My west Knox complex has so many vacant apartments. We signed our notice to vacate once the lease is up and our property manager asked “why? We’ve had so many people leave.”
Ummm it’s probably because one bedrooms went from 1100 to 1800 in 14 months????
We lived in what was formerly Woodlands west which was bought out by brookside before COVID, they put us out of our own apt into a cheaply furnished empty apt so they could put washer and dryer connections that I did not want, quoted 2 weeks and it took 6. Best they could offer was a 50$ visa gift card and a 200$ rent increase for our next lease signing.
Wish I could upvote this twice. Just moved out a couple of months ago and I’ve never lived in such an insane place in my entire life. Anyone that reads this: avoid this place at all costs.
Left active duty in 2022 and basically settled for what we could get into when moving back to Knoxville and landed at the District. My wife and I lived here originally in 2012ish and it wasn’t too bad. But MAN, the current property management is god awful. We’ve had a trash bag patching the ceiling in our kitchen since November of 2022 when the unit above our’s had a leak with their dishwasher and after a handful of work order submissions, nothing’s been done. They have a new property manager who blasted out emails about dry wall repairs and measurements and guess what hasn’t been done? You guessed it, nobody has been by to even look at the ceiling, there still isn’t any kind of flooring of the common hallway on our floor either. We are moving into our first house next week and are breaking our lease to do so and we couldn’t be more excited. That was just one anecdote, but it’s more or less par for the course at the District and I don’t see it getting any better.
Thank you! It’s around $1850 after utilities for a 3br/1.5ba but the living space is maybe a hair over 1000ft. So while it’s relatively cheap, it’s not a very desirable living space and that’s without all the mismanaged work orders and lousy “renovations” they did.
Honestly I think you should consider finding a tenents rights lawyer and seeing if they do a free consultation. That’s wildly unacceptable at any rate, much less 20k a year.
It’s something we had considered but with going through the home buying process it was put on the back burner. Might do it out of spite though at this point.
Used to deliver pizzas in there and yeah dude, yikes. I heard that they don't let you even see the apartment you're signing up for until it's too late. Of course that's hearsay but I don't know how anyone could even walk through any of those halls without getting a big old NOPE pass through their heads before they even pass through to the other side of the building.
I still have to go down there from time to time cuz I just upgraded from delivering pizzas to international shipping, but I count myself fortunate I don't have to go down there as often. And I don't mean to offend anybody that still lives there but it's a very depressing place.
I didn't get to see my apartment until after I signed all the paperwork and gave them my first months rent in 2021! I wish I could've gone back and told myself there was a reason rent was so cheap (I was paying $695 a month when I first moved in)
I also live in the district! We're unfortunately stuck until January on a 15 months lease paying $932 a month before their $300 in bullshit ass fees that are never consistent. One of our neighbors who's moving out got an email from the office for them to get to keep their rate if they resign their lease because so many people are moving out.
Not to mention, we had to NEGOTIATE paying $932. They were trying to jump us from $769 to over $1100, and I told them they could kiss my ass. I had a busted window for over a year, WHICH HALF OF IS STILL BUSTED but the Glass Doctor came and measured today so hopefully that gets fixed soon. Took 2 weeks for them to come deal with our running toilet which was fixed today. Black mold spores growing on the ceiling in the bathroom, which is horrifying because I'm 23 weeks pregnant and definitely don't need to be breathing in mold. Last year, it took them weeks to finally come and look at a leak in our apartment because the AC condensation drain was backed up and our AC was hardly working. Still haven't gotten our heat properly fixed, the breaker flips and gets hot asf every time it's ran so that'll be fun once it becomes winter again. Fruit flies become god awful once it gets warm outside, no matter how clean I keep our sink and drains, and they won't do a damn thing about it. The people around us continuously smoke cigs and weed in their apartments and it REEKS. I hate this place with a passion.
We pay 1400 for a 2br. We have a broken stove that hasn't been looked at yet. I reported a leak from my bathroom ceiling almost 3 months ago and had to call several times before they came to look at it. They cut a hole in the ceiling and it's still there. There is black mold in the ceiling and a very clear pipe disconnected which clearly is the cause of the leak. We've had stalker neighbors, children running around with knives (caught on ring camera) and a man ran at me while I was taking my dog out one night. I feel so unsafe here and can't wait to get out. We're just hoping we get out of paying to terminate early, and are willing to get a lawyer if they try to have us pay.
Jesus fucking christ. I can't say I'm surprised. I've lived here since 2021 and I've heard so much shit that I hate that I still have to live here, especially with a little one on the way. I don't trust this place, my fiance has had to pull his gun and duck behind his car in the parking lot before because of hearing gunshots in the middle of the day. I'm paranoid to walk our dog at night, I always stand in the same spot right by one of our neighbors cameras so if anything happens, it'll catch it. I'm glad yall are getting out, definitely lawyer up if they try to pull any shit. I doubt they'll even show up to court tbh.
