Seriously, some of the 1-star reviews have me scratching my head. Your microwave beeps too much, yet you can't bother spending 2 seconds to reprogram the microwave to make zero noise? THE MICROWAVE LABEL TELLS YOU HOW TO DO THIS WHEN YOU OPEN THE MICROWAVE. You mean to say you lived here for 1 year, basically 365 days, and not ONCE in those 365 days, you didn't think to figure this shit out?
"bUt tHaT'S ThE ApArTmEnT StAfF'S JoB"
Aaaaaaaaaand that's why we see so many 1-star reviews here.
A lot of these 1-star reviews I've noticed are borne out of a single failure of understanding: You cannot make an informed decision without being informed.
You need to know the full picture as much as possible, walking in to any sort of real estate venture, or you'll be that uninformed customer that gets salty because oh-god the salesman/saleswoman didn't disclose the full picture. Since when do sales people tell you everything wrong about a product?
Do you go to job interviews and tell the hiring manager how unreliable of an employee you will be once hired?
No?
Didn't think so.
Listen, if you walk into any sort of sales engagement knowing less about the product (in this case, an apartment) than the salesperson, that is 100% on you. It is on you 100% to learn the background of the apartment. The salesperson is just there to sell, they're just doing their jobs. Start answering these types of questions on your own: Who is the property management group, who owns the property management group, are they profitable, what was their fiscal performance like in the last 3 years, who built the property, what materials were used did they recently get series-XYZ funding, how many employees do they have, what does retention look like, do they build and manage their own or are they a "churn and burn" that builds properties then sells them off to management groups like Greystar? These are the types of questions you should be asking when evaluating your options in the hunt for the "right" apartment for you. Most of the questions I just buzzed off, you can answer by using this website called Google from your smartphone.
Simply looking at number of bedrooms and price is, IMO, the shittiest way to approach apartment hunting.
Infrastructure-wise, this place is legit, barring the thin walls. The windows appear double-paned which helps with noise, but due to the thin walls, you hear noise, so, make sure you apply noise dampeners or wear earbuds if you can't deal with the noise. I'm a light sleeper so no fucks given here. Anyway, yeah, thin walls; that's to be expected in today's modern apartment design; again, as a society, we no longer build things to last. We build to build. If it's that big of a deal to you, buy some acoustic foam. That shit is cheap AF, you'll spend less than $100 to cover multiple walls in an apartment AND you can take that acoustic foam with you wherever you go to your next home.
I grabbed the model numbers of every appliance in the apartment I toured. Despite the Frigidaire labels on the washer/dryer, they're actually Electrolux units and you can pull up the owner's manual online on your smartphone. For reference, the washer is model number "FFW5100PW" and the dryer is model "FFQE5100PW1" at least in my specific apartment. The microwave in my unit is product number Frigidaire "316495162" and the oven/range is model number "FFEF3043LSK". All of these products I just listed, I downloaded owners manuals for straight from my smartphone so I can consult them whenever I want to make some sort of configuration change instead of wailing my arms like a baby asking maintenance to do menial things.
Nice amenities, the package locker does its job, ParcelPending is a vendor I have lived with at past properties I lived at back in Arizona and California so it was nice to see them again here in Oregon.
Parking-wise, I seriously don't know what the big deal is with parking here. You got a parking problem? Have your guest park at the WinCo shopping mall area and you can drive them over here to Vector. I just checked on Google Maps, it's exactly 1.0 mile away. Short ride.
Also there's EV charging. I don't pay to refuel my vehicle anymore since converting to an EV.
Electricity is cheap here. I don't know what people are complaining about, Oregon literally has one of the cheapest utilities in the NATION, look it up. You wanna complain about expensive electricity, move to San Diego and pay $0.59 per kWh. I'm fine paying my $0.08 per kWh here in Oregon, thank you very much. For reference, the national average for residential electricity was $0.138 in 2018. We are WELL UNDER THAT AVERAGE IN OREGON. If the front office wants to bill me an extra $20 a month for shared utilities, sure, have it.
I feel like people here leaving 1-star reviews just want to complain and take it out on Holland / Vector for no reason. It's a good property if the features suit you and you know how to work around what is offered. read more