Stay Away from the Alea
Living In the Alea Miami has been one of the singularly worst experiences of my life. Do not live here, this place is dangerous in my opinion! Management has received numerous mold complaints and by their actions does not take them seriously despite the garbage word salad from management and their attorneys that they actually care. Actions speak louder than words so read my story and beware. I moved in on 8/28/23. I was relatively healthy when I moved in. In the 10 months or so since I lived here, I have been to emergency room 7X. I now have cardiac damage. My hearts ejection rate has been measured by my cardiologist and his team at 50% !! I am taking Entresto and Atorvastatin. I have serious pulmonary problems and see a pulmonary Dr. regularly . I am taking a drug for my lungs called Budesonide that requires a nebulizer for 20 to 30 minutes every day. I have horrible rashes my hair is falling out in spots, I am dizzy and have trouble concentrating this has horribly effected my business and personal life. My breathing is labored, I have chest pain, in short it is difficult to breathe. I have never smoked in my life. My blood pressure has shot up to 211/117 and fell to 68/50 (120/80 is normal.) Despite management knowing the buildings HVAC units and duct work contained harmful mold and receiving multiple complaints to that effect the building has chosen not to test for dangerous mold in each unit and remediate that mold when and where it is found. It is worse than that if you can believe it !!! I paid Apex One to run two separate tests for mold in my apartment. Upon receipt of APEX’s first report, I filed a complaint with management and included a copy of the report with the remediation recommendations from APEX. The management’s response was to send a worker with a rag and Windex!!! Later their lawyers called that a miscommunication isn’t that laughable !!! The remediation section called for a team in hazmat gear with respirators and to partially disassemble the HVAC system and clean it in an acid bath. After the second round of testing was done by APEX with similar if not more extreme remediation recommendations management sent some outside workers with a shop vac (see picture included.) The ALEA charges its tenants for services it knowingly does not provide on a continuing monthly basis like trash removal. That is fraud!!!! Do you like being defrauded? Residents are forced to use hotwire for internet cable and telephone service in violation of FCC regulations and I suspect that the building is getting a kick back from hotwire.
Recently management informed the tenants that the pool would be closed for 2 to 3 weeks for construction. The truth is much much worse the pool and SPA were closed by the Florida Board of Health see Attached pictures of the report. The building has not maintained the pool, spa or its equipment to such a degree that the state shut the entire pool, spa and pool deck area down.
For days at a time 4 out of 5 of the main elevators have been out of service and this has happened on multiple occasions trapping some tenants on the upper floors for days.
Upon managements third attempt to remediate the mold they may have actually done the job properly but not before they knowingly poisoned me slowly over about 10 months.
People are breaking their leases and getting out of here as quickly as they can. In my opinion If you want to live or stay in an environment that has the ability to seriously damage your health then rent an apartment at the ALEA otherwise I would find another place to live or stay.
I took pictures of the State of Florida Board of Health Report and all four pages are attached