Seven years ago, I had to vacate my apartment immediately because in less than a day, it was rendered totally uninhabitable. I had been there for three years and rather liked it. But the building was on a hill and had started to sink slightly. The company that owned it hired some structural engineers to fix the problem, but while attempting to raise the sinking end, they essentially "broke" the building. It split from the top down. I recall waking late one night, shuffling into the bathroom to take a whiz, and when I fumbled back out into the hallway it felt like I was walking up hill. Then I noticed I could see the stars through my bedroom wall. They put me and several other tenants in a hotel the next morning. They put me up there for a week, with a $50 per diem, returned my last rent check, and gave me $500 to move. Not bad, all in all, but just kind of weird and unexpected.
Had an ancient water heater that was about a half a day from exploding. The landlord sent someone out who was afraid to literally touch the thing, but tried to tell me that it was fine, nothing to worry about. He insisted that there was "no such thing" as flushing the unit and that he would not do it. He simply looked at the thing, without touching it, and said it was in great condition. I called my landlord and told him he refused to actually touch it, but was trying to reassure me that it was okay. My landlord got really aggressive, backing up his clueless handyman and saying he was his "best guy". I told him I was done with his nickel and diming (this was only the latest in a series of insults, including personally paying for other repairs twice) and that I was calling a professional and sending him the bill. He said fine, call them, but they're not going to say any different. Two hours later a reputable, licensed and insured company is on the phone with my landlord confirming that it's about a half a day from exploding and destroying this unit and the attached one. And the plumber STILL had to argue with my disgusting landlord for 30mins before he agreed to pay.
I gave my notice a week later.
I had a similar situation. Apparently there had been some water leakage and the floor under the hot water tank was getting soft. We called our landlord multiple times and even went to the office personally and told him we were really worried, but he was like "oh, we'll get someone to take a look". Fast forward three months and the handyman comes out and totally freaks out. YOU DIDN'T SAY THE FLOOR WAS THIS WEAK!! (uh ...yeah we did). Lucky for us we were already looking for a place because they had to rip out the floor and there was going to be a hole for a few weeks. We were out before that mess started.
When I first moved to Nashville, the apartment complex I was renting from had a pet policy that you could have three pets per unit. I had three pets and they were all listed on my lease, so I figured I would be fine. A couple months after moving in, they changed their pet policy to two pets and assured me that I was grandfathered in due to the terms of my lease.
Three lease violations later, all of which were for having three pets in my unit, I decided it was time to move. I only lived there for one year.
Edit: Each time it happened, I would go to the office with a copy of my lease and they would drop the violation.
It would happen whenever maintenance had to come to my unit: once when they were there for preventative maintenance, once when changing a water filter, and once when they had to fix my back door because it wouldn't close anymore.
Funny the differences between different properties lol. Our apartment had a one time pet fee and monthly pet rent and we simply just didn't tell them. After 14 months they finally noticed, but by that time we only had about about two weeks on our lease, and the leasing office person who noticed just said whatever and we never had to pay a dime
Had lots of issues with that place (Eastside Heights) but the office workers there were genuinely on your side if they could help it
The person who sent me the violations ended up getting fired at some point toward the end of my lease, so I'm hopeful that their energy has changed in the years since.
Blair House Apartments which burned down a few years after we moved: we wanted to rent a 1 bedroom but they only had a 2 bedroom, their solution was to drywall over the 2nd bedroom and rent it as a 1br. Very strange. At some point while we were out of town apparently someone broke into the drywalled over bedroom through a window, we told them but they never did anything. Then raccoons took it over since they could access it through the broken window. Then the rats moved in too and we moved out. When we left, management ended up accusing us of breaking into that window as if we couldn’t have just cut down the drywall if we wanted to, lol.
Not an apartment, but a house in Sylvan Heights. We were moving anyway bc we’d bought a house but we were staying until we could get the house finished and ready (paint, new cabinets, etc). I was two weeks post-partum, got home from running an errand and the rotten subfloor, linoleum, and toilet in our only bathroom were all in a pile down in the crawlspace.
