1700 N Elm Street

Alright, for the sake of future residents I am writing an honest and candid review. Please do yourself a favor and don't live here,...

Alright, for the sake of future residents I am writing an honest and candid review. Please do yourself a favor and don't live here, if I could rate 0 stars I would. There are some major flaws with this building. One of the big issues is that the management cannot make anyone maintain their own condo so some of them are very nice and others are falling apart. Some issues throughout all of the units are: air conditioning, bugs, and wifi. The chiller AC system is so old and outdated that only 1 company (Velocity) in Greensboro can service it. They recently changed the chiller out hoping that would improve the cooling, but it didn't at all. Most days in the summer the apartment will not get below 80 F. We are on the one of the higher floors so it is often even hotter because heat rises. This makes it unbearable to sleep at night. The addition of window AC units is also prohibited by management so there really isn't anything you can do about the heat. The windows are very long, which is nice for natural light, but the apartment is always extremely bright. Again, like the building these windows are very old and most of them should be replaced. The few windows that do open open all the way, which is a big enough space for an adult to fall out of and being high up this is quite terrifying (especially if you have children). Another issue that you are powerless to as a resident here are the bugs. This is a problem in the majority of the units, including our unit which is on one of the higher floors. It's not just roaches either, it's a variety of bugs. It's also not just a sighting here or there- it's on the boundary of an infestation. We see them all over the kitchen floor, sometimes in the living room, on the counter tops in the kitchen, through all of our drawers and cabinets, and they have begun nesting in my keurig. It is absolutely disgusting. We know it is not because of us or our habits because we lived in an apartment prior to this and did not have any issues with bugs and we had the same level of cleanliness. I think this is on the grounds of being uninhabitable and I don't want anyone else to have to live somewhere like this. We have had management come spray multiple times and it does nothing. We are also at work during the day so truly we don't even know if they actually do anything. The last main issue is the internet connection which is basically nonexistent. This wouldn't be a big deal but you are paying $500 in HOA fees every month so the internet should work. For one, the HOA is extremely high for what it includes (especially since the AC and wifi don't even work ) but the management is also constantly limiting you. You can only have 2 parking spots, can't even pay more money for an extra one which is stupid because there's plenty of parking space. The management has a bunch of stupid rules but doesn't enforce them and cannot legally enforce them because most of these units are individually owned. For instance, when we first moved in we had issues with smelling cigarette smoke. The tenant two floors below us would smoke in his room even though this is a non-smoking property. I have asthma and I would regularly have coughing fits so this was a serious health issue. I got a written note from my pulmonologist but the HOA board and the management would do nothing. The tenants below us had to buy inhalers because the smoke in their apartment was so bad. Yet, nothing at all was done about this. The only reason we didn't take legal action is because his landlord evicted him a few weeks later for completely unrelated reasons. Before even thinking about living here, just read a copy of the rule book and I'm sure you will change your mind. My advice is to run. There are much nicer places to live at in the Irving/Fisher Park area. Please learn from our mistake and save yourself.