What do ya'll think of Kensington Park, why are they so cheap???

6/20/2006 11:30:00 AM

cause they're old, they have roaches, they're not well insulated making the electric bill go up, and they will tow on the drop of a dime

6/20/2006 11:31:30 AM

yeah don't move there

6/20/2006 11:37:29 AM

ask esgargs.

6/20/2006 11:38:17 AM

Or ask me. I lived there for a year. DO NOT FUCKING LIVE THERE.

They're cheap because the apartments are ill built, they put no money into maintenance, and the management is bottom of the barrel.

You will:
Have a roach problem you cant get rid of.
Deal with bitchy management
Have an electricity bill that should cover an apartment twice the size of yours (hell i have a bigger place now and pay far less)

And generally deal with other problems.

The complex can and does flood, and my apartment was flooded once because the water heater above us broke. i had to pay the electric bill for all the fans and shit they put in, and got absolutely shiti for all the trouble, noise, and crap that wasn't even my fault. Then we had neighbors who liked to play rap so loud I could sing along at 3 in the morning, and management really does not give a fuck.

Also, whenever they spray for bugs you have to take everything out of every shelf in your kitchen, which is wierd, becuase no other complex i know of does that. The people who spray are also total fucking idiots (i've met them) who have no fucking clue what they're doing, so it doesnt help.

The ceiling above our bathroom was falling down practically, and we wont even talk about how dark some of the apartments are.

Oh, and that wood walling etc you see in the model? No, that's been white washed (or some other similar cheap ass paint) in your apartment, and I assure you *yours* will be 10x uglier. THey also wont let you even see your individual apartment till after yo'uve signed your lease. Which is a big no no in my book from now on, because it was a HUGE mistake.

Oh, and towing. Fuck their towing. You can never have guests, and good luck if you have more than one car per apartment.

6/20/2006 1:07:46 PM

Quote :

"Deal with bitchy management"

Basically a bunch of no-class, fat-assed redneck bitches with mall hair.

Would I live there again? Not a snowball's chance in hell. Total dump, and the management is total shit.

6/20/2006 1:09:56 PM

Quote :

"They're cheap because the apartments are ill built, they put no money into maintenance, and the management is bottom of the barrel. "

I love KP. Never had any issues with maintenance, even when my roommate locked the bathroom door at 1 in the morning. New carpet, new appliances.

Quote :

"You will: Have a roach problem you cant get rid of. Deal with bitchy management Have an electricity bill that should cover an apartment twice the size of yours (hell i have a bigger place now and pay far less)"

Never had a roach problem for the 4+ years I lived there. The management is super nice. I did most of my business/maintenance reports on the phone. Was offered free food/drinks whenever I went in. Colleen and Cookie are especially nice. That said, the management is new since the beginning of this year. Electricity bill was alright for a 1600 sq feet apartment.

Quote :

"Then we had neighbors who liked to play rap so loud I could sing along at 3 in the morning, and management really does not give a fuck."

Don't blame others for your lack of social skills. In any case, call 911, and report the party to the management. I never had issues with parties.

Quote :

"Also, whenever they spray for bugs you have to take everything out of every shelf in your kitchen, which is wierd, becuase no other complex i know of does that. The people who spray are also total fucking idiots (i've met them) who have no fucking clue what they're doing, so it doesnt help."

Not anymore. Now they don't ask you to take stuff out from the shelves and the pantry because they use a different pest control service.

Quote :

"The ceiling above our bathroom was falling down practically, and we wont even talk about how dark some of the apartments are."

WHINE WHINE

Quote :

"Oh, and towing. Fuck their towing. You can never have guests, and good luck if you have more than one car per apartment. "

Dunno about you, but I got as many parking permits and visitor permits as the number of people on the lease. Don't blame them for trying to avoid making their community another Wolfline park and ride.

Basically, I love the place, and had very nice experiences with the management. Weekly summer parties, awesome clubhouse that you could use for your own parties, free wireless Internet, 24 hour maintenance. Friggin' sweet.