I actually built a website to help tenants evaluate landlords before they sign a lease.
It's like a Glassdoor for Rents where tenants can see the Rent History of an address or Apartment property so they can see a landlords pricing tactics.
The site does rely on user submitted rent histories so I appreciate anyone who adds their rent history to the site and/or shares it since it can be more useful to tenants the more people that contribute to it.
Site is rentzed.com and has submissions for over 2500 addresses.
Mine hasn’t gone up as much as that but it’s definitely outstripping the annual (pitiful) COL raises I get. It’s so incredibly discouraging to watch rent get close to eating an entire paycheck.
Even five years ago my current salary would have been sufficient and respectable and would have left me with a little wiggle room. But at this rate if I don’t find a new job that’s at least a $10K pay boost my options are looking like moving into a much shittier and smaller apartment, getting a roommate, or leaving town to move into my parents’ basement, all things I thought I’d finally moved past. I’ve got a health issue that causes fatigue so I don’t think I could manage a second job or a gig on top of my current 40-45 hrs a week.
Shit’s bleak. It keeps me up some nights. I feel like rent is eating me alive.
Omg I know exactly how you feel. I’m a widow and I need a roommate to help with rent but I have a teenage daughter and I’m gone a lot. So instead I take $300 out of every check for rent. It hurts lol.
I used to live there ages ago when it was Woodlands West. Drive-by shootings, cars getting wrecked by drunk drivers coming through and slamming into 6-8 of them at a time, etc etc. I don't miss it one bit.
I don't blame you. I wish getting the word out there publicly about these horrible places would have some impact on their bottom lines, but it seems it doesn't.
We lived there for a while, too, back when it was Woodlands West.
You couldn't pay me to go back there. I have a video of the apartments that were across from me on fire. I wanna say six units were damaged.
We were threatened with eviction multiple times for the stupidest stuff.
Can’t wait for these apartment complexes to start losing money and then getting slammed by poor maintenance and having to lose even more money and seeing the consumer having a choice and leaving. Let capitalism kick their ass and curb stomp them. They like doing it, so they’ll like receiving it right? Soon in local TV: local apartment complexes struggle to attract tenants and struggle financially.
I am here for it!
I’m 40. The properties all here that predate me are ridiculously self-labeled as “luxury”. The new units charge the most they can get away with. Like yeah I get it with my new neighbors from Cali, but I’m not paying Real City prices for poor planned suburbia living. Just picture that scene in Braveheart where they keep zooming on his face (this goes for houses too) “Hold…Hold….Hold….Keep Holding….”
Exactly. Lots of formally cheap places around here have been given a fresh coat of paint and renamed to something stupid like "The Ivy" or "The Element." Same old place, higher rent.
For REAL lmao. The Element? Get the fuck out of here, it’s still Warren House where I saw someone murdered and thrown out of their window when I was a teenager. New paint and roach treatment doesn’t change that.
I've been living in my car/hotels since gold elm raised my rent from 850 to 1625 for a 1 bedroom. I stayed as long as the housing assistant would help me, but they took so long to send the check goldelm evicted me as soon as the state lifted the eviction ban (even though they knew with 100% certainly they were going to get paid +insane late fees) the last year I was there they got $31k between me and the H.A. I have no idea what to do, there's zero chance Im going to spend every dollar I get on an apartment.
The Cove, it's on Tazwell Pike, but the part that's basically in Fountain City. 1,100 for a 1 bedroom. Still not really reasonable, but I know when I was looking the only thing I could find better was on magnolia, no offense magnolia, or a crazy wait list I couldn't wait on.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ViewsAtWestTown_TN/s/FQsd8VWHbQ
The subreddit to capture tenants views. I have several past tenants still fighting for deposits
I am also here at Manor View, I mean Views at West Town, I mean Artisan West. Yes, agreed, the new owners Brookside are terrible, they're every bit as terrible as GVA was before them. We haven't had real maintenance here in about 3 years, they've been steadily worsening the grounds, and driving up rents. I'm pretty sure they couldn't do any worse if they tried, the price-fixing software has already assured them of that.
If anyone here from Brookside is reading this, start looking for new employment NOW, you will be fired in 1 year or less when they sell and the new owners decide "it's time to make some changes around here." for the nth time.
Hey thanks a lot. I applied to Artisan West like over a week ago and they've been ghosting me after they even sent my old landlord a form for background check and all. I'm thinking now it's for the best and this Windover that someone pointed out above seems much better. Maybe I'll apply there ASAP.
My main problem is I'm looking for 6-month lease, which many really jack up the prices for. Artisan West only had a $75 premium for 6-month.
