These apartments are really beautiful and well maintained. The maintenance guys are awesome and very responsive. This apartment is in a great location for Amarillo.
Building wise they are very nice inside, rooms are big, all electric,rent is good to but pet rent is added on top of rent and so is covered parking. They do not allow grills of any kind on the balconies or patios. Your dogs are not allowed to be kept on the patio without supervision. Dogs must be kept on leash (not many people follow this but the dogs around here are very well behaved) and they provide waste bags for you to pick up after dogs. If you take showers the hot water only lasts maybe 13 minutes. I think this may be because of the electric water heater but I don't know, we haven't said anything about this and I don't know if anyone else has this issue.
Neighbors are nice but like any other apartments if you live on the bottom floor such as my boyfriend and I do, you do hear them walking across their apartment. You normally don't hear voices or TVs though, there has been one incident where I heard a dog bark all day because he was left on the patio, this was rough since I worked nights at the time and when I called to complain about it I was told it wasn't quiet hours yet which are at 10pm.
The staff is friendly, but seem to be disorganized. My boyfriend and I had a somewhat inconvenient time moving in, we were told to come pick up the keys any time of the move in week so I took off of work 2 different times to try and pick up keys and it was a no go both times. We had some issues with assigned parking, we both have covered parking and for myself I was told an incorrect number. We got it fixed pretty quickly and haven't had an issue since. We did want garage spaces but we were told we had to have the apartment that was connected to it. Which is odd because there are more garages on the property than apartments connected. I don't know if this is incorrect information or if they only lease out half of them. And when we first asked we were told we weren't guaranteed a garage near our apartment. We gave up and just got regular covered parking.
We also had an issue with a pet, we decided to adopt a dog about a month after we lived here and we had seen many dogs that didn't fit into the pet description (under 40lbs and a non violent breed) examples are German Shepard, Pit Bull, Golden retriever and a few others. These are all over 40lbs, we had found a dog that the adoption agency described as a lab mix but she was full grown. When we asked the staff they made a big fuss on her being a lab and that they said that there was no way she would be under 40lbs. This broke our hearts and when we brought up the other dogs they claimed they knew nothing about them and that the golden retriever was a service dogs. Service dogs have to have a vest when on duty. I have approached this dog and owner in our courtyard before and there is no way he is a service dog. He approaches other dogs with out being commanded, he growl at dogs who play with him (playfully I may add), and he never had a vest. We knew there was no fighting with them because there was always an excuse when we brought up other dogs such as, "oh he is 39lbs," or "oh we don't know anything about him" (mind you we live in the same courtyard as the office. We gave up and got a different dog.
Recently they have been experimenting with the gate situation, for the longest time neither gates were closed which is convenient because if you want a gate remote it's like a $100 deposit (I think) and since there are two of us we just decided against it. About two months in they started closing the side gate. Which is fair they did tell us it's normally close so we started using the main gate which was never locked. The policy when we originally moved in was that the main gate would be open until 7:00pm (I think) and after that it would lock and you need a gate code to get in. Fine no big deal. Well today they started locking the gate for the first time, before 7:00pm (this was at 3:00ish) I attempted my gate code and it failed. This lady was outside with the maintenance men discussing somethig and she rudely asked what apartment I was in, I told her, and she told me what my gate combination should be, which was the same one I put in that failed, so she gave me a different code which worked. I left my apartment again today and when I returned home there were four cars attempting to get in. No one was able to. So I know it wasn't mine, thankfully one of the residents had a gate remote and helped us get in. I haven't brought this to their attention but first thing in the morning I will.
We also haven't received an invoice on our rent since we've moved in, but that's minor
I would recommend these apartment regardless of all the issues we have had just because of how swell the maintenance guys are. We haven't had a problem with our place that lasted longer than 24 hours and you cannot beat th read more