Sierra Vista II

Balanced Review of SV II

From: bgilmore
Date posted: 5/19/2009
Years at this apartment: 2006-01-01 - 2009-01-01
3 responses

Nobody on this site ever uses this to give balanced review.

They mainly use it for revenge over a slight from management.

Don't get me wrong, there is a lot to be desired living here and dealing with the management (both past and present).

Overall, I like where I am living but I have a very well placed unit.

Here are my observations:

-Never seen any roaches, and hardly any bugs for that matter (2nd floor apt, kept clean)

-Maintenance will respond to problems though sometimes you have to pester the office to get them to follow through.

UPDATE: This got REALLY bad for a time and then they worked on a big fix.

I will add updates as I see how they proceed under the new system they said they were following.

-I don't like some of the comments made in other reviews about races hear.

I see low income tenants with kids, lots of whom are minorities.

Calling the place ghetto seems like racial profiling to me and assumptive.

Just because someone is black, doesn't have a lot of money and has kids, doesn't make it ghetto.

Still, every once in while some ------- drives through or parks with his car stereo blasting rap and then even I think it's ghetto, but half the time that's some white kid from white suburbia.

It is not that bad nor frequent though.

-Cops are here a lot but in Tempe they are everywhere (Tempe voters approve every debt inducing bond project lobbied for by emergency services).

If you personally have a problem, they will be here quick and that is what is important.

-Air Conditioning: here they are challenged.

They have a crappy chiller unit that has never worked right.

HOWEVER; at huge expense to them, they have hooked up a massive temporary unit, which as of this writing is working ALMOST perfectly.

We have yet to see how well the system works when the new permanent chiller is fixed/replaced.

It has been a living hell the few time the a/c has gone down, but they usually get it back up fast.

We are talking less than 1 day turn around but an event that occurs often twice per summer.

UPDATE: This may have been fixed this summer but my unit still seemed challenged.

But my unit has windows catching rays both in the morning and evening.

I have had to seal my windows with thermal insulation and use portable A/C units to compensate.

Summer 2010 will be the real test of the new chiller system.

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Last updated: 11/25/2009

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