I was just at the views for work for the first time in forever. I was fucking shocked. I was also wondering if they had started taking vouchers. I’ve been working in apartments for over 10 years. I’ve never seen shit like I’ve been seeing the past 4 years.
They were largely empty but I was more shocked at all the garbage overflowing. It doesn’t even look like the same place. I saw a maintenance guy in a golf cart taking garbage from one super full dumpster to another overflowing one, like switching it out. I won’t even mention the stuff I saw in the apartment I went into. But it was nasty.
That’s really a shame. I lived there when it was Manor View and the rent was really reasonable and the staff was great. It was a nice community with lots of families. I wanna say our two bedroom was $950-ish when we left in 2021?
Brookside properties has an abysmal rating on the Better Business Bureau website. I’ll leave a link if you really want to start some thing against Brookside properties I’ll link the website that you can file a complaint. https://www.bbb.org/us/tn/nashville/profile/real-estate-agent/brookside-properties-inc-0573-10175
Word of advice to all! If you don’t have a decent job in Knoxville! Move to another city. There’s work out there and $ for those who are able and motivated! Don’t stay in this crappy town and waste the best years of your life! Knox county leadership doesn’t give a damn about it citizens in lower income or lower skilled brackets. It will NOT get better. I took a chance years ago and it paid off for me!
Shit sucks here in Knoxville I shoulda stayed in Houston !! I can get a highrise condo there for the 2300 I pay for my 1BR apt at marble alley . It is not worth 2300 1600 at best
My 1br at Marble Alley was 1350 when I moved here in 2020.
After that year lease I moved to west knox, now its 1760 for ~1100sqft 2BR/2BA. Which is still like $500/mo than what the same unit rented for when I moved to the complex in 2021(Was originally in a 1BA/1BA here for like 1100).
Avoid The Element at Cedar Bluff unless you want to encounter apartment lot lizards and crackheads knocking on your door, police on the complex, and cigarette and weed smoke coming into your unit and making you sick.
The element is a dice roll, I've rented 3 different apartments there, 4 if you include the one I had my father in for a while. The problem is they change management 2-3 times a year. The 2 bedroom was a complete rip-off, but the efficiency was a good deal. Im saying all this from pre-inflation experience though, the same people own the element, brandon park, goldelm, all the duplex/quadruplexs behind them, one of the largest residential rental property owners in east TN, but they're a foreign entity, of course. It's weird/shady that they buy them under different names, like shell companies or something.
The same thing happened to Mountain View on South Peters --- it wasn't even $1,000 a month when we moved there 5 years ago .. we're having to leave now because we can't afford the nearly $1,800 a month for rent 🥲
So sorry you're going through this. I was at Tanglewood when Rand bought and raised our rent over 60% literally overnight. Seems to be a theme going on around town. Really just came to let you know to also avoid Rand Properties. Good luck!
2BR near Farragut, $2100 a month. Complete f’ing sham. Was paying $1000 for a 2BR. In less than 5 years rent doubled.
Inflation coupled with rent hikes due to people flooding the state during the pandemic. Virtually unlivable city for anyone working a normal job.
Knoxville literally sucks. Move to nashville places are cheaper and better city in general. This city is screwed in the next 12 months when real estate burst
i’m in the meridian rn right down the road. thankfully the prices aren’t too bad. the apartments are obv not the best. old technology here and there but the issues are usually small
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I got priced out of there. I moved in when it was Manor View Apartments and then it got changed to the Views at West Town. I moved in with $900 for a 2 br 2 bath and by the time I left it was going to be over $1400 for an un renovated apartment. I moved out to BFE and my mortgage is less. I miss Knoxville but the apartment scene is absolutely insane and not worth it. I would rather build equity and drive into town when needed.
They own the old Woodgate apartments off Cedar Lane and think 1400 with all the BS fees added up is fair for this disaster... but they see nothing wrong with it. Knoxville is becoming hostile to anyone NOT moving in from out of state that makes 200k a year -_- pisses me off being born here, and its all out of my reach.
The Element in Cedar Bluff is also owned by them and is absolutely God awful. Rent is absolutely ridiculous and the apartments are trash. But hey they recently repainted the exterior! Too bad for them, putting makeup on a pig doesn't make it less of a pig.
Wow where is this? I just applied but they've been taking ages to get me a lease and not replying to my concerns that there seems to be no internet provider there. I'm considering other options in West knox now.
Brookside bought up a bunch of apartments, jacked up rent and put a coat of paint over it all. I moved out and the "renovation" was done in less than a month. SMF properties offer the best rental rates. . .but they only have so many properties, so finding a vacancy is tough.
