Return-Path: Received: from STRUDEL.ACT-R.CS.CMU.EDU by ux4.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa32352; 22 Jan 2001 14:18 EST To: bovik+@cs.cmu.edu Subject: [cmu.misc.market] Re: New Renters -WARNING From: ralucav@strudel.act-r.cs.cmu.edu Date: 22 Jan 2001 14:18:15 -0500 Message-ID: Lines: 66 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: ralucav@strudel.act-r.cs.cmu.edu Source-Info: Sender is really ralucav+@strudel.act-r.cs.cmu.edu X-UIDL: 5580347977f63bad8dad24e37c2c2a9a ------- Start of forwarded message ------- From: Joy C Appel Newsgroups: cmu.misc.market Subject: Re: New Renters -WARNING Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:53:34 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm glad that you've had a good experience with Lobos. You are the first person I have ever heard of who has had one. I'm quite aware that what I say about Lobos may influence a new renter - that's why I've said it, in order to let people know of possible problems with them. Decide for yourselves, of course. :) Our place would be a lovely home if they kept up very basic maintenance. The carpets are over 6 years old, and it took 2 years of repeated asking to get the ripped and cat stained hall carpet replaced (which they did with tile, thankfully). It took a week to get our toilet replaced when it died. The house needs repainting very, very badly, and there are several holes in the hall which have yet to be fixed. The porch is cracking and falling apart, and the carpet there has been peeling away for our entire stay here. My fiance had to "remind" them of the Pennsylvania law dictating that security deposits must be returned within 30 days of move-out in order to receive it back, after he moved out of the adjacent apartment. When the upstairs apartment had the carpet replaced, their workmen left the trash on the side of the house, and only moved it to the street for pickup after repeated phone calls. The office personnel are snippy and rude, despite my many attempts to be polite and non-confrontational. All in all, I am very glad to be moving in four months. -Joy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joy Appel |Science (si'ens) n. - alegria@cmu.edu | A way of achieving mastery www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jappel | over the physical world by Carnegie Mellon University | threatening it with chaos Chemical Engineering | and destruction. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Sara E Wilson wrote: > Management companies are all going to have thier pros and cons. I > personally have not had trouble with Lobos. I call them and they > arrive. They've fixed things in my apartment before I even reported > them as broken. They've come twice in a row because I forgot to mention > problems on the first trip. They have raised thier prices but so have > many apartments in the area. I think it depends on which building you > live in. They've kept up security by changing locks... they just > repainted, they replaced the washer and dryer when the other ones were > vandalized. > > I'm not saying they're perfect, but please realize your opinions affect > quite alot of potential and current renters and there are several > builings. Perhaps some are kept up better than others. > > Sara Wilson > happy renter. > ------- End of forwarded message -------