LC Preserve Crossing

I’ve lived here at the complex for 6 years and own a condo. When I moved in the staff was much more experienced and helpful. The management continues to allow trash to be put out three days in advance of trash day which is beyond the 24 hour limit. Last year, a guy that was high on something did a hit and run on my car and I had to search him out. If you have kids, you have to be very careful as the many people continually run pass stop signs and speed behind the condo areas where kids play. In fact, I put out a orange safety cone when my 10 year old daughter is playing.
The sidewalks by the main office are starting to crack and some of the equipment in the gym either doesn’t work at all or is very outdated. In general it’s a complex that was very upscale but is starting to show signs of age.
If you are under 30, it would be great as it’s spring break in the summer. For those with kids or older people, it’s not the place to be. I will be selling my condo next year and be moving to a more respectable housing development.
Likewise, it was unnerving a few years ago when I was propositioned by another adult male unexpectedly.

Maintenance is terrible here. It is January and snowing and they have not touched any of the sidewalks other then right in front of the leasing office. I am currently 8 months pregnant and went to the office to ask them about the snow and when they were going to put down salt. I was told by the manager that they only do some blocks and she didn’t know which or how they decide which!!! I’m sorry what??? So you manage the property but don’t know what your staff needs to do.
Just wait till someone gets hurt then maybe they will step up and act like a proper management company!!!
Rent at risk of injury!!!

DONT DO IT. Just don’t. seriously don’t. for the love of god DO NOT. This is a LONG review-​but if youre going to read any today on this place-​read this one
OKAY. first off-​when we first went to rent from this people I just died of excitement. I would run at 3am and feel safe-​a major kicker when moving here because we have a small child and plan to be renting for another few years while saving. ANYWAY.
Ill start with the good-​ish, which you will see when checking these places out and want to move in. But its a sham! ugh, anyway– okay–
As above mentioned-​safe. safe safe safe. Its close to just about everything, and nessled far enough back that youre not dealing with hearing traffic and what not. They added a new pool when we moved in-​and its very pretty. HOWEVER-​booze city. I mean its actually a joke if you try to live here with kids. Unless you’re a stay at home mom and can go on a weekday people are just absolutely hammered in the pool area (tiki bar in that area so no surprise but I mean, theres two pools-​cant there be a compromise of sorts??) Anyway-​The goat in the neighborhood is awesome. Its nice to be able to go drink and then stumble home on nights you don’t want to go too far from home. However-​the food isn’t that great and they charge you ridiculous prices.
For simple things like a clogged drain or leaky faucet, they fix it pretty quick-​as for things like air conditioners, etc… you’re SOL. START VENT:
FIRST OFF-​every maintenance person we’ve had has told us that just about everything is the cheapest/​oldest something available. so if something needs fixed-​count on it breaking again. Ill start with the minor-​our garbage disposal needs to be fixed once a month. we were told IF they replace them they replace them with the cheapest there is-​so-​be careful with your drains people!
THE AIR CONDITIONING-​okay last summer we had to threaten to put our rent in escrow and sue them to get our AC fixed. We have a small child with asthma-​when its 150 degrees outside I need some sort of AC in my place. This is a rant for a whole other review but ill give the run down. Called about it breaking-​took them a a week to come and check it. they «fixed» it… next day its broken. Call again– they come two days later– «fix it.» call again, they come «fix it»…STILL BROKEN. were told theyre going to replace it. thankfully the gave us a window unit for our daughters room but its a three floor townhouse-​that thing omits ac 2 feet EVEN IF there was some kind of insulation (which there isn’t here-​look at the roofs in winter-​theyre all melted because the heat goes straight out the windows). anyways it takes them a week to bring back the «replacement» unit… yeah it wasn’t a replacement unit it was a replacement PIECE to go into the old unit-and…wait for it… THE AC WAS STILL BROKEN. so finally we threatened to sue and that was the only way three trucks showed up to finally fix our AC (two days after the threat was issued). a
At the end of summer– the thermometer literally blew up and caught on fire in our house. I get that you cant help electrical surges-​but jesus– really? that aint right.
Like most places you rent you’ll have problems with your neighbors. we never had too much problems. aside from the fact that you can hear every stomp, or everything theyre doing in the kitchen. or if theyre in their bedrooms… doing…things…yes you can hear every bump-​but ive lived with worse walls-ALTHOUGH…we had a couple of college kids we complained FOUR times to the front office about this. the kids are never home and the dog barks at everything that moves from front to back of the house. FOUR TIMES-​nothing was even said. it wasn’t until my fiancé’ called them and said «im not renewing my lease this year-​if you want to know why-​come to my house» and they came and were APPAULED by the ridiculousness of the dog, or so they acted. the next day I had the girl come banging on my door looking for a fight to which I ignored so I can only assume the apartment people weren’t too discreet in whatever approach they took. There’s poop in every small patch of grass in the area. Hope you dj f plan on utilizing it.
This week I sat and wAtched tow trucks tow 6 cars before I left for work because they were repaving? They apparently sent out an email? But no other form of notice. I know I didn’t get an email but they’re damn lucky I was up early enough-​phew.
If you’re late by even a day on rent they charge you. If you’re late a day paying your HANEOUS. AEP bill, they threaten to evict. Google the dispatch article on AEP-​I literally cried. My bills never less then 250 and I’m a crazy person about conserving electricity-​so I hope you’re ready to be Amish or broke like us.
I’ve never been happier to leave somewhere. If you want to throw away money then live here. If your a 25 yr old bro-​love here. Otherwise-don’t. Id write more but Unilocal has cut me off. GOOD LUCK!

