11/1/22
Roaches, black mold, & loud neighbors
During our time here, we lived with a cockroach infestation that the landlord took over a year to properly address. We would find 1-2 roaches a month and the landlord would just bait our apartment whenever we brought it up. We were told multiple times that they were coming up from the sewer and there was nothing else that could be done. Finally, we requested that they bring in an exterminator, and after the exterminator treated the apartments around us, the problem went away. For background... info, neither of us had ever seen a roach in our lives before living here.
We also found black mold in the HVAC room. While living here, I started having asthma attacks (which I didn’t experience previously) and had to start using a daily inhaler. We found the mold by accident (since the utility room is usually locked to us) and their maintenance staff told us that there was no way that we were breathing it in. My fiancé is an HVAC specialist at a homebuilding company. He showed pictures of the mold to his team and they all said that we were very likely breathing in the mold in the apartment. Since moving out, I no longer need an inhaler nor do I have wheezing/coughing fits.
The floors/ceiling between apartments seem to be very thin. Our upstairs neighbors had two small children who were up at 7AM stomping and screaming almost every day. This would continue until midnight and we would regularly get woken up by them at night. They were so loud our ceiling would shake from stomping. We complained to the landlord and to the neighbors themselves, but the noise didn’t stop.
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Property Manager at Bright Oaks responded to this review
Good afternoon, thank you for taking the time to leave a review. Although I cannot comment on the items listed without further documentation and review, we here at Bright Oaks strive for our Residents to be satisfied. We do have steps to remedy such... problems and do follow them in order when things as mentioned above come up. As for your neighbors, we do apologize but things like that are out of our control. Please reach out to the leasing office for any further questions.
Thank you, Bright Oaks.