Cornerstone at Bedford Apartment Homes

Pathetic Apartments and Managements; don’t ever think of moving to this community
When I moved in my apartment was so dirty that I had to clean up myself for long time; showed that to management and also put that move in sheet but no action. also there were so many problems and all were noted in move in sheet. thank god I moved out of this community. When I moved out they charged me $ 150 for cleaning and $ 95 for blinds which was absolute loot; it was very clean when I moved out compared to move it and blind was also broken at the time of move. In a year at least i heard 5 – 6 theft incident which is not safe for family. Parking is so horrible that you don’t get parking after 7. Management is so bad that they never solve any of your problem and maintenance is very bad. Lobby and elevator are always dirty and many times one elevator doesn’t work. Don’t even think of moving in to these apartments. Fire Alarms go off any time with no reason and its was very painful.

I live in the neighborhood and am constantly disturbed by the fire alarms that go off at this complex between the hours of 1am and 4am at various times during the week. Seems to me it is some sort of prank pulled off by bored juveniles who live there. From what I understand from residents there, people live in squalor in those units. Also, the only way to get to your apartment is by taking an elevator, then going OUTSIDE to the balcony. It is about time that someone knocks down this place down and builds something that is more in line with the more modern buildings going up in town.

STAY AWAY!!!
THIS PLACE IS 100% BAD NEWS. I HAVE NEVER IN MY LIFE DEALT WITH OBSCENE RENTING ISSUES EVER!
They will try and screw you in any way possible. I seriously caution anyone considering this place. WHAT EVER YOU DO… READ THE LEASE AGREEMENT 100%! There are hidden things in there that they don’t tell you. Like: your 100% guaranteed to not get your security deposit back. They charge you for painting and carpet cleaning. Lord knows what that will cost me.

I am so relieved to be out of this place! I was stuck at Cornerstone for 2 10 month lease terms and it was 20 months of torture. I feel like they switched management more than once. I decided to move here because the rent was advertised very low on rental sites. Of course, you have to pay $ 50/​pet and since we have 2, that was an added $ 100 every month. PLUS the $ 450 per dog up front! That was an extra $ 900 on top of the deposit! Ridiculous. Then, when the first lease was up, they tried to up our rent by $ 150 NOT INCLUDING our pet fee. We got them down to a somewhat reasonable rate but then when the next lease was up, they wouldn’t budge. Mind you… we were living in a 700 sq ft studio with a sleeping nook. Not even a 1 bedroom and they wanted $ 1900!
Sorry folks, it is NOT worth $ 1900 to live in a roach infested, stinky, loud building. Good luck finding parking after 7:30 pm unless you want to pay an extra $ 100 for the creepy garage. And the parking spots are so tight, you will inevitably get dings all over your car. The elevators break down every. single. weekend! Not even joking. The people who live there have no regard for the noise levels. I’m embarrassed to admit I lived here.
Sure, they’re doing a lot of renovations, but here’s the thing. My husband and I are a young, professional couple, looking to save on rent so that we can save up for our «nest egg». We paid the rent on time, we never caused a problem, but they pretty much drove us out. That’s too bad. So long Cornerstone.
3÷8÷16 — We just received a notice saying we owe $ 400 for excessive holes in the walls and for carpet cleaning. Note, we nailed a few paintings to the walls with minimal damage. And it is standard procedure for buildings to make sure to go in and clean the carpets before a new tenant moves in. We should NOT have to pay that. And I have always seen a building employee do the cleaning. They don’t hire 3^rd party cleaners to go in and do this so it’s not like they have an invoice. And apparently my ‘sure deposit’ doesn’t cover this. So the $ 600 sure deposit and the $ 900 pet deposit that I posted up front is of no value at all.

