Botanica Cottages Apartments

Apartment is fine. Maintenance team is fine. Management company is absurd.

The lease is 65 pages with countless addendums of things that can be grounds to evict you.

Backed into your driveway? Fines and eviction.
Store things other than a car in the garage? Fines and eviction.
Own a BBQ grille? Fines and eviction.
Your kid draws sidewalk chalk on the driveway? Fines and eviction.
Mount a TV to the wall? Fines and eviction.
Have drapes in any color other than white? Fines and eviction.

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A apartments are nice. Garage is a lifesaver. Staff is fantastic. My major complaints were way too many dogs in majority of apartment always barking. if you don’t mind oversized barking dogs then this is the place for you. I feel they should have a maximum amount of pets allowed in any complex for the benefit of everyone.

My partner and I rented at Botanica Cottages for one year and deeply regret ever signing our lease. Initially, we signed for a 2 bedroom apartment which was advertised as newly renovated and luxury. The day of move in, I was greeted with an apartment that was full of issues including bugs in ceiling fixtures, a hole in the bathtub, dirty clothes left behind the washer/dryer and not updated cabinets/appliances in the unit. We had two cars full of items to move in and had to beg for a different... unit which ended up being an un-renovated THREE bedroom apartment which significantly raised our cost of living and changed our furniture plans. From the day we moved in (July 2021) until May of 2022 the clubhouse and pool area were closed for renovation. This was not compensated for in our rent price.

Throughout our time renting; we ran into several issues requiring exterminator (mice, ants) which we had never faced before, even living in “non-luxury” environments.

This is advertised as a nonsmoking community, however, we frequently had to pull used cigarette butts out of our dog’s mouth that he retrieved from our lawn. They were disposed of from the unit above ours.

Once the pool opened, it was not monitored by community staff. Often there were loud and rambunctious parties occurring with alcohol containers and unsupervised children. Several complaints were made to management with no action taken:

One of the only positives of this community were the maintenance personnel: Adam was an asset to our experience and ensured that issues were taken care of on an expedited timeline.

Overall; we are disappointed in our experience with Botanica and are now paying significantly less money for our single family home build than our apartment. Please consider this review before renting. Read More

My experience with Botanica Cottages has been excellent. Since moving in my apartment in September Adam the service rep has completed all my requested successfully and in a timely manner A+

Don't let the five star reviews fool you. There is a new management and leasing team in place and it's AWFUL HERE!

Management is incredibly unprofessional. Their automated system that they use charged me TEN TIMES and overdrew my account by $21,000.00 and then told me that it wasn't their problem and called me irresponsible. My apartment is supposedly "newly renovated" but there have been maintenance problems since I moved in. It's taken a minimum of 8 weeks to get ANY maintenance done each... time I send in a request. They asked us all to put out our fire extinguishers for inspection. Mine sat outside for several days and was never inspected. If that's their commitment to safety, what else is not being taken care of properly. These places have gas heat and fireplaces. If that is being maintained in the same way, that could be very dangerous. I have had inoperable switches, inoperable windows, my toilet is so badly installed that it rocks back and forth....you name it, it's bad.

There are MUCH better options out there for less money. Read More