Tales of the Complex

Not only do we still have those two huge vinyl "Now Leasing" banners attached to the brick walls on both sides of the entrance, facing the street but, returning from Saturday’s 5K, I noticed an overabundance of signage leading up to the complex announcing the same.

And check out the fancy balloons.

Looks like an open house. Manager must be desperate, I thought to myself as I began to wonder just how many vacant units there could possibly be to result in so much signage and management coming in on a Saturday to host a possible open house.

The answer is an astronomical sixteen!

We didn’t even have that many vacancies back in the day when that mean Nurse Ratched was manager and there was a mass exodus of the longtime residents.

On the other hand, we probably did have that many vacancies, as whole quads were vacant, but Ratched didn’t have to advertise to fill the vacancies, because we had a waiting list — folks anxious to live in such a nice looking complex, unaware Nurse Ratched was making living here miserable.

A waiting list no longer exists, and I’m not sure if it’s the $500 increase that's caused the list's demise or the word being out about this Manager.

I've not had a problem with her, and none of the complaints I've heard about her even come close to how terrible Nurse Ratched was to us, but though the rent increase is not her fault ………… that’s Corporate’s greed, the yelling at residents is not helping her reputation (you saw, in the video about the car towing incident, how she got all up in the face of the resident who had those young men living in the resident’s unit).

These are old people who have paid their dues to where, no matter what they've said or done, do not deserve being yelled at, scolded like a child by some whippersnapper that's yet to learn what dues are.

Then there’s the locking of the refrigerator, making it difficult for us to entertain ourselves with activities since management provides little to none for us, the eavesdropping and calling out residents she overhears speaking ill of her.

I’m sensing Manager’s job is on the line ………… Corporate will lay the blame on her if she doesn’t get the vacancies filled, and folks continue to exit stage left.

Where Red Light is moving, there are washers/dryers in the units, weekly yoga, book club and "resident initiated activities" are encouraged

I bet Red Light will be all over initiating activities.

In addition there's a communal park and putting course, and the complex is conveniently located in a marketplace "positioned between two commercial shopping hubs".

Sounds like paradise, and with the going rate of a unit of being $2100 - $2350, it better be … paradise that is.

Of course Red Light isn’t paying anywhere near the going rate. A different county, they don’t have Section 8 per se. She’s going in under some kind of "special program", which still works out with her rent being paid for her.

I guess you could say that because our rent isn’t near that high …… yet, we’re getting what we’re paying for. Except, we’re paying and not getting what we’re paying for.

And that’s the tea.

Speaking of tea ......