1st Row Warehouse Condominiums

Poorly constructed, poorly managed HOA, noisy, filled with dog crap, shall I elaborate? Sure.
Major issues with noise here. If your neighbors are up, then so are you. If they’re up and partying, forget asking the HOA for any help. Each of these units are individually owned, so there is no control like that of a building manager has at a privately owned building. This, combined with paper thin walls, floors, ceilings, makes for a terrible living situation.
During the past winter, the building’s fire alarms rang loudly on three occasions. During each occurrence, pipes had burst under cold weather. Or should I say, due to poor construction. Everything in this building was done on the cheap. I believe ten separate units had to have new floors, cabinets, etc replaced due to the broken pipes of these three occasions. How is that even possible/​legal? And all inside of three months! C’mon. And I know this is the responsibility of the actual condo owners, but hardware and fittings have fallen off, ripped off, broken off. CHEAP-​OHHHH.
Everyone has a dog here. And most people have day jobs, which means dogs will be barking while their owners are gone and will then relieve themselves on the interior walkways, elevators and grounds because hey, its tough holding it in for 12hrs. Print outs are posted nearly weekly to «clean up after your dog.» Some real class acts living in this place.
The interior courtyard is an echo chamber. Seriously. Neighbor in high heels walking home at 3am? Guess what: You’ll hear the entire walk from the elevator through her front door closing.
Honestly, whatever attracted you to looking here, let it go. Move on and know you dodged a bullet.

I absolutely loved these condos, and was anticipating living here after a summer of waiting for my final move in. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize that you can hear every last bit of noise echoing throughout the complex, whether it’s coming from neighboring apartments, tenants clumping through the outdoor halls or clamor rising up from the open-​aired courtyard. As it being my first apartment, I quickly realized that this is typical apartment living and hearing unsolicited noise daily is no big deal. Too bad the lady below me didn’t quite agree. I am still settling on the fact that she is/​was nuts. After watching a movie one Friday night with my friend, I get up to open my balcony door to take in my view of uptown Charlotte. The lady below me came upstairs, banged on my door and said I have been making so much noise and woke her up out of a dead sleep. I told her I had been sitting on the couch watching a movie for the past two hours and just got up off of my couch — which she quickly disregarded and started to blabber on about her nieces. Nuts, right? Too bad she occupied the apartment, or «these aren’t apartments they’re condos!» she once bitchily exclaimed one evening, below me. Her complaints continued, and she even went as far enough to ask me if I had a printer in my bedroom that could be making so much noise. Unfortunately for me, this crazy woman was a part of the apartment complex’s board of god knows what, so she abused her authority over me and eventually slapped a $ 100 fine against my «feet», basically. She said I had «extremely loud footsteps.» I told her that I pay enough to live in these pricey condos to be able to live comfortably in my own home. After eventually settling on knowing I needed to avoid her neurotic behaviors, my car got broken into. Between my roommate and me, I was the only one to hold a car in the below-​ground garage. Although the door to the condominiums is locked and the gate to the garage cannot be opened without an electronic garage door opener, I still witnessed people hop the garage gate and harshly, but successfully open the door with forced-​muscle-​like pulling. Anyway, the criminal who broke into my Jeep smashed my back window and entered from the back driver’s side to steal some expensive things. I emailed the manager of the complex the next day to explain that there should be cameras in the garage, and that if I am getting walloped with $ 100 fines for walking around my apartment; security of the complex should really be taking a priority over psychotic neighbors and ensure working on safety measures for the tenants. The board freaked out, thinking that my letter meant I was going to act upon my rage, although my letter was well-​written with practical advice and annoyances, nothing of a threat. Definitely think twice before living here or you will be treated like a criminal for breathing and walking (not running!) in your apartment (or condo according to your psychotic below-​living neighbor), even if a real criminal smashes into your car window.