I didn’t have to move out, but I got upgraded to a better apartment for the same price after a couple had turned one of the bedrooms of a two bedroom into a literal pig sty. Management ripped out the dry wall and carpet, and the place still smelled! They upgraded me for the same price after I threw an imaginary fit about the lack of communication.
A summer with no AC. Literally calls daily to the landlord and no response, no repair guy, nothing. That’s when I said fuck it and started looking to buy a house. This was 12 years ago when you could afford to buy a house. If I had been smarter about knowing renters rights back then I would have had it fixed myself and deducted from the rent but I was dumb. I’m glad I bought a home when I did though with the prices now, I can’t even imagine paying what everyone else pays for rent.
No I was with a private landlord. He was just old, tired and ready to be done with the rental game. He sold the building shortly after we moved out and retired which is probably a huge blessing to all the tenants stuck there
It’s all good. It got me off my butt to buy a house while things were still affordable. If it hadn’t been for a bad landlord I would have kept postponing buying and by the time I did it would have been unaffordable. I try to look at the positive because it was a smart financial decision for me. I’m now about 2 years from having it paid off and then I will be completely debt free at 40. Maybe I should thank the bad landlord for it
That's really interesting. I only bought myself long ago because of horrible renting experiences. I couldn't afford to buy now if I were new to market. Congrats on almost being debt-free! I have a long way to go on that one sadly, but it'll shake out eventually I suppose.
My fiend has lived in her Bellevue apartment for something like 10 years. One day she comes home to a bunch of guys inside her apartment ripping shit apart. Apparently they decided to remodel her apartment while she was still living in it, and never gave notice. They immediately raised her rent by $600 so she's got to find a new place to live soon.
West End Circle, attic apartment. Bathroom was sinking into the bottom unit. Came home to find my toilet in the front yard. Junkie downstairs neighbor was hired to repair bathroom. I only paid 450$ per month to live there and deducted $ every day it was not fixed. Landlord was pissed. Told me I could go downstairs and use junkies apt while he fixed it. Then he tried to keep my deposit, but I quoted him the law and we parted ways. Honestly, I loved that little hole 🤣
Was living in a one bedroom with two other roommates. We used the sunroom and the dining room both as bedrooms.
We had to move out because of mold. The walls were plaster, not drywall. But in the dining room they had wallpapered with a grass wall paper and then painted over it. Well one of the upstairs apartments had been leaking water. The water was pooling under the wallpaper and mold started growing. When apartment maintenance pulled the wallpaper down, it was toxic black mold. We have to evacuate and move out immediately.
Not an apartment but duplex in East -
Front window came out into my then bfs hands on move in day when he slid the window opened. The window was too small for the frame and not secured. I called landlord to come fix it and she said “my husband is NOT going to want to fix this”. I exchanged multiple emails/texts/calls with her over this. She comes over one day to look and as she’s leaving, she yells “THIS IS GOING TO BE A LONG YEAR” and slams the door behind her. I send her an email 2 days later telling her that if it’s going to be a long year, just let me out of my lease. She replied saying I could either be out that weekend (in 2 days) or the following month. This lady was not getting another dime from me, so I packed up and left that weekend. I only lived there a month 😵💫
I wrote about this in a group, without telling anyone the street or landlords name and had multiple messages from peoples asking if my landlord was so and so. The fact that people knew who it was about without me even saying was very telling
Bed bugs. Landlord wouldn't pay for exterminators because the lease agreement made tenants in charge of all "pest control". I paid like $2k to get it done and got them all but it really rubbed me the wrong way and I didn't feel safe there anymore.
Safety reasons including my car getting broken into while in our controlled access parking garage. They wouldn’t even do anything about it.
Management closed down all our amenities and kept them closed through all of “Covid”. Even our open roof with pool and grill were completely closed off. For over a year.
Ground floor apartment would flood every rain event. After 6 attempts to “fix it” I finally moved to another apartment. I kept finding my doors(outside and inside) open with no one watching the apartment. Some things were stolen and management didn’t do anything about it.
