“It was a cheap place to rent, so that's why I went for it. I was asleep in bed one day (no work that day!), and I woke up hearing keys in the door and my landlord starts to open the door. I had to yell to him not to come in, and he luckily closed the door and left. I couldn't help but wonder how often this happened when I wasn't home, since this was an unscheduled day off for me. Another time, I had just gotten out of the shower and he did the same thing. I was still in the bathroom and had to yell at him I just got out of the shower and he left. What gives? The lease stated he was to give you 48-hour notice before coming into your apartment, but I wasn't afforded that luxury. I texted him after that incident and told him he needs to text me in advance if he needs to come into the apartment or it will keep inconveniencing him. During the last month of renting, to keep prices low, he said, you are supposed to be open the entire month for possible new tenants to come in and look at the place. I could get behind that. But I was given zero notice that anyone would possibly want to come to look at the place. I was not given the 48 hours. He knocked on the door WITH someone next to him. I had him wait about 5 minutes since I wasn't dressed and he definitely seemed annoyed with me since the viewer had to spend that 10 minutes waiting. That's why you give the 48 hours notice? Hell, 12 or 24 hours would have been sufficient. I didn't feel safe being alone, there was always that threat that he or maintenance would just come in. Other important things to mention: A pipe above my bathroom was leaking and my bathroom ceiling sagged down and was filled with water. He cut out that part of the ceiling and fixed the pipe for the person upstairs (they had problems, too). But for 7 of the 12 months I rented there, I had a huge, gaping hole in my bathroom ceiling that was never fixed. When the apartment viewer (mentioned above) came inside and the landlord brought him into the bathroom, he was very lighthearted and said he was working to fix that and said it in a way where I was supposed to agree he's on top of it. I didn't. I was told to do certain things to avoid mold in the winter, which I did, but there was black mold (not sure if it was THE black mold) in every room of the apartment. It wasn't clean when I moved in. The stove was missing one of its knobs. There was a cartoon-size mouse hole by the floor I had to stuff to keep anything in the walls out. This was a one-bedroom with a living room, but the AC was only in the bedroom, so it was more like a studio unless you wanted to be dripping in sweat in the living room during the summer and ice cold in the winter. No matter how much I cleaned, it still felt and looked dirty. My upstairs neighbor had a dog she left alone all the time. This poor dog barked incessantly. I put up with it, as we were allowed to have pets until I started losing sleep and my sanity. It was literally more than a week after I talked to him that he even mentioned it to my neighbor--I had to follow up with him to see that he had done nothing about it. I didn't feel respected or safe living here. I do not recommend living here. Even though the landlord is a nice guy, and it appears you'll have no problems living here when you tour it and talk to Marty, don't be deceived. He's neglectful and disrespectful of the space you pay to live in.”
The Lexington Tenant Review 