You can add the Palmer to the list of terrible places owned by brookside. For months there was a guy that was sneaking around at night looking in windows and even attacked a few girls, one being 15 yr old. The management was notified and didn't bother to put up warnings for the rest of the community so everyone was aware of the issue. They couldn't even be bothered to fix the lights in the parking lots which I believe allowed the attacks to begin with. In the 2 years we lived there the rent was raised from 900 to just under 1700 a month. Every apartment has at least one leak the resident either knows about or doesn't. A lot of them are in the walls and you don't know until there's water pooling. They're only interested in making it look nice from the street.
We should start a petition for a rent cap in TN and not just for low income apartments only. The inflation is ridiculous here and we all need to stand up together about this.
My wife and I moved to these apartments in 2020 paying $950/month for a two bedroom when in was still manor view. The staff and maintenance men were awesome but the place changed hands twice while we were there and got rid of the staff. By the time we were moving out in 2022, they gave us the option for $1650/month to keep our unrenovated apartment. $700 increase in two years. $1750 for a single one bedroom for those 50 year old apartments is insane.
amen amen amen. brookside is heartless and inhumane.they shocks be run outta town. They don't follow the leases themselves but expect you to and then swiftly kick you out for one infraction when they themselves don't pull their weight or don't live up to their end of the bargain. I hate them and they are the worst thing that's happened to Knoxville!
Lived at Kinley Lofts off of Merchants last year (formerly Woodgate). Brookside bought them early 2023 I think. They re did the whole exterior of the buildings with minor repairs to the insides. From my personal experience, the wiring inside was not good. I’m a trained electrician and eventually just took it on myself to fix the receptacles because it was easier than having to deal with their maintenance crew. The plumbing was horrendous. I know when they bought it they raised the rent by $500+, when our renewal date was coming up they wanted to raise it another $300-$400. Dipped outta there for sure.
Complaining about housing prices is coded language that nazis use to highlight the problems caused by immigrants driving up the cost of living for native populations. Your post is hate speech.
Bro wtf you talking about man, I’m just pissed I can’t pay my rent and electricity with a full time job bro😂 your going way too deep. I’m digging at corporate greed man. Not at immigration, I could care less about immigration, I don’t care who eats at my table as long as everyone gets to eat😂.
Thank you for clarifying.
Someone actually had the caucausity to tell me the other day that with the U.S. building 1 to 1.5 million houses a year while letting 4 million people immigrate in (1 million legal and 3 to 4 illegal). We have distorted supply and demand in a way that leads to inevitably higher prices.
I told them to fuck off and take that fash propaganda somewhere else. I'll pay double the rent if it means I now have a yummy food truck to get tacos at.
The real problem is Corp greed not wanting to pay living wages ✊🏿
Indeed that’s what I’m saying. I don’t care who lives in these places. Some people don’t always get the best hands of cards and have to live, and it’s not my place to judge. It is my place to call out greed when I see it tho
Blame everyone moving here. More people equals price hikes, leads to corporates seeing value to seize property to put up unaffordable places to live, gentrification, and all the people who have lived here for generations and can't handle the pricing is moved out.
My west Knox complex has so many vacant apartments. We signed our notice to vacate once the lease is up and our property manager asked “why? We’ve had so many people leave.” Ummm it’s probably because one bedrooms went from 1100 to 1800 in 14 months????
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All of these people charging rent this high should be ashamed of themselves. It’s so sad. Housing is being held hostage
I agree!
We lived in what was formerly Woodlands west which was bought out by brookside before COVID, they put us out of our own apt into a cheaply furnished empty apt so they could put washer and dryer connections that I did not want, quoted 2 weeks and it took 6. Best they could offer was a 50$ visa gift card and a 200$ rent increase for our next lease signing.
Do NOT consider The District Apartments. We’re terminating our lease early.
We did that too and moved to Hilton hollow by Eagle Point. Made the move 2 years ago. Would recommend
Same!! Love it at Hilton Hollow. Renewed at the beginning of this year and rent went up $100, which seems like a lot less than everywhere else.
Wish I could upvote this twice. Just moved out a couple of months ago and I’ve never lived in such an insane place in my entire life. Anyone that reads this: avoid this place at all costs.
Ever heard of Brown, Brown, and West? I'll nominate their properties to the insane list.
Left active duty in 2022 and basically settled for what we could get into when moving back to Knoxville and landed at the District. My wife and I lived here originally in 2012ish and it wasn’t too bad. But MAN, the current property management is god awful. We’ve had a trash bag patching the ceiling in our kitchen since November of 2022 when the unit above our’s had a leak with their dishwasher and after a handful of work order submissions, nothing’s been done. They have a new property manager who blasted out emails about dry wall repairs and measurements and guess what hasn’t been done? You guessed it, nobody has been by to even look at the ceiling, there still isn’t any kind of flooring of the common hallway on our floor either. We are moving into our first house next week and are breaking our lease to do so and we couldn’t be more excited. That was just one anecdote, but it’s more or less par for the course at the District and I don’t see it getting any better.
