156 Fair street, Paterson NJ is the worst building in the world. The tenants are always fighting and loud. The quality of life is the worst I've ever experienced. The tenants are selling drugs in the building, and it smells like weed throughout the entire building. The walls are thin and have no sound barrier. You are constantly hearing the apartment next door all through your apartment. The apartment I rented, had a neighbor that was absolutely unbearable to live next to. They would come in late at night and their bedroom shared the same wall as my bedroom. The worst and most unthoughtful, lazy design of the living space. Every night at the same time 2 to 3 in the morning, he would come in, yelling, playing the video game, and screaming at the game at the top of his lungs. Playing music loud and talking on the phone loudly, until 6 or 7 in the morning, definitely until daybreak, Then they go to sleep and still keep you up because you hear the loud snoring coming through the thin cheap walls. You should expect to be woken up every night out of your sleep. You can't even use your bathroom in peace, because it shares the same wall with the neighbor's bathroom. You can actually hear them passing gas or worse. You hear your neighbors having sex because there is no privacy with the thin, cheap sheet rock. When it rains it leaks into the first-floor apartments from the foundation not being properly constructed. Now it's mildew or looks like some type of dangerous mold that you should not be breathing. The apartment is very costly to run the appliances. The washer and dryer, dishwasher, or any appliance, had my utility bill higher than I have ever seen before. The rent keeps going up at a ridiculous amount. I entered the lease in 2021 paying $2200, and $75 for my pet. In 2022 the rent went up $100 and $35 for the pet, to a total of $2435. So expect your rent to go even higher every year. The owner is the worst person in the world. All he cares about is money and doesn't fix anything. The building is surrounded by drug addicts. You walk out your door and you got to push the front door open because a drug addict it sitting there shooting up or sleeping. There are drug addicts hanging out in front of the building all times of day and night, shooting heroin and smoking crack right in front of your face. Even in front of your child. This is the worse location in the world. You will even find them hanging in the backyard, so you must be very mindful of that when taking out the trash. Never let your child take the trash out. The property management does not respond to your maintenance request. The kitchen sink leeks and no one fixed it. When we moved in, cabinets shelves were missing and they never resolved that the entire length of the lease. The smoke alarms are faulty. You can't turn on the oven or cook anything without the fire alarm going off. All the owner cares about is money and he is really the worse human in the world. They could care less about their tenants and what they are going through. I don't care how long you paid your rent on time and responsible, if you are late, they will start the eviction process. Even after a week of being late, you will get the letter, and they will post it on the front entrance door so that everyone in the building and outside of the building will see your personal information. I can't warn you enough about this building. STAY CLEAR! United Assets sets black own businesses back 100 years. I would have second thoughts about ever leasing from a black own business because of this owner and his sons. They are the definition of unprofessional, ineptitude, and just plain incompetency. Instead of the rating starting at 1-5, there should be a 0-5. They would most definitely get the 0.

