School Lane House Apartments

School Lane House Apartments is recommended by:
25.0%
Overall Rating
1.98 out 5
Parking:
2.43 of 5
Maintenance:
2.04 of 5
Construction: 2.03 of 5
Noise:
2.55 of 5
Grounds: 2.38 of 5
Safety: 2.18 of 5
Office Staff:
2.15 of 5

5450 Wissahickon Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19144
215-848-0100
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good place to live?


Asked 237 days ago

i heard bad things about this place.

2 Total Answers
Answer by rgk72 on Apr 12, 2008 at 5:32AM
Bad place to live. BAD PLACE TO LIVE. Had a horrible experience there; overrun with mice, maintenence would take months to answer your request, shootings, fires, loud clanging pipes at all hours of the night. Save yourself the trouble and find a better place to live.

Answer by ruthielovesNYC on Apr 14, 2008 at 9:09PM
I m going to tell you the honest truth; I have lived at school lane apartments for going on 2 years now. The only reason why I still live here is because I am in college and school lane is convenient and I don t feel like looking for a new apartment and ending up in a bad neighborhood. For the most part the neighborhood is good; I leave my apartment at 5am and feel o.k about walking to my car (I do walk fast and have a weapon ready though). As for shooting I have heard gun shots in the back parking lot once since I been here and surprisingly the police was here within a minute. I have never heard of any other incidents.
I must say I do not love the place, but I have seen worst. I have had a problem with roaches taking over my apartment one evening because the tenant downstairs whom was a filthy person decided to bomb out his apartment. I was furious, during cooking roaches started to fall out the ceilings. I went to management the next morning early and complained; they came up that same day and taped up my vents to prevent roaches from getting in the apartment and the exterminator came the next day. Then they went downstairs to handle the other tenant apartment. Every since that day I have only seen one or two roaches in my apartment, even though I clean everything with bleach they still come. I just make sure to clean all the time, and take out my garbage
I live on the A side of the building, my friend use to live on the B side and she has had many problems on that side of the building with loud neighbors fighting, partying, kids running in the halls, people wondering around, and power outage, and mice s. Aside from me being attacked by roaches during dinner I have not encounter anything like she has on my side of the building. My floor is always quite and people are never wondering the halls. I heard the higher up you go the better is the tenants and apartment.
As for management, when you do move in they do give you false hope about certain things being fixed, therefore do not move in unless everything is fixed. One elevator is always out and the other one take forever to come. If you want something done you have to have a firm attitude, and continually be in their face! The parking lot gets flooded when it rains, so I advise you to park in the back when it rains or you will not be able to get to your car. All in all the building is not a slum, but it is not the paradise the pretend it to be.

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