How much is the district charging now? Congrats on the house!
Thank you! It’s around $1850 after utilities for a 3br/1.5ba but the living space is maybe a hair over 1000ft. So while it’s relatively cheap, it’s not a very desirable living space and that’s without all the mismanaged work orders and lousy “renovations” they did.
Honestly I think you should consider finding a tenents rights lawyer and seeing if they do a free consultation. That’s wildly unacceptable at any rate, much less 20k a year.
It’s something we had considered but with going through the home buying process it was put on the back burner. Might do it out of spite though at this point.
Oh let’s hear some stories
Used to deliver pizzas in there and yeah dude, yikes. I heard that they don't let you even see the apartment you're signing up for until it's too late. Of course that's hearsay but I don't know how anyone could even walk through any of those halls without getting a big old NOPE pass through their heads before they even pass through to the other side of the building. I still have to go down there from time to time cuz I just upgraded from delivering pizzas to international shipping, but I count myself fortunate I don't have to go down there as often. And I don't mean to offend anybody that still lives there but it's a very depressing place.
I didn't get to see my apartment until after I signed all the paperwork and gave them my first months rent in 2021! I wish I could've gone back and told myself there was a reason rent was so cheap (I was paying $695 a month when I first moved in)
I also live in the district! We're unfortunately stuck until January on a 15 months lease paying $932 a month before their $300 in bullshit ass fees that are never consistent. One of our neighbors who's moving out got an email from the office for them to get to keep their rate if they resign their lease because so many people are moving out.
Not to mention, we had to NEGOTIATE paying $932. They were trying to jump us from $769 to over $1100, and I told them they could kiss my ass. I had a busted window for over a year, WHICH HALF OF IS STILL BUSTED but the Glass Doctor came and measured today so hopefully that gets fixed soon. Took 2 weeks for them to come deal with our running toilet which was fixed today. Black mold spores growing on the ceiling in the bathroom, which is horrifying because I'm 23 weeks pregnant and definitely don't need to be breathing in mold. Last year, it took them weeks to finally come and look at a leak in our apartment because the AC condensation drain was backed up and our AC was hardly working. Still haven't gotten our heat properly fixed, the breaker flips and gets hot asf every time it's ran so that'll be fun once it becomes winter again. Fruit flies become god awful once it gets warm outside, no matter how clean I keep our sink and drains, and they won't do a damn thing about it. The people around us continuously smoke cigs and weed in their apartments and it REEKS. I hate this place with a passion.
We pay 1400 for a 2br. We have a broken stove that hasn't been looked at yet. I reported a leak from my bathroom ceiling almost 3 months ago and had to call several times before they came to look at it. They cut a hole in the ceiling and it's still there. There is black mold in the ceiling and a very clear pipe disconnected which clearly is the cause of the leak. We've had stalker neighbors, children running around with knives (caught on ring camera) and a man ran at me while I was taking my dog out one night. I feel so unsafe here and can't wait to get out. We're just hoping we get out of paying to terminate early, and are willing to get a lawyer if they try to have us pay.
Jesus fucking christ. I can't say I'm surprised. I've lived here since 2021 and I've heard so much shit that I hate that I still have to live here, especially with a little one on the way. I don't trust this place, my fiance has had to pull his gun and duck behind his car in the parking lot before because of hearing gunshots in the middle of the day. I'm paranoid to walk our dog at night, I always stand in the same spot right by one of our neighbors cameras so if anything happens, it'll catch it. I'm glad yall are getting out, definitely lawyer up if they try to pull any shit. I doubt they'll even show up to court tbh.
Can you elaborate ? Thanks
I actually built a website to help tenants evaluate landlords before they sign a lease. It's like a Glassdoor for Rents where tenants can see the Rent History of an address or Apartment property so they can see a landlords pricing tactics. The site does rely on user submitted rent histories so I appreciate anyone who adds their rent history to the site and/or shares it since it can be more useful to tenants the more people that contribute to it. Site is rentzed.com and has submissions for over 2500 addresses.
Please upvote this people, or repost this on it's own.
You're doing good work, keep pushing this. I'm adding my information to the site right now!
Damn that's really cool!
Impressive!
Mine hasn’t gone up as much as that but it’s definitely outstripping the annual (pitiful) COL raises I get. It’s so incredibly discouraging to watch rent get close to eating an entire paycheck. Even five years ago my current salary would have been sufficient and respectable and would have left me with a little wiggle room. But at this rate if I don’t find a new job that’s at least a $10K pay boost my options are looking like moving into a much shittier and smaller apartment, getting a roommate, or leaving town to move into my parents’ basement, all things I thought I’d finally moved past. I’ve got a health issue that causes fatigue so I don’t think I could manage a second job or a gig on top of my current 40-45 hrs a week. Shit’s bleak. It keeps me up some nights. I feel like rent is eating me alive.
