Drexel Properties

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This building is not the same since the new owners.
I wouldn’t send my worst enemy to this building to live. They do not have a place you can call if you have after hour maintenance issues. They are beginning to let anyone rent the apartments so there has been many break ins. I was subject to someone trying to break in while me and my children slept. That was one of the reasons I wanted to move. Now, I have to give it to them they did come up the next day after they heard my message and fixed my door.
When the water was running down into my bathroom they never came and fixe the problem it ended up being mold and cracking the wall in my bathroom and bedroom until small knats were coming from the wall. After that incident I moved out in a week and to be honest I stayed in this building to long but I was a part of a program but even with that they should treat their tenants better then what they did while I lived in this building. I am going to add pictures because this is not a case of a tenant being mad these are facts.
I remember the old owners had a 24 hour maintenance number and it was so helpful because the janitor at the time came and helped us unlodged our fridge from the steps and the wall and if he hadn’t I don’t know what we would have done. It was just 3 women and 4 children trying to move that heavy thing. I actually ended up throwing my stove and fridge away because we couldn’t get it up the stairs
When my fridge broke down and I had to get a another one from the building they sent one up and it up was molded and dirty… I didn’t want the fridge and they basically told me I didn’t have a choice so I didn’t want my food to spoil so I used much elbow grease and lots of bleach.
The other reason was the bed bugs, roaches, mice, and ants that took over the building after the old owners sold the building. When the bed bugs took over the building some people complained how they didn’t get the building to come and truly exterminate, they did come to my apartment but I did call a lot. I lost my couch, my hamper, my bed, a chair some stuffed animals and suffered from many bites. When we finally got it under control I made sure I did what I needed to do to protect myself because there were people who were still complaining about that issue before I moved out although I didn’t have that issues anymore.
If it wasn’t for my cat we would have probably be over run by the rodents in the buildings. I remember they gave us some glue traps and my poor baby got caught in it but the mouse just seemed to walk across it like it wasn’t any problem.
When the old owners owned the building you didn’t have a choice your apartment was going to be sprayed unless of course you were allergic to the pesticide. The new owners are on the call and get service plan which I believe is the reason the critters are able to get out of hand.
They have a laundry room but it is rarely clean and the kids off the block find away to get in from the entrance and smoke, drink or whatever they do in the area. I know it maybe hard to believe but I can bring out the momma voice and I had to tell them to get because I needed to wash. They were young and didn’t give me much resistance to asking them to go.
The young men that hang out in front of the building now would have never happened before and people throwing their garbage out in the hallways or in the back area is just trifflin in my opinion.
If your mailbox breaks well just know they don’t run to fix it. Now, I know on this I maybe nit picking but the old owners made sure the names on the bells were neat and you can read them. Not them I had to fix the name on the doorbells so I can stop getting buzzed for someone else that lived in the building because people couldn’t make out whose bell was attached the right buzzer.
At the end of the day I would say this isn’t the place you want to live I don’t care what they promise because they don’t care about their tenants.
The owner was okay and their receptionist is actually great, but I needed assurances that the only pet I was going to have was my cat
My review for Drexel Properties is for one of the Southshore area building for the record and I have heard about other properties being better but that was not my experience in the building I was in at all!