Apartment Review for Sandpiper Apartments - Salt Lake City, UT

This is an update. You can read my story below. To get Sandpiper to stop harrassing me I had to file a Small Claims action against them. In response to my action, they filed a Civil Action against me. I had to get an attorney to fight them. I was being sued for roof damages (yep his roof), and replacement carpeting amounting to over $3,500. My attorney got them to take the bogus roof repair bill off and we are dealing with the replacement carpeting. Sandpiper thinks I should pay for the new tenant's carpeting because he alleges my cockatiels and parakeets pissed on my carpeting and it was damaged beyond repair. Now get this fact.. When I moved in there in 2003 the carpeting was about 20 years old and it was totally filthy. I paid $700 of the $1,000 charged for new carpeting so they would replace it. Plus I lived there for 7 years. And I am being sued $1,790 for carpeting. You can read my story below. I am reposting it because the reviews for 1491 Sandpiper (the brown ones) got hidden on this site. As soon as the case goes to trial, and a decision is reached, I will post the outcome whether I win or lose. Here is the story I posted earlier this year.. I am a respectful, semi-retired woman. Since 2003, I paid my rent on time and never caused any problems. At my age one learns to live and let live. I had many maintenance calls, over the years, including a gas leak. Sooner or later, they were fixed. At the end of 2007, when the facade was falling off the building and the ceiling was leaking I wasn't surprised when nothing got done. After three notices, they finally nailed some new plywood up on the building. I thought it was fixed, I wasn't sure so I left a bucket under the hole in the ceiling just in case. The next thing I find out is that the Landlord entered my apartment without notice claiming the roof was damaged and he was afraid of internal leaks. Yeah, hell-o, I had been trying to tell him that for months. On his spy mission, along with the hole in the ceiling, he found a bucket, 12 cockatiels in a cage, and a tree like decoration he wisely deduced was a landing field for a flock of birds. He only left me a note stating that he had entered the apartment without notice but he is not on the war path yet. One week later, the roofer's finally came to fix the roof. My problems were just beginning. The roofers had caused a huge 2' x 3' hole in the bedroom ceiling, exposing the entire interior of the roof they had just replaced. I could see the asbestos insulation, and there was an accumulation of all kinds of dirt and unhealthy particulates, even one dead rat that didn't make it through the toxic conditions. Now I am concerned and wanted this fixed fast. Rather than providing me with a resolution, the landlord decides to retaliate against me. On 9/24, through a letter left on the front door, he gives me the ultimatum to humanely euthenize the birds; insinuating that I was hiding them and therefore failed to report his roof problems to the office. When I showed him the birds in that cage were allowed in my lease, he still told me to get out in 30 days or he would charge me for the roof damage. Even if I left in 30 days, I was still responsible for urine (yes this landlord thinks birds pee or maybe I did it), for paint, and carpet damage. Two weeks later I moved out extremely concerned about my health and welfare. On 12/05, this vengeful Landlord actually sent me a bill for new carpet that the new people can damage (not the old carpet with 6 years of wear and tear that I paid $700 for) but new carpeting. He wants to be reimbursed for repeated applications of floor enzyme that was the fault of bird urine, not from the crude crap that poured into the dwelling from his rotting roof. This was a mere charge to me of $1,790.00. He billed me for sheet rock of $300.00, and roof repair/plywood damage of $1,200, even though he said he wouldn't do it if I got out in 30 days. Also, as a bonus if I paid him $1,335.54 by 1/5/09 he would write-off $1,200 of the $3,430.54 he alleges that I owe him. And it is not over yet. Now I have to settle this mess in Civil Court to prevent further retaliation from this psycho-nut. If you know what's good for you don't rent here. Please, for the sake of your children don't rent here. It is not safe. This place is rotting from the inside out. Trees are dead and the patio fences are falling over. I am sure their is a mold hazard there but read the lease. It exonerates the Landlord from any mold issues even if you report it to the County Health Department. Forget about the nobody above or below you advertisement, because what really lurks above you is a health hazard, a roof full of holes, and maintenance people constantly walking around trying to repair them. And, what lurks below you is the Landlord from hell. I am thankful for whomever left a review on this website on 11/16/06. Those comments gave me the strength and will not to let this sub-human being, Sean O'Brien, SANDPIPER APARTMENTS, LTD, Business Entity number 2112268-0180, get away with it.