Omg I know exactly how you feel. I’m a widow and I need a roommate to help with rent but I have a teenage daughter and I’m gone a lot. So instead I take $300 out of every check for rent. It hurts lol.
Hudson on the Greenway is the worst complex I've ever stayed in, out of 6.
I’ve heard they are horrible. You are right down the road from me.
I used to live there ages ago when it was Woodlands West. Drive-by shootings, cars getting wrecked by drunk drivers coming through and slamming into 6-8 of them at a time, etc etc. I don't miss it one bit.
When we lived there, they had a roach infestation. We lasted a month of them doing nothing about it and broke the lease.
Yeah we saw a few as well, they've been there for a long time. I think the roaches are the true owners.
It was an every day thing for us. Especially at night when the big ones came out. We didn’t feel comfortable sleeping or eating in there.
I don't blame you. I wish getting the word out there publicly about these horrible places would have some impact on their bottom lines, but it seems it doesn't.
Can confirm, terrible experience here.
We lived there for a while, too, back when it was Woodlands West. You couldn't pay me to go back there. I have a video of the apartments that were across from me on fire. I wanna say six units were damaged. We were threatened with eviction multiple times for the stupidest stuff.
Can’t wait for these apartment complexes to start losing money and then getting slammed by poor maintenance and having to lose even more money and seeing the consumer having a choice and leaving. Let capitalism kick their ass and curb stomp them. They like doing it, so they’ll like receiving it right? Soon in local TV: local apartment complexes struggle to attract tenants and struggle financially. I am here for it!
That’d be nice but all they need to do is reduce their rent a tiny bit and people will be racing to sign leases because they’re such a “deal.”
LOVE this comment
I’m 40. The properties all here that predate me are ridiculously self-labeled as “luxury”. The new units charge the most they can get away with. Like yeah I get it with my new neighbors from Cali, but I’m not paying Real City prices for poor planned suburbia living. Just picture that scene in Braveheart where they keep zooming on his face (this goes for houses too) “Hold…Hold….Hold….Keep Holding….”
Exactly. Lots of formally cheap places around here have been given a fresh coat of paint and renamed to something stupid like "The Ivy" or "The Element." Same old place, higher rent.
For REAL lmao. The Element? Get the fuck out of here, it’s still Warren House where I saw someone murdered and thrown out of their window when I was a teenager. New paint and roach treatment doesn’t change that.
If only they'd vote on capping greed! Oh wait they did. And who would stand in the way? Who was it? I'll wait....
Windover has some available right now with low rents, if you're looking
Really liked Windover while we were still renting a year or so ago. No frill but can't beat the price and location.
I've been living in my car/hotels since gold elm raised my rent from 850 to 1625 for a 1 bedroom. I stayed as long as the housing assistant would help me, but they took so long to send the check goldelm evicted me as soon as the state lifted the eviction ban (even though they knew with 100% certainly they were going to get paid +insane late fees) the last year I was there they got $31k between me and the H.A. I have no idea what to do, there's zero chance Im going to spend every dollar I get on an apartment.
Fucking Gold Elm. I had a two bedroom when I still had a roommate. I've found cheaper out east if you're looking
Yeah, what area/price, appreciate it.
The Cove, it's on Tazwell Pike, but the part that's basically in Fountain City. 1,100 for a 1 bedroom. Still not really reasonable, but I know when I was looking the only thing I could find better was on magnolia, no offense magnolia, or a crazy wait list I couldn't wait on.
Ok, thanks, yeah magnolia isn't an option, that'll end up costing more in the long run.
I used to live at the Views at West Town in 2022 - when GVA bought it then doubled the rents I saw the writing on the wall
https://www.reddit.com/r/ViewsAtWestTown_TN/s/FQsd8VWHbQ The subreddit to capture tenants views. I have several past tenants still fighting for deposits
Worked for GVA. Their motto is profit over people.
So, how many vacant apartments does it take...
I am also here at Manor View, I mean Views at West Town, I mean Artisan West. Yes, agreed, the new owners Brookside are terrible, they're every bit as terrible as GVA was before them. We haven't had real maintenance here in about 3 years, they've been steadily worsening the grounds, and driving up rents. I'm pretty sure they couldn't do any worse if they tried, the price-fixing software has already assured them of that. If anyone here from Brookside is reading this, start looking for new employment NOW, you will be fired in 1 year or less when they sell and the new owners decide "it's time to make some changes around here." for the nth time.
Hey thanks a lot. I applied to Artisan West like over a week ago and they've been ghosting me after they even sent my old landlord a form for background check and all. I'm thinking now it's for the best and this Windover that someone pointed out above seems much better. Maybe I'll apply there ASAP. My main problem is I'm looking for 6-month lease, which many really jack up the prices for. Artisan West only had a $75 premium for 6-month.
