Finally? Relief from the bird droppings?

Well, it's been at least nine days since we notified the office about the birds above our door and the constant droppings. I sent two e-mails to the office neither of which were returned. I followed up and called one lady in the office and set up a work order to get it fixed. Maintenance came and made the problem worse by sealing the live birds up in the eaves and leaving them to die. He promised to come back yesterday and check and never called or showed up. I spoke to another leasing agent on Friday and told her about the live birds being trapped and she gave me the runaround saying maintenance was busy working on air conditioners.

In the five days since I spoke to her no one in the office returned our calls and no one from maintenance showed up to fix the problem right. So after getting nowhere with management I called the health department who sent an inspector over. I explained the problem to him and showed him the nest directly above the door and all of the droppings below it. He agreed that it was a problem and said he would get it taken care of. Now within three hours of him being here maintenance has showed up with a ladder. I guess that's what it takes to get anything done. Courtyard Square likes to talk about their great maintenance but they couldn't care less that birds are shitting on tenants heads until you get the health department involved.

We will wait and see how this attempt at fixing the problem goes.

Trashed

A lot of people here at Courtyard Square Apartments just throw their trash out in front of their apartments and no one from management or maintenance makes them clean it up. Remember our recent post about this neighbors trash sitting on the shared balcony for over a week?

Well, on my walk this morning I noticed several more apartments that just threw their trash out on the balcony or out in front of their apartment where it can attract bugs and rodents.

This one is the icing on the cake. This apartment is within sight of the leasing office [maybe 40-50 yards from it] and it is on the main road going back to the leasing office, so you know that management has to drive past here everyday coming and going and yet there are bags and bags of trash and aluminum cans out in front of this apartment. You can tell this isn't just one days worth. I guess they don't care that the leftover liquids in the cans attracts bugs and roaches [and smells horrible to boot]

Meticulously Landscaped Grounds

Here is a screen shot of Courtyard Square Apartments web site touting their "Meticulously Landscaped Grounds".

Now, here are a couple pictures of some of the bushes right behind the laundry care center [the one in the pictures from yesterday] and right next to the maintenance facility. These bushes haven't been landscaped in a long time and are growing out over the sidewalk meaning that you have to turn sideways just to get through the walkway without getting scraped up by the bushes. It's pretty much like this all around the complex [except around the leasing office, they keep that looking nice for use on their online photos].

A Bumpy Ride

This is the main road leading into Courtyard Square off of Greentree Blvd, as you can see, it is full of huge pot holes that fill up with water any time it rains. Some of these are pretty deep, it's almost like having a chain of small lakes.

Old Mattresses Everywhere!

Everywhere you look at Courtyard Square Apartments there are old mattresses and furniture strewn about. Some have been lying around for a long time. Taking a walk this morning I counted old mattresses at five out of the seven dumpsters in the complex. It's about time that management hires someone to cart them off.

This is where you go to clean your clothes?

It doesn't look like anything is clean in here...

"Professionally manicured grounds"

This is an online advertisement for Courtyard Square from apartments.com

"Courtyard Square Apartments is southern Indiana's finest apartment community. We are conveniently located five minutes from downtown Louisville and moments from Greentree and River Falls Malls. Nestled in our comforting courtyards awaits your one, two or three bedroom apartment homes with flexible lease lengths. Take your pick of five fabulous floorplans. Our community offers you the finer things: a great staff ready to offer you outrageous service, professionally manicured grounds"

Comforting courtyards?

Professionally manicured grounds?

Really?