Rinaldo Apartments

My time at the Rinaldo is like a dream, a very bad dream that I wake up from with a sour taste in my mouth.
So many problems:
1) The building itself is filthy. The floors aren’t cleaned often enough. I mopped the third floor hallway every few weeks because it was so nasty.
2) Some roaches. Some mice.
3) Once I went out of town for a bit. When I came back my apartment was a mess. Macaroni noodles were all over the floor and there were small peanut butter footprints on the walls, floor and table. The culprit? Squirrels. They came in through an air shaft in my kitchen, ate their way through most of what was in my pantry, and then had a big party until I got home. The manager did come and seal the space that they used to enter my apartment and the landlord did agree to reimburse me for my eaten/​destroyed food (which is good and is one of the reasons they get two stars instead of one).
4) parking lot is small and people sometimes don’t park well so that it only fits two cars instead of three or four.
5) It’s a walk up. I lived on the third floor. I had to go up a flight before I reached the first floor. There’s no elevator. Imagine carrying laundry up and down those stairs. Need I say more?
6) My car was broken into (smash and grab) six times in one year.
7) A few times they did things like raise the rent without notice and weird stuff like that.
8) If there are problems in your apartment (leaks, etc) expect it to take a while until it’s fixed. I finally just had a friend who is a contractor do the work and then he gave me a bill and I withheld that amount from my rent (and turned in a copy of the bill with my rent). They never complained when I did that.
On the plus side, it’s ¼ mile from Wayne State University, ½ mile from the College for Creative Studies and across the street from the Detroit Medical Center (about a block and a half to Scott Hall, so there are lots of med students in the building). The landscaping is nice. There are hardwood floors and clawfoot bathtubs. There’s a laundry room in the basement.