Absolutely terrible. I can confirm the majority of frustrations expressed from the previous reviews.
I paid $ 1,455 for a studio, which is spacious and came with a nice kitchen and bathroom. The hot water, gas for the stove and electricity work. The location is minutes away from the main strip of bars/​restaurants. Now for the cons:
–There are cockroaches
–There is a thick overwhelming pervasive smell of curry in the halls, which gets into the air conditioner/​heater and rooms
–Neighbors stay up late every night of the week blasting music and sometimes playing instruments loudly. Cars also play obnoxiously loud music at all hours
–The elevators are small and slow, which makes moving furniture difficult. They also smell like trash the majority of the time and there is often animal pee on the floors
–The dumpsters are always overflowing and the smell permeates into the surrounding parking lot
–If you arrive after 9pm there is no parking. The spaces are extremely tight and is it the norm to hit cars when opening doors. My car along with many others have been towed. They have a relationship with a local towing company that comes daily
–Many families with kids running through the halls
–My neighbors eat infinite sunflower seeds which make there way onto my balcony. Birds then flock to our balconies to pick up the scraps
–Cornerstone repainted the balconies of all apartments. When they did this they walked over my carpet with dirty shoes and left the door open for bugs to enter freely into my apartment. One benefit was that they cleaned up the aforementioned sunflower seeds. This lasted a few hours until a pile started forming again
–Carpet is cheap, sticky and likely was never washed
–The air conditioner/​heater does not work and emits loud noises when it’s off
–Majority of residents have to walk outside to get to their rooms, which obviously sucks when the weather is bad
–There is a loud woman in 1435 that consistently screams at her dogs every morning between 7 – 8 am and swears miserably on her phone. Quite the rough start to mornings
–The pool was a disgusting community center cesspool. You will also definitely not be using it because it no longer exists
–They do not have an online system and you can only pay for rent in person with checks. For me this is particularly annoying because I travel often
-«Management» has no incentive to change anything about their processes. Rooms are still somehow being filled
–Slightly less expensive than the nice apartments in Stamford, but the cons outweigh the pros easily. All residents I’ve spoken to are dissatisfied with their experience
I wish I listened to the reviews before moving in. This will hopefully and very likely be the worst apartment complex I’ll ever have lived in
1÷1÷2016 update: After meticulously cleaning the apartment (including aforementioned sunflower seeds) to get back my $ 500 security deposit, I was told that an automatic $ 125+$ 85 fee applies for residents moving out of studios. I asked why the apartment building itself wouldn’t bear the costs of standard cleaning fees and they told me it has been routine procedure for as long as Cornerstone has been around. I was told that as long as there was no other damage (there is not) to the apartment I can expect the remaining $ 290 within 30 days. Update to come 2÷1÷2016…
1÷18÷2016 update: I should be receiving $ 285 from the security deposit this week (someone actually reached out).

If I could give zero stars I would. This place is terrible and they make a lot of money off of scamming renters. Here are the reasons you should never consider this place based on my experiences a year ago:
1. There are roaches… EVERYWHERE. Our father in law owns a pest control company and from his view, the place has so many roaches it doesn’t matter how much they treat, they would have to evacuate the building and treat to ever get rid of the problem at this point. We had big ones and baby ones, and we saw them every day and night.
2.They are not treating the problem. When you ask them to treat the apartment, they spray the kitchen only and they don’t make you empty out any cupboards. (If they even treat at all — one day they said they would — we were home all day and nobody ever came by although they claimed they did…) By the way, the roaches were mainly in the bathroom not even in the kitchen!
3. The trash shoot was broken 90% of the time we lived there. The custodian had pictures he showed me but wouldn’t give to me because the complex would fire him. Vacuum cleaners hanging out the trash shoot, and pee in the elevators. (The list goes on)
4. The trash extends out on to the property. Don’t be fooled they clean it up during office hours in the morning except the places they don’t show (ex: the playground)
5. Parking will never happen unless you pay for a parking spot underground ($ 100 per month) or find a spot in the morning and never leave after 6 pm
6. When we got sick of the roaches and gave them notice via email that we wanted to leave due to THEIR unsafe living conditions they waited until just after the beginning of the month and said sorry you must give 2 months notice and pay a 2500 dollar fine. I said fine you have your notice and they said no it has to start from the beginning of the month we won’t honor your last email as notice (which at that point meant basically 3 months)(also this wasn’t in the contract). We moved as fast as possible and had to throw away so much stuff due to possible cockroach infestation (this type drops their eggs anywhere rather than in specific places — they are american roaches).
7. They scam you. We moved out, got a lawyer and they seemed to just let it go. That is until we got a notice saying we lost a court case due to failure to show up. Funny thing is we were never served (never got notice). Turns out they slipped the papers under the door of our old apartment even though they are supposed to deliver it to a person. Long story short we won. So if anyone is out there experiencing this — YOU CAN BEAT THIS UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR!!!
When we left, our neighbor informed us we were the 3^rd couple to move out of that apartment in 6 months… PLEASE DON’T TORTURE YOURSELF BY LIVING HERE! GO ANYWHERE ELSE!!!

This rental complex is probably the cheapest in the downtown vicinity. HOWEVER, if you can afford to pay a little more, STAY AWAY! I’m a low maintenance gal, and didn’t ask for much. Agree with all the previous reviews regarding parking, noise… etc. What really got to me is the return process of the security deposit check. I moved out mid-​April, received my security deposit back within 30 days. BUT, they were trying to over charge me for things associated with month-​to-​month fees as if I moved out late. I moved out on time, left it clean, no damages… like I said, I kept things simple. The worst is, it must have taken me 15+ phones calls, 10+ voicemails (which, I never received a call back) and 1+ month later for the people in the rental office to finally get the numbers right. And it’s only done because I personally stopped by the office!!! Now it’s been 3 weeks since the check was supposedly «processed», I still haven’t gotten my check. I even called the management company in CA, and of course, no call back whatsoever.
It’s been 3 and a half months since I moved out of this complex and I am still waiting for my security deposit with no one to contact to get a status update. I AM BEYOND FRUSTRATED.

