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I took a look at the Yelp Reviews and this place doesn't exactly come off as a 5-Star Resort.  In fact the last review that you were so good at pointing out was on 2/16 was a 1-Star review.  Funny how you left that little bit of information out of your post.  Then if you look at the next to last review posted in 9/2015 do you know what it was...another 1-Star review.

Now, if you look at the section of reviews that Yelp does not currently recommend..

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On 3/12 there were 2 reviews..both reviews were updates from the original review of 3/6.   I think even you would agree that is a bit of a coincidence..right?   Especially for a company that look like on average it gets only about 1 review every month or two.  It is very likely that this triggered something in the system to "not recommend" these reviews. 

But then we look at the names, one female name and one male name.  Based on this report you stated it was you and your girlfriend.  So can we figure that these reports were written by the two of you?...Personally I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that it is.  If that was the case, I would also bet that these reviews were written at about the same time and probably from the same location(perhaps even the same computer).  Again, things like that are all things that are tracked.  So yes if there are more simularities if you look at Yelp's statement about "reliability" yours brings up several "red flags".   In addition, one of the reviews was the only review for that person, the other has only a total of 2.  So again...it isn't like you are one of the top elite members who has hundreds of reviews.

Oh and before you go off on the "Well you work for...".  Sorry, I do not now or have I ever worked for Yelp or even the apartment in question.  I have no idea how Yelp defines a recommend review, nor do I actually even care.  Everything I wrote was things I was able to find from the Yelp site in about a minute.