Courtland Place At Rainier Court

If there were the option of putting a ¼ star, I would. This is supposed to be a senior living apartment complex, but they are allowing family members under 55 (small children, unemployed drug using children, etc) to live there under the auspices of «visiting». They also do not secure the building properly, and the elderly people that sit in the lobby are expected to act as security guards and determine whether people should be allowed to enter if their key isn’t working, etc. Today, the front door waS not working, and residents were not able to get out unless someone was entering from the outside and unlocked the door. I personally called maintenance 5 times and told them if there was a fire or another emergency, the residents would not be able to get out. No one ever came, and we were there for 8.5 hours — 5 of which the door was not functioning. Residents chose to prop the door open — a huge security breech, especially in that neighborhood. But be trapped inside, or take a chance that some drug addicted homeless person wander in.
While I was in the lobby trying to help some elderly residents leave (we figured out how to encourage the door to open), a gentleman told me that we could go through the garage and if we didn’t have a key to get back in, there was a trick to employ the security eye to open the garage door from the outside, thereby helping us to gain entrance. I won’t divulge it, as it also puts the residents in danger, but suffice it to say, this gentleman didn’t know us, and just because we looked «safe», we could have used that information for some unscrupulous act if we were a different type of element.
These are typical things that happen — «art» is stolen off the walls, things are stolen from the media room, overall disregard for the lovely (supposed-​to-​be) elderly residents. The SHAG communities are supposed to be champions of the elderly — perhaps because the majority of these residents are non-​white (and that’s coming from a Caucasian), their safety and the rules are disregarded by the SHAG corporation. If you care about their safety and well being, i would help your elderly parent/​loved one find another place to live.