fume in the air. Complete lack of regard for tenant life and their rights. Through all this hassle bieck management only gave me a $50 rent credit. It makes me wonder how many other tenants have similar issues. People's lives are nothing to mess with. People are more important than profits. This will not be the last they hear of this.

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