Mariner’s Point Turns Into a Nightmare for Two Sick & Disabled People:
Brief Synopsis: We moved to California for healthcare and thankfully we found a doctor right away who is saving our lives. We moved to the beach in California after struggling to survive in rural Maine with PTSD and chronic illnesses for twenty years with no healthcare. Things went great the first year we lived at our first apartment a half a mile from the beach. And then two abusive, narcissistic women from Delaware moved in below us exactly a year to the date that we moved in. It started off bad and only got worse. We were too sick to advocate for ourselves and take on any additional stress while these women were abusing us for entertainment. But in the end, things were getting so bad, we were forced to address it.
This post includes video evidence, two formal complaints to the landlord and Animal Control, and a letter to Adult Protective Services. Five months after moving, we are finally well enough to pull the information together and share it with you in an effort to educate you about the behavior and how to effectively extract yourself from a dangerous situation. We believe we were targeted because the downstairs neighbors wanted our apartment with a view of the ocean. And in the end, because we broke the lease and moved out early, new tenants moved in before their lease was up… and they didn’t get the apartment.
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Our Google Review of Mariner’s Point Apartments:
We moved to Mariner’s Point site unseen from our own home in another state. We were immediately disappointed with the kitchen and bathroom. The apartment pictures on-line make the place look way nicer than it actually is. The pictures showed stainless steel appliances but they were all the most low budget white appliances you could ever imagine. It took the stove oven a long time to heat up. They spray paint the kitchen, bathroom counters and the bath tub. It’s so low budget and makes you feel like it’s always dirty. We went from granite counters and nothing but the best of appliances to this.
The heater is neglected & doesn’t look like it had been used in years & we bought one so we wouldn’t have to use the one in the apartment. It looked dirty and scary, like it would catch on fire.
The set up of the apartments is awful if you are living near someone you cannot stand and in our case was evil. Because they lived downstairs and our stairs landed in front of their place, they had access to abusing us on the daily just because they felt like it. It was a source of cheap entertainment for these two miserable souls.
The maintenance folks and the front office were all very kind people and we liked them, however, we did not want maintenance in our home because like someone else noted, they never got the job done right the first time. And you had to call them again and again to get things addressed correctly. The front office folks did a great job helping us get into the place and we very much appreciate it but if you have problems with your neighbor or their barking dogs, they won’t help you.
You are on your own.
No one seems to really care about what’s going on in the apartment complex and it shows.
Why would they? It’s not their money or buildings?
At first we loved living next to the estuary and the ocean until we discovered that both were heavily polluted with sewage, smelled, and made us sick. The fix to this is years in the making if they ever fully address it. It’s hard to control what Tijuana does in the U.S.
The pool looked glamorous in the pictures; it’s in fact too cold to get into. The hot tub didn’t work half the time we were there and for quite some time, we were looking at plywood because someone broke the glass fence enclosure for the pool. The backsides of the buildings were neglected, they didn’t keep up with landscaping well and the small spots folks used for their dogs to go potty were overcrowded bacteria ridden disasters.
The porches they call decks suck because there is absolutely zero privacy. We spent no time out there as a result. The parking situation was awful. We got one spot per apartment and the entire parking area was tight and congested. We had to sell our truck and get a new car to help relieve anxiety. They are also doing maintenance on the outside of the buildings. Good for them. It definitely looks better but there is less parking as a result because the construction folks are using the extra parking spaces.
Our first year at Mariner’s Point was pretty cool and we were willing to overlook a lot so we could be close to the ocean and then two very mean women moved in downstairs and made our lives a living nightmare because they were upset that they didn’t get our apartment with the view of the ocean. The abuse negatively impacted our health and thankfully Mariner’s Point staff let us break the lease to escape the abuse and move closer to our doctor. We do appreciate that, however, we should not have been the ones who were forced to move. They were breaking the law and the terms of the lease; and we suffered the consequences with no one to help us get things under control.
We lost respect for folks because of this.
If the ocean wasn’t contaminated & we didn’t have to drive such a long distance to get to our rare disorder doctor, we would have been very upset that we were forced to move while sick because Mariner’s Point wouldn’t do their job & hold bad actors accountable for abusing two sick & disabled people.
They did not provide a safe & peaceful environment despite what they will tell you.
Also, the laundry room was unacceptable.
Contaminated Coast:
Jennifer and Lee 