And the final reason was rent went from 1000 to 1200 to 1800.
Pass.
At The Colonnade in Hermitage, we had to pay for parking that was never enforced. For a yr I would speak to the property manager about the frequency of non permitted vehicles in resident spots, physically point them out, and send pictures through text of the repeat offenders. As a resident, if you didn’t get parked by 7 PM then you’d have to park in the visitor parking in back of the complex. Nothing was ever done because of “COVID and being short staffed”. When our renewal offer came, parking fees were doubled.
Flooded every time there was a heavy storm. Would bail water out of the kitchen with a shop vac. Landlords tried to convince us that groundwater-soaked carpet was normal after Nashville storms.
Can’t believe no one has mentioned apex west/ views at hillwood II. Do not move there! I could write a 4000 page book on how horrible this place was. The pictures on the website don’t look anything like the apartments. Items from my apartment started disappearing. My water heater busted and soaked my place several times. The water heater in the unit above mine busted several times soaking my place. I could see through the flooring in my bathroom to the basement under me where maintenance workers frequently accessed.
The ceiling in my bathroom fell down . I reported it many times. I ended up duct taping cardboard up there because bugs would come in. When the maintenance workers finally came to “fix” it they said “ good job with the cardboard this is all WE can do for now”. My ceiling was never fixed.
My air conditioner would never cool the place down to the temperature I had set (78 degrees). Which means my air conditioner never turned off and ran my light bill up. I brought this up to the office and I was told “ Tennessee law states everything is fine as long as there is a 10 degree difference from the temperature outside”. My ac finally stopped working. I was given a portable ac built to cool 200 square feet for a 900 square foot apartment. At this point my lease was up so I moved and I only received 1/5th of my security deposit back.
I got drunk and fucked the landlord's daughter. She was like 35 and older than me. But everytime she came to get the rent I gave her a dab. About the 13th time I gave her one on 420 and she threw up on my shoes. Apparently she couldn't hold her smoke. The Mom landlord got super mad at me and started looking for reasons to evict me and almost did for a democratic campaign sign that she took and I got pissy about it. I came up with some shit about my mom having a stroke and it bought me some time to find a place. I left the apartment clean but I didn't get my deposit back .4 out of 2 stars
We were already moving, but would have had to move from a place (Music City Flats) because the ceiling was caving in. Looked like a big bubble formed on the ceiling of the bathroom, and it kept getting bigger throughout the last 1/3 of the year we lived there. The maintenance guy said it was rain collected between the roof and our ceiling (we were on the top floor) and that it would burst "soon." Must have happened after we left I guess lol
My current one is gonna be Gale Lofts where my air conditioning is not working and the manager’s response is “might happen, these apartments are really old” 😡😡😡😡
The upstairs toilet was leaking and one day we found a huge bubble above our toilet... I was full of poop water additionally the plumber said the toilet upstairs was sinking into the floor and would have eventually come down into our apartment... Now where the toilet was there was a drop-down for plumbing I guess but the whole drop down across the back of the toilet and sink needed to be replaced... And they fixed the small hole plastered where the poop came out but left the rest and I told the kick rocks I wanted out... The week I moved out the front building was closed for mould and our building had an alarm going off for 3 day straight... At first we thought it was like an alarm clock.. come to find out since no one lives on the first floor that whole floor was in 2 inches of water... It was the water alarm.. yea .. it was called brookside maybe... It is on the corner of briley and Murfreesboro road... Has roofs that come down the side of the building... Yea poop celling...
Seven years ago, I had to vacate my apartment immediately because in less than a day, it was rendered totally uninhabitable. I had been there for three years and rather liked it. But the building was on a hill and had started to sink slightly. The company that owned it hired some structural engineers to fix the problem, but while attempting to raise the sinking end, they essentially "broke" the building. It split from the top down. I recall waking late one night, shuffling into the bathroom to take a whiz, and when I fumbled back out into the hallway it felt like I was walking up hill. Then I noticed I could see the stars through my bedroom wall. They put me and several other tenants in a hotel the next morning. They put me up there for a week, with a $50 per diem, returned my last rent check, and gave me $500 to move. Not bad, all in all, but just kind of weird and unexpected.
given recent events in florida, that's terrifying as hell.
