Chasewood Downs Apartments

Things didn’t start out well at Chasewood Downs. My daughter and her roommate, both students at VT, seemed to have a good relationship with management, but were trying to sort out how the rent would be paid, considering parents were involved and didn’t live in Blacksburg. The first payment was slightly late and, instead of receiving a call asking if there was a problem, we received threatening letters that included mention of collection agencies.
If you choose to live here, you might as well look at your deposit as mostly just some extra income for Chasewood. When our girls moved out, we received about $ 250 of our $ 750 deposit. Two families cleaned all day and left the apartment in pristine condition. Chasewood claimed that there were furniture marks on 4 walls and that all of the walls required painting, even though the photos they sent as evidence showed barely a sign of a mark. Why wouldn’t they just do some spot painting with a bit of feathering, like most reasonable people do?
They also replaced all 4 drip pans even though we had cleaned the old ones to a spotless silver condition.
In summary, kiss most of your deposit goodbye, make sure your very first payment – especially – is exactly on time to avoid a threatening letter, don’t bother to clean at all when moving out, and Chasewood will be an acceptable place to live.