MAA South Lamar Apartments

It’s truly a great place to live in from the budget/quality perspective. My apartment has a cute view of downtown and even though it’s central I don’t hear any noice, just birds outside the window. Everyone in the management office is super nice, there are community events, packages securely delivered, gym is small but clean and enjoyable, rooftop is very cute and pools are nice. I’d recommend it especially for the newbies like me who just moved to Austin and are on budget.

Also Office management left me with a portable A/C for three days when it's 100 degrees outside. Having only one device for a two-bedroom apartment is not enough. I've been living with 80 degrees in the apartment and the horrible noise from this outdated device, making it impossible to sleep due to the noise and heat. Moreover, because it's the weekend, all the staff is out of the office. AMLI provided me with hotel reimbursement when the A/C was broken. However, the MAA management isn't doing... anything about it. I can't trust this place if they call it "HOME." Home is where you should feel safe and be able to rest, but I've been living in hell for the past three days. Read More

I lived here for 3 years and it was absolutely awful. Community was the only thing that kept me but I felt extremely unsafe in this building. Homeless people sneak in all the time, so much package theft, and doors were never working. I'm posting this review because I find it comical that they rather change the name on the building than fix the problems that are causing these bad reviews.

Don't ever live here!! please save yourself the headache
If I could give zero stars I would.
Super Unsafe
Terrible Staff
Dirty - Dog poop everywhere

Moved in here July 2021 and have regretted it since.

Just a few highlights:

- THE FIRE ALARMS. Honestly, this has been the worst issue for me. The fire alarms go off for 5-10 minutes consistently. Sometimes 3-4+ times a week, every week since I've moved here. It's relentless. In the middle of the night, middle of the day when people are working, at all hours. They are excruciatingly loud.

- Car break ins daily. Not even being dramatic here. The gates don't work regularly so people are able... to get in. Cops are called for this, but they often break into multiple cars and escape before the cops are able to get here.

- Package thieves. Both in the locker room and in the buildings. It's become a major problem, no help from management.

Security cameras and multiple security guards (one for each building + parking garage) is an easy fix that hasn't been made at all. Not even cameras (outside of one at the entrance).

- Not super fun to walk pets around this area, unless you go in the neighborhoods. Had a homeless guy yell at me while walking and was throwing metal in the street at me. I won't take the dog out at night solo, my fiancé has to come with me. Someone who lives here had a homeless guy approach her with a broken lightbulb he ripped from someone's patio on the first floor.

I'm tired of writing so I won't go into too much detail on these, but other issues include: dog grass area is saturated and I can smell it from my window that is multiple stories up, pool grows algae in the summer and has hoards on leaves in it, never gets cleaned up, trash shoot door/area has never been cleaned and has food/trash/garbage piled on the floor, leaks down the wallpaper in the hallway (called maintenance about this and they painted over the leak, lol), no parking available in the garage in the evenings, key fobs didn't work for a week when moved in, I could go on forever.

I know the appeal of living on South Lamar sounds enticing, but we wish daily that we would have just moved a little further south (or any direction) where it's safer and more affordable. It's really not worth it. Read More