Tenants Development

The lady of the management had bad attitude only for my boyfriend being angry and and saying sth unpleasant.

They have been the worst at confidentiality. They are not qualified to run a professional management co!!!

It is 10:30pm on a Saturday night and there is a drunk person snoring with his pants down around his ankles sitting in the laundry room. When I called the TDC office regarding the situation, here is how the conversation went:
TDC: «They want you to call the police.»
Me: «So you mean 9−1−1?»
TDC: «Uh, no… call the local police.»
Me: «Alright, do you know what the number is for them?»
TDC: «I don’t know»
*click*
I am honestly dumbfounded by the lack of concern on the part of TDC. This is not the first issue I’ve had with this apartment complex, it just happened to be the one that prompted me to finally write this review.
Renters beware! Please think twice before you decide to rent out an apartment here at 400 Massachusetts Avenue (The Dawson Longley Apartments) or any other complexes affiliated with the Tenant’s Development Corporation.

If you ever have the opportunity to live at one of the TDC apartments first make sure you aren’t dreaming, second jump on it. This is is the best apartment management company in the entire USA. Damn, I’d take a TDC apartment over a 4 Seasons Hotel any day.
I lived at 400 Mass Ave. for 4 years (04 – 08). As I stated prior, best management company ever. I moved into a 2-​bedroom on the 8^th floor and after 6 months decided to move into a 3 bedroom duplex on the first. TDC was more then helpful in the transition and even charging us the lower rent for the month we were moving. Anytime there was a problem we could call up Peter (the grounds manager, amazing man) and he’d be over in the hour to fix it or would have the correct technician over to fix the problem. Two years into living in our apartment we decided the carpets were looking a bit dingy; called up Peter and they had brand new carpets installed on both floors for us within the week (free of course). We even broke the chandelier once by accident and Peter was over the next day to put a new one in free of charge; he understood these things happen.
The office management is also spectacular. Dee-​dee always understood if we were a week late on rent and the secretary at the office has the best sense of dry humor. TDC’s offices are located around the corner on Columbus so filling up your laundry card or stopping into one of the events in the building was a cinch. TDC runs a food-​pantry biweekly, has holiday parties and easter-​egg hunts for the kiddies so you can rest easy knowing they are helping uplift the local community. One of my favorite memories was stopping into pay rent and staying for hours drinking eggnog and listening to Berkley and NE Conservatory students sing Christmas Carols.
Beyond the management company; the building I lived in 400 Mass Ave is spectacular. TDC owns a few buildings but try to get one at 400 Mass. You are right across the street from the Orange line and boarder the south-​west corridor park. The area is great jog, has numerous basketball and tennis counts around it and is steps to some of the best restaurants in the city. You are also only a two minute walk to the Symphony (FYI — the student card is the best deal going in Boston), Whole Foods, 10 minutes to Shaw’s and the Pru and 15 to Newbury St.
The apartments have free-​heat you control yourself (thermostats in each room — nothing like having the heat up to 95 in the winter with the windows open for that summer feel). The apartment also is new construction and the walls thick; never worry about your neighbors waking you up again.
As you can see I loved it here; I knew I had it good but living in SF now paying an arm and a leg for a small old apartments with a crackhead building manager (honestly; they smoke crack) makes you miss it even more. I’ve even complimented dropping my job just to come back to the sweet bosom of TDC III.
As for Meagan; this girl doesn’t know what she is talking about. I lived at TDC when she did so I’m not quite sure how she had these problems but I have my theories (Northeastern Student in her first apartment off campus not used to not having her hand held anymore). Again I can’t reiterate this enough; If you get the chance to live here. DO!

Do not rent from this company. DeeDee, the landlord for my old apartment, is the most unreasonable person I have ever encountered. Overall they don’t have their act together in any way. On to my little story.
I was set to move into my new apartment January 1^st of this year, and then I was told that the apartment wasn’t ready yet. Hmm. Then, when I was finally allowed to move in… it was into a DIFFERENT apartment, because there was some problem with my apartment. They didn’t give me any kind of timeline on when I would be moving into my real apartment, so I just had to move all my stuff into the other apartment and get all unpacked, decorate, etc. It was two months, and I was getting comfortable in my temporary apartment when I was told I could move into my real apartment. Great, except they gave me little notice. DeeDee tried to tell me I had to move that week, and I basically just said no, that it was impossible (I was working a lot and had to take off work, plus none of my stuff was packed). So I hurried and got my stuff moved ASAP, and settled in to the real apartment. I was charged again for setting up cable, and I made a verbal agreement with DeeDee that she would pay for the installation because I wouldn’t have been installing it twice if it wasn’t for her incompetence. Needless to say, she refused to pay for the cable installation. (Do not make any kind of verbal agreement with her, no matter how simple. She will say anything to get you out of her office and then completely ignore anything she agreed to.) I’ve since moved out, because I couldn’t stand the runaround I got from TDC, but I apparently still owe them money. They told me to prorate the month of rent from when I first moved in a week into January, so I did 75% of the rent. One week out of four weeks, I thought. Nope, I find out two months after moving out that they have decided that it should have been 82%.
Just another example of the the way they do business over there… my apartment building had an ID card system to get into the building, and I was given a key only, which worked but was inconvenient (the key couldn’t open the back entrance of the building). Actual conversation I had with DeeDee about getting an ID card when I moved into my «real» apartment:
Me: «So will I be getting my ID card when I move into the other apartment?»
DeeDee: «Oh of course, of course, the machine is broken right now but it will be fixed by the time you move in».
Me: «OK but you’ve been saying it was going to be fixed for a while now, what if it isn’t fixed by then?»
DeeDee: «No, it will definitely be fixed. You need an ID card, so it will be fixed by then».
I never got an ID card in the five months I was there.
If you are looking at apartments and find out that TDC is the owner, run, don’t walk, out of the building.
UPDATE 11÷9÷07:
I just was contacted by my old roommates (who are still in the TDC apartment) by email, and they said that TDC has pulled a bill out of their ass for 200 something dollars for unpaid utilities? I have no problem with paying money I owe, but how did this go until frigging six months after I moved out? Apparently the money is for the time before we set up our account with Nstar when we moved in, and I guess we assumed that Nstar would just charge us for the back money we owed. So I guess TDC secretly paid it for us, waited 6 months, and then asked for the money back? I lived in one of the TDC apartments for 5 months, and 6 months later I still can’t escape the pure, unadulterated incompetence. DO NOT RENT FROM TDC. IT WILL HAUNT YOU FOREVER.