Stonecliffe gets high reviews but as a longtime Monroeville resident, both as a renter and home owner, I am confident they are fake. Like most things you get what you pay for, and Stonecliffe is cheap compared to places like Belmont or Eagle Ridge where residents needs are considered. In short, Stonecliffe is a work colony. The maintenance crew shows up every day at 6-615am. And if you live in the back of the plan you WILL hear them. Remember this is where they work not where you sleep. The maintenance staff never quits and is constantly driving trucks and ATVs (why do they need Polarises? -loud) all over the place all hours. In the winter the plow driver (driving the plow really for fun or OCD) will take a weekend to clear 2-3". Every space. Everywhere. Crazy. Teams of workers with snowblowers are out at 5am. Thur and Fri in the summer is a 2 day mowing fest with gas trimmers and blowers re-edging and blowing every single blade of grass with again each week (they cut a lot of the lawn with weed wackers) and fleet of engines. Now this maintenance may be highlighted by the office as a boon but it it's really excessive and beyond the needs of the residents. Maintenance should not be so obvious. You honestly will never not see a mess a of people making some construction noise somewhere here. Spend some money on the apartments. Notice perfect lawns but buildings in need of a power wash, interiors outdated, etc. Add to the fact that there has been constant construction behind the plan on Pitcairn Rd (with no communication to residents) 6 days a week and it's clear they have no clue people live here. They have the audacity to run gas powered pumps outside residents (and children's) windows to pump water out of broken pipes into the street at all hours, waking residents with total disregard for the past 4 months as I write this with no end in site. Parking lots are broken up leading to parking shortages. Despite the construction and noise progress is not apparent as there is little day to day change. As a final blow, they are trying to raise rent essentially (likely to cover construction?) by trying to charge residents a flat water rate of $40 in the middle of the leases - get this - saying it's to our/my benefit. Considering my metered water is $25 a month and all the dissatisfaction residents have faced, this comes as a huge slap in the face and is potentially not legal. (Who knows what they will slap on you next in the middle of your lease?) The low rent has recently brought in mixed clientele too. Management has informed residents of 2 recent break-ins - the windows are a joke and would not trust living on the first floor. This and now fireworks are being shot off on a regular basis here for every international holiday - somehow oddly acceptable. Now, said this, the staff are very nice - I've gotten to know many of them - and this is likely and management or process issue. Likely the guys on the ground don't have a say on what they are doing. But that speaks just to the property layout, the construction situation, or to the profit machine in play by management. But until these disruptions are recognized, if you are looking for a home or true relatively decent place for a family, I suggest people stay far away from Stonecliffe, or at the very least do not rent any buildings near the public areas, pool, or in the back of the plan (likely they will be the only ones available). read more