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	Kirby Lofts On Main 917 Main Street Houston ,   Tx   77002 713-752-0917 Rating Recommend:     No Overall Rating:  1.0 Security:  1.0 Parking:  1.0 Appearance:  3.0 Management:  1.0 Maintenance:  1.0 Unit Condition:   2.0 Noise:  2.0		Review Title:   Overpriced, Oversold, Undermanaged --- Don't Rent Reviewer:   Anonymous   Review Date:  12/21/05      Rate This Apartment     We were very excited about this place when we first looked at it. The floor plans are kind of different and some of them are pretty roomy. There wasn't much in the way of amenities (OK, nothing) but management promised an A-grade restaurant and workout facility plus some clean-up of the pretty bad street people situation. None of that has materialized. The new management (the second or third team in as many months) is downright mean-spirited but just as ineffective as the previous lot. The parking is horrendous. We were promised that we would have both reserved parking plus optional valet parking. The reserve parking never came to pass --- we have been side-stepped (in a pretty ugly way) on that issue every time we raise it to the manager. The valet guys are really nice but the whole set-up makes for slow retrieval and horrible inconvenience. Some people's cars have been wrecked, others torn up in various ways. Plus you can't have anybody come visit you because there is no guest parking and there are hardly any parking garages open at night or on the weekend. A couple of tenants are really, really loud (including the manager's boyfriend) but nothing is done about that. The elevators are truly frightening not to mention unreliable. Your mail is not very likely to reach you anytime in your lifetime. The backside apartments are dark as a cave in the day but because the garage behind the building stays lit up, they are garishly bright at night. And we were promised individual meters for utilities but now have been informed that we will be sharing bills with others --- something we didn't agree to. Moving anything in or out is a nightmare because there are one or two spaces on the street that you have to use and no freight elevator. We had to sell a piece of furniture when we moved here because we couldn't get it to our place and all of the storage around here is full because of Katrina. Beggers on the street are aggressive. We don't feel safe to walk down to the better part of town. New Orleans people that rented here have been shafted in lots of ways. They are all leaving.

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