Review for Waterford Nevillewood Apartments

Several online reviews mention the noise level at Nevillewood but IMHO do not give enough detail. Last summer (July -August 2008) I was awoken twice between 2am to 4am in building 12 by the fire alarms ringing outside... then by the flashing lights from numerous fire trucks, police cars and ambulances. The first time somebody in an adjacent building started a fire by throwing a cigarrette into the mulch or so I was told by other tenants that had gathered outside. The second time somebody in the same or next adjacent building actually burned their balcony railing off. It was fun trying to sleep with the fire alarm sirens blasting for over half an hour each time! The second time I decided to get up and go down to the clubhouse and tan since I could not sleep. I had to ask an ambulance driver to move his ambulance that was blocking my car and then when I got down to the clubhouse thinking it would be quiet I realized that when a fire alarm rings in any building it also rings just as loud down at the Neville Wood clubhouse. I couldn't take the ear piercing sirens and had to leave.

And the cops have been to Nevillewood several other times during my 4 year stay. During my time there I am aware of two people being arrested for DUI after crashing their cars on the Nevillewood properties. The first one drove up the big hill next to the entrance to the properties. I saw the tiretracks and then saw the story about what happened in the local online newspaper. The second DUI that was arrested I actually saw the guy wrecked and passed out in his car right in front of the Nevillewood clubhouse after he could not negotiate the turn into Tee Court Road! So umm if you are considering renting at Nevillewood you might want to upgrade and get a garage so your car doesn't get taken out by any of the drunks passing out and loosing control on the Nevillewood grounds.

If you are considering living at Nevillewood make sure you understand that your going to have to leave your windows shut at night if you don't want to hear your neighbors bring their friends home at 2am to sober up a little after the bars close...I will miss listening to the drunk loud carrying on so much that I am gone...anyone considering living at Nevillewood should seriously go sit in the Nevillewood parking lot at 2am a few times...Saturday is usually the noisiest night but I have been awoken many times by rude neighbors during the week too....ohh don't worry about the security gate if you want to come experience the noise because most nights the security gate is broken....broken by someone driving thru it either accidently or on purpose. This is Nevillewood's little secret about their "gated community"....every mornig the first priority of the day for the Nevillewood maintenance team is to go install a new picket board on the gate so no prospective resident sees it busted. Chris the old head maintenance guy told me once that they buy the gate boards in a gigantic case. Many times (about 50% of the time based on my 4 years living there I would have to guess) the gate is not put down at 8pm like it is advertised to be. The fun part is when it is 20 degrees outside and they decide to put down the gate after it hasn't been in use for a month...nah I take that back..it is more fun when you pull up to the gate at night and there are two cars in front of you and the first person in front of the gate doesn't have a gatecard and then everyone has to put their car in reverse and back up so that person can get out from the gate to let everyone else thru...this has happened to me MANY times...ohh and anyone that has lived at Nevillewood more than a month realizes that if someone is in front of you at the gate that you can just drive thru the gate behind their car without using your gate card anyways....I could go writing many more stories....do your research before moving in...call the Collier Police Department and ask them if you do not believe me about the DUI's on the Nevillewood property and about the fire department being there last summer twice....

Make sure that when you leave Nevillewood you are present for the final walkthru...The Nevillewood office doesn't want you present so they can nickel and dime you without having to deal with any confrontation...they will try to create an obstacle for you by only allowing the final walkthru Monday-Friday during 9-5 business hours...and they will only allow 2 walkthru's to be scheduled the same day or so I was told by Marsha Cashdollar the General Manager...so plan on taking part of a day off of work or just forteit your security deposit...my walkthru took less than 10 minutes..now on the other hand if I was a perspective resident coming to look at the model apartment for 10 minutes would I be told sorry only two showing per day and only Monday-Friday?..they are open 7 days a week!!! I scheduled my walkthru with Marsha Cashdollar one week in advance..She told me she would get her appointment book to pick a time convenient to both of us...we picked together..I asked Marsha do I meet you at the clubhouse or at the apartment?...Marsha said either and that if it was 5 minutes before our scheduled time that she would just go straight to the apartment...So I got to my apartment 20 minutes early...waited..waited...after 10 minutes past my scheduled time and still no Marsha I went down to the clubhouse and was told by Sue that Marsha was off work today!!! and Sue said she would do my walkthru...Sue said she was pretty busy...yeah i saw the young girl with her pamphlets about Nevillewood walking out of the office. So my scheduled time meant nothing...Sue said she would be up in a while...I explained to Sue that I had a job that I had to be at soon and I was scheduled with Marsha at that point over 15 minutes ago..Sue said that she would be up in 5 minutes...it took her longer and my final walkthru started 30 minutes past when it was scheduled. My apartment was immaculate but Sue still tried to nickel and dime me...for example ..my gatecard that I had for 4 years had the numbers worn almost off from use..so the card was damaged by me and needed replaced for $15 bucks because Sue said she would not know the number and therefore could not reprogram the card for somebody else!...I gave throse Nevillewood fools $36,000 in rent over 4 years!!!...I told Sue I didn't even remember the card ever having a number on it but she raised her voice and said that I would never have been issued a gatecard with an unreadable number...then I held the card up to the light and saw some numbers faintly on the card..i read the number to her and she yelled "your paying for it. I cannot read it"...then I said well wouldn't you have a master list that had my name and the card number I was issued. Sue again yelled that I was paying....ohh prior to this...Sue was charging me for a dirty oven...my wife and I had did the self cleaner...cleaned the previous owners dirty crumbs from the broiler that we inherited when we moved in...scrubbed the heck out of the oven top to bottom...replaced the metal tins under the electic burners at our cost..I moved the oven and dusted and washed the floor behind it..I cleaned under the electric tins...then Sue came in and lifted the top up on the range...I didn't know it lifted up!!...there were seriously 2 crumbs under it that I missed...I told Sue that I had a towel in my car and I would clean the two crumbs..but Sue yelled that we were done and it was too late...I was being charged!!!...even after she made me wait 30 minutes for my walkthru I couldn't clean the two crumbs for 15 seconds!!!!..I could say alot more here but I am out of time..I will probably be back to post more about my walkthru...