QUALITY MANAGEMENT INC

The point of this review is to say maybe QM doesn't care who it does business with as long as they get paid. And the maintenance contractor they've been using for years for this building exhibited questionable planning, etc. I wouldn't use them now that I'm a homeowner. It's a decent neighborhood, so our building and grounds was one of the least attractive. Being one of the cheapest places in Nampa to rent an apartment and having children, the decent neighborhood in spite of being on a busy street is the main bonus about this place. I'd say the price, but the old windows, etc., made up for it in the winter with the electric bill trying to heat it, so I can't say the price was a bonus, which has raised for the other units as tenants rotated (it started at $425/ month but newer tenants paid $475/ month). Tenants didn't stay long, the 6-month lease or a year or so. I stayed from May 2013 to December 2014 because I wasn't going to move until I knew I was going to a better place and not just to get out of there. With children, stability of routines is very important also. Maybe if they actually maintained the building and kept it up to more modern standards, they'd be able to keep tenants longer. The driveway is completely broken up and is unable to be plowed or shoveled because it's so uneven. So that was not fun in winter. The windows were/are old and metal and not all of them have double panes. The baseboard (all electric) heaters cost me about $150 in the winter to keep my apartment barely above 60 degrees at all times. Mind you it's only 650 square feet to heat and a half underground unit (better insulated by all the surrounding earth?). I paid utilities for a single family home of 1400 square feet, and kept it comfortable temperatures in the same town, for around $100 average, including electric, gas and water/sewer/trash. The gutters weren't cleaned in the more than a year and a half that I lived there. And they scoff at the neighbor who mentioned maybe it's why there's mystery leakage in downstairs unit #3 last late winter (early 2014) when it started thawing. There was "minor" water in my unit (also a basement unit) that appeared to be seeping from under the tub. Good times. It didn't make it out of the bathroom though. Unit #4 hadn't been "updated" with the new counter and sink/faucet like #3. The stucco is old and has holes. But they have the nerve to tell me I can't put plastic on the windows (to attempt to keep the expensive heat in the unit) unless it will not make any damage to the stucco! Like anyone could notice! There are stray wires on the outside of the building and the phone cables don't always work and are broken and if you ask about them, the maintenance man will say, "you're not going to get a land line are you?" NO CUZ I CAN'T CUZ MY WIRES ARE BROKEN. So if I could or wanted to afford it, I couldn't get Century Link internet either which requires a phone line. My neighbor above had to plug the phone line outside through the window to the main box on the outside of the building!! I've given the neighbors money monthly to use their wireless security code and access internet that way. And my unit in particular was apparently the worst. It had 4 3-prong (modern!) outlets and not 1 was in the living room! There was 1 in the bathroom, 1 in the small bedroom, 1 in the kitchen behind the stove and 1 in the utility room for the washer to plug into. There's not even 1 "normal" modern 3-prong outlet in the living room!! I had to plug the vacuum into the bathroom outlet and I had to plug a power strip into the bathroom outlet in order for the cable for my laptop to reach either bedroom or the edge of the living room! I asked to get more (1 in each of the rooms that don't have them) and it's supposedly maxed out electrically, but the unit directly above me upstairs has multiple 3-prong outlets in the living room!! GREAT PLANNING and maintenance, which apparently they've been supposedly doing for this building for YEARS but no one could have made life a little easier for the step-unit downstairs, mine. Since there's no 3-prong outlet in the living room or the larger bedroom (not that there's an outlet close enough elsewhere with the great planning of placing the baseboards but not outlets close to the windows), the only place the window a/c unit can go is the small bedroom, because of course you're not supposed to use an extension cord for an appliance unless it's a heavy-duty one, rated for that electric load. Brilliant! Good thing it's downstairs. I didn't bother putting it in the window last (the 2nd) summer. It was warm, 78-80, when it was 90 outside, but it was bearable. Would have been nice to have more screens to open more windows at night! It's also the one unit with 1 screen on a window in the large bedroom and 1 screen on a living room window that's not torn. There's no screen on the bathroom or small bedroom or kitchen so there's no cross breeze. When I first moved in I asked about screens, 2 months later (end July/early August) a contractor came and measured to supposedly get some made and then nothing ever came of it. I jerry rigged an unused screen that was outside the building to put in a make-shift screen in my kitchen window the first summer, but when the neighboring apartment was vacated and the unit was cleaned they removed (threw away?!) the screen which was, by then, sitting against the back steps where I'd found it since it was winter. I had to remove it in order to close the windows' 2 panes for winter. The owner is apparently a complete a** with no sense of what it's like to live in his run-down dilapidated building. The tenant gets to pay for the wear and tear by previous tenants by getting squat for a sense of home, basic convenience or comfort, or stability. Whatever. It's too small for an adult and 2 pre-teen kids anyway. I got my home loan approval so hopefully I can take care of my own place and not have someone else drag it down for me. It may not sound like it, but I'm grateful I had it when I did and know the reason God put me there was to learn to be content no matter what the circumstances and count the little blessings in life. Also, I was there when the neighbor's girlfriend's ex was verbally abusing her so I called and reported him to the police as I left for work, and was the evidence that he really was at our building when he tried to deny he was, and he'd choked her right after I left. I know we were there for good reasons and I'm grateful that God really works all things for good for those who love him (Romans 8:28).