The Good:
MAINTENANCE was done in a timely manner.
GROUNDS....There is a new management company and they are doing a lot to fix the place up. The new chairs and tables near the pool are nice and the BBQ grills are great! Much better than the charcoal ones that were there before. The new company is doing a lot to the grounds, making it a nicer area. They have laid new sod and laid down rocks. It is getting a well needed update.
RECYCLING...this was something new they brought in 2012. It was great that they started recycling. Austin is trying to be green, this is a great way to help.
LOCATION...this complex is in a great location. It's just minutes to everything.
PET RENT...there is none!
The Bad:
ELECTRIC bills are crazy high. These buildings are so old, and the insulation very poor...don't be surprised by a $200 electric bill. I don't use as much as most people (I kept it from 78-80 degrees in the summer and replaced all my light bulbs with fluorescents-can't imagine what it would be without the money saving light bulbs).
WORKOUT room...obviously your not renting this place for that feature. It has a water fountain that hasn't worked the entire time I lived there. The wipes to clean the equipment and old and dry or empty. There is 1 treadmill, 1 eliptical, some free weights, a weight bench, and another weight machine. The pictures may make it look great, but it's tiny and there's not much to it.
NOISE...there is a good amount of noise near the pool at night. This has been more recently (summer of 2012). Guess some noisy people are renting. When management was alerted, they sent out a note to everyone saying that if it's too noisy, call the cops. So, they didn't help there.
WILDLIFE....I know it's outdoors and you can't help the wildlife, but racoons are running wild around the complex. When we take out the garbage, there was almost always atleast on there (and not little ones). I think the problem is that the garbage was always overflowing. This needs to be fixed. The size of the complex should either get another dumpster or a dumpster with a trash compactor.
PARKING...is horrible. I've had to park all the way at the back of the parking lot before because there was no parking...I've also had a time when there was no parking at all and I had to either wait for a spot or park off the complex. That only happened to me once because right after, I decided to pay for a parking spot. If you rent here, paying for parking is a must! A word of caution, you have to have your parking pass up. I had mine up everyday and must have knocked it down (it fell in the compartment between the two front seats-you could see it if you looked in the window). Anyway, it wasn't there and they did a massive towing one day. I had to get someone to take me down to JJ's towing which was way down south...I also had to pay the fee $190...when I spoke with management, they said they can give me $50 back...yet, I never got the money. I mentioned it to the man at the office and he told me I had to take it up with the woman. They shortened the office hours and close at 5:30. I was never able to see her. :( so much for that $50. They should have put it in the record somewhere so he could have gotten it to me. Or better yet, deducted it from my rent or put it in my mailbox.
DOG POOP...this is a problem with the pet owners not taking care of their pets. If you have a pet, pick up after them! The management company keeps bags out there for pet owners to use...many of them don't! It's frustrating when you clean up after your pet, but others don't, and you end up stepping in dog crap! Clean up after your pet or don't have a pet!
RENT...rent went up tremendously. When I first started renting there, I was paying $590 plus 35 water, a year later, it was upped to $610 plus 35 water (not bad), a year later (new management took over) it jumped to $680 (this I had negotiated down...they wanted $740 and I told them no) plus for water. 6 mos. later, (new management company) they upped the rent to $859 plus 40 for water. I'm sorry, but this place is not worth that price. If they'd left it at the 724 (rent plus water), I probably would have stayed. It's a very good location and I haven't had any problems with maintenance or management.
Another thing I hated was walking home at night and people just hanging out in their garages. They would stare at you until you went around the corner, kind of creepy. Never had a problem with any of them, just didn't like to get stared at.
Hate the fact that management constantly changes, and rent constantly goes up. read more