I would not recommend for anyone to live here. The maintenance team is horrific. The first time they came into my apartment for a maintenance request, they left lights on, and did not put back into place the items they had moved to address my issues. I called the office to request that the next time maintenance came into my apartment, that they take more care to set every back to the way it was before they entered. However, the VERY NEXT DAY, they "forgot" to turn my hot water heater back on. We do not return from work until after the office is closed, so I put in an emergency maintenance request. Who wants to take an ice cold shower on a 15 degree winter day? They did not respond to my emergency request. The maintenance team also leaves no confirmation that they completed work in your apartment.
Furthermore, the management does not care about current residents. Every time I call the office, they sound disinterested, if not annoyed, once they realize I am a resident. There have been more then 3 times that I have simply went to the office to pick up a package (which literally takes 10 seconds or less for them to do) and have had to wait for 20 minutes, and at most 40. That is utterly unacceptably. The most recent time, there were 4 different residents waiting on a member of the office staff, on a Tuesday, to get our packages. One of the people waiting with me asked, after 30 minutes of waiting, if the staff member could simply give us our parcels, and in a disrespectful tone, she told him to wait a few minutes more until she was done conversing with a new prospect.
Any property management professional knows that is it a horrible sign of disrespect to dismiss current residents for future prospects. If anything, management should want to show their potential future residents that they actually care about their current residents. This is NOT the case at Avalon Peaks.
I also agree with one of the previous posts, about how they charge an extra $25 for valet trash service, which is not optional. The trash cans provided by this service are much smaller than normal trash cans, and have extremely strict rules surrounding the times they are allowed to by put out for pickup.
The pool was contaminated this summer due to poor chemical maintenance, yet none of the residents were contacted about this problem. There was a small sign posted on the gate near the pool that most adults would never have noticed.
The landscaping and groundsman team is sub-par at best. They consistently blow mulch and grass clippings onto residents decks and front door entrances, with no attempt to clean up the mess they made.
There is a HUGE problem with GIANT SPIDERS on both our front and back porches. We have purchased over 10 large cans of bug spray in the past 6 months, yet that still does not seem to keep the critters at bay. We also contacted the office regarding this issue, but nothing of notice seemed to be done about it. read more