Don't live here. Do yourself a favor and go anywhere else. I rarely write reviews, especially negative ones, but I feel like I have an obligation to warn people about this place.
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IMPORTANT DISCLOSURES:
Many of the units in this complex are HUD/Section8 Housing. In addition to affecting your peace of mind as a resident, this matters for 2 reasons:
1.) Astor Companies (corporate office) will make you feel like they think you are their worst tenant
2.) The entire complex is subject to additional mandatory inspections that require full access to your unit with only 1-2 day's notice. There are well over a dozen such inspections each year (sometimes 3 per month), and you will be required to cage/kennel your pets or be subject to a fine if they have to return. Because Astor Companies treats every tenant like you're their worst, they unofficially task the Maintenance personnel with visually inspecting and noting the condition of your unit while the actual inspector is there for the stated purpose. This is also their opportunity to discover and charge you for extra pets.
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MAINTENANCE & REPAIRS:
The Maintenance staff is phenomenal. Very nice guys, very good at what they do. But Astor Companies? absolutely terrible. While you live there, if anything in your unit breaks, like a washer, they won't replace it with a new one; they will exchange it for one in worse shape from an unoccupied unit. The business model of Astor Companies is essentially to take all the income to pay for a bloated corporate office staff, and never spend a dime to repair or renovate the units; all renovations must be funded by the budget of the local complex only.
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MOVING OUT:
The local staff are very nice and pleasant while you live there, until you vacate your unit. When you leave, they will never be available to perform an actual walk-through with you physically; instead, they'll schedule it for another day. But when you show up for the appointment, they will have already completed the walk-through before you arrive, and made all their notes so you can't discuss or challenge any of it before they write it down and report it to corporate. When it comes to making any decisions on required costs for repairs or replacements, all decisions are deferred to corporate; local staff are not empowered to do anything.
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DEPOSITS & PETS:
You will never get your deposit back; they rely exclusively on your confiscated deposit to repair the units after you move out. The local staff are incentivized to find problems because it's the only way they can improve/modernize these aging units to make them easier to rent out to the next tenant, which is their primary job. Astor Companies refuses to spend any money to renovate or repair aging units. If you have a pet, they will charge you a nonrefundable pet deposit at move-in, and still take from your main deposit for any pet odors, even if those odors come from the previous 10 tenants that soiled the same carpet that they refuse to replace. They will call you weeks after you completed the walkthrough to tell you that they went back into your unit and noticed an odor (after it sits idle for weeks with no airflow or air conditioning) and will have to report it to corporate, who will of course charge you to replace the carpet.
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NEIGHBORS & COMMUNITY:
There is a very diverse mix of neighbors, most of them are nice, blue-collar types. Then you have the 'merchandise' dealer with two $100,000 cars parked in front of his 2bedroom unit. You may also find an occasional 1 year old wandering the neighborhood, lost, snot covering his poor little face, and crying for mommy, and you'll have to hold him while asking around and knocking doors until you find his unit and wake his mommy up to come get him. Oh, and be sure to stay on the sidewalks, because only 75% of the residents use the free doggie waste disposal stations that are conveniently located all over the complex. You'll end up carrying extra bags around just to cleanup after other people's dogs. Also, if you get packages shipped a lot, hopefully your work schedule will let you pick them up between 9-5:30, because deliveries usually all go to the leasing office, where they'll stay locked up after office hours when you get home from work. Luckily, if they've sat there for 2 days or more, you'll get a text reminding you that your packages will be returned if not picked up soon. One more really stupid thing: you have a 4-day window each month to pay your rent. If you miss it, you'll be charged a $100 late fee, and have a threatening letter placed on your door on the 5th day that eviction proceedings will be started against you. You will not receive a friendly phone call to ask if you're traveling or offer a courtesy reminder; you will be treated like their worst tenant.
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ALL-IN-ALL:
There are a number of small positives about this place, but they are so darkly overshadowed by the huge negatives that I cannot recommend this place to anyone. read more