Edgewater Development Corporation

I can’t speak to this organization’s community work, but my husband and I rented an apartment managed by EDC for about 6.5 years. First, let me say that the landlords generally took very good care of the building. We found our rent to be very reasonable and liked our place a lot, hence staying there for 6.5 years.
The greatest problem was that communication with the landlords, a mother and daughter, was often frustrating. It was difficult to get straightforward answers to basic questions. In addition, workers would show up unannounced to do work on our apartment, such as seal off our balcony, without the landlords even telling us. If repairs were needed, we usually had to put in multiple requests. We would be told that someone would come by on a certain day, and then no one would show up and no explanation would be given. When we would call, we would be given a new date and time, and so on until after a few no shows they would finally show up and get it done.
There are so, so many stories I could tell, but the breaking point came towards the end of our last lease. A worker was scheduled to come in and fix the recurring mold problem in our bathroom that had resulted from the ceiling flooding a year or two prior. The worker said that he was going to come by at 10 am the next morning. I confirmed with him at least two or three times that he was coming at 10. Imagine my surprise when I get out of the shower at 9:30 am the next morning and find my front door unlocked, except for the chain, which, thankfully had kept the worker from entering.
(Now, believe it or not, this was not the first time that one of the workers had tried to enter the apartment unannounced while I was in the shower! We let it go in the past because after telling the landlords that this was absolutely unacceptable, they assured us that it would not happen again. And for awhile it didn’t.)
At this point, I was very upset and figured about the only thing that our landlords could do to make this right would be to apologize to me. So my husband calls one of the landlords and tells her what happened. The landlord then calls me around 10:30 to ask if the workers can now enter the apartment, to which I tell her, «Of course.» She then starts to hang up on me when I stop her and say, «Hey. Do you think that you could apologize to me?» Instead, she goes on what can only be described as a rant, telling me that she is not going to apologize to me, yelling at me about how she is sick and we can just do the repairs ourselves, belittling me, and dismissing my concerns about not having people try to enter my apartment without permission while I’m in the shower.

I honestly just expected a lot more from a women-​managed property. Needless to say, we figured that it was about time to cut our losses and find a new place, and in fact, came home to a note saying that our lease would not be renewed. To top it off, the landlord tried to claim that we had no security deposit, but luckily we were able to produce our original lease showing our $ 850 deposit, which thankfully was returned to us pretty quickly.
In sum,
Pros: Reasonable rent; fairly well taken care of building
Cons: Communication; landlord does not care if workers try to enter your apartment without permission while you are in the shower.