When Yelp Does Bad Things

I live in a building that looks nice, but is in essence, a total piece of crap.

The name of the building is the Marquis at Hillcrest. The management company is Star Point Properties http://www.starpointproperties.com/ .

The problems that we have had since moving into the Marquis are limitless.

-When we first moved in, the radiant heating caused the pipes to bang like a hammer to metal from 11pm to 6 am every night, making sleep nearly impossible.

-The hot water goes off for an indeterminable period at least once per month

-we ve asked the management over and over to do certain things, like, call an exterminator for the rampant fleas that live in the hallway, fix the elevator (which always breaks), fix the windows in our apartment(which are new and should work). etc…

-The place is bonafied flea trap

-the management is nearly unreachable at most times

-the “fitness room”, which is actually a hot room in the basement with some crappy workout equipment (no ventilation or fans at all),was promised soon in January and was just installed in June.

The list continues, but you get the idea…STAY AWAY. No amount of being all up in hillcrest can make up for the craptastic, no parking, overpriced, ancient building, hellhole that this place is.

THAT said, I decided a few weeks ago to post a review on Yelp to keep people informed.

I posted my review and went on my way. I checked the review page a few days later to discover the review had been removed, so I left another.

That review has also disappeared.

I did some research and found a few bits of info to this effect :

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/news/yelp_and_the_business_of_extortion_2_0/Content?oid=927491

http://www.b12partners.net/wp/2009/03/08/yelp-is-fucked/

I found more as well, but instead of digging, Ill just pass the word along: dont trust the Yelp.

Also… stay away from Marquis at Hillcrest.