DO NOT LIVE HERE!!!
This place is THE PITS!!! When we first moved here this place seemed like an oasis, how wrong we were. My roommate and I noticed major move out in our area, and not only that, people weren’t moving back in. In the summer of 2014 we had so many problems with our AC that they had to come out FIVE TIMES. Our upstairs townhome registered at over 100 degrees.
This winter alone we have seen our MONTHLY electric bill go up to $ 350+!!! It’s insanity and the people in the office could care less.
The garbage people create more trash than they pick up, the potholes are ungodly (and I’m from nyc so I KNOW about some potholes) people do not pick up after their dogs, if it snows and you aren’t on a main road, you’re not getting out that day. If you don’t set up autopayment you could get charged a $ 100 late fee which is scary if you travel. And they don’t even have autopay for storage. We would break our lease but they charge three months rent; needless to say we are biding our time waiting to get out of here. Do not move into this money pit. This place is a wolf in sheeps clothing. We made a mistake buy extending our lease. Please don’t be like us. Allow this to spare you some misery.

And as a follow on… Please read this article from the Columbus Dispatch. Nationwide Energy Partners is specifically named for a reason.

I have lived here for the past 8-​months and will be signing my lease again. My husband and I really enjoy living in a two bedroom townhome. I’m not sure what people are talking about when they say their utility bill is ridiculously high. The highest ours has been is $ 184 for the month of January. I don’t think that is unreasonable considering it covers water, electricity, trash and recycling pickup, and community electricity fees. Whenever you move in they provide new paint, carpet and have a team of people come and clean the townhome before for new people move in (We have had some of our neighbors move out and have seen them do the process in a few days) so you know you’re moving into a clean building. The apartment is not high end, but is extremely better than all of the other homes we went to see. The carpet is a losing battle. It is not meant to last a long time and is gets dirty quickly (especially when you have a German Shepard husky mix). But, vacuuming more regularly has made it extremely better. The place has a good area for laundry which includes a decent washer and dryer, and we put an extra shelf up to help with storage. The company is very proactive when it comes to bugs and called to spray the house. My husband told them about a gap at the bottom of our door at 10am and it was fixed by 12:30. The walls are thin but this is an apartment and it is not really that bad. I can hear my neighbors’ TV or music when they play it but never their snoring or things like that. They are extremely pet friendly and have waste stations all around the neighborhood. The grass is always mowed and taken care of. I feel safe walking around at night here and enjoy seeing other people walking their animals. I don’t feel the other reviews were entirely fair. Overall, this is a great place to live as far as apartments go. It isn’t a house, but it is still a good, safe, and enjoyable place to live.

