Apartment Review for The Chesterfield - Cleveland, OH

The owners of this property act as slumlords!! They are going broke because everyone is moving out due to the way this place has been let go!!! This place is crawling with bedbugs and cockroaches. It does not matter how clean you are, you will be infested at some point. Roaches crawl through the halls and are in the laundry room (where machines are always broken) and in common areas. I never feel like my clothes are clean because I am afraid of using a washer or dryer after someone has washed their bedbug infested sheets in it. I am almost through my lease and I am hoping I can get out before bedbugs get into my place. They crawl from apartment to apartment through the walls and enter through tiny cracks and even electrical outlets. They are almost impossible to get rid of without major work. There are always old infested mattresses and couches setting in the service elevator areas (where you will be moving in). Be sure to keep that couch off the ground or it will be picking up eggs to bring to your new place! There are a number of other things wrong with this place. Pipes burst on a regular basis, flooding numerous apartments at a time. The water is constantly shut off, and when turned on will run a muddy color. Does that sound safe to drink? Do you want to get up in the morning and find that you have to go to work without a shower? The hallways are always wet because of leaks or backups in apartments. It smells of must because of this. The garbage is always backed up. I am not able to take my trash out for a week at a time because the compactors break down and the company will not pay to have them fixed properly. People pack garbage in the trash rooms because the chutes are overflowing. It is a breeding ground for roaches. Hot garbage sits in the garage dumpsters for days and smells horrible because they will not have it removed as often as needed. Crack heads will approach you and try to follow you into the building while guards are patrolling the grounds or sleeping at the desk (No, I am not kidding. They are out cold)! There was a killing in the park across the street this past spring. It was all over the news. It was supposed to be a double murder, but thank god the one boy made it. You will not feel safe. There is a big project building right behind this place. It brings the dredges of society all hours of the day and night. I once witnessed a homeless man urinate on our front doorstep in broad daylight... The pool turns green every summer, and had to be shut down by the health department this summer. There are a few pool chairs left; the material has deteriorated off almost all of them. There are only 3 lounge chairs left for everyone in the building to use! The showers are broken up at the pool too; there are no knobs on them anymore. There are not even toilet seats in the restrooms up there! The management will not even buy them! Elevators are down for months on end. One is broken at all times. People always get stuck in them and the help buttons don’t work! The fitness room has 2 treadmills that stick and jerk as you walk, a broken elliptical, and 2 broken bikes. One of which is from 1981 (it has an old video monitor on it that is the size of a house). Nobody maintains the equipment. There is dust all over the floor. I don't think it gets cleaned. There are only 4 maintenance guys for a 20 story building. If you think you can get any results from the front office you are wrong! There is a revolving door on this place for a reason, management! We have had 4 new property managers in 6 months! If they tell you they will do something for you, better get it done that day. They will walk out tomorrow! Same goes for upper management.. Always changing. LIVING HERE IS A HUGE MISTAKE!! I HOPE THE PLACE GETS SOLD TO SOMEONE WHO WILL TAKE CARE OF IT! IT IS BEING RUN BY SLUM LOARDS!!!!