This is the worst building in Stamford — avoid it at all costs. I’m hopeful the new management company will make some improvements — but there are just some things that are not able to be fixed.
Parking is a nightmare. The spaces are so narrow you can barely fit a compact car without doing some sort of acrobatics to get out the door. Also — don’t have a life if you want to be able to park when you get home. There is no where near enough parking for everyone in the building and if you come home after 9, you will not have a space. If there’s snow on the ground, don’t be home after 8. If you don’t get a spot, you can circle the surrounding streets and hope to get a spot parallel parking a few blocks away
The «amenities» are hardly that. The gym is gross, small, and the equipment is so old and broken down I doubt its safe. There were multiple instances where the pool was closed for cleaning because a kid had crapped in it.
And unfortunately, you are not in good company. The first time I forgot to lock my door behind me, someone else in the building decided to walk into my apartment. I also had another tenant harass in my in the elevator asking for my number and then proceeded to follow me out of the elevator yelling profanities at me. Kids run up and down the catwalks banging on doors and screaming at all hours. I heard multiple accounts of things being stolen out of cars in the parking lot, poolside, and actual motorcycles being stolen from the parking lot.
The maintenance guy is very nice– but office communication with him is lacking and the speed in which tickets are taken care of is extremely slow. I had a pigeon laying eggs on the balcony and living there for 2 months. The office laughed when I called. I’m terrified of birds, so while it may not be a big deal for most people, it was terrifying for me!
When leaving, I cleaned from apartment from top to bottom and was told painting and cleaning are part of the standard maintenance they legally have to complete to rent the apartment again. That didn’t stop them from charging me $ 400 for it. So much for standard.
There is really not a worse value to be had in the area. Pay the extra $ 50 a month and move into any other building in Stamford.

New Management Co. took over after buildings are sold in late September. It seemed promising when they focused on fixing some rountine things like lights and cleaning up the grounds. They even sent around a letter focusing on noise and smoking which were pretty big problems.
However very quickly things got worse in other areas so its probably just time to knock down this little new deli and start over.
They changed the parking guard who was great and was the package guy as well so the strict company is tagging cars for nonsense.
They refuse to lower the heat so its constantly 80 or higher in the apartment (huge waste of gas) its not fun waking up sweating with all the windows open in November.
The new payment system does not work and management says its the payment places problem and vice versa.
They raised the rent to just short of what a nice place downtown costs which makes no sense since they offer the worst excuse of a gym, no shuttle, no guranteed parking, cheap carpet and so on.
Unless there’s actual improvement and someone listens to residents they are going to lose any decent folks and keep getting more noisey families and less desirable clients
I’ll say it was a tolerable 20 months as the value was decent, but not anymore.

STAY AWAY! DO NOT RENT HERE! RUN AWAY!!!
WHEN I WAS LIVING HERE, security problems:
Someone came up to my roommate’s apartment window and was STARING IN at her at 2AM. She woke up and saw him looking in to our apartment, she screamed he ran away. We called the police and told the leasing office. She was so shaken up that she didn’t even want to stay there, she went to a hotel. We told the leasing office and they did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Didn’t even address our safety concerns. NOTHING AT ALL.
The apartment units SMELL. BAD. Yes my 2 bedroom was a pretty large size and in an OK location, but NOT WORTH IT.
I GOT SCAMMED!
I only had my apartment for a short lease of 3 months. 6 months after I moved out, I got a collections call. NO IDEA what it was for. They tell me it’s from Cornerstone at Bedford. I call the leasing office and ask what is going on? They tell me that I owe them money for carpet cleaning because there were paint stains all over the carpet when I moved out. I lived there for 3 months, didn’t paint a thing, didn’t even HAVE paint, I had all rental furniture. I asked for an invoice of the cleaning charge and photo evidence of the stains. They told me for weeks that they were coming to me. They never did. When I asked why I was never notified of the charges before collections they told me it was because they didn’t have my forwarding addresss… they had my phone number why didn’t they call me? No answer to that question. Finally after a few weeks of waiting they tell me that the employee who took the photos of the carpet stains had since left the apartment and took all the evidence with him. WHAT? What kind of excuse is that? THEN they proceeded to send me a FAKE carpet cleaning invoice. From a FAKE company in NEW JERSEY. I called the phone number on the invoice and it was a PERSONAL CELL PHONE NUMBER of some random person! When I tried to Google the carpet cleaning company, not one listing appears with that name or in New Jersey.
Great job Cornerstone, you are AWFUL scam artists. Your management is laughable. I hope NO ONE ever leases from this property again.