These apartments are so bad I wouldn't recommend a sewer rat to live here. I have a very close friend that signed the leased at these apartments for a year and gladly she moved out just last month. I'm writing the review from both my and her point-of-view because I visited frequently; practically living here myself.
Firstly, the apartments is not in a very great location. There is an immediate turn up a steep hill that has to be made right from the highway. Depending on the car, one has to make a complete stop before turning into the complex. The apartments, aren't the prettiest looking, but they are good for those looking for 'first-time renting' affordable living. Some of the neighbors are nice, however; there are some very obnoxious people living there too. One day I was awaken by one neighbor from a completely different building screaming and cursing at the maintenance crew. It was very early in the morning yet, it seemed like no one really cared. Instead of maintenance trying to calm her down, they were laughing at her; even making her more annoyed and loud.
These apartments are unsafe to live in as well. My friend came home from work one day to find a couple of police cars at her neighbor's apartment. Horribly, a young women was gang raped that night inside of her apartment (my friend got the news from another neighbor and later, more from the news). The apartment did not send out any safety tips or a letter to everyone to reassure safety. (My personal apartment sent out a courtesy note because of car robberies going around and tips on additional safety.) The fact that the apartment complex doesn't keep there lights on for months doesn't help with safety either. There are nights when I came over and the complete back of the complex was pitch black. This apartment even allow a broken pipe to run for two complete months before fixing it. There was a huge hole in the street with gushing water coming out. It took weeks before they even put caution tape around it.
There aren't really good activities or community events within these apartments. It seems like no one knows each other or want to know one another. The community pool is broken all year-round, therefore; no one can use it. There aren't any area for kids to play or playground. There isn't side walks to walk pets. The car care center is just a water hose. They have pet poop-bags throughout the apartment, but they are never stocked. In fact, they are always filled with garbage. Speaking of trash, it is everywhere. They don't enforce people picking-up after their pets. I constantly saw abandoned garbage bags underneath the bottom of the apartment stairwells. The stairwells are always dirty with spider webs, leaves, and trash. There community trash dump is always overfilled and looks very hazardous. During the summer, they will wait such a long time to cut their own grass. One time the grass got so high near my friend's apartment, a neighbor borrowed and cut the grass himself. The cleanliness standard of these apartments are low.
If anything goes wrong in the apartment, it is super frustrating and hard to get staff to help. When they finally pickup the phone, it's like they beet-around-the-bush. It takes so long to get maintenance out too fix something. There are some very sweet maintenance people, but again, there are some very rude ones that shouldn't be working there in my opinion. My friend couldn't get mail for the first few weeks because the mailbox was broken. Mail carriers don't deliver mail to defective mailboxes, yet it took such a long time to get it fix.
I hate giving bad reviews, but these apartments are just bad. Until Aston Oaks has improve, I'll recommend another affordable apartment if considering this one. read more
