Our first few days were great, and everything was as advertised until it wasn't. To be fair, the property was listed with the notice that some maintenance was happening, and when we arrived, workers were changing some siding. No big deal. Three days in, we got a notice that they wanted to change the windows and needed access to the condo. We were evacuated from Hurricane Ida, so we had no where to go. When we told the property manager, we were told to just go shopping! For what? At this point we didn't even know if we'd have a house to go home to. We left to have breakfast and came back to an open condo with everything covered in plastic. The next day, we were woken up around 7 on a Sunday morning by knocking on the door for us to leave. There were men on a lift above where my son was sleeping.
They had already begun to work. The windows were broken out and we felt displaced again. We ended up leaving and coming home to stay in a house with a generator, a boil water notice, and limited sewage. We felt displaced again. The property manager told us that we know it was under construction, so not their problem. We had to send pictures explaining how much our privacy was violated before they begrudgingly refunded part of our money. Overall, this made an already heartbreaking situation more stressful for us. We, as humans, need to take better care of each other.