Tempo West Apartments

If you’re looking for a great place to call home, this isn’t it. Maintenance is inefficient and don’t get me started on our leasing manager! Marcy is horrid horrid horrid and on a power trip. She changed up the lease in the middle of our lease term which is illegal by the way but me and my roommates don’t have the power or money to enforce anything. When we contacted Dalton Management then didn’t answer any of our questions or concerns and were extremely unprofessional. The new parking rules are strictly enforced; it’s like you’re living at your parents house again constantly having to get permission. All guests are now required to have a visitors pass and recently we had a friend come over on the weekend when the leasing office isn’t open therefore we have no way of getting a visitors pass but her car was towed anyways. Even living here I’m nervous my car is going to get towed. Lease is up in May and it can’t come soon enough. My roommates and I hate it here.
Dalton Management sucks.
Marcy sucks.
Tempo West sucks.
So do yourself a favor and avoid this place.

On the date of our move in, we discovered that the unit we’d been promised didn’t have the amenities that we were told it would in addition to not being ready for move-​in with missing drawers and vent hood in the kitchen, and paint still drying on the counters and baseboards. We ended up getting traded up to a unit that was $ 245 more expensive per month. The whole time that we were dealing with this, movers were waiting on the clock for us to tell them where to put our stuff.
After our little bait and switch situation, there were several maintenance issues that needed to be addressed in our new unit. It took several months for these to be resolved, and in fact some never were. For instance, there is still no closet rod in our coat closet, and we bought our own toilet paper roll holders because Tempo West couldn’t be bothered to replace them. There’s a light fixture that’s gone without a globe this whole year, and one of our bedroom doors still doesn’t latch all the way.
Fast forward to this summer, and after over 6 months of parking rules not being enforced, the new manager decided to go on a towing spree, and had my little sister’s car towed from my space while she was visiting on vacation from Southern California. I’d gone out of my way to make other arrangements for my car since there is no real guest parking at Tempo West. But we ended up losing a whole day to dealing with the tow company when we wanted to be out enjoying Portland.
Our kitchen is in dire need of having all of cabinets replaced. The brown paint that was applied to hide the aging faux wood veneer (and the replaced drawer fronts that don’t have it) wasn’t intended for use on cabinets and is pealing away all over the place. They can’t even be cleaned as the paint disintegrates if you apply a damp sponge. The insides of the cabinets were so disgusting when we moved in, that I had to apply shelf paper before I was at all comfortable putting our pots, pans and dishes in them. The wall cabinets sag, and I’m constantly afraid that the will come down on top of me when I’m cooking, along with all of my dishes, because where else am I going to put them?
The road noise is obnoxious. There aren’t any real amenities. Management is unprofessional. It takes forever to get maintenance.
My lease is up at the end of January, and I’ll be paying a full months rent here and at my new home, just so I can move away from Tempo West as early as possible. If I could afford to move right now today, I would.
If you are smart, you’ll avoid this place at all costs.