12/27/19
DO NOT RENT HERE - PLEASE READ
4.9 is misleading. The units themselves are pretty nice. When living there, I would have given the apartment a 4-5 star review. I am glad I held off. We broke our lease in March, paid the fees, and left for a new state to be closer to family.
Upon leaving, we left our forwarding address. They had from March 5th (the day we moved out) to April 28th to sell our unit, at which point we would pay a prorate fee. We called the office just about every other day to hear if our unit was sold. We got... responses like: "Oh, we don't know, we'll call you back." Since we were getting vague responses to our questions, we kept up on calling.
About 3 weeks after arriving at our new address, we started to wonder where our bill was. We began to ask this question as well. We were still getting vague responses when we actually got a hold of them. Well, we NEVER got that call back. So, I began to email them all the while, calling when I could, asking the same questions. My final "correspondence" with them was in email form, sent June 23rd (3 months after the move out), in summation - "We have tried our hardest to get in contact with you about our bill, since we haven't received a response, we'll just assume that we are square." At this point, I was sure they would respond. Nothing.
I made sure to answer calls coming from unknown numbers, in hopes that it would be an apartment representative. I frequently checked my emails. I checked our mail very closely. Nothing.
Flash forward to December 23rd (9 months after moving out), we receive a notice from a creditor asking for $2799.47 on behalf of Westlink. I called the creditor and asked when the original bill was sent out. They said sometime in September - 6 MONTHS AFTER WE MOVED OUT.
***Regardless, WE DID NOT RECEIVE A BILL - EVER.
It is not our responsibility to beg for a bill to pay Westlink, but nonetheless, we persisted. The fact that they got a debt company involved will forever mar our credit scores - at a point in time when we are trying to start a family and buy a house.
We paid the creditor in full, two days after receiving the notice.
This particular apartment location is extremely irresponsible, impossible to get a hold of, and ended up ruining our credit. They had our emails, our phone numbers, and the (correct) forwarding address, not to mention every opportunity in 9 months to get a hold of us, but they resorted to a creditor. No apologies.
RENTER BEWARE!!!!!
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