Flippant Remarks about ApartmentReviews.net and ApartmentRatings.com
I was just about conclude that the class war between us lowly, shuffling, renters and those sexy, dominant land “lords” can be seen in the absence of a web site that actually dares to critique the property management skills of land owners and their affiliates. Enter apartmentreviews.net. Ah, it’s great to be wrong…
Of course we can ass-kiss the upper classes by supposing that apartmentreviews.net reviews are “too negative”—but we can also consider fake praise coming from hired hands. But, to me, a model renter to every land owner (except to devout racists of all colors), when, say, the Little Tokyo Lofts posts suggest that “naked homeless” people are sleeping right outside the building, my first impulse is not to dismiss this information. I used to work in Downtown Los Angeles… and I lived in the relative luxury of Renaissance Tower (rated by apartmentratings.com).
Here are few resonant items:
- The complaint about paper-thin walls jumps out at me. Unfortunately my fellow renters, the cruel alternative to thin walls are asbestos-thick walls. Cancer anyone?
- The complaint about noise almost always relates to thin walls. Just in case some properly assimilated young person stumbles upon this article—hey kid! Try being quiet between 10pm and 10am!
- Property management companies are far more corrupt than a rental managed directly by the owner. A property management company, like compasspropertymanagement.com, allows the owner to blame the property management company for poor service. The owners have option of pooling their power behind a property management company to collectively buy influence in government to weaken renter’s rights and increase the surface area of cruel profiteering. This is the epitome of George-Bush-style “liberty” and “freedom.”