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| - If you're a college student, and like to sleep in during FINALS WEEK, or don't want to be woken up EVERY MORNING AT 8AM by maintenance workers then DON'T LIVE HERE. The people who clean the apartments are complete idiots and they come by your apartment 3+ times to do one job. (Mowing the lawn starts at 8. Then they come back around again and trim the trees and bushes with a chainsaw. Then they come by again with the leaf blower to get the stuff out of your hallway. Then they come by again with the leaf blower to finish all the piles they made.) So after the initial noise, there is no going back to sleep after that. I was lucky enough to live here while they were power-washing peoples A/C units. The maintenance has a little shack by the pool where all their equipment is. The shack has a rock area, and a grass area to do any necessary work. They decided to drag their machines across the rocks, grass, and sidewalk to sit in the rock area at the foot of my window. I was woken up every single day of finals week at 8AM or earlier to these guys. I went to the office so that they could ask the people to move away from my window and do the work in another area. I was told the work was "mandatory" and that I would have to deal with it. Management has no concern for the fact that 99.9% of their tenants are COLLEGE STUDENTS and deserve certain accommodations.
The place looks like it would be a great place to live, multiple pools and jacuzzis, a gym with a tanning bed, and vending machines and a water machine. They make all of these things look very clean around move-in time but after a month or two they go back to their extremely low standards. During July- one of the hottest months of the year- they let the pool turn completely green. (The gate was even locked so you had literally no access to even lay out and tan.) The pool remained green for almost a month and when hey finally decided to clean it, it only took them ONE DAY to have it back to normal.. Why they waited a month to do this small amount of work is beyond me but thats 12fifty5 for ya'. The water machine was broken for 6 months out of the year I lived there. The vending machines were always either jammed or not working at all and would eat your money 8 out of 10 times. The gym they had before remodeling it had great machines! (Some machines were even able to unfold or open up more so they were 2 different exercise machines folded into one.) You could substitute a gym membership for it and still stay in great shape! There was a machine for every part of the body. Then they bragged for weeks about this big remodel, and after being very noisy and drilling up concrete for a month straight they downgraded the gym to the point that I didn't even go. Now they have a treadmill, a roman chair, an elliptical and machine for squatting/benching and one horribly rusty machine for sit-ups. The sit-up machine is so worn out you cant even get it to move, the machine for squatting/benching is broken (The wires that hold the bar are broken so the machine basically does nothing) and I find treadmills and elliptical useless so the gym, to me, was entirely useless. The tanning bed has settings anywhere from 5-20 minutes and has no instructions, no protective goggles, no sanitary wipes and no supervision what-so-ever. Also, the apartments don't ever clean it, so if you want to use a clean bed you have to clean it yourself. (There is literally CHUNKS stuck to the glass.) Not to mention, unless you know a lot about tanning beds, you can get burned so easily from staying in for too long. I have never seen a tanning bed with a setting longer than 15 minutes, and having a 20 minute setting with no instructions is SO dangerous.
They tell you when you move in that they have to give you 48 hours of notice before entering your apartment, which they do. They always post notices on your door 2 days before to let them know the day and timespan they will come. But then they NEVER show up on the days or times listed on the paper, sometimes they would come even a week later than the dates listed on their "48 hour notice". And they do checks almost once a month. They literally have checks just to come into your apartment and look around. (Once I had a guy come in, walk around my entire apartment, then tell me I need to make sure I take out my trash...)
Management is the furthest from friendly, and the closest to brain-dead you could ever get. They can't even respond to the most simple request without giving you an attitude. When submitting a service request, don't expect them to fix things any time soon. And when they finally come, don't expect it to be fixed properly.
After FINALLY moving out, I filled out a paper for a forwarding address. 12fifty5 never did their job--SHOCKER and my forwarding address was never recorded. I now am missing over a months worth of mail, and when I called 12fifty5 they told me "That's your own problem. Call the post office."
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