6/20/2006 1:31:38 PM

I agree with everything that LadyWolff said. I lived there for a year with my boyfriend (now husband) and he lived there for a year before i moved in. We also had a hot water heater break above us and had a flood in our apartment and they did the same thing with the fans that LadyWolff went through. It also took maintenance over 2 hours to even show up when we had water literally pouring into our apartment and flooding all of the electrical fixtures on the ceiling. The only, and I mean ONLY redeeming factor is the price...and you get exactly what you pay for: bitchy management, paper-thin walls, roaches, delapidated living conditions, and shitty maintenance. If you love yourself, you won't live in KP.

6/20/2006 2:31:13 PM

how much does it cost?

6/20/2006 2:34:05 PM

http://www.apartmentratings.com

use zip 27606

No. 4 down

[Edited on June 20, 2006 at 2:36 PM. Reason : .]

6/20/2006 2:35:33 PM

Never had any problems other than very high power bills, and it was noisy whenever the people above us walked around (old apartment, but they were also 80-100 lbs overweight).

6/20/2006 2:40:21 PM

The closer you live to the rental office, the better it is.

6/20/2006 2:40:47 PM

http://www.apartmentratings.com/rate/NC-Raleigh-Kensington-Park-All.html

6/20/2006 2:58:32 PM

they suck

I dont live there but my buddies do and I dont even advise it. I dunno about the electric bill but I do know about all the other crap and poor management.

Quote :

"they will tow on the drop of a dime"

thats my biggest thing against them, you have to park on Brigadoon and walk to the other places in order for your car not to get towed by the 3423232 tow trucks that park and wait for people without permits.

6/20/2006 3:04:05 PM

Quote :

"The closer you live to the rental office, the better it is."

Good advice. The bottom of the complex is in a serious flood zone, so you are better off living uphill.

The other downside was no W/D.

6/20/2006 3:23:31 PM

Our apartment flooded in the rain once...they changed the entire carpet and I believe gave us some break on the month's rent.

6/20/2006 4:57:42 PM

It was your sexy accent that got you that much.

Talk about the management...that Colleen...she is MUCH woman...

6/20/2006 5:09:58 PM

dunno man

I enjoyed my 4+ years there...

6/20/2006 5:10:33 PM

I lived there three. They were all a pain in my ass.

6/20/2006 5:12:26 PM

I had zero problems in the two years I lived there. I was in the unit next door to esgargs for a while and agree that they were just fine. i never had a problem with maintenance whenever i had a problem in need of fixing, didn't find the power bill to be out of the ordinary, never once saw a roach in my unit, never had any complaints about the management. We did have an issue once or twice with a small amount of flooding, but it only got 15-20 sq ft of carpet wet in the living room because the drain on the porch got clogged with leaves and some water came in through the sliding glass door. They subsequently fixed the drain and we didn't have problems with it afterwards. They're cheap because they're old and have all been paid off, so they just have to worry about maintenance and renovation, mostly. As long as you're in the nicer buildings uphill, I don't know why you'd have a problem.

Unless you're a partying type and have lots of people over and loud music all the time. Then you'll get on the bad side of the management quickly, because of noise complaints and their towing policies. My building had several units of Indians like gargs and other international folks, and we were all fairly quiet and never had any problems.

Don't get a unit that's on the other side of the creek, or downhill near the creek. Those are the ones most susceptible to flooding.

[Edited on June 20, 2006 at 5:50 PM. Reason : ]

6/20/2006 5:49:49 PM

The bitches on top of me did seem to have sex all day long with random college girls in the summer...all I had to do was play my fav foot tapping Hindi music to make the dude finish fast so I could rest in peace.

6/20/2006 5:51:20 PM

ahah gargs you pwned them
The fatties that live above my girlfriend apparently like to have sex a lot, and it's quite loud...*oh the horror*

6/21/2006 12:39:39 AM

Just an outsiders POV:

1 glowing review against tons of negatives would equate to me LIVING ELSEWHERE.

