5/3/22
The unit is nice but sometimes it feels like I'm paying to live on a construction site.
The good: the new management is responsive, and I've never had an issue with the few times I've needed to call maintenance for something. The units are nice, and most of them are fairly updated.
The bad: It seems like there's constant construction going on, and I question a lot of the decision-making that went into the projects. I live in the main building. They were building back decks when we moved in . But then, they took the nicely landscaped courtyard with trees and shrubs, and spent... several noisy weeks re-landscaping the courtyard.
They promised that the next building over would get the same decks, which I know from speaking with those neighbors, they were looking forward to, however that project was delayed due to, ostensibly, lumber shortages and issues related to COVID.
However, they've recently started on front decks in our same building, which doesn't really make sense to the couple of people I've spoken to who live here. Why do we need two decks? And what about the people they've been promising their decks to in the other building?
So for months, I've been trying to work from home whilst having to deal with pounding hammers, masonry saws, and hammer drills; often directly into my wall where I was trying to work. It was so much so that I had to move my home office to the other side of our unit so as to not have to deal with the noise during the weekday. And, should I have to sleep in after a late night, I have to wear ear plugs which may or may not work depending what caliber of tools they're using on that given day.
This particular project has been going since fall of last year, and so far as I can tell is going to continue through the end of my lease. There's even been times when I've had to leave during the day so I could find somewhere to work in peace. For the amount of rent we have to pay for this place, I just think it's unreasonable to have to deal with this for as long as we have without any say in this, for a feature we probably won't even be around to use.
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Property Manager at Bay Village Townhomes responded to this review
Chris, I am the owner of Bay Village and I am hoping that my explanation will help you to understand my intentions with the construction. Most large apartment complexes are owned by corporations and passive groups of partners. Bay Village is... different. It is family owned and I treat it like my own home. After many years of improving the interior, I decided the time had come to address the exterior which was beautiful but getting both tired and dated. I did not want to put lipstick on a pig, so I set a plan for every 16 unit building that included back decks, extensive landscaping, full irrigation, adding a stone façade to the garages, and many other aesthetic improvements. Your building was the prototype, and before moving on to the other 13 buildings at Bay Village I wanted to be sure that the prototype was up to my standards. I decided that the front of the buildings were not good enough, and decided to invest more per building to improve the front facade, which extended the amount of time for the project. You complain about unnecessary decks, but the decks were not the focus. The focus was the new masonry architectural columns and the significantly larger covered portico above the front doors. Adding the extra decking to either side of the covered porticos did not add much cost to the project, yet it completed the architectural look. As I wrote above, I treat Bay Village like my home and I wanted nothing but the best. Now that I am satisfied with the scope of the project we are moving on with the second building. We have already begun rerouting the gas meters and moving the central air compressors in preparation for building the decks. In short, I am very sorry that this project was a disruption to you, and the other buildings will go much quicker because they will not be prototypes. I hope you can see the effort and time we have put into this project was for a purpose, reflects my passion for perfection and that it will make the property better overall.