Thursday, January 27, 2022

Apartment Life Reviews Jobs Apartmentlife.com

This is a detailed review about the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Apartment Life aka Apartmentlife.com Apparently located in Texas, but has no published physical address and only lists PO Box 650951 Dallas, TX 75265-0951 817-685-2963 on their website. 

They are self-described as "As a Christian, faith-based non-profit, we want to make a positive impact on peoples' lives through authentic relationships. And we want to do it in the right way. "

I first became aware of Apartment Life after leasing a luxury apartment. Not long after I moved in, I began getting emails from two young ladies from @apartmentlife.org and they were also coming to my apartment knocking. Keep in mind, I've never heard of these people and the landlord never mentioned them. Apparently, Apartment Life got all my personal contact information from the landlord without my knowledge or consent. In a world filled with concerns with privacy, this is most certainly a poor practice and unwise by both the landlord and Apartment Life! Incidentally, as of today, they don't even have a privacy policy or terms of use on their own website, which speaks volumes about their unawareness of our society's concerns about privacy. 

The website says "If you have questions or stories of your own to share, please email me at PeteKelly@apartmentlife.org, so I did. I noticed a pattern of repeated alcohol-themed events sponsored by Apartment life. I told them via email that there were several people I had met that lived here in recovery programs, and again, no response. After I noticed they have no physical address posted anywhere and use a PO BOX, I did some research and discovered they reportedly have leadership making over 180k per year working only 33 hours per week. The founder, Stan Dobbs makes a whopping 82k per year working a measly 16 hours, and his LinkedIn states he has full-time job with an unrelated company since 2018. They are allegedly a faith-based organization with a statement that says they have a goal of having a positive impact on people's lives. How is repeatedly directly promoting alcohol-themed events to alcoholics positive and "doing it the right way"? Using alcohol as a lure to get people to attend events is doing it the right way?

Feeling depressed? According to this tweet, you should get liquored up! You can't even make this stuff up, and keep in mind, this is not a secular organization. On a side note, if you are not aware, Alcohol is a Central Nervous System Depressant. If you are feeling "blue" the last thing you should do is drink alcohol, a depressant! 



In the real world, secular businesses and organizations have alcohol at events, however, even they don't necessarily name the events and center them around alcohol with cute names like "wine Wednesday", tacos & margs, and cocktails and crafts, cocktails and candles likely as bait to get people to attend. Is this a college fraternity or Christian NPO? One event had self-serve canned beer and sodas sitting on the floor in the same bucket unattended with children running around, yet the chicken nuggets were guarded and rationed by staff. A retired attorney here took note of it as well and also expressed her concerns! Frankly, I don't know why they would want the legal liability of serving alcohol in the first place. It's completely and totally unnecessary.

I reached out to Apartment life leaders several times for an explanation and never got a response. If you want to lure people into your events, how about using something like an iPAD instead of booze?

Published salaries of Pete Kelly, Joe Davis, Ryan Edwards, Kelly Jones, Randy Ginnan, Found Stan Dobbs, Sean Baily, Dave Marshall & Pete Wayman.

Founder Stan Dobbs' Linkedin says he works another full-time job while raking in a reported 82,381 from Apartment life for 16 hours of work. Must be nice to work 16 hours and make 82 grand a year, likely more in 2022! Again, this was questioned via email, I got read receipts from Apartment life, but to response or explanation which speaks volumes!

 





And the kicker, for some bizarre reason they blocked me on Twitter! I've never posted anything inappropriate about them that would warrant being blocked. Again, this is not consistent with what they claim, wanting to make a positive impact on peoples' lives through authentic relationships.

During my research about this organization, I noticed reviews written by employees! Obviously, it is unethical and even illegal in some cases to have staff write reviews for their own business! Again, this is not consistent with running a Christian-based business or NPO. I've reported some of the reviews today as I was researching this article and many have already been deleted for violations of TOS as seen below.




To one who listens, valid criticism is like a gold earring or other gold jewelry. Proverbs 25:12









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