Bottom line, with anything on this earth, you pay for what you get. I rented here for 8 months while I was waiting on my home to be completed.
There are pages and pages of people saying this appartment complex sucks and half of them are somewhat correct with their complaints and others are just silly as they are likely either last ditch attempts at devaluing a management company that likely had to remove them for failure to pay bills or competing property management companies.
I will take some of my favorite complaints and address them with real issues:
1. Dog Poop, the staff either actually cleans this up or the dog owners themselves do, truth is I never stepped in nor saw alot of poop around
2. Druggies & degenerates... hmm looking the socio-econmic cohort which generally occupies the lowest priced rent provider in any given urban area, you have nothing out of the ordinary.
You have some folks likely on the dole & some college kids who rip bong loads but then again you also have a hand full of elderlys and mormons too to cancel them out. Most people who live there are normal middle class people who thought the same thought, "I could save $300 living three blocks north of Mark Taylor - how different could it be". I parked my new Porsche for the last month I lived there, no one messed with it although the dude who lived below me in a tore up late 80's Honda lost a car stereo from what I heard. I never saw anyone doing drugs or anything and the only craziness I saw was every once in a while at bar time, the college kids would be fumbling around but east of Sun City, you are going to get that behavior anywhere you go.
4) The appliances are out of date - If you care so much go by a condo conversion of one of the other 16 appartment houses in the zip code. This way you pay the mortgage on 200k for the same appartment but you have new appliances. The appliances kind of suck and are colored like your hippie aunt who enjoyed coffee too much picked them out but at least they worked which is cool for the cheapest place to live in town.
5) Scorpions - I lived on the third floor so didn't see any.
6) parking - parking blows - You basically have one spot and that is all you can ever count on. There are a few other spots but no dice there. By the way, the spots are big enough for a compact car so me and my Tahoe only made as both the people next to me felt bad enough to hug their other sides.
7) management - there was a chick - a dumphy one who looked like Ethyl Mermom with the personality of a beaver with down syndrome who yes, I damn near inflicted harm onto once during a weak moment involving an involentary entrance by maintainence, other than that we were cool. I would suggest going down in person anytime you have an issue.
7) Moving out was very simple, I had to have my lease extended by two weeks to fit my building schedule and I was given 90% of my deposit, then again I didn't break anything and I actually cleaned the place before I gave the keys back.
8) loud people - only two things that ever bugged me - the guy with the f-ing weed wacker at 7am daily and the couple who lived across (from conversation I learned that he was sleeping with both her sister and her mother) who would scream until horse over domestic issues that rarely would go three words without an F bomb. They moved out pretty quick, I think she was again pregnant- I would be hard pressed to blame that on Presidio though - the weed wacker guy though, f him.
9) The property looks sh tty - Great, then don't model your appartment development out of it. I sposse some units are better than others but it doesn't look that bad, and if it does go move to the French Quarter some day and tell me how that compares. It might not be Mark Taylor, then again Mark Taylor costs more and doesn't except your 465 mid fico.
If you have the money, go rent a house, they are inexpensive as too many investors are sitting on empty houses. If you don't, go to Presdio and don't complain.
The grounds are okay as there is a nice park, but that nice park is still on the side of a freeway so it reminds you of New Jersey but you have a quick walk to the Native New Yorker and JC Pennies.
|
|
I'm the author!
Free estimates on moving trucks
Free quotes on movers
