Willow Creek Apartamentos

Based on comments and more importantly replies from management... I will not look at moving here. The management seems very rude and confrontational. Will continue to look else where.

Landlord Mark was extremely rude when anything needed to be done. The woman who works in the office sometimes as well is also extremely unprofessional and mean sometimes. She sits outside with her friends on the rocking bench and talks badly about some of the tenants. She is one of those women who is in everybody else’s business and is extremely judgmental. Electricity can be $300-400 a month depending on the location of your apartment. Glad we moved to another apartment. Laundry prices went up... to $1.50/1.75 a wash and $1.50 per dryer. Dryers sometimes do not dry and then it’s $3.00 to dry one load. Elevator is broken every few months and the carpet inside of it and in some of the halls is disgusting. Also, rent goes up like $20 every year. Lee mas

I only asked some electricity bill paper but it took about a month.

I am currently still living in the apartments and my electric bills have been $200 a month for very minimal use of anything electric. I actually stayed at my parents for 2 weeks with my heat set very low and no electric use other than that...and my electric bill was still EXACTLY the same price!...even when I used much less electric. My old apartment I had the heat cranked up and tv always on and my electric was only $115 at MOST! I am not impressed. The washer and dryers also get expensive when... you have to run the dryer at least twice to dry a normal load. And my apartment wasn't even cable ready and the intercom didn't work. Lee mas

Overall, I've been pleased with my experience at this apartment. It's set up like a hotel, with all of the units located in one building. In the central area of the first floor, there's a lounge, a pool room (with sauna and hot tub), and a laundry room. The lounge is spacious, and you can rent it our for the day (for a small fee) and have a decent sized get-together. However, you can only have two non-tenants in the pool area with you, so no big pool parties. The laundry room has ten washers and... fourteen dryers, and they generally work well. When they don't, the staff is pretty efficient in getting them working again within a week or two.

Our unit is nice overall. Two good sized bedrooms, two bathrooms, a large living room, and a fairly small kitchen. The living room has a fireplace, but we haven't used it yet. Everything is in good shape. The stove seems older but works well. We have a patio that looks out on the "backyard" area of the building - a fairly large yard with a small woods beyond it. (Rent is slightly more for a unit that faces the back of the building as opposed to one that faces the front.) The smaller bathroom has a corner that smells like animal urine, perhaps left by a former tenant's pet. Didn't notice it until a few weeks after we moved in.

Parking can be a bit of a headache. My roommate and I were given two parking stickers for our cars. We're assigned one spot in the garage underneath the building. This is convenient because I'm guaranteed a particular spot, but be aware - your vehicle needs to be relatively small to fit in these tiny spots. I wouldn't recommend trying to park anything bigger than a mid-sized car down there, and I've seen apartment staff tell other tenants to park their SUVs and minivans outside instead. Even with a properly sized car, you need to be very particular about how you park, so that the tenants on either side of your space have enough space to get out of their vehicles. Outside parking is even more difficult, since you're not always guaranteed a spot. My roommate used to complain often about guests being parked in tenant spots rather than designated guest parking (even overnight), but the staff may have cracked down on this since I haven't heard about it in a while. One last note - when leaving either the garage or the outside lot, you have to turn onto a street with a fair amount of traffic and often a LOT of parked cars. This can make it very difficult to see oncoming traffic as you're leaving. Lee mas