Parkland View Apartments in Breinigsville, PA Review – Safe For Women?

I’m currently finishing up the 13th month of my one-year lease here at Parkland View Apartments. Yup, one year = 13 months here, so read your lease carefully before signing. You may have already seen this mentioned by a previous commenter.  On 8/4/10, a commenter named “Unhappy” wrote:

I would NOT recommend Parkland View. Since my stay here there have been multiple instances where I was misled or misinformed. Scrutinize your lease. If you’re not careful, you’ll be signed into a 13 month lease even though it is presented as 12….

You can see the rest of the comment on the Parkland View Apartments in Breinigsville, PA Review – The Fun Continues post. But, back to the topic of my post…

A couple of weeks ago I was in the fitness center here at Parkland View when a couple of young women came into the room. It was late, sometime after 9pm, and they were not dressed for working out. They came up to me and one of them asked if I was having problems getting into my apartment because of the lock changes. I didn’t know what she was talking about and told her my locks hadn’t been changed and asked what building she was in. If I remember correctly, she told me that was in building F, to which I replied that I was not in that building and that maybe only her building has the locks changed. She then went on to tell me that someone in her building had been robbed and that they had gotten fliers about the locks getting changed and that she worked late and had no way of getting into her apartment now.

I have no idea if her story was true or not. In my opinion, I think there must be some truth to it as I got the following email yesterday:

The management of Parkland View is in the process of providing an enhanced security system for all our residents. Towards that end we will be replacing all the apartment door locks in the community.

The locks in Building R will be changed Tuesday September 21st , starting at 9am.

The locksmith will be accompanied by a representative of Parkland View management.

You can pick up your new keys at the Clubhouse until 6pm. If that is not convenient for you, please call Diane (484-860-3100) to make alternate arraignments.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation. If you should have any questions, please feel free to call.

Additionally, last night after 5pm the property manager guy was putting fliers on doors in my building that said the same thing. My girlfriend answered the door when he knocked and he went on to tell her how the locks were being changed but that it wouldn’t start until 9 a.m. With that in mind, we set the alarms for 8:45 a.m. to make sure we were awake before they were to arrive.

Imagine my surprise when there was a short knock on the door at 8:17 a.m. today followed by two strange men immediately entering the apartment. There was no wait for anyone to answer the door. And did I mention no one was awake because we were told it was starting at 9 a.m. Note how it was almost 45 minutes BEFORE 9 a.m. In my opinion, this is actually pretty unsafe for women.

When asked “I thought you weren’t starting until 9 a.m. ???” the locksmith guy apologized and said he was told that the apartment was empty. He offered to come back later and apologized several more times. The “representative of Parkland View management” that was accompanying him never said a word. He is really the person that should have been making apologies here.