Wayland Manor, 500 Angell St, Providence RI

I had high hopes when I moved in because of the perfect location of Wayland Manor and its attractive lobby and helpful receptionist. The apartment was nice too, in an old-fashioned way. But as soon as I moved in, the noise began. Every morning garbage trucks brought their fracas, very loud because my windows opened onto the rear of the building. All day, maybe 20 times a day, residents taking out their garbage or recycling went to the garbage area, an enclosure with gates secured by a steel pipe. To open the gate, they scraped this pipe across the asphalt producing a screech that reminded me of a fingernail on a blackboard. Twice a month, a worker with a leafblower would use it to clear the building parking lot, a racket that lasted an hour. You also got leafblowers and lawnmowers from the houses backing on to Wayland Manor. You also got the traffic noises of Wayland Square and, during my stay, endless city sidewalk renovations involving earth movers and power drills. Meanwhile, the building launched a major renovation project, which management hadn't told me was going to happen when I was first shown the place. Their plan was to repoint the brickwork façade of the entire building. Drilling noises began before eight every morning and lasted till 4:00. This project happened to coincide with the covid lockdown, when residents were stuck in their apartments with nowhere to retreat to except the streets. Though I taped all the windows shut, the mineral dust ground out of the bricks seeped in anyway, mainly through the air-conditioners, which we needed to run because of the heat. But somehow a lot of it managed to get through the sealed windows too. I developed an irritating cough and my eyes burned. Dust silted every part of the rooms. Several residents protested to management, saying the project should be put off until lockdown was over. Management couldn't care less. They weren't postponing anything, and they weren't offering a rebate on monthly rent. Their attitude was, just deal with it. They then launched a repainting of the lobby, not an emergency and yet very inconvenient. This wasn't a residence, it was a construction site the whole time I was there. Renovation of individual apartments was also continuous. One job on my floor involved workmen busy for six hours every day in the hallway outside my door. Apart from the noise, there was free flow of air around and under the doorframe. I reminded management that the hallways had no outside ventilation and that hard work carried out there could be a source of infection for residents during the epidemic. Too bad. Work went ahead. Then the radiator in the apartment above me began leaking and waterdrops appeared on the ceiling. The plaster developed stains and began crumbling. I endured the noises of radiator repair upstairs, but nothing was ever done about the plaster of my ceiling. During the winter months, heat and water are often turned off because the heating and plumbing systems are antique and unreliable. Your plumbing is connected to the plumbing above and below you, so that when another resident's dishwash is draining, your sink gurgles. Sinks and bathtubs often get stopped up, and, by the way, you aren't allowed to use scouring cleanser on the bathtub or lavatory because those are just the old fixtures covered with epoxy enamel. Bathrooms are equipped with those 1940s toilets with a lever that make a thunderous noise when you flush. You hope and pray the residents above you don't flush at night, but they often do and sleep is interrupted. Also, my bedroom was adjacent to the bedroom next door and I gradually realized that the neighbor's bed was just behind my head with an intervening wall of maybe three inches' thickness. When they coughed or turned over, I heard it. It was a creepy feeling to realize someone was sleeping that close to you and could also hear you cough or turn over. So there, that's it. If you're thinking of moving to Wayland Manor, think again. My stay there was a disaster, and I still have the cough I probably got from breathing the mortar dust, along with shortness of breath, I have an appointment with a pulmonary specialist now to see what the source of it is.

This is 1 of the worst places to live in Sanford by far! Poor Poor Management! They never honor their business hours, they never anwser the phone. This is supposed to be a gated community, the gate has been broken for 1.5 years. You can never use the computer lab and the fax machine is always broken. The waterfall sprinkler in back lake has been broken for 12 months and it use to work and sound so relaxing, but the poor mangement and maintenance staff will not fix it! Anyone can steal your mail because the mailboxes are all broken and they have been notified to fix and will not! And the kids in the neighborhood bully other children and they allow for individuals not on the lease to cohabitate in others Apartments, you could be leaving to a pedophile and you wouldn't even know it due to them allowing this type of behavior even after reporting it to Management. The property manager will not even give you a call to let you know if they are filing an eviction or not, just so they can recoup the stipulation money and attorneys fees, they don't ever communicate and you will never see the actual head property manager, supposedly she is too busy and she only responds to emails! The rent is too expensive for all of the POOR business practices to be going on! You will be a number to them and all they want is your money, hence the ongoing revolving door of renters. Most dont stay after 1 or 2 years of renting! Today I went to submit a notice to vacate during business hours and the POOR mgmt disappointed as usual and said she doesnt have time to take care of a resident concern, due to her needing to show a future residence a unit, mind you it was 5:24pm and the office closes at 6pm. I was also headed to the restroom and she said Im closing the office and didn't have time! The nerve of her to say that when the rent is $1300 per month. The maintenance have entered my unit without my permission and while my kids were home, which is a violation of my lease and someone recently tried to break in. Which is grounds for me to break my lease. The next step is to report them to the state of Florida and the BBB! Also the after school program, which is supposed to be complimentary for children ages 6 to 12 was closed recently without any warning and if you are a parent, think about how this can effect your household! POOR POOR APARTMENT COMPLEX, ONE OF THE WORST IN 20 YEARS OF RENTING! DO NOT SUPPORT THIS COMPLEX, YOU WILL REGRET IT!

