I lived at SeaFox for the better part of 3 years. The landlord was wonderful (Katrina) but now the new landlord is AWFUL. Never answers the phone, refuses to advocate for you when a contract agency you HAVE to go through fails, and has lost my rent checks 4 times! The community is smaller and if you get good neighbors it can be very warm and welcoming. Sadly good neighbors are hard to find when the landlord INSISTS on renting to drug dealers and wife beaters. I had to call the police 6 times on my downstairs neighbors in a weeks time as I could hear the "man" in the house beat and scream at his girlfriend at 2AM. Every day. I think he planned in in his palm pilot or something. Very disturbing to wake up to. Maintance is friendly. English is not super strong but he's good natured as you play charades. When I moved in there was a jacuzzi and I was told it would be repaired. They removed it without notice the next year and refused to compensate in the rent even though my lease showed the jacuzzi as a amenity.
Pro - near bus lines, shopping, the freeway, elementary and middle schools are less then 5 blocks away, near firestation and police department, close to water, good maintance staff, fireplace in unit, porch, small storage off porch, kitchen island, simple clean layout, dollar to wash and dollar to dry.
Con - no support, notices posted on doors face out to shame you, when landlord makes a mistake you pay (lost check and was told I HAD to pay a late fee or move. Seriously. I have a perfect payment history and they were going to throw me out over $35 I DIDN'T OWE), no communication, frequent car vandelisim, kids run wild in the parking lots and in the dumpsters, feral cats roam wild, raccoons are agressive, laundry is stolen often, dryers often don't heat and landlord refuses to reimburse you for faulty equipment.
Update- it is now 2018 and the "id love to know how i can help make things better" Comment was JUST posted. 6 YEARS after my review.
Sounds about right. I bet they just got around to inspecting my fireplace too.
Oh and my review was before the building by the road burnt down. Which isnt surprising because the month before I had a small grease fire in my kitchen and the fire extinguisher in the stairwell was already used. I informed management of this and they told me that it wasn't uncommon for this to happen because the fire extinguishers weren't locked so kids will play with them, use them and then put them back where they found them. Issue not resolved whatsoever.
No idea if the building was ever rebuilt because i RAN. read more