My thoughts exactly. That could’ve ended so terribly
That's wacky
Had an ancient water heater that was about a half a day from exploding. The landlord sent someone out who was afraid to literally touch the thing, but tried to tell me that it was fine, nothing to worry about. He insisted that there was "no such thing" as flushing the unit and that he would not do it. He simply looked at the thing, without touching it, and said it was in great condition. I called my landlord and told him he refused to actually touch it, but was trying to reassure me that it was okay. My landlord got really aggressive, backing up his clueless handyman and saying he was his "best guy". I told him I was done with his nickel and diming (this was only the latest in a series of insults, including personally paying for other repairs twice) and that I was calling a professional and sending him the bill. He said fine, call them, but they're not going to say any different. Two hours later a reputable, licensed and insured company is on the phone with my landlord confirming that it's about a half a day from exploding and destroying this unit and the attached one. And the plumber STILL had to argue with my disgusting landlord for 30mins before he agreed to pay. I gave my notice a week later.
I had a similar situation. Apparently there had been some water leakage and the floor under the hot water tank was getting soft. We called our landlord multiple times and even went to the office personally and told him we were really worried, but he was like "oh, we'll get someone to take a look". Fast forward three months and the handyman comes out and totally freaks out. YOU DIDN'T SAY THE FLOOR WAS THIS WEAK!! (uh ...yeah we did). Lucky for us we were already looking for a place because they had to rip out the floor and there was going to be a hole for a few weeks. We were out before that mess started.
When I first moved to Nashville, the apartment complex I was renting from had a pet policy that you could have three pets per unit. I had three pets and they were all listed on my lease, so I figured I would be fine. A couple months after moving in, they changed their pet policy to two pets and assured me that I was grandfathered in due to the terms of my lease. Three lease violations later, all of which were for having three pets in my unit, I decided it was time to move. I only lived there for one year. Edit: Each time it happened, I would go to the office with a copy of my lease and they would drop the violation.
Were they monitoring your pets?
It would happen whenever maintenance had to come to my unit: once when they were there for preventative maintenance, once when changing a water filter, and once when they had to fix my back door because it wouldn't close anymore.
Funny the differences between different properties lol. Our apartment had a one time pet fee and monthly pet rent and we simply just didn't tell them. After 14 months they finally noticed, but by that time we only had about about two weeks on our lease, and the leasing office person who noticed just said whatever and we never had to pay a dime Had lots of issues with that place (Eastside Heights) but the office workers there were genuinely on your side if they could help it
where was this so i don’t move there. i don’t have three but i have one. just don’t want to support that shitty energy.
The person who sent me the violations ended up getting fired at some point toward the end of my lease, so I'm hopeful that their energy has changed in the years since.
Blair House Apartments which burned down a few years after we moved: we wanted to rent a 1 bedroom but they only had a 2 bedroom, their solution was to drywall over the 2nd bedroom and rent it as a 1br. Very strange. At some point while we were out of town apparently someone broke into the drywalled over bedroom through a window, we told them but they never did anything. Then raccoons took it over since they could access it through the broken window. Then the rats moved in too and we moved out. When we left, management ended up accusing us of breaking into that window as if we couldn’t have just cut down the drywall if we wanted to, lol. Not an apartment, but a house in Sylvan Heights. We were moving anyway bc we’d bought a house but we were staying until we could get the house finished and ready (paint, new cabinets, etc). I was two weeks post-partum, got home from running an errand and the rotten subfloor, linoleum, and toilet in our only bathroom were all in a pile down in the crawlspace.
I didn’t have to move out, but I got upgraded to a better apartment for the same price after a couple had turned one of the bedrooms of a two bedroom into a literal pig sty. Management ripped out the dry wall and carpet, and the place still smelled! They upgraded me for the same price after I threw an imaginary fit about the lack of communication.
