Acadian Properties Inc

Elite '08

60

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Roshan V.

San Francisco, CA

The worst living conditions of my life were lived my 4th year at UCD in an Acadian Properties rental. Worse than any place I've stayed at...a room in Hell would be a Las Vegas penthouse compared to this piece of junk.

The dump in question was a house located on L St. near Covell - 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a garage, a big yard, and plenty of rats. More on that later. My best friend and I lived there with a random girl we found on Craigslist. Right when we moved in things looked bad: The hardwood floors were scratched up and stripped, the tiles were dirty, and all of the window blinds were either broken or missing.

My roommate brought the dirtiness up with Acadian when dropping off a check. Their response was "Oh."

In addition, the backyard had fruit trees with the fruit laying on the grass rotting. This is what probably brought the rats. More on that...now!

A couple of weeks after moving in, we found random rat droppings in the cabinets. I assumed maybe they were there before, and considering the bang up job Acadian had done with cleaning the place. A couple of days later I went to the kitchen to make lunch and rat, startled by my presence, jumped off the counter and behind the fridge.

Here's where I stop to tell you something about myself. When a spider is in a room, I'm not. I'm clean to the point of OCD. Like Monica on Friends. Yeah, that's me.

So I go to Acadian and tell them about this. "How long have you been in the residence?" asks the stupid woman at the front desk. "3 weeks," I reply. "Oh well there's nothing we can do then. Before 2 weeks it is our responsibility, but after that we have no way of knowing if the tenants brought in the rats."

This last thing turned out to be a lie. My roommate looked up housing rights many months later, and it turns out we should have had the option to break the lease with no punishment for a few months. This was, of course, a moot point by the time we found out.

So Acadian did agree to have an exterminator come by and spray in the walls. So they spray in the walls...I still see rats for a few weeks. And then poof, just like that, they're gone.

So what happens when an exterminator just puts poison in the walls and doesn't actually clean up the remains. Yes, flies! We had these giant disgusting flies flying around our place for a month. Freaking nasty. I'm not talking about small fruit flies, I'm talking about giant make-you-shreak-like-a-woman flies. It was like Jeff Goldblum from The Fly flying around my house!

So the flies eventually went away...to be replaced by roaches and ants. I remind you of my OCD-ness. Yes. I am seriously shuddering right now and it's been more than 3 years.

One day I was grabbing some toilet paper from one of those Costco packs that I had in a cabinet in my bathroom when I noticed the back of the pack had been chewed through and some toilet paper rolls were shredded apart. Gotta love rats.

It's all kind of funny now, but seriously, this was a major health risk. I'm older and wiser now, and I really wish I could go back in time and sue these jerks. My friend and I could have got who knows what disease from living here.

A few months into living at this place, the weather got cold as it does in Davis. So naturally you want to turn on the heater. Let me ask you, does your heater smell like burning hair and smoke? Ours did. And Acadian charged us to fix this.

I had previously lived in one of the Acadian units above their offices on B. St. It was a bomb location for sure, and I didn't have to deal with Acadian too often so I never knew how bad they were. But one thing I remember from that was when we applied to get the place...of course it was in high demand, so what they did was have all of us applicants come and fill in our applications, and then they would show the apartment and the first one to turn in the forms downstairs would get the place. I'm not joking, it was seriously a race down narrow stairs to turn in the forms. What kind of backward ass immature crap is that? Luckily we won the race.

My impression of Acadian Properties is that they rent out crappy places to ignorant UCD students and then charge them for every little thing and don't expect them to know their rights. And how can you get them out of business or get them to improve their ways? If you don't live in their properties, one of the other people looking for a place in this high demand market will. Sucks...

One of the happiest days of my student life was when I graduated and moved out of this dump.

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