Over the past six months or so I have been living in Crown Apartments #2. It has been one of the best and worst experiences of my life. This has been my first time living out on my own and not staying with my sometimes overly emotional and strict parents and not being under their roof has been a little nice and relaxing. Another great thing about living at crown was that I had the opportunity to live with one of my best friends Cherie. Everyone warned me about living with a friend but if there was anyone I could have lived with it would have been her. We had a great system to everything from food, to clothes to bathroom time etc. It was also really great to watch her meet Brenden her new husband and spend hours at night when we would get back from hanging out with Warren and Brenden and just talk. But once Cherie moved out and the magic of freedom from my parents wore off I began to realize how crappy of an apartment Crown really was.
Most people would say that all student housing is bad but Crown is so bad that they lost their contract with BYU and now most of the girls in the complex are moving out. The management is horrible to try to get a hold of unless you bring your scary father and have him yell at them and tell them to do something. And even then they only just put down a plastic sheet over a huge leak. So here is my evidence of the horrible condition Crown Apartments is in.
Pic of my door that does not close due to the water it has absorbed (the bathroom door doesn't close for the same reason)
This is a pic of the huge bubble that popped and drops mold on you when you shower
Hole in the wall that they just cut to see if there was mold in the walls. Guess what there was in every one of the 3 holes they made.
Some of the floor that is soaking wet from the leak that has been there for 3 weeks now and they still haven't come to fix or even come to look at it for over a week now.
Now I did not include pics of the mold spores growing on the walls or the yellow wall in our kitchen or the many many more things at the apartment but i'm sure you've got the point. And I can't wait to move out.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Crown Apartments
Posted by Lindsay Duerden at 1:57 PM
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oh.. oh, there are no words for the revulsion i felt when i saw the picture of the shower mold... ew. just... guhhh.
so, i sympathize. :[
also, yes, to your suggestion about enjoying nature and each other's company (i added that last bit...) it's a marvelous idea.
Oh, my gosh! That is so horrible . . . and amazingly enough it is worse than anything I saw ever as a student. That is just disgusting! I'm glad that they had their approval revoked (did you have anything to do with that?).
So sorry, Lindz!
I don't think it's that bad..
Ok, I just had to say something inflamatory.. because (I guess) that's the mood I'm in. :)
That's pretty bad. But think of the fun stories you'll be able to tell for ever! :)
I remember this one apartment I lived in while on my mission....
It's hard to believe, but someday you might actually look back at this and laugh. I remember being in my first apartment after leaving home (and YES I had VERY strict parents too) was a breath of fresh air. Mold and all! Hopefully your next one is a little better!
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