Winchester Place

update time. 2÷3÷2016
well things are looking up around here finally. new property manager is getting a lot of stuff done and has good plans for this place. as it stands right now most of the riff raff and welfare trash were evicted in November. there hasn’t been any random kids knocking on my door or looking in my windows since. they are doing some grounds work at the moment. and I believe are planning to renovate a lot of the apartments. install new appliances to replace some of the ones from the 90s. they added a few new paved parking lots. and all in all I have had a pleasant fall and winter so far. the only two problems that I have is people letting their dog shit all over the lawn and then leave it for me and my neighbor to pick up. (I have a dog too so I assume they are trying to pass it off like it was my dog being too lazy to bag it up) and the neighbors in the middle apartment literally have like 10 cars no lie. there is never and has never been any parking for any one in this building but them. visitors parking spaces have been filled with their personal cars or cars that they are fixing to sell since I have lived here. to me that is not right. that isn’t normal in any other apartment complex. there is a limit of the number cars a tenant is allowed to keep on the property. and these people have like 3 personal vehicles and 4 that are being sold out of the parking lot at any given time. other than that though no complaints here. but I will be giving another update when school gets out. so we can see how the property manager manages all of the kids acting up around here.

Whatever you do DO NOT EVER LIVE HERE!!! I have lived her for almost 2 years and I’m FINALLY getting out of this hell hole of a place to live. The only people that live in here are section 8 dirtbags that do not ever watch their children. Mine and my boyfriends car were VANDALIZED by some hoodlums that weren’t being watched by their parents go figure! I had eggs AND paint thrown at my car and so did my boyfriend. I have contacted my landlord and the people from the Champlain Housing Trust and guess what NEITHER of them have contacted me to try and resolve the issue. Be warned the apartments look nice but the people are so unbelievably awful.

The apartments look nice, but you don’t actually get to see the layout or work that needs to be done until move in day, so you are renting sight unseen.
When we moved in, the sliding glass door was decayed, and they had covered it up with duct tape and white paint. The faucet in the kitchen was too tight, and broke the first time we used it, causing water to spew all over. The dishwasher was from the 80’s and the dishes came out even dirtier than when they were put in. I requested a new dishwasher, and the management suggested that we clean it. Which it should have been when we moved it, but fine. We cleaned the heck out of the dishwasher, still same results. 3 months later, after complaining, we finally got a new one… that still leaks all over the floor.
It took two months to replace our sliding door. We complained that the toilet was really loose on the bathroom floor. It was never looked at. Half of our outlets do not work on the bottom plug in… which is really strange. There are almost 200 units in the complex, and only 2 handymen. It got to the point where if it was something minor, we just fixed it.
The rules of the complex are incredibly crazy too. First, there are supposed to be no dogs. However, about ¹⁄₃ of the tenants have dogs. And I can guarantee that most of them are NOT service dogs. Second, cats are allowed, but indoor only. That’s fine, because we have a cat, and he is indoor only. However, many people just let their cats run all over. One of the cats liked to poop next to our deck. Another person moved out and threw out a kitten that was just barely old enough to eat wet food. It was crying on our deck, and when I confront the people, they said the cat was my problem. I found the poor thing a good home at least.
Another issue is the new manager. She is not friendly at all. She has made the complex into almost a prison. However, you can see what tenants are her favorites: the ones that have storage sheds (even though in the lease, it says they are not allowed), the ones that have toys in the yards (even though it also says in the lease that everything needs to be on the deck) She has even threatened to have cars towed if they are not moved when the plow trucks are there.
The company who does the plowing and landscaping are the worst! They destroyed my fencing (which was approved by the prior manager) and a garden arch. We received a notice after the ice storm to move our vehicles for plowing the next day at 10 am. Which was fine. When I got home from work, at 5 pm, they were just barely plowing! We had to park our car on the side of the road for an hour, and the company did a really halfhearted job.
The cost of a two bedroom apt is $ 1003 a month. Not really worth it, because there are a lot of issues. There are a lot of people that are not on the leases living in the complex that have criminal records, even though a criminal record is supposed to bar them from living there. There are dirty needles around, so do not walk around barefoot.