Community Newsletter - Winter 2025 Edition
The Ramblewood Team hopes you had a wonderful holiday season, and we wish you a happy and prosperous New Year!
As we step into 2025, we are excited to welcome new residents to our community. We are confident that you will love living here at Ramblewood! Please enjoy our first quarterly newsletter of the year, and remember, we are always open to suggestions on how to make our community an even better place to call home.
We would also like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our renewing residents for choosing to continue making Ramblewood your home. Your commitment helps create the wonderful community we all cherish!
Thank you for making the Holbrook Santa Book Tree event a success with your enthusiastic participation. Your involvement brought joy to our community. Wishing you all a happy and prosperous new year!
Community Updates
🎨 Join the Ramblewood Coloring Contest! 🎨
Get ready to show off your creativity! We’re hosting a Coloring Contest for all residents starting February 17th. Pick up your custom Ramblewood coloring page at the leasing office, color it in, and submit it by February 23rd for a chance to win exciting prizes! 🎉
🏆 Winners will be announced on February 27th—don’t miss out on the fun!
Holbrook Santa Book Tree 🌲
Thank you for making the Holbrook Santa Book Tree event a success with your enthusiastic participation. Your involvement brought joy to our community. Wishing you all a happy and prosperous new year! 📚
🏡Management Notes
The Ramblewood Management and Maintenance Offices will be closed on Monday, January 20th, in observance of MLK Day. If you have a maintenance emergency during this time, please call 866-994-5495 and follow the prompt!
Let's work together to keep our environment clean so that everyone can enjoy it. Don't forget to clean up after your service or companion animals. Thanks for doing your part!
We ask that you please do not put your trash in common areas such as the laundry room. Instead, dispose of your personal trash directly into the trash receptacle provided. Thank you for your cooperation in keeping the area clean and tidy for everyone to enjoy.
Visitors/Guests
Please remember that the leaseholder is responsible for their guests/visitors. Their actions towards other residents, staff, and property are the leaseholder's responsibility. Please remind your guests that you are responsible for them and the way they act in this community.
Non-Smoking Community
As you know, Ramblewood is a non-smoking community. Residents, their guests, and visitors are not permitted to smoke in any apartment, patios, balconies, or in their cars while driving through our community. We have only one designated smoking area. If you are smoking in your home, please stop! Secondhand smoke is more deadly than vehicle exhaust, arsenic, asbestos, lead, and other toxins. Smoking is a leading cause of residential fires and the number one cause of fire deaths in the U.S.
Groundhog Day is February 2nd. Don’t forget to check and see if Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow! Are you ready for spring yet?
Maintenance Notes🔧
Service requests can be submitted anytime through our Service Request line at 866-993-5495 or on the Ramblewood Resident Portal. If you have a maintenance concern, please let us know as soon as possible by submitting a service request. When submitting your maintenance request, be sure to include as much detail as possible and indicate whether an AM or PM visit works best for your household. Our team handles work orders during office hours. If you experience a maintenance emergency during office hours, please contact the leasing office immediately.
What is a Maintenance Emergency?
Leaking/Flooding water
Loss of running water
Loss of heat
A non-functioning refrigerator
Fire (call 911 first)
A suspected gas leak (call 911 first)
This list does not encompass all possible maintenance emergencies. Your cooperation ensures that our team can efficiently address urgent matters promptly.
Fun Facts for the Upcoming Holiday Celebrations
Black History Month
The first celebration of Black History Month took place in February 1970. Within six years, it was recognized nationally. The month-long celebration gives all Americans a chance to reflect on the history of African Americans, from their many achievements to the struggles they endure to this day. Over 50 years later, we continue to set this time aside to praise Black Americans who have excelled, overcome, and made history.
Valentine’s Day
The first Valentine’s note was sent in 1477. Myth has it that it was Charles, the French Duke of Orléans, who sent the first Valentine to his wife while imprisoned in the Tower of London at the time. And while Charles was indeed a prolific romantic poet who penned more than 500 poems over the course of his life, several referencing the holiday, the supposed verse wasn’t a note meant for a certain someone but rather a commentary on court tradition. The British Library goes so far as to call it “essentially an anti-Valentine.”
The real trailblazer was a gentlewoman by the name of Margery Brews, who was deeply in love with one John Paston. The couple wrote love letters back and forth, and in one, she referred to him as her “right well-beloved Valentine” and even signed the letter as “your Valentine.”
St. Patrick’s Day
The First St. Patrick’s Day Parade Was Held in America
While people in Ireland had celebrated St. Patrick since the 1600s, the tradition of a St. Patrick’s Day parade began in America and predates the founding of the United States.
Records show that a St. Patrick’s Day parade was held on March 17, 1601, in a Spanish colony in what is now St. Augustine, Florida. The parade and a St. Patrick’s Day celebration a year earlier were organized by the Spanish Colony's Irish vicar Ricardo Artur. More than a century later, homesick Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched in Boston in 1737 and in New York City on March 17. Enthusiasm for the St. Patrick’s Day parades in New York City, Boston, and other early American cities only grew from there. In 2020 and 2021, parades throughout the country, including in New York City and Boston, were canceled or postponed for the first time in decades due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. They returned in 2022.
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Resident FAQ’s
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Smoking of any kind is strictly prohibited in the common areas of the community, as defined by the lease. Please inform your visitors and guests about our policy.
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We understand that lockouts can happen occasionally. When you call Maintenance for assistance, they will promptly come to let you in. Please note that there is a charge for this service, even if you find your keys shortly after calling. Double-check that you have your keys with you before making the call.