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Complaint Review: Riverstone at Owings Mills Luxury Apartments - Owings Mills Maryland
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Riverstone at Owings Mills Luxury Apartments
4700 Riverstone Drive, Owings Mills, MD 21117 Owings Mills, 21117 Maryland, U.S.A.
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Riverstone at Owings Mills Luxury Apartments rip-off! Unfair treatment to blacks who live in this development. Owings Mills Maryland
Riverstone in Owings Mills, MD advertises that you will love living there and boast about the luxury living in their development but what they don't tell you is that if you are black and move here anything any of the white tenants say about you will be accepted as being totally true and you will be evicted at a moments notice without regard to you are your children.
The black people and their children will not be allowed to use the pool or club room without undergoing a battery of questions and showing ID that will be kept until you finish playing pool or whatever inside the clubhouse. However, if you are white, you and your children will be allowed free run of the property and use of facilities. If you are white, you and your children will never be questioned about anything.
They also will allow every tenant with a dog (and almost every tenant have one) to let their dog poop on the grass and leave it there so your young children will never be able to play in the grass and your school age children may mistakenly walk in the poop and ruin shoes.
They will never vacuum or clean your hallway or steps the entire time you live there. They will not clean up any icy steps or icy parking lot and if you are black and call the rental office for service they will act like they are writing a ticket to service you but never really do so you don't get needed service in your apartment unless you are white.
They discriminate between their black tenants and white tenants. They only let the blacks move there because they have to but they will make your life living there a nightmare in addition to the fact that the rent is high.
rent 3 & 4th floor $1470
rent 2nd floor $1690
rent 1st floor $1790
Linda
Owings Mills, Maryland
U.S.A.
The black people and their children will not be allowed to use the pool or club room without undergoing a battery of questions and showing ID that will be kept until you finish playing pool or whatever inside the clubhouse. However, if you are white, you and your children will be allowed free run of the property and use of facilities. If you are white, you and your children will never be questioned about anything.
They also will allow every tenant with a dog (and almost every tenant have one) to let their dog poop on the grass and leave it there so your young children will never be able to play in the grass and your school age children may mistakenly walk in the poop and ruin shoes.
They will never vacuum or clean your hallway or steps the entire time you live there. They will not clean up any icy steps or icy parking lot and if you are black and call the rental office for service they will act like they are writing a ticket to service you but never really do so you don't get needed service in your apartment unless you are white.
They discriminate between their black tenants and white tenants. They only let the blacks move there because they have to but they will make your life living there a nightmare in addition to the fact that the rent is high.
rent 3 & 4th floor $1470
rent 2nd floor $1690
rent 1st floor $1790
Linda
Owings Mills, Maryland
U.S.A.
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Kje,California,
U.S.A.
Same in So Cal!
#2Consumer Comment
Thu, June 18, 2009
Riverstone does the same here. I think it is a nationwide rule of theirs to treat blacks unfair. And to provide disgusting living considering it is a "luxury" property. I just posted my situation for San Regis Apartments which Riverstone manages.
Megan
Milwaukee,Wisconsin,
U.S.A.
Recourse for you.....
#3Consumer Suggestion
Thu, August 12, 2004
Hi Linda - I am so very sorry to hear that you are being treated so unfairly. I felt compelled to respond because I think that a resource may be available to help you. I do some volunteer undercover field work for a local Fair Housing Council. This is part of a network of 90+ such organizations in the country (these are independent, not gvmnt-controlled) that enforce the fair housing laws (working alongside HUD and te US Dept of Justice) and seek to end discrimination at this level. While I am not sure that the organization I will recommend will have the resources to help in your specific situation (many simply deal with initial refusal to rent to someone of a different race, etc) I am sure that they will have heard a similar story before, and will be able to at the very least refer you to someone who can help. I have taken the liberty of looking up the Maryland organization - don't be fooled by the name "Baltimore..." - the organization I work for spans many counties and networks all over my state as well. Please, call these folks and tell them your story. There are people out there who care and who work tirelessly to put a stop to bigotry and ignorance in the housing market. Baltimore Neighborhoods, Inc. 2217 St. Paul Street Baltimore, MD 21218 410-243-4468 FAX: 410-243-1342 E-mail: [email protected] Executive Director: Joseph Coffey Best of luck to you!