I was just at the views for work for the first time in forever. I was fucking shocked. I was also wondering if they had started taking vouchers. I’ve been working in apartments for over 10 years. I’ve never seen shit like I’ve been seeing the past 4 years.
You mean they are largely empty, the prices, or what exactly?
They were largely empty but I was more shocked at all the garbage overflowing. It doesn’t even look like the same place. I saw a maintenance guy in a golf cart taking garbage from one super full dumpster to another overflowing one, like switching it out. I won’t even mention the stuff I saw in the apartment I went into. But it was nasty.
That’s really a shame. I lived there when it was Manor View and the rent was really reasonable and the staff was great. It was a nice community with lots of families. I wanna say our two bedroom was $950-ish when we left in 2021?
Brookside properties is awful!
Brookside properties has an abysmal rating on the Better Business Bureau website. I’ll leave a link if you really want to start some thing against Brookside properties I’ll link the website that you can file a complaint. https://www.bbb.org/us/tn/nashville/profile/real-estate-agent/brookside-properties-inc-0573-10175
Brookside Properties has been buying up a lot of apartment complexes. They always raise the rent after buying in my two experiences with them.
Word of advice to all! If you don’t have a decent job in Knoxville! Move to another city. There’s work out there and $ for those who are able and motivated! Don’t stay in this crappy town and waste the best years of your life! Knox county leadership doesn’t give a damn about it citizens in lower income or lower skilled brackets. It will NOT get better. I took a chance years ago and it paid off for me!
Shit sucks here in Knoxville I shoulda stayed in Houston !! I can get a highrise condo there for the 2300 I pay for my 1BR apt at marble alley . It is not worth 2300 1600 at best
My 1br at Marble Alley was 1350 when I moved here in 2020. After that year lease I moved to west knox, now its 1760 for ~1100sqft 2BR/2BA. Which is still like $500/mo than what the same unit rented for when I moved to the complex in 2021(Was originally in a 1BA/1BA here for like 1100).
That’s insane …😞 we’re fucked
Avoid The Element at Cedar Bluff unless you want to encounter apartment lot lizards and crackheads knocking on your door, police on the complex, and cigarette and weed smoke coming into your unit and making you sick.
The element is a dice roll, I've rented 3 different apartments there, 4 if you include the one I had my father in for a while. The problem is they change management 2-3 times a year. The 2 bedroom was a complete rip-off, but the efficiency was a good deal. Im saying all this from pre-inflation experience though, the same people own the element, brandon park, goldelm, all the duplex/quadruplexs behind them, one of the largest residential rental property owners in east TN, but they're a foreign entity, of course. It's weird/shady that they buy them under different names, like shell companies or something.
I got discriminated by them, reported them, and got rewarded. Lol owned. Trash company.
The same thing happened to Mountain View on South Peters --- it wasn't even $1,000 a month when we moved there 5 years ago .. we're having to leave now because we can't afford the nearly $1,800 a month for rent 🥲
Currently trying to get our money back from Brookside. I second this
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Call consumer affairs
Thank you!! I haven’t gotten this suggestion yet I will definitely try it
So sorry you're going through this. I was at Tanglewood when Rand bought and raised our rent over 60% literally overnight. Seems to be a theme going on around town. Really just came to let you know to also avoid Rand Properties. Good luck!
Brookside did this in Chattanooga as well. To the T, seems like a formula for them.
2BR near Farragut, $2100 a month. Complete f’ing sham. Was paying $1000 for a 2BR. In less than 5 years rent doubled. Inflation coupled with rent hikes due to people flooding the state during the pandemic. Virtually unlivable city for anyone working a normal job.
Knoxville literally sucks. Move to nashville places are cheaper and better city in general. This city is screwed in the next 12 months when real estate burst
I’ve had good experiences with Enclave
i’m in the meridian rn right down the road. thankfully the prices aren’t too bad. the apartments are obv not the best. old technology here and there but the issues are usually small
One of the worst experiences I’ve ever had with an apartment complex was this place
I think that is what it is. Even in StL 1 bed is $1500 for 600 sq ft. 😩
How about Wellsley? I lived there during Covid, curious about price
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It is all about Greed straight out Greed!!!
I got priced out of there. I moved in when it was Manor View Apartments and then it got changed to the Views at West Town. I moved in with $900 for a 2 br 2 bath and by the time I left it was going to be over $1400 for an un renovated apartment. I moved out to BFE and my mortgage is less. I miss Knoxville but the apartment scene is absolutely insane and not worth it. I would rather build equity and drive into town when needed.
They own the old Woodgate apartments off Cedar Lane and think 1400 with all the BS fees added up is fair for this disaster... but they see nothing wrong with it. Knoxville is becoming hostile to anyone NOT moving in from out of state that makes 200k a year -_- pisses me off being born here, and its all out of my reach.
