There have been some similar suggestions, but how about letting the apartments rate the residents who post crap. Let the apartments mention the condition of the apartment, post pictures, details of eviction, problems and make the posters to your site be responsible for what they say.

I am a manager at a privatly owned complex who has been personally defamed in a rating that I have put in a request several times to be removed but have been overlooked. I feel that because it is stated in your user agreement that defamation is not allowed, it is imperative that you remove comments such as these immediately.

...completely truthful and candor. I am grateful that you have this site, I think you're the only one and not impeding on the first amendment. If I had known about this site, I would of never even live at Park La Brea Village Apartments, and now with every apartment I'm interested in, I look here first to see what was said and 99% of the posts negative or positive, they are true. P.S. these screening suggestions seems suspicious and perhaps coming from management.

When users post their ratings, ask them what kind of renter they are (e.g. student, single professional, family with kids, retired, etc.) and then make it possible to filter reviews by these groups or see avg ratings by group.

It is shameful that your site basically promotes negative and not positives. It is basically human nature to post negative issues than to praise when positive things are happening. There are blatant lies and discriminatiry statements made and your site allows and tolerates it. I am personally offended that you have allowed these nasty statements to remain and even make it to your website to be seen. YOu all should be ashamed of yourselves!!!

Time for Apartment Ratings to wake up and let tenants tell it like it really is.
No more limiting of tenants reviews!
No more erasing of tenants' statements unless they're obscene or ultra-obviously libelous. MOST aren't libelous, so stay on the side of the TENANT, not the lazy greedy apartment owners!
Make this site one of true benefit to renters!
Quit kissing the rumps of the apartment owning corporations, quit it!!
If you're going to kiss ass, kiss tenant's ass!

How can I rate my apartment complex if it's not listed?

I was hoping you would create a Facebook presence. Your website has invaluable information and more people need to hear about it. I wish I'd have found you guys before moving into my current situation. Thanks, Aaron

I poste a review of Park Place in Alexandria, VA about a situation I experienced with the pipes there. Now I don't see it. You removed it at the request no doubt, of the management. It doesn't matter. People will knoow the truth, no matter what you do to "help out " your allies. Judging grom the reviews I see, the public is already on to this joke of a "review"site.

Management of so many apartments write reviews. Start checking that IP address. All managers have to do is sign up with an alternate email and write positive reviews of apartments, bumping up the ratings of their own place. It's not rocket science.

Give users the ability to graph trends in ratings over time to see if an apartment's % recommended or avg ratings have been going up or down.

Selecting any number of values from the Max Rent select box yields the same search results. It would be nice to look up places that are relatively inexpensive in an easier fashion than clicking on every apartment link and checking out Pricing.

This site is next to useless. There are so many reviews obviously written by apartment managment that it is a joke. You can see some of them are written on the same day or withing a few days of each other and use the same wording, or sound like marketing talk.

Dear ApartmentRatings.Com Staff –

You leave your website just like it is. There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with this site. Its wonderful that people can express their opinions, and say exactly what is on their mind when it comes to the buildings where they live. People would never know the truth about the places unless they read it here, so let it stay. It has provided a phenomenal service to thousands over the years.

Keep this up. It’s wonderful.

allow people to find apartments near them on an iphone app and see the reviews posted.

not sure why this site even has a user agreement, you can write what ever you want, false statements. criminal accusations, defamation of character just total bs and if management asked for it to be removed, they send you a bunch of stuff that protects the site but plainly says they allow none of the above... and they still wont remove it!!!!