BEWARE! BEWARE! BEWARE! ZRS MANAGEMENT WILL RIP YOU OFF!
My intention is to make you, the future tenant aware of this corrupt ZRS Management that runs the Collection Apartments. The property itself and its location is the selling point for most potential tenants. Unfortunately, it's being run with a management company that will RIP YOU OFF. If you go online and check ZRS management reviews, you'll discover their philosophy of making existing tenants that are at the end of their lease or parting with the property to pay and make the place new again. For example, you live in a place for 2=3 years, they make you pay $300 and $500 to replace the carpet for the new tenant, plenty of excuses they make up to make you pay for repairs as such.
I will save myself the headache of writing everything else within this property, plenty of negative reviews you can read on your own and I'll get to my point. Everything is beautiful when they sign you up as you can see from the 5 star reviews upfront, but wait till you decide to leave or vacate the property. Regardless of how much security deposit you have with them, they'll rack up your final statement. Whatever the final statement will be, is what you will need to pay. They can decide how much they want to get out of you or they will simply send you to collections. We were one of the early tenants, lived there for 2 ½ years and always paid on time. Not to say we were totally happy, but moving is difficult and we just made it through. There is no negotiations with the final statement, which can range from $500 up to $2,500.00 which we've seen. They will certainly use the extent of the contract and make you pay, or as they simply put it, we'll send you to collections. If you care about credit, then you have very little choice but to pay. They find every little way to snatch money out of you, pet friendly property, it's a joke. They swab your dogs and charge you incase you accidently miss to pick up your dog's poop. Breaking into homes happens without the office mentioning a word to residents until fully pressured. Leaks and damages to your belongings, simply file with your insurance. Security at minimum, garage doors are easy for criminals, always broken. So many issues with this property, GOOD LUCK TO YOU POTENTIAL TENANT, ENJOY LIVING AT THE COLLECTIONS!
If your heart is settled and decide to live at The Collections, do yourself this justice and make sure you ask them to sign that your final statement does not exceed your security deposit. This way you're protected, at least they'll only take the money you agree to give up. Good luck on getting your security deposit back.
Let me also, reply to my own review with what they'll be writing after they see this review. What a joke!
Thank you for taking the time to provide this review of your stay at The Collection. Please accept our sincere apologies of that your time at our community didn't exceed your expectations. In addition, we apologize for any confusion about your move-out balance. We truly value feedback from our community members, including those who no longer reside with us. Please don't hesitate to contact us directly at *******108 with any additional comments to help us improve or to review your account. Thanks again. Total joke, Highway Robbery

NOT MILITARY or VETERAN FRIENDLY. STAY AWAY!
Im a VET & wont be here much longer. Spend your hard working $$ somewhere else. Staffs a miserable bunch! Read on for a taste of REALITY before youre SUCKERED into renting

Every 2-3 mos your privacy is invaded by maint entering apts claiming BS mandatory checks! As a FEMALE tenant. Ive experienced Maint knocking at my door. NOT giving me time to get to it before maint UNLOCKS it & WALKS IN like its THEIR apt!

Youll have NO PRIVACY living here! But its not the maint guy whos the real problem. MANAGEMENT IS!

Staff is a bunch of miserable HAGS who need to quit & find jobs having NOTHING to do with HUMAN contact. Hag EVA should stop vomiting her rudeness and quit. Maybe shoveling manure is a better fit for you

Once lease is signed Mgmt can care less! You call w/ a problem they ignore you. When you complain. Mgmt CONSTANTLY tells you "If you dont like it move" This is the wonderful treatment youll get as a tenant

I was just at the office. Luckily for hag EVA I DONT entertain STUPID & I happen to be in a good mood before EVA spewed her usual vomit "If you dont like it move out" out of her disgusting pie hole.

NO TENANT SHOULD EVER DEAL W/ STAFF LIKE THIS
HOWs Eva still employed. Hmm I wonder?

Useless Mgmt!

1Your apt will get infested w/ROACHES every time a tenant moves. Maint probably fumigates the empty apt now roaches move somewhere else. So much for fumigating!

2Your kitchen gets infested w/ANTS each year when the weather warms up. So much for fumigating!