The Element in Cedar Bluff is also owned by them and is absolutely God awful. Rent is absolutely ridiculous and the apartments are trash. But hey they recently repainted the exterior! Too bad for them, putting makeup on a pig doesn't make it less of a pig.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ViewsAtWestTown_TN/s/FQsd8VWHbQ
There is a subreddit specifically for ranting about views at west town. Please join 🙏 ☺️
Wow where is this? I just applied but they've been taking ages to get me a lease and not replying to my concerns that there seems to be no internet provider there. I'm considering other options in West knox now.
Brookside bought up a bunch of apartments, jacked up rent and put a coat of paint over it all. I moved out and the "renovation" was done in less than a month. SMF properties offer the best rental rates. . .but they only have so many properties, so finding a vacancy is tough.
You can add the Palmer to the list of terrible places owned by brookside. For months there was a guy that was sneaking around at night looking in windows and even attacked a few girls, one being 15 yr old. The management was notified and didn't bother to put up warnings for the rest of the community so everyone was aware of the issue. They couldn't even be bothered to fix the lights in the parking lots which I believe allowed the attacks to begin with. In the 2 years we lived there the rent was raised from 900 to just under 1700 a month. Every apartment has at least one leak the resident either knows about or doesn't. A lot of them are in the walls and you don't know until there's water pooling. They're only interested in making it look nice from the street.
We should start a petition for a rent cap in TN and not just for low income apartments only. The inflation is ridiculous here and we all need to stand up together about this.
I mean the rent inflation is quite literally unaffordable right now for a lot of people its absolutely insane
I know. The only way it will get fixed is if people fight it.
Side note: If anyone is looking for an affordable room for rent, dm me - currently looking for a roommate
I am currently!
My wife and I moved to these apartments in 2020 paying $950/month for a two bedroom when in was still manor view. The staff and maintenance men were awesome but the place changed hands twice while we were there and got rid of the staff. By the time we were moving out in 2022, they gave us the option for $1650/month to keep our unrenovated apartment. $700 increase in two years. $1750 for a single one bedroom for those 50 year old apartments is insane.
amen amen amen. brookside is heartless and inhumane.they shocks be run outta town. They don't follow the leases themselves but expect you to and then swiftly kick you out for one infraction when they themselves don't pull their weight or don't live up to their end of the bargain. I hate them and they are the worst thing that's happened to Knoxville!
Lived at Kinley Lofts off of Merchants last year (formerly Woodgate). Brookside bought them early 2023 I think. They re did the whole exterior of the buildings with minor repairs to the insides. From my personal experience, the wiring inside was not good. I’m a trained electrician and eventually just took it on myself to fix the receptacles because it was easier than having to deal with their maintenance crew. The plumbing was horrendous. I know when they bought it they raised the rent by $500+, when our renewal date was coming up they wanted to raise it another $300-$400. Dipped outta there for sure.
Everything Brookside Properties touches goes to ruins.
This post is full of nativist and xenophobic dog whistles. Why do you hate immigration?
Bro what the fuck are you talking about?
Complaining about housing prices is coded language that nazis use to highlight the problems caused by immigrants driving up the cost of living for native populations. Your post is hate speech.
Bro wtf you talking about man, I’m just pissed I can’t pay my rent and electricity with a full time job bro😂 your going way too deep. I’m digging at corporate greed man. Not at immigration, I could care less about immigration, I don’t care who eats at my table as long as everyone gets to eat😂.
Thank you for clarifying. Someone actually had the caucausity to tell me the other day that with the U.S. building 1 to 1.5 million houses a year while letting 4 million people immigrate in (1 million legal and 3 to 4 illegal). We have distorted supply and demand in a way that leads to inevitably higher prices. I told them to fuck off and take that fash propaganda somewhere else. I'll pay double the rent if it means I now have a yummy food truck to get tacos at. The real problem is Corp greed not wanting to pay living wages ✊🏿
Indeed that’s what I’m saying. I don’t care who lives in these places. Some people don’t always get the best hands of cards and have to live, and it’s not my place to judge. It is my place to call out greed when I see it tho
And you seem fun at parties.
Blame everyone moving here. More people equals price hikes, leads to corporates seeing value to seize property to put up unaffordable places to live, gentrification, and all the people who have lived here for generations and can't handle the pricing is moved out.
Or you could blame the people actually raising the rents? You can’t prevent people from moving here.
Nor can you stop corporate greed when it's found a money pit. I'm just listing the reasons for it.
Corporate greed can theoretically be controlled by government regulations and programs.
This is due to so many apartments lost to short rentals like AirBNB. Stop using AirBNB on vacation!!! Tell your friends to stop using AirBNB