6/21/2006 12:50:24 AM

haha, my dad lived in Kensington Park... in the early 70's

6/21/2006 12:51:33 AM

considering this place...first off i'm gonna see if i can get near the rental office

i noticed some people put high electric bills...well my friend moved there about 2 weeks ago and to get to his apartment you had to walk down steps(i guess the bottom floor was kinda built halfway into the ground)...i figure if i get one of those apartments on the bottom it could help with not being hot in the summer, as for the winter, i keep my thermostat on like 60 cause i have a heating blanket

if i move into a one bedroom i guess i'll be the only one with a parking pass...i'm gonna love the free internet thing, and it also has a weight room

the no washer/dryer thing sucks...but i figure i can luck out with a tww or craigslist auction

right now i have like 4 choices for a one bedroom apartment and this is one of them

8/11/2006 6:01:25 PM

Quote :

"What do ya'll think of Kensington Park, why are they so cheap???"

have you ever been there? if not, then dont

8/11/2006 6:11:17 PM

Definitely go check it out first, and after your tour hang around and even go knock on someone's door and tell them what you wanna know. I don't think anyone would mind that. Look specifically at where you plan on living in the complex (near the office, away from it, upstairs, downstairs, etc.) I've seen 3 really great reviews in here, so it's worth your time to check it out.
And remember when dealing with management; if they get huffy and pissy with you; give it right back to them. Let them know you mean business and you WILL get your way.

8/11/2006 6:18:37 PM

^^^A washer and dryer do you no good at a place with no hookups, which is most of the cheap 1 bedroom complexes. If only it were that simple.

8/11/2006 8:51:01 PM

they got W/D hookups on the other side (further away from the office).

8/11/2006 9:11:55 PM

yo how much is a secuirty deposit at this place?

11/7/2006 4:22:13 PM

someone tell gargs that he has been unsuspended

11/7/2006 4:36:22 PM

my guy lived there for one miserable year, he had one of the "underground/basement" apartments

the place had a disgusting smell (that would never leave), crappy appliances, bug infestation, and just had that dank, nasty feel about it

it flooded regularly and not just from the outside "patio" but from the sink...apparently all the plumbing for the apartments above drains through the basement apartment....imagine pink, greasy, rice filled liquid oozing up and flowing out of your sink and all over the place

management was a bitch to deal with...maintenance 'fixed' the sink problem by asking us to go upstairs and tell the above apartments to turn their water off (which they were quickly bitched out for even suggesting i walk through the pink grease covering the floor) and then they put up a few big ass fans

the maintenance guy then left his "helper" (10 year old child) to supervise the fans for over an hour

unless you are adjusted to living in the worst living conditions, don't move in

11/7/2006 4:52:13 PM

^^already pm'ed him asking ^^^

11/7/2006 4:54:27 PM

I lived with Gargs and our deposit was $600 total for a 3-bedroom place. I pretty much agree with everything Gargs said about the place. We did have a flooding incident once for an upstairs water heater bust, but it was all taken care of quickly. I can count the number of (short) times of sleeplessness on one hand due to upstairs music/partying in the 2 years I lived there.

The towing isn't that bad at all, imo. Just have your friends park where they're supposed to.

If you use a lot of bandwidth, it's best to go with Roadrunner service. The free internet is a logon type thing and you only get so much bandwidth until a session expires; it doesn't take long. Then you have to logon again, etc.

Quote :

"The closer you live to the rental office, the better it is"

11/7/2006 4:58:54 PM

more like

KenASIANington park

AMIRITE?