I have lived here for 6 months so far and I’m all around pleased. Like others have mentioned I do see a problem with the utilities, I seem to get a set bill for around 150 – 160 dollars per month. Considering I have had this happen before with previous rentals I assume this is a common practice of some rental facilities. While I’m not happy about that, I think the good out weighs the bad. I live in a flat and find it to be constructed well, I don’t ever really hear my neighbors. All around for the money I think this place is great considering the location and how new and clean it is.

Please, if you are considering renting here — don’t.
Recently moved into their most expensive unit — a two bedroom two bath townhome with garage, in the newest part of the community (less than two years old.)
I travel quite a bit for work, and this is an additional residence for me since home for me is Texas. (I work in the field in PA, OH, and WV doing research.) I was compelled by the location, admired the amenities, and I had a hard time finding rentals with hardwoods (I hate carpet.) My key problems are with utilities and the construction.
The quality of the construction is laughable. Like another reviewer, (I wonder if we had the same neighbor? lol) I can hear my neighbor snoring through the wall at night. It is extremely creepy and unsettling how thin the walls are. There are so many gaps in the construction — places where walls don’t meet correctly, warped baseboards, and the flooring is also warped and uneven — the floors are the cheapest level of «hardwood», so thin that you can feel the support beams underneath the flooring and it even causes unevenness in the floors. It’s so warped that even the vent covers do not lie flat on the floor. The weatherstripping on the doors is not rubber or foam, it is a cheap canvas and is not cut to fit the entire frame, so there are gaps and the door leaks air. Since this isn’t a «maintenance» issue, it would not be fixed by the maintenance team. You can actually see the light coming in through the door frame where the seals are incomplete (they just slapped whatever they wanted in there, no proper measurements, etc.) The windows are also leaky, as well as the patio door.
This leads to another problem — the utilities.
The utilities are my biggest issue with this company — when you sign the lease you are told that ALL utilities are the responsibility of the tenant — fine. That’s okay by me — electric, water, and trash pickup. What you are NOT told is that after signing the lease you are given a form to sign to have your utilities turned on — and these are not provided by any common, regulated utility service provider. I received a bill for $ 154.95 for the DAY of August 31. ($ 150 deposit to turn on the utilities, although this was NEVER told.) The remainder was for utility usage. The shady part? We did not even move in until September 5^th. Yet the utility service billed for those days. How in the hell was $ 5 worth of utilities used when we were not even in the unit? Not to mention probably the $ 25-​$ 30 additional they charged us for the 5 days we weren’t even there. Since that bill was combined with the next months, my first bill was over $ 400. Absurd. I travel, like I said, so September we were mostly in a hotel down in West Virginia. We were there mostly on weekends, and as I had to furnish this unit from scratch, we had very little here to start with. No TV or other electronics, just a couple of laptops. I did the calculations based on current rates from AEP — my electric bill is about 46% higher than it would be through a regular utility company. You CANNOT get out of this. Nationwide Energy Partners is the utility «service provider» — and the kicker?
Lifestyle Communities CEO is the founder and CEO of Nationwide Energy Partners. NEP is a company that buys utilities from regular providers and then upsells them for providing the service. There is also an $ 8 charge per month for «community electric.»
We have one TV now, and still very little electronics. We turn lights off, and I still travel. Our bill has never dropped below $ 200 per month. In fact, after mailing a check I still had my electricity cut off in the middle of winter because they had not processed it yet — (according to the customer service, it will take them up to 9 days or longer to process a check for utilities, no where on their website is this mentioned at all and it took over that for me.) I have never received a bill before I receive a «past due» notice. Even the postmark shows the past due notice is mailed about 5 days before the bill is. There is absolutely no reason for this, other than for them to make money — (they charge about $ 20-​$ 35 for «late» payments)
This whole set up is a scam, and if tenants are responsible for the utilities in full they are to have the right to CHOOSE which service provider they’d like to provide them.
If I could figure out a way out of this lease, away from these conmen, I would.
They also repeatedly tried to get me to sign a new lease agreement that showed I moved in on the 31^st of August and agree to pay the prorated amount for those days even though I did not move in and pick up my keys until the evening of September 5^th! Shady shady shady.
Every neighbor I met when I moved in (and was told this part of the community was only 1.5 years old) has moved out. If they moved out as soon as their lease was up, what does that tell you? Just in our cul-​de-​sac of townhomes, I’ve seen about 5 – 7 move-​outs within the past month and a half.
Stay far away!

