Apartment Review for Creekside At St Matthews - Louisville, KY

I moved in here the fall after I graduated college with a friend of mine. It was meant to be my first apartment, living on my own prior to getting married and continuing on with graduate school. For most of the beginning months, everything was fine. Sure there was the occasional loud neighbor, but that happens everywhere. Then we started having problems around March of this year (my roommate had some things happen, needed to break the lease). Don't even bother breaking the lease because they will charge you an arm and a leg, they actually charge you more the longer you live here. Needless to say I found a way around that so we wouldn't have to break the lease. I would like to point out now that when we went in there to sign the "Intent to Vacate" form they told me they needed thirty (30) days notice. We re-wrote the lease removing my roommate's name. They never provided a copy to me even though they said they would (I brought that up recently and they shot it down telling me they aren't required to give me a copy). My lease is coming to an end August 31, 2009. I am going to law school in New York. I am leaving before the lease is up, but my husband is going to stay in order to properly close out the apartment. I have been extremely busy with planning my wedding and preparing for law school and in the back of my mind I kept telling myself "they need 30 days". So I pushed off going in to sign my "Intent to Vacate" because I had other more pressing things to do. I went in today to sign it, July 27th (more than 30 days before my lease is up) and they tell me that they needed sixty (60) days notice so now I'm responsible for paying for the month of September too. Seriously' We've had nothing but problems with them lately - our water gets shut off every other day. Most of the things stated in other reviews are true. They are very unhelpful and very slow to fix anything. Yet we have brought them 2 new renters as business. They don't seem to care I signed a 12 month lease that does not state that they need a 60 day notice. It says that in a round-about, legal jargon BS kind of way. Looking at my old lease (since they refused me a copy of the new one) it states: "Either party may elect not to renew this lease or any subsequent renewal lease addendum beyond its initial term or any renewal term by giving the other a written notice on or before the last day of the said calendar month preceding the second to last final calendar month of the lease or any lease renewal addendum". It does further state that if you do not sign the Intent to Vacate in the appropriate amount of time then you will be forced into a month-to-month lease. I'm sorry, but you couldn't just put that you need Sixty Days Notice' My lease is over August 31st, I am telling you on July 27th that we are leaving on August 31st, when the lease is up... so why exactly am I now expected to pay an extra month's worth of rent' I understand that it is a contract, trust me I work for a law firm and I am going to law school, I get it. But they seriously wouldn't help us out AT ALL. I understand the reason for the addendum stating that you will be put on a month-to-month lease, it has to be to protect them from people who just up and leave with no notice. But we're not doing that. We have given notice (in fact, I gave verbal notice back in April when they re-wrote my lease). I understand that we didn't give them a full 60 days, but they still haven't explained why they want 60 days. Ix Even when we asked just for the simple explanation as to why they need specifically 60 days she just gave us a bunch of bull about "well, how do we know if you are staying, renewing, moving out, etc if you don't tell us'" I guess you know that because my 12 month lease is up and, therefore, I have to move out. We asked why there was no way we could work anything out and she just threw the HUD Federal Fair Housing Act at us and when we asked to see literature regarding that she said she couldn't provide any but that we could get on the website. I know what the Federal Fair Housing Act is and it only barely has anything to do with our situation. We're giving you over 30 days notice that we're leaving, we're leaving on the day that the lease is up, what exactly is the problem' Basically, they just see it as an easy way to screw people out of their money because I can tell you right now that a number of my neighbors here would not be able to comprehend the lease without help (not for lack of intelligence, but for language barrier reasons). I understand they want an appropriate amount of time to find new renters, but they don't need that time to renovate the apartment because they don't allow anyone to see their actual apartment until the day they move in. I am technically allowed to stay here through September 27th because we are paying through that date, but we are NOT staying. We've told them we are leaving when the lease is over and they don't care. We still have to pay. Yeah, that's exactly what we needed. Newlyweds, moving to New York (extremely expensive) and me going to law school (which means debt) - yeah I really wanted to add another month's rent to my bil