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anonymous

Resident 2000 - 2001

7/4/2005

I lived here for a little over a year, and would have loved to stay, but my roommate in our 1-bedroom apartment moved out. Overall, it was a great place to live, especially compared with a lot of the other buildings near the UC Berkeley campus. <br><br>Good points:<br>- Great location. Near UC Berkeley, grocery stores and restaurants, not too far from BART station, and on a well-lit, well-traveled stretch of road.<br>- Building was well-maintained and the management was reasonably friendly and attentive to concerns. <br>- The appliances were fairly new, the carpet was replaced and the place was freshly painted when I moved in. <br>- Pretty spacious for a 1-bedroom, 1-bath apartment, and lots of closet/storage space.<br>- Kitchen was a good size for me, and I cook most meals at home.<br>- On the 3rd floor, there was a lot of light, and a nice view of the Bay.<br>- The entryway is pleasant, and has a semi-secure buzzer system. <br>- Laundry room is on the top floor of the building and has a nice view.<br>- Cool central vacuum system - you plug a hose into a hoel in your wall and voila! - dirt is magically sucked away! If you have a vacuum, you might not bother using this, but it was very convenient for me, and also means you don't have to worry about vacuum bags.<br><br>Minor nuisances:<br>- On the Shattuck side of the building, there was a fair amount of truck noise that came in, and also some truck exhuast, even on the third floor.<br>- The 3rd floor west-facing view was very bright, in a generally good way, but especially in the late afternoons and the summer, this could make it fairly hot in the apartment. <br>- We had ants on one occasion, and they somehow managed to get in the fridge and the freezer (where they promptly bit the dust). We tried a variety of things, but ultimately it required arsenic traps and a visit from our friendly pest control professional who sprayed permethrin. This took care of the problem for at least several months more before I moved out. <br>- Pool wasn't maintained optimally. It was usable, and wasn't disgusting by any means, but it also wasn't pristine; there was a larger-than-desirable collection of dead bugs floating around on the surface. <br>- On occasion we could hear more than we really wanted to hear from our next-door neighbor's apartment, but this was no more significant in this building than anywhere else I've lived.<br>- At the time, more expensive than some of the other buildings in the area. But definitely higher-quality than most of those buildings.<br><br>No opinion:<br>- Didn't have a car, so don't know much about the parking situation, but I'm pretty sure parking cost extra and there may have been a waitlist.

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