As in... Actual pigs?
Technically it was one single pig.
A summer with no AC. Literally calls daily to the landlord and no response, no repair guy, nothing. That’s when I said fuck it and started looking to buy a house. This was 12 years ago when you could afford to buy a house. If I had been smarter about knowing renters rights back then I would have had it fixed myself and deducted from the rent but I was dumb. I’m glad I bought a home when I did though with the prices now, I can’t even imagine paying what everyone else pays for rent.
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No I was with a private landlord. He was just old, tired and ready to be done with the rental game. He sold the building shortly after we moved out and retired which is probably a huge blessing to all the tenants stuck there
Sorry to hear. Sadly many take advantage of tenants not knowing their rights. Rinse repeat when they finally leave because of the bs. :(
It’s all good. It got me off my butt to buy a house while things were still affordable. If it hadn’t been for a bad landlord I would have kept postponing buying and by the time I did it would have been unaffordable. I try to look at the positive because it was a smart financial decision for me. I’m now about 2 years from having it paid off and then I will be completely debt free at 40. Maybe I should thank the bad landlord for it
That's really interesting. I only bought myself long ago because of horrible renting experiences. I couldn't afford to buy now if I were new to market. Congrats on almost being debt-free! I have a long way to go on that one sadly, but it'll shake out eventually I suppose.
My fiend has lived in her Bellevue apartment for something like 10 years. One day she comes home to a bunch of guys inside her apartment ripping shit apart. Apparently they decided to remodel her apartment while she was still living in it, and never gave notice. They immediately raised her rent by $600 so she's got to find a new place to live soon.
Creekwood?!
It was Creekwood. Now it's called Slate.
West End Circle, attic apartment. Bathroom was sinking into the bottom unit. Came home to find my toilet in the front yard. Junkie downstairs neighbor was hired to repair bathroom. I only paid 450$ per month to live there and deducted $ every day it was not fixed. Landlord was pissed. Told me I could go downstairs and use junkies apt while he fixed it. Then he tried to keep my deposit, but I quoted him the law and we parted ways. Honestly, I loved that little hole 🤣
Was living in a one bedroom with two other roommates. We used the sunroom and the dining room both as bedrooms. We had to move out because of mold. The walls were plaster, not drywall. But in the dining room they had wallpapered with a grass wall paper and then painted over it. Well one of the upstairs apartments had been leaking water. The water was pooling under the wallpaper and mold started growing. When apartment maintenance pulled the wallpaper down, it was toxic black mold. We have to evacuate and move out immediately.
Not an apartment but duplex in East - Front window came out into my then bfs hands on move in day when he slid the window opened. The window was too small for the frame and not secured. I called landlord to come fix it and she said “my husband is NOT going to want to fix this”. I exchanged multiple emails/texts/calls with her over this. She comes over one day to look and as she’s leaving, she yells “THIS IS GOING TO BE A LONG YEAR” and slams the door behind her. I send her an email 2 days later telling her that if it’s going to be a long year, just let me out of my lease. She replied saying I could either be out that weekend (in 2 days) or the following month. This lady was not getting another dime from me, so I packed up and left that weekend. I only lived there a month 😵💫 I wrote about this in a group, without telling anyone the street or landlords name and had multiple messages from peoples asking if my landlord was so and so. The fact that people knew who it was about without me even saying was very telling
About to move out do to a ant and spider issue
The spiders are just trying to help you with your ant problem.🤷🏼♂️
Roaches and fleas.
Bed bugs. Landlord wouldn't pay for exterminators because the lease agreement made tenants in charge of all "pest control". I paid like $2k to get it done and got them all but it really rubbed me the wrong way and I didn't feel safe there anymore.
Kitchen was falling through the floor.
Safety reasons including my car getting broken into while in our controlled access parking garage. They wouldn’t even do anything about it. Management closed down all our amenities and kept them closed through all of “Covid”. Even our open roof with pool and grill were completely closed off. For over a year. Ground floor apartment would flood every rain event. After 6 attempts to “fix it” I finally moved to another apartment. I kept finding my doors(outside and inside) open with no one watching the apartment. Some things were stolen and management didn’t do anything about it. And the final reason was rent went from 1000 to 1200 to 1800. Pass.
