Waterstone at Brier Creek Apartments

I lived at Waterstone for 18 months and these are my thoughts on the complex.

The good parts. The apartments are quite well designed, spacious and with good traffic flow. They’re fairly quite as far as noise from the other apartments are concerned. The fitness center is marginally adequate and apt. maintenance is pretty quick and good. There’s plenty of parking and Brier Creek is very close.

The not-so-good parts. You’ll never see your actual apartment until you move in. It’s always “not… available yet” and won’t be until your move-in time. So, you’ll be shown the model unit. This wouldn’t be so bad except that you’re probably not moving in for a month or so yet you need to make a decision as movers will have to be lined up, etc.

Snow removal is a joke.

If you’re unfortunate enough to get a unit near the pool, forget about regular sleep in the spring, summer and fall. While the pool area is supposed to close at dusk, everyone ignores the rules and there’s never anyone to enforce it. People will often leave and leave the TV on blaring away at 2:00 in the morning. What’s particularly annoying is that roughly half of the party goers don’t even live in the complex. Also, airport noise is not too bad except in the mornings (around 6:00 or so) and there is a constant airport and highway drone all the time.

The fitness center is small but adequate. However, half the TV’s on the machines don’t work, no towels on the weekends and it’s cleaned about once a year whether it needs it or not.

Beware of the language in the lease. I almost took a job out of state which would mean needing to break my lease. Well, there’s a 2-month penalty for breaking the lease and a 2-month penalty because you didn’t give them 60-days’ notice that you were going to break the lease. So, if your rent is $1,250/month for example, that’s a $5,000 penalty in addition to everything else. I finally got my security deposit ($200) back about 2 ½ months after I moved out and threatened to go to small claims court. Of course, it was reduced to about $98 after they got through with every nickel and dime item they could think of.

It’s a bit worse than similar complexes because the management has a “I AM THE LORD THY GOD” attitude. While they’re pleasant initially, develop an issue and either they don’t know anything about your problem, can’t do anything about your problem or “that’s the way corporate works and it’s your problem. “
Would I live there again? Nope, not a chance. Read More