I lived here for 4 months prior to moving in with my boyfriend. At the time him and I decided that we would not move in till I found a sublet. Thankfully I did. She is wonderful. However, because you cannot pay rent on a mobile app, its 2014, she was one day late on rent as she was out of town and could not get to a desktop, from 2002. ! Really the LC advertises the latest a greatest place to live. They target young professional, with a pool, and on sight restaurant and I feel advertise how «convenient» it is to live there. However, when your rent is paid in full on the 2^nd of the month, not paid on the first because you can’t pay rent on an Ipad you are assessed a 100.00 late fee! Not too conveniant LC communities why don’t you advertise this when you sign your lease, by the way you can’t pay your rent on your phone or Ipad, which all of your renters have now and days! Get with the technology. And a grace period of at least two or three days. That’s just unheard of.

I decided to write this review as I lay in bed awake listening to the sounds of rain gently tapping at my window and my neighbor snoring…
Yes, you read that correctly. I can hear my neighbor snoring through my bedroom wall. I’m going to give the contractor the benefit of the doubt and assume that this person has severe obstructive sleep apnea and would sound like a freight train if I was actually in their room… but I highly doubt that.
I live in a town home — their most expensive model to be exact. It’s ok. You can definitely tell it’s not quality construction but, I’m just renting so I don’t really care. It’s spacious enough and has what I need. The finishes are just ok.
The office runs a tight ship when it comes to money. If you don’t pay rent on the 1^st they have a letter out to you by the morning of the 2^nd threatening eviction proceedings. We pay our rent in full without any problems so, this isn’t a big deal. Forgot one time that it was the 1^st of the month and got «the letter» — our bad! No need to get hostile LC…
The amenities are nice: free classes at the gym, nice pool area with The Goat restaurant, the community is pet friendly (they have dog pick up stations everywhere and the bags are always stocked). That being said, our neighbors like to let their 70lb dogs crap in the grass and not pick it up. You have to dodge land mines if you want to walk or play with your dog in the grassy area. If you don’t want to pick up a mountain of stool then maybe you shouldn’t have a large dog. My dog is 5lbs and I pick up after her even though I could totally pretend I didn’t see the little nugget she just dropped… These rogue defecators are not dealt with by management.
Overall, these places are cheap and are just ok. Nothing special and certainly not somewhere I would consider living for an extended period of time. 1yr sounds about right.

NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER RENT HERE! This is the most horrible place to live and they are not accommodating at all. I am so glad I am not living there. Took WEEKS to fix our air and charged us for the most ridiculous things such as run off water. They then charge you 40 dollars a day if you have any difficulty giving them their keys. They do not allow you to break lease without paying 3 months rent. DO NOT LIVE HERE EVER. I WOULD GIVE NO STARS IF IT WAS AN OPTION.