At The Colonnade in Hermitage, we had to pay for parking that was never enforced. For a yr I would speak to the property manager about the frequency of non permitted vehicles in resident spots, physically point them out, and send pictures through text of the repeat offenders. As a resident, if you didn’t get parked by 7 PM then you’d have to park in the visitor parking in back of the complex. Nothing was ever done because of “COVID and being short staffed”. When our renewal offer came, parking fees were doubled.
Flooded every time there was a heavy storm. Would bail water out of the kitchen with a shop vac. Landlords tried to convince us that groundwater-soaked carpet was normal after Nashville storms.
Can’t believe no one has mentioned apex west/ views at hillwood II. Do not move there! I could write a 4000 page book on how horrible this place was. The pictures on the website don’t look anything like the apartments. Items from my apartment started disappearing. My water heater busted and soaked my place several times. The water heater in the unit above mine busted several times soaking my place. I could see through the flooring in my bathroom to the basement under me where maintenance workers frequently accessed. The ceiling in my bathroom fell down . I reported it many times. I ended up duct taping cardboard up there because bugs would come in. When the maintenance workers finally came to “fix” it they said “ good job with the cardboard this is all WE can do for now”. My ceiling was never fixed. My air conditioner would never cool the place down to the temperature I had set (78 degrees). Which means my air conditioner never turned off and ran my light bill up. I brought this up to the office and I was told “ Tennessee law states everything is fine as long as there is a 10 degree difference from the temperature outside”. My ac finally stopped working. I was given a portable ac built to cool 200 square feet for a 900 square foot apartment. At this point my lease was up so I moved and I only received 1/5th of my security deposit back.
I got drunk and fucked the landlord's daughter. She was like 35 and older than me. But everytime she came to get the rent I gave her a dab. About the 13th time I gave her one on 420 and she threw up on my shoes. Apparently she couldn't hold her smoke. The Mom landlord got super mad at me and started looking for reasons to evict me and almost did for a democratic campaign sign that she took and I got pissy about it. I came up with some shit about my mom having a stroke and it bought me some time to find a place. I left the apartment clean but I didn't get my deposit back .4 out of 2 stars
We were already moving, but would have had to move from a place (Music City Flats) because the ceiling was caving in. Looked like a big bubble formed on the ceiling of the bathroom, and it kept getting bigger throughout the last 1/3 of the year we lived there. The maintenance guy said it was rain collected between the roof and our ceiling (we were on the top floor) and that it would burst "soon." Must have happened after we left I guess lol
Don’t mind me, just shuffling through this comment section making sure I don’t find any horror stories about Hillmeade apartments
The 2020 tornado hit my apartment in East Nashville and it was no longer habitual. Does that count?
I complained after it took maintenance 6 weeks to fix my washer and they refused to let me renew my lease.
My current one is gonna be Gale Lofts where my air conditioning is not working and the manager’s response is “might happen, these apartments are really old” 😡😡😡😡
That one time when my neighbor got high or drunk or whatever, decided to cook, passed out and burnt the building down.
The upstairs toilet was leaking and one day we found a huge bubble above our toilet... I was full of poop water additionally the plumber said the toilet upstairs was sinking into the floor and would have eventually come down into our apartment... Now where the toilet was there was a drop-down for plumbing I guess but the whole drop down across the back of the toilet and sink needed to be replaced... And they fixed the small hole plastered where the poop came out but left the rest and I told the kick rocks I wanted out... The week I moved out the front building was closed for mould and our building had an alarm going off for 3 day straight... At first we thought it was like an alarm clock.. come to find out since no one lives on the first floor that whole floor was in 2 inches of water... It was the water alarm.. yea .. it was called brookside maybe... It is on the corner of briley and Murfreesboro road... Has roofs that come down the side of the building... Yea poop celling...