I've lived here for many years and can tell you that I can't wait to move out.
First, the good news. The grounds are pretty, it's a quiet neighborhood, it's a safe neighborhood, and maintenance responds quickly (though not effectively; more on that below). The apartments themselves are fairly nice, though the appliances are all the cheapest things possible so they need more maintenance than usual.
So why am I so eager to move out?
First and foremost, the management here is terrible. Whenever I talk to them it's clear that they couldn't possibly care less about any concern I have. They exist only to take my money, and that's it. They're all smiles and sunshine when you're signing your lease, but after that they're rude and condescending. They couldn't make it more obvious that once they have your money, and once you're locked into their lease, they literally don't care about what you want or how you feel.
Secondly, the internet goes out here at least once a month. When it goes out it could be anywhere from 5 minutes to multiple hours. To make matters worse, the internet is provided through the apartment complex itself, so when this happens you can't contact the cable company for assistance, you just have to wait for the apartment management themselves to do something. Sometimes they'll notify me beforehand that they'll do internet maintenance on a given date at a given time, so I change my work commitments around that (I work remotely). However, they never start the maintenance at the time they say they will and it always takes longer than they said it would. How am I supposed to work around this, especially when it happens over and over again? What on earth is wrong with their internet infrastructure that this issue is never actually fixed? I have NEVER lived anywhere that the internet goes out this often, for this long, with no resolution in sight and absolutely no recourse with the internet company themselves.
Thirdly, the lease terms are exploitative and very difficult to work around. Basically, your only options at the end of your lease are to sign up for another year, or sign a shorter lease with massively inflated rent prices per month. They say they have "month to month", and I suppose they kind of do, but their version of that is you paying almost double your current rent for the privilege of staying there for that month. It makes it very difficult to coordinate a move because they are completely inflexible on this point which means you have to hope you can find a place in the time before your lease ends that you can move into in that small window of time, or you have to pay an exorbitant amount of money on top of all the expenses of moving to another place. Doesn't matter if you've lived here 5 years, doesn't matter if you've paid your rent on time literally every single month for that entire time, they do not care at all.
Fourth, maintenance does respond quickly, but they only do the bare minimum. They've actually CAUSED damage when I asked them to repair something because of their carelessness. Their "fixes" for things are essentially to put a bandaid on it until it breaks again, then show up with another bandaid.
Fifth, they're doing this renovation project to all the apartments and increasing the rent a staggering amount because of it. They're charging downtown loft prices for small apartments in the county. The options they give you are: move into a renovated apartment and pay almost double your current rent, or move out when your lease ends. Again, they aren't flexible at all about the lease, so even though they essentially force you to pay for their new overpriced apartments or move out, they also won't work with you at all on helping facilitate the process of moving out.
Finally, they clearly have a problem with mold here. When we signed our lease the person we spoke with was very very adamant that we need to be careful about leaving the bathroom door open after taking a shower and we need to report mold to them immediately. I've never lived somewhere that emphasized mold more than here. It's so much of an issue they've actually written it into a lease. Ask yourself, would a place that DOESN'T have a problem with mold emphasize this so strongly? I've seen why they say this, too. Mold shows up in the bathroom all the time and has to be bleached away, but it comes right back. They clearly know they have a mold problem and don't do anything about it.
So, if you're okay with all of the above, then I guess this is an okay place to live. Otherwise, stay away. There are much better apartments in this price range that don't have all this frustrating nonsense to deal with. read more