Tashja Turner Review of Sterling Central Apartments
After living here, I would not recommend it to any...
After living here, I would not recommend it to anyone else.
They show you the nice expo apartments when you visit so of course, you re sold.
I ve lived in both phases of the Marquee.
My mother traveled states to come help me move in and we were granted with a dirty apartment. Food and grease stains in the living room, dirt tracked throughout the apartment, personal bathroom was disgusting, bedroom was dusty, and here s the best part I was in a cockroach infested apartment. Contrary to what they told us before moving in, my apartment did not have a proper walk through, nor did it get cleaned. Or someone would ve seen the poor condition it was in.
My mom was furious but I calmed her down as the Marquee promised they would have an exterminator and have someone come clean the apartment. The cleaning lady came up and mopped my floor with a dirty mop disgusted, my mom had to ask her to use a clean one. Between the dirty mop and her attitude, my mom told her never mind and we got to work ourselves.
For almost two months, I had my apartment bombed by the exterminator almost every week, he came every Tuesday to spray, and I had to clear out my kitchen about 5 times. I got tired of seeing no improvement because everyday I had to kill big, small, and baby roaches in my kitchen and laundry room (also strategically had to learn how to throw out their eggs since those can t be killed not even by the exterminator).
Completely over it, I requested an apartment change and my parents and I filed many complaints to corporate about my living arrangements since we were paying close to over $800 for this. I will say Katie was helpful with transferring me into a different apartment in Phase 2.
Phase 2 was a bit better but again, I could tell my bedroom had never been cleaned. My new roommate told me that we also had roaches and silverfish in this apartment. We requested the exterminator whenever we saw anything and he did show for only about 2 weeks. Either my roommate or I was home during the Tuesday s he was suppose to visit and the visits from him and the Marquee team just stopped.
So, I stopped complaining because no one cared enough to even get back to us. All of my grocery trips consisted of me buying new cans of Raid so I could always be ready, just in case. In my P2 apartment, roaches were really the issue in my bathroom. They would come from under the carpet (bathroom is hardwood) and expose themselves, up the shower drains, and through the sink drains.
We kept our apartment clean all the time, the truth is *the building is infested*. Just keep some type of bug spray handy if you re gonna stay here because you will be killing. You might get lucky and see a few dead in the hallways. Our dishwasher was always breaking, stove is outdated, cable box worked when it wanted, A/C broke a few times in the summer, and the elevators either has dried up dog piss in it or they re broken.
Not all apartment complexes are going to be perfect but living here was a headache. Not to mention, I have to deep clean my apartment before moving out and get it ready for the next tenant or I get fined major bills. I get cleaning your apartment and leaving it decent but the Move-Out Guide is a bit extreme. Paint rooms? Clean mold? Wash walls? Scrub floors?
Where is the one, token janitor? Oh, that s right, standing outside the garage on her phone with her cart.
I will thank the Marquee for helping me push myself to graduate college on time so I could move the hell out.
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