11/7/2006 5:00:21 PM

they're quiet and considerate for the most part, at least

11/7/2006 5:02:31 PM

what the hell kind of water heaters did they buy? every single person who lived there seemed to have this problem hahahahaha

11/7/2006 5:04:04 PM

It sucked. The walls were paper thin and people were always complaining when I bumped the music. The floors creaked really bad and it shook the whole apartment when we boxed and wrestled...Again, more complaints. The parking spaces were too small so I was always dinging people's car doors. They got mad because our guests always just climbed up the balcony instead of going around the building to the front door. The glass in the windows was so thin and brittle it would break just by throwing a quarter at it. Oh yeah, and the police came when we grilled on the balcony. I know that is a City of Raleigh thing, but it let me know that my neighbors were a bunch of pussies.

11/7/2006 5:15:56 PM

I lived there for a year and was moved three times. A waterheater broke, then my neighbor had a oil fire, which stained the outside walls in wierd black soot. To strange to explain. And then the roof started to leak through. All in all, its cheap. You get what you pay for.

oh and btw, they towed my car because i had an old apartment tag, and then wouldent even meet me half way on the bill.

[Edited on November 7, 2006 at 5:29 PM. Reason : neighbor.....not neibor]

11/7/2006 5:27:51 PM

i lived there for 2 weeks
i was in between places

11/7/2006 5:31:39 PM

when i was looking at apts this past spring, the only things i saw on apt review sites for this place were scathing reviews and lot of

,, , and

11/7/2006 5:33:58 PM

deposit is 250 these days + $30 non-refundable application fee.
I can hear the people upstairs talking & playing guitar. They even like to play soccer at 4 am at times!

11/7/2006 6:15:02 PM

so like say i'm wanting a 1 bedroom for 477 a month...would i need the 280(deposit and app fee) and the 477 up front...for a total of 757?

11/7/2006 6:24:34 PM

yes. but i moved in on the 15th of the month so I had to pay 250 + 30 + half-months rent

11/7/2006 6:43:19 PM

oh thank jesus i hope they do that for me

11/7/2006 6:45:58 PM

That dump is 477 a month??? Ivy Commons is only 500, you have a washer and dryer, AND the walls aren't paper thin.

11/8/2006 12:50:39 AM

i dunno, i got a couple friends there... it doesn't seem as bad as the hatas make it seem...

how about checking it out yourself before you make a decision?

11/8/2006 2:20:59 AM

Quote :

"That dump is 477 a month??? Ivy Commons is only 500, you have a washer and dryer, AND the walls aren't paper thin."

a)you get free internet at kensington
b)you get a gym at kensington
c)its quieter at kensington(ton of foriegn people)
d)477<500
e)you dont get a washer/dryer at ivy commons(atleast what i was told)
f)ivy commons has a longer waiting list
g)the walls are very similar...i've been to both places

11/8/2006 8:03:33 AM

It all breaks down to how much you want to spend per month, the location and how well kept the place you want is.

I wanted a nice place, in a good location, lots of parking for friends, and very well kept. I pay $374.50 a month + utilities. I have 24/7/365 maintanance, everything in my house works perfectly or is replaced, I live on the lake, I have easy access to anywhere in Raleigh from where I am.... that's what I wanted.

If you just want a place to live and that's all that matters, go with Kensington Park, just remember you get what you pay for. Check Apartmentfinders.com and look at the ratings. Do you know how hard it is to get a fucking bad rating? It means they are too lazy or just don't care.

As far as Kensington is concerned you should really check how many lawsuits they've had filed against them in the past 10 years. Refusal to return deposts, failure to meet code violations... that's why I didn't move there.

11/8/2006 8:17:35 AM

Quote :

"a)you get free internet at kensington b)you get a gym at kensington c)its quieter at kensington(ton of foriegn people) d)477<500 e)you dont get a washer/dryer at ivy commons(atleast what i was told) f)ivy commons has a longer waiting list g)the walls are very similar...i've been to both places"

Okay, internet, gym, you got me.

I didn't know IC had a waiting list now (I've been here six years). We have a washer/dryer; they actually replaced it a year ago. I've never really had a problem with the noise, but then, I don't live by Mexico.

11/8/2006 9:48:04 PM