I brought a condo at the Highland Condos in December 2003. It was a beautiful place where the board members took the maintenance and upkeep of the property seriously . They also enforced all the rules to keep people inline. They cared , which made this a nice place to live.
Today , not so much . Only one family from when I moved in are still here . The rest have moved on or passed away. We have had the same board members now for the last 14 years that refuse to yield their positions and the place has suffered dearly for it.
When I talk to visitors and people that walk up and down the block they tell me they always though this place was run by the Troy Housing Authority .Not exactly a ringing endorsement for the people that do run this place. And as you can see it's not just the people that live here that have noticed how bad this place has become.
Let me take you for a quick tour to show everyone just some of the problems we now face .
Each building has 5 columns in front . The little girl next door liked to play out front so I used a rubber mallet to hammer in the siding so she wouldn't get hurt. Ask yourself , how many years does it take for the wooden frame and nails to rot out , disappear and the siding damaged like this? The little girl and her family moved away 3 years ago but the columns are still a mess.
These trees are over the west parking lot with the weeds and grass growing on , in and past them. Nine years ago it was so bad that the branches and leaves were sitting on top of the cars. I spent a week cutting down all the branches and removed 4 trees. 2 years ago I had made arrangement for a person to take them all down until a member of the board pissed him off .
When i moved in in 2003 there were 20 to 30 feet of beautiful lawn from the end of the wall to the trees. The children that lived here and their local friends use to play in this area to get from building to building. This is what it looks like today. from the bottom and top of the wall.
