Oh, where to begin? The absolute worst place I've ever lived (though it's a billion times worse now than at any point during which I lived there).
Dirty, bad tenants, loud, criminal activity, incidents of domestic violence, unkempt-looking apartments, squatters, and lackluster management. This complex gets worse every single year that passes by.
Get this straight: the place is foul. It's a sad, sad sight to behold these days, it truly is. The worst part of it is that Sunset Village wasn't like this several years ago. Once a stately-looking Art Deco apartment complex is largely now in ruins, overtaken by time, neglect and rampant crime.
It's been sold multiple times (more times than anyone really knows) and has been under various "management teams" for years, mostly real estate groups with no physical presence in this country, let alone the community. There is no real on-site security or maintenance, which explains the level of squatting that has currently become a real problem. The city has been slow to recognize this growing tempest of a situation, though there has been some talk of razing all of the buildings and starting over, but who knows? Unfortunately, Sunset Village is located within a pretty nice residential area across the street from a golf course and park near the hospital, so it's become not only an eyesore for the local community, but a source of exploding criminal activity in recent years.
I couldn't wait to move out when I did (which was years ago), although in retrospect, the place was like Buckingham Palace compared to what it looks like today. Centipedes have taken up resident in the apartments, which is truly pathetic, not to mention disturbing as hell. There are drunks and addicts sleeping in the hallways and milling around the doorways, grafitti scrawls etched along the exterior of the complex and missing brickwork on some of the buildings. read more