10/29/24
Staff ruined the experience
The staff was hit or miss whether they were polite or difficult depending on what you were going to them for. If I had an issue, they were rude and not helpful. The couple times that I had to run in and turn in some lost and found or someone else’s mail, they were nice.
The property could be nice if it weren’t for it being a dog poop mine field. Every section that is even slightly guarded by cars or garages means it was free rein to let your dog poop and not pick it up. The place is also lousy... with roaches and crickets. I only ever saw one cricket into the apartment, but walking the dog at night was pretty gross because of the bugs. The location is nice with a couple restaurants a block away.
When we moved in, there was mold growing in the tank of our toilet, which caused mold to grow down in the bowl which required constant cleaning. Additionally, when we moved in, the dryer wasn’t hooked up, which I didn’t notice until the lint started growing up the wall. Getting behind the washer and dryer to clean lint was a pain and added insult to injury when they tried to tack on a cleaning fee for the dryer not having a lint trap that was immaculately clean. Don’t move into a unit near the pool if you need to get to sleep at a time before about 11 since they have people out there blaring music that you can understand the lyrics through the building/windows.
I wouldn’t recommend getting a garage since my car was locked in 3 different mornings spread over the course of about 2 months, putting me on hard times at work. The specific garage that I had never had a light that worked, the door was missing a key, and had cob webs and a bunch of leaves when I got it. The cob webs and leaves weren’t an issue for me since it was a garage, but with all of the tacky cleaning fees at moveout, I would expect everything that I receive to be clean. Management said they were going to install a key into the door so they didn’t have such a difficult time getting into the garage when I was locked out, but that was never added. My wife asked if we could get a new garage after getting locked out the second time and was told “let’s just see if if happens again before moving garages” (see the staff being unhelpful when an actual issue is present). After the third time, I asked if there was going to be anything done to rectify the issues that I was having being late to work because of the garage and they said “nothing could be done since the problem was fixed.”
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