The Strand Apartamentos

Great location, amenities, staff, and parties are great.

Unless you have very deep pockets and are a careless person, do NOT rent here. They will dry you out up until you move out. They make moving out a life inconvenience. Charging for a full month of water and a day of rent the day the keys are due should be considered a crime. How is somebody supposed to walk away from an establishment after being treated as such. They management fights you, on everything. They do not help much, but they will pridefully remind you of their rules. The ammentmities... close early every day, they are just a selling point. They rarely notify you of events happening at Oviedo on the park. A group of 5k runners nearly got hit by a car because they failed to notify residents of the run anytime prior. The value of the apparemtnts is non existent. The material is cheap, that of a 2/3 star apartment complex. They will charge you for any repairs/maintenance they need to do because of the poor quality and “lifetime” of the materials used, such as the carpet. Over the past few month before moving out, I have noticed the vacancy’s, and the amount of residents leaving. People do not stay long here because of how terrible it actually is. Do not let the perceived “luxury” fool you. People are catching on. Management is not improving. And it will reflect on their business. Consider yourself warned. Lee mas

Loved the pics online and the walk through. the experience was quite different. The apartment was sold as 'soundproofed' which is hilarious as i heard brawls and fights like you wouldnt believe through the night. For months, I went through working remotely with the sounds of construction and being woken up so many mornings by construction literally outside my window and a jackhammer above my head. People walked above me for months, why? They said our building was finished... because the... construction went way longer than it was supposed to I never really got the whole package as they promised. I really tried to love this place as the area around was great and inside the apartment was nice. Where it really went wrong was the management and staff as I felt I was nickel and dimed throughout the whole process. Taking my security deposit and never providing proof of what was wrong was the final nail in our sub par strand experience. Id love to go on but dont want to waste my time anymore. To end this: I feel Jackie from the leasing office is stuck up, disingenuous and a terrible representation of a place to call home. Lee mas

I have lived at The strand since Feb 2018 with my wife and my 5 years old son, and I want to let you know my point of view and some of the pros and cons of this rental apartment complex.

The pros are: Brand new apartment, nice and well decorated common areas (Pool, Basketball court, car wash , coffee station (even though it almost never works), fire place, hot tub, pool, gym, BBQ area (closed for almost 3 months during summer time), tv room, pool and cards table (only for adults???),nice... location and good activities (at least once a month there is dinner/breakfast from differents restaurants) or holidays activities according to the month.

The advertisement calls all of those ammenities " The total package", but according to my experience they should called it " The total package for your retirement" since everthing is for adults and closes at 11pm even on weekends.

To be honest in my opinion this complex is not family friendly, to enjoy most of the community areas you have to be 16 years or older ( No matter if the parents are there with their kids). If you are playing cards, pool or if your exercising with your kid at the gym, the manager will tell you to stop and leave inmediatly without even saying Hello... this talks very badly about the manners and respect that your staff uses when addressing to the residents specially comming from a "manager" who is supposed to be an example for the rest of the staff.

The apartment even though it looks nice and has some nice features also has some very disapointing and annoying defects like the fact that we can listen the footsteps from our neighbors around and obviously our neighbors hear ours and living in the third floor makes it even more frustrating considering we have a kid and footsteps are something we cannot avoid.

It's nice to have the trash bin collection from the apartment doors but the garbage containers (the big dumpster) is allways full and the smell coming out of it is nauseus we pay $40 a month for that service so I think they should come pick it up more frecuently and have some kind of cleaning schedule for that area to avoid having flies and cockroaches that we can see all over the building and common areas dispite that we pay for a pest control service monthly. Lee mas

Resident for 8 months now. Averaging one maintenance issue every few weeks. Actual material used to construct apartments is cheap. Noise is a real issue. Anyone closes their door and the whole building shakes. Wouldn't ride out a hurricane here that's for sure. They don't encourage recycling, that's so whack. Trash service cost more than my gym membership. They tattle on you if you leave a bag too big to fit in the bin, outside of the bin. So that's annoying. Amenities are cool for like a month... , they close before 11 so that's lame. Also get asked every time if I live there and need to show my amenity band for proof. Could've just put the scanners on the outside of the facility and they wouldn't have to ask, but that makes too much sense. Online payment system might've been designed without common sense. Basically can only pay rent on the 1st of the month, leaving no flexibility. Location is cool until you discover nothing will be developed for another year. How many times can one eat at Marlows or De La Take All Your Money. Management is sub average. Workers don't go above an beyond for much, but they will gladly give you a bit of attitude. All of this is manageable, if I wasn't paying an arm and a leg for rent. No sure what drugs the person who gave this 5 stars was on, but that's none of my business. Wont be renewing but good luck to whoever gets stuck here. Just kidding, its actually ok.. Lee mas