Fox Pointe Commons Apts

I wouldn’t typically bother reviewing an apartment complex, but I found this place to be so poorly managed and maintained that I feel compelled to warn people (especially since no one else seems to be reviewing this place anywhere online). My boyfriend and I ended up in Columbus because he and I were both in grad school in Bloomington, and he got a job in Columbus while I finished up my degree. We ultimately moved to Columbus so he could be closer to his job and, since the apartment market is so flooded there right now, we had the unfortunate luck to end up signing with Fox Pointe as nothing else was available.
Our goal was to avoid the Section 8 apartment complexes in Columbus (there are a lot of them), and Fox Pointe assured us that they were not Section 8. Wrong. The entire place was filled with Section 8, which resulted in some pretty interesting neighbors. My first morning waking up in the apartment, I opened to blinds to see some shirtless dude in short shorts balancing his beer on his enormous beer belly while canvassing the neighborhood looking for someone to chitchat with. Later that day, he also tried hitting me up for cigarettes and money.
My biggest beef though was with the apartment itself. From the moment we moved in, we had major problems. First, the windows didn’t lock… and management knew it. I complained immediately and all they did was put some clips on the sides of the windows (which most likely would not stop someone from just flinging the window wide open) and promised to fix them quickly (which they never did). I spoke to a bunch of neighbors and no one’s windows locked. We also had missing screens on most of our windows, the smoke detector went off every time we showered, and we couldn’t use our dishwasher because it broke our dishes. They also promised to replace the dishwasher and never did. My favorite was our rotted out backdoor. The buildings had suffered damage several years back from flooding in the area, and management never bothered to replace everything that was damaged. Our door was completely rotting at the bottom of the door so it let is bugs and, when it rained, water. We continued to complain about the back door, and, only when we got really mad, they attempted to fix it. The only problem was their supposed «fix» was caulking the door completely shut. Quite the fire hazard.
And if you needed to get a hold of them, you had to wait until they were in. At least when I was there, they had no answering machine (and thus no emergency line), and they appeared to make their own hours, not showing up sometimes until 11:30 in the afternoon and typically leaving around 4. I was really shocked at how loosely the place was run. Kinda scary.
Needless to say, we didn’t wait for our lease to run out and just left. They are so poorly organized, however, that it’s been a good 5 months since we’ve been gone, and they’re still sending us water bills from their current tenants. Do yourself a favor… stay away from this place.