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| - Definition of "luxury": the state of great comfort and extravagant living.
Let me first start off by saying I seriously doubt anyone living at Ventana so-called "luxury" apartments would define the place as being either a place of "great comfort" or "extravagant living." If you're truly seeking some semblance of modern living, don't go anywhere near this lowest-rung-on-the-ladder north Scottsdale apartment complex, as this place has dollar-store standards but with Beverly Hills' prices. Living here was about as much fun as simultaneously biting into a tasteless, mealy apple and listening to fingernails slowly (and painfully) screeeeeeeeeeech across a chalkboard.
To summarize, The Top Ten Things (among others) you'll adore about this place if you love such things as:
- Apathetic, so-called "management" that typically does virtually NOTHING substantive about complaints. The fact is that THEY JUST DON'T CARE! Naturally, they say they care, such as when they get a negative Yelp review; but talk is cheap and their words are as hollow as a giant beach ball.
- Getting to clean your apartment before you live in it (e.g., expect to find such things as clumps of hair clogging the shower drain, a grease-splattered stove and microwave, etc., etc., etc.)
- Leaky ceilings whenever it rains. (Management blamed this on improper roof repairs, but our apartment was on the 2nd floor, and the problem was never fixed over 12 months. So who's really to blame?)
- Bedroom windows that are just baby steps away from the stairways which feed four 2nd-floor and four 3rd-floor apartments. Meaning: 1) there's absolutely not one iota of bedroom privacy (especially if you're on the 2nd floor) unless the drapes are closed tight, 24/7/365; AND 2)routine sounds right outside the bedroom window of the thundering of your neighbors pounding up and down the stairwells like a herd of stampeding elephants at all hours; as well as your noisy, obnoxious, and disrespectful neighbors who will also scream and yell (as though they're in a loud, crowded bar with their voices blasting away like rifle shots) right outside your bedroom at all hours of the day and night.
- Sky-high energy bills from bottom-of-the-barrel-ultra-cheapo single-pane windows, from a drafty front door and fireplace, and from old appliances.
- Exceedingly loud creaking and squeaking floors emanating from incessant, back-and-forth pacing of the insomniac neighbor above you; as though you're living in a creaky, squeaky haunted house with rotted-out floors.
- Rusty, corroded sink faucets and pipes that incessantly leak (reminiscent of the armpit of substandard living), and patently ridiculous claims from so-called "maintenance" people that new materials are supposedly "out of stock." (So order them!) Coupled with an equally absurd claims that they'd have to "shut off the water to the entire building" to replace a faucet. Really?! Seriously?! Can you say "slum lord"?
- Ants overrunning your apartment that don't pay one red cent in rent. You must learn to love them like your own kin or you'll go stark-raving CRAZY!
- Getting to pretend you're a time traveler because of ancient appliances with some pretty serious whirring, buzzing, clanking, cranking, and squealing issues. Though, supposedly, each year you renew your lease you get one (allegedly) "upgraded" appliance. (Maintenance people can routinely be seen shuffling appliances around the apartment complex like musical chairs, moving the most-ancient appliances into apartments with new tenants.) This is what passes itself off as "luxury"?
- Hordes of immature, uncouth, and noisy fast-food workers crammed into a single apartment. Expect lots of rude and thoughtless behavior from such people.
Overall, I would compare this housing, given the zip code, to the Yugo (i.e., the infamously inferior car) of north Scottsdale apartments: substandard, ramshackle, dilapidated, low-rent, and second-rate. And I would SERIOUSLY QUESTION any Yelp review that says this place isn't so bad; or that every apartment complex has issues (but are those issues cringe-worthy?); or that they have no complaints about the place; or, get this: "Haters gonna hate." Did you come up with that one yourself? I guess when you have no standards/boundaries anything is okay?
Of our many issues with Ventana, only the design of the buildings (e.g., bedroom windows by stairways) is not the fault of management/ownership. From the leaky ceiling to the burgeoning ant population, management does nothing meaningful to improve the place; which is not "luxury," it's more like mediocrity redefined. And, given that it's north Scottsdale, where standards are high, and rents even higher, I advise my fellow Yelpers to keep looking. My two thumbs are down, way, way, way, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down for Ventana so-called "luxury" apartments.
Leaving here was like a deep breath of fresh air! Good bye and good riddance!!!
Ahhhhhhhhh, the sweet and delicious air of freedom!
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