3Your electric bill will go THROUGH THE ROOF keeping apt warm or cool. Poorly insulated! In winter youll freeze & in summer youll bake

4Maint. Has used MY ELECTRICITY by plugging into MY back patio electric socket to work on nearby apt's. I just happen to come home at the perfect time TO SEE THIS and STOP them. Who knows how MANY TIMES theyve done this!

5Windows & doors have HUGE wind draft. I've spend $ putting plastic on windows to keep warm. Doesnt help, frames are crooked w/huge GAPS

6. You CANT just turn on faucet & expect hot water. 1st you have to waste water & run faucets FOREVER before water FEELS warm

7Vents & central sys is DISGUSTING! Vents so clogged that 2 days after you dust youll have a layer of nasty dust again like you never cleaned

8Hope when it snows its not a lot because they DONT do a good job at plowing or they just will NOT plow parking. Either way youre digging yourself out

HAVENT U HEARD ENOUGH?

We`ve been residents of nearly 2.5 years at 944 Kiely Blvd. Unit A, moving mainly because of health issues (allergy and cough) with old popcorn ceiling (asbestos), because it's not worth the money for what you get. I would not rent here again, would never recommend it to a friend. Hopefully this will help someone.
This studio is located at Woodsborough condo complex (1971) and is opereated by Miller and Hinkle Property Management. We moved into old 440 sq. Ft. Studio 1 bath no utilities included except water and garbage, with no renovation and with ancient fridge, stove, dishwasher and no ventilation in a bathroom. We had to clean all apartment because it was dirty (walls and ceiling with old spiderwebs, dust on floor moldings and cabinets, dust into closets, and wash-bowl near bathroom had parts of hair coat).
They're raising the rent each year for $100 to over $1650 and currently asking for $1850 to remain "competitive", but there is no justification for the price increase: no better amenities, no better security, no renovation or better anything. There are much less expensive rents in the area that include more space and amenities for this price.

Pros:
- Very close to Central Park, community center, library & pool. It's good for everyday walking and events like the Art & Wine Festival are nice to have so convenient
- Own carport
- Small patio
- Three pools
- Laminate floors easy cleaning
- Residents are mostly families. It's right next to a high school and a magnet elementary school across the street

4th of July can be a pro or a con depending on how you look at it. The city closes off the street every year for a fireworks show in the park. It's fun but it's loud and late and inevitably there is garbage and broken glass left everywhere.

