Living in Apartments in Valparaiso, Indiana: A Personal Experience

Williamsburg on the Lake apartments in Valparaiso Indiana is beautiful on the exterior. Groundskeepers do an excellent job of trimming bushes, mowing lawns, and taking care of the hundreds of flowers they plant each spring, but as the old saying goes, a book cannot be judged by its cover, and apartments are no exception. I once praised this Valparaiso Indiana community of apartments and townhouses, but that was shortly after moving in. After living at Williamsburg on the Lake apartments in Valparaiso Indiana for several months, I realized that looks are truly deceiving, and it is of the utmost importance to carefully consider the interior as well as the exterior of apartments in comparison to the cost before signing on the dotted line. Unfortunately other aspects of apartment living can only be discovered after moving in and experiencing what life is really like inside and out.

Before moving into Williamsburg on the Lake apartments in Valparaiso Indiana, with reluctance of management, my husband and I were given the opportunity to see the condition of our apartment prior to maintenance doing any of the required cleaning, repairs, and painting. It was obvious the people who lived in the apartment moved out without doing any type of cleaning. The carpeting along the baseboards was littered with the shells of dead bugs, the downstairs toilet was black inside, and the entire apartment was a mess to say the least. I hoped the apartment would be in much better condition upon moving in less than a week later, and surprisingly it was. Considering how it looked before moving in, the apartment was much cleaner, and it smelled fresh. However, although we were told the carpets had been cleaned, dead bugs still littered the carpeting along the baseboards, and chocolate remained on the carpeting upstairs, but it was otherwise in move-in condition.