First of all... I'd like to say that I've definitely lived in worse places.
This place is decently clean, convenient for shopping, etc. The mall is close by, it's nice there is a play area, and there is a lot of covered parking. Yay washers and dryers. It's an OK place to live. There are worse places.
Now... the bad stuff.
1. Simply... the train yard is very loud. I wish someone would have talked about that. At night we would be sleeping, or trying, and there are constant "explosions" happening less than 1000 feet outside the window. Noises loud enough that guests of mine would be scared upon hearing them, asking what the "explosion" was... it's the train yard outside. Even with ear plugs, it still woke me up. I have a 4 year old... imagine what it's like trying to calm down a 4 year old almost every night for 11 months after getting him to sleep. Not fun.
2. The staff is polite, but VERY apathetic of what is going on with their residents.
During one of their "routine" inspections, and it felt like these happened all the time, they not only did not lock my door on the way out, but the door was wide open when I came home and my cats were outside. I had to go find them.
We had a wall covered in mold and I called them on 8/16/15. It took them a week to even enter the apartment. After that came four weeks of me calling them and emailing through the corporate website for them to actually come in and fix the drywall they ended up tearing out. Then they took the toilet out, put it in the bathtub, and it was about another 2 weeks before they put it back in. During this time, my room mate was unable to live in the apartment with us because it was just too inconvenient to try to get three of us up and ready in the morning with only my bathroom in working order - which was in my room. So if he had wanted to use it, he would have had to come in through my bedroom. It just wasn't going to happen, especially at night when me and my son were sleeping.
They offered us no discounted rent though I asked, no discounted sewer or water. It was 10/20 before the project was completed. TWO MONTHS went by between the beginning of the project, and when it was finally completed.
It also took over 2 weeks to get my bedroom heater replaced when it got super cold all of a sudden. My son had to sleep in the bed to stay warm or we had to blast the living room heaters to warm the room.
3. Upon move out, they will not sign a walk through report with you. I took the end of the day off to meet with them and get my final inspection. I had carpet cleaners and maids come in, and because of one 4x1inch piece of carpet in the bedroom that my cat got to, they replaced the entire carpet. She wouldn't give me an estimate before I left. I feel like I spent money to get it in order for nothing. They don't apply the cleaning fees you paid toward anything... So I'd say maybe get a maid because if I hadn't I'm sure the final statement would have been more, but maybe skip the carpet cleaner. I could have saved $200 and applied it to the amount of my final statement. So maybe this helps you.
My carpet guy told me to fix the carpet would have been like $50, they charged me "prorated" carpet cost of like $250.
4. The trash issue here is completely ridiculous. They will threaten to fine you if you take your trash to the compactor and leave it there. They will also fine you if you leave your trash at your door, or on your porch, which makes it really difficult because the trash compactor is almost always full. I ended up frequently taking my trash and leaving it on the side, taking photos of the piles of garbage every single week. It is unreasonable to charge people $15 for trash, and then not allow them to throw their garbage away in a timely manner. They wanted us to leave our garbage bags inside the door and wait for the garbage to be cleared.
5. The parking issues... Again, lots of covered parking if you want to pay... hardly any regular parking.
6. As stated by other people... don't try to sleep in on the weekends. The lawn people come bright and early. Helloooooo 7-8AM! read more