Campbell Ranch
  (formerly Rancho Montana)

Poor environment for family with young children From: -Anonymous- Date posted: 5/4/2004 Years at this apartment: 2001 - 2004   My husband and I have lived at Rancho Montana for 3 years. We came because the graduate student housing for the U of Arizona had closed, and we liked the family-oriented look of the complex with two pools, lots of trees and grass, and a playground. We enjoyed our first year at Rancho Montana because there were many kind people and lots of children. But, then, the management change came (or the first of several). The second year of our residency, things began to happen. Our car was broken into twice, our laundry was stolen, and our window was broken out (in broad daylight while I was home, pouring glass all around my newborn who was below the window sleeping). Many of our graduate student friends moved away, and we should have followed, but instead stayed because we really liked the customer service given to us by Lisa (the best thing that ever happened to Rancho Montana). Our third year has been a disaster. We have heard several gunshots, my husband has broken up a gang fight, cars have been torched onsite, more theft, our bikes have all been vandalized, and our mailboxes broken into so many times that we can no longer receive packages (we now have to pick packages up from the post office because the office won't receive them either). I have seen someone carried away in a body bag from an apartment notorious for partying. We are now convinced that it is time for us to leave. We will sorely miss the playground and the pools. But we will be glad to be rid of our adjoining chain-smoking neighbors, the nonstop obscenities from another adjoining neighbor's mouth, the drunken men that knock on our door at all hours of the night, and the gangsters that oogle me at the pool when I swim with my children. We will also not miss the smell of marijuana, the dog poop all over the complex, the graffiti that constantly appears on the childrens' playground equipment, and the gang safe houses. Although they give nice incentives for referrals, I would not give one to someone with a young family because my integrity is more important than the money. The complex could have made themselves a small fortune had they stuck to the grad students with families marketing approach. I wish they had - we'd have stayed.

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