Merrifield

DO NOT EVER RENT HERE!!
- and if you do, be sure to have a doctor on speed dial.

Between water damage, bubbling / cracking walls, MOLD, bugs, outdated appliances, insane high moisture, odd neighbors, sagging ceilings, leaking roof, MORE MOLD - it's completely unsafe to your health.

I have lived here for maybe 3 months and am in the process of terminating my lease and finding a new place to live. Even though there is UNTREATED MOLD they're telling me to pay $3600 to leave these unsafe living... conditions. I have lost so much energy, always feeling sick, and experiencing skin breakouts due to the mold and moisture but guess who has to PAY to leave these conditions!

NOTHING ever properly gets fixed, NOTHING ever get's responded to via email, NOTHING is properly sealed in the apartment, NOTHING is "renovated" as they say, NOTHING is "inspected" before moving in as they tell you it is, NOTHING is safe.

Do yourself a favor and STAY AWAY from here. Lee mas

I have been living here for just under three months and it has been nothing but problems. The staff although charming are not actually that helpful. they are unable to do anything without corporate say so besides putting band-aids on bullet holes. Before even moving in I was missing closet doors, and parts of my refrigerator. I moved in to broken and protruding walls that I was told were fine, roaches which I was told they sprayed for before me moving in, my rugs wreaking of smoke and even a... broken syringe hidden in my AC unit cabinet. Mold is hidden behind the wallpaper if you are lucky you can be ignorant about that, others are seeing it grow on their walls easily. The hot water heaters are so old and patched together that they shut on and off regularly and have leaks that cause you guessed it more mold and water damage. NO ONE RESPONDS in a reasonable amount of time. At first I thought that with being purchased by a new company maybe some thing would be fixed but MORGAN PROPERTIES is just as bad! they don't respond or care about their tenants health and safety. This entire apartment complex is making money off of peoples hardships by having them rent unsafe units unaware of the dangers. Then this results in tenants having to break their lease for safety issue but making them pay unfair amounts for what you have to endure. My neighbor was sleeping in her car or at a friends for while just because she kept passing out form the mold exposure and they wanted her to pay 2 months rent for only living there less then 3 months. BEWARE, this company makes money off you moving in, getting sick or feed up, breaking your lease for an unreasonable amount, and then repeating the process with the next person to move in. Lee mas

I lived here for 2 years because it was the only cheap option while in school. While living at Merrifield I was bitten by bedbugs that were living in the Murphy bed in my studio apt, then the next year my apartment flooded and ruined atleast half of my stuff. When it came time to move out, I cleaned my apartment and absolutely nothing was broken. They kept money out of my security deposit and then started calling me telling me to send them more money. I lived here years ago and the place still... gives me nightmares. Lee mas

When we moved in a few months ago, our studio apartment was nothing short of a biohazard. Black mold was growing in our bathtub, toilet, and kitchen sink. The ceiling leaked and had suffered an enormous amount of water damage that caused the paint to peel and turn brown. Several items from the previous tenant had not been removed and long-since expired food was sitting in the cabinets and fridge. I should also mention that we had been promised a full-sized fridge, but instead were provided with... a mini that lacked a freezer and could only hold a few cans of soda. The kitchen floor was not wood, as it was said to be, but rather filthy, bubbled tiles. The walls were covered in heavily stained wall paper and, on top of this, none of the ceiling lights worked. The front door was about 3/4 of an inch too small for the door frame near the floor and let all of the heat/AC out. When we brought these issues up to our property manager, they were shrugged off and we were told to clean and repair the apartment ourselves. The only issue they would handle was replacing our lights. After conferring with several neighboring residents, we were informed that this was a common issue of which the apartments were not cleaned or maintained between tenants and would sit filthy for months. Needless to say, we broke out of our 12 month contract and moved out as quickly as we could. Lee mas

The apartments are cheap, and there is a reason for it. The buildings were constructed in the 70's and have not been updated since. The "thermostat" is a tiny window unit without any temperature gauge on it, rather it has red and blue for hot and cold. Be prepared to pay A LOT for your heat and AC.