Cons:
- No privacy. Walls are hear-through. You will hear upstairs neighbors
- Some of tenants just next to our building smoke marijuana in the evening and you can heavily smell it
- Latch does not fit properly on a lock of the patio and the outside door can be opened by somebody or by wind very easily
- When upstairs neighbors are jumping and heavily walking there is some dust is falling down.
- And the silent time (8PM - 8PM) is a joke. No-one takes it seriously.
- Be ready for at least twice per year for a serious problem with drain/sewer system - it is clogging somehow even despite of nets we put on sink drain holes (plumbers said it is because of the old sewer system in the complex), and all $#*! from sewer system is overflowing (we experienced it with kitchen sink, washing-bowl, shower and toilet bowl). We had to clean floor and all stuff around because of sewer water with cesspool sludge around (Some videos about that: https://youtu.be/9FlVcSEdSfU, https://youtu.be/m3TfKQrKDrU, https://youtu.be/FeAmsgnt4BI, https://youtu.be/BvA4DO-MtLM). Also sometimes you cannot wheek and have to use plunger to do that. And if something is wrong with neighbors drain system - it comes to you.
- Swimming pools are not heated and security guys usually close them earlier. Also kids are jumping and diving there despite of pool rules and their parents don't care. As I mentioned people in this complex don't care about rules.
- The carport has a storage but it reserved for the owner. You cannot use it.
- Landscapers come through constantly with leaf blowers, blowing dust everywhere. Our patio gets a thick layer of dust on the table and soft chairs every time they come through. Same for our entryway. Multiple complaints and showing pics to HOA of the massive dust clouds when it's happening elicit just a bit change. Also landscapers can put some poison chemicals for insects and you will not know about that but will feel it. My wife had a serious allergy reaction once after one of that "insects treatments".
- No microwave
- Maintenance should be made only through Miller and Hinkle to fix things that are broken. For example when the old fridge stopped icing we asked to help. First they said this is our problem and we can buy a new fridge if we want. Then we asked the second time when our food started stinking. They came to estimate and called for technician, who said that it should be replaced because of its age and cannot be fixed. And at last the maintenance guy brought another used fridge to replace it. It took time and we lost about $500 of total food cost we lost because of this fridge issue. Nobody reimbursed it of course.
- Community is not gated and one time you can find your car broken into. Security guys usually sleep at night.
- Kitchen and entrance blinds are broken. You will be asked to leave them as is.
- Air conditioner/heater unit is old and has never been professionally cleaned. We started coughing and sneezing by turning it on. When we asked what to do with that - we were advice to clean it by ourselves or call for the cleaning service ($250). We opened the unit`s cover and it was full of pressed fug inside. We brushed and cleaned it by ourselves.
- Kitchen section floor came from 1970s and is damaged all over.
- Ventilation is very bad in this apartment and during the Summer you will get lack of fresh air - people around put vents into the window frames.
- Washer/dryer is not available for in-unit - you should use laundry rooms where some strangers wash tonns of their own stuff and dogs belognings (even despite of the master key to enter into the laundry).
- Laminate floor smells of some chemicals.
- Cabinets in kitchen are old and tiny. No place to cook.
- Passive and selective HOA management. There's no follow up on complaints and no perceptible action taken. For example. My wife likes flowers and made a small garden on patio. And during these 2.5 years we always had an overgrowing plant which just touched a fence and a house. And this year HOA sent us an order to remove the plant because of the complex policy. We did it (and it hurts my wife because she had been growing the plant during last 2.5 years and only now they said it was inappropriate). But we found that almost 20 units still continuing breaking their rules and still have overgrowing plants on their patios http://j.mp/2hdMyWi. Same for window curtains color which should be white or cream colored only (we were ordered to remove our curtain but there are tons of units with black or mixed ones).
- A lot of homeless people hanging around, up and down Kiely. They sleep in the park, get drunk, urinate, talk to themselves, yell at people passing and throw glass bottles everywhere. There's broken glass all up and down Kiely, be careful if walking.
- Dogs poops everywhere. And sometimes not only dogs.

So we have started being allergic to a lot of things there (slippery eyes with constant discharges, cough, and my wife had been started having permanent asthma exacerbation). We could not understand why and my friend told us to send the dust from pop corn ceiling for asbestos test. Which was positive (4%) (The guy form environmental lab advised to do the air quality test in this condo to make sure there is no more serious issues like black mold or chemicals from laminate etc., but we were not ready for it - $560 for the whole environmental test). We told about that to Miller and Hinkle (no reimbursement for the test of course). And they even brought a guy to estimate the repair cost of the ceiling (they said they fix it once we move out). Not sure if they fixed the ceiling because the apartment is on the market now. If you serious to move in - ask for a receipt for this repair to make sure you are safe).

During our move-out inspection Aaron from Miller and Hinkle checked the condo thoroughly. We cleaned our apartment so we expected to get the large majority of deposit funds back. The checklist that he has got did not reflect all dents and damages (when we moved-in we mentioned some things but he did not include them in the list, for example a box under the stove which was odd and dirty form its birthday. Same for a box under the sink). But this time he started checking everything from the list. Even any dents on the floor. And he said that we broke the dishwasher. But we have never even tried it! - Exactly! Because of inactivity it was broken, he said. Well, guys, there is no such item of Dishwasher usage or its inactivity in our Agreement, sorry!
I bet we might get more surprises from Miller and Hinkle when receive our final move-out deposit check with nothing.
My advice to you, guys - make a video of everything, of each dent or scratch, check all appliances and devices and every corner, every wall, every closet. Then put all things into the checklist! If they say they had it painted or fixed before you moved-in - ask for receipts which should reflect their spendings on that (according to the law they need to keep all receipts 5 years). Whatever these guys tell you that it`s OK or it`s a minor or normal tears - don't even count on it. You will be charged in full later!
And by the way we have got our move-in video just for this case.

I will post an update after move-out final making-up to relate that experience. We suffered at this place physically and mentally as well and will pay a deposit for that. Hoping Miller and Hinkle don't make our experience any worse than it already is.