"You have to know where to live here" is a self-defeating statement, as we lived in a standard unit with randomly assigned neighbors. No, this apartment complex is riddled with major problems; please corroborate my statements with previous posts.

West Park Village has a couple of things going for it: a great location, and by virtue of being decades old all of its greenery has matured and provides a nice tree-canopied environment. We were looking forward to living there for a short period of time and enjoyed meeting with the low-key management.

But that's where it ended.

The buildings themselves are very poorly constructed, and the walls between apartments paper-thin. We could hear full conversations from neighbors on either side of us. On one side, the guy who stayed up all night (his living room facing our bedroom) drunk and laughing hysterically, and on the other frat-house pranksters partying and screaming until 3 am. Security has no authority to do anything about the situation, except "ask" them to be quiet. Although your neighbors can be different from unit to unit, the wafer-thin walls are a major problem. The sliding-glass doors are of the pooorest quality as well. Screen doors don't slide flush with the moldings. Things like that.

If you get a unit without a window in the bathroom, ventilation is a serious issue. The miniscule fan is overwhelmed by any amount of steam and it will take over 20 minutes post-showering to see the mirror. This isn't too good for the paint either, but I'll save that bunker-buster until the end.

I constantly had people parking in my assigned parking space. They were workers under the employ of West Park Village. After this happened three times, the manager suggested I get another parking space. That's right, you read correctly. Wouldn't just want to clarify to the workers that that they were parking in my spot illegally -- make it my problem instead.

The apartments themselves are cheaply painted and the carpet is of low quality. All of the shelving is vintage, and has simply been painted over and over again. It will not withstand more than the minorist of wear (forget pots, pans, things like that) as the paint will fleck off with the slightest scrape.

Now this is where we get to the real issue with West Park Village. After we lived there for six months, with minimal wear to the already cheaply-painted surfaces, they had the gall to charge us for a FULL REPAINT of the apartment. Slight paint issues in the bathroom due to inadequate ventilation' Our problem. Time to repaint all of those cabinets after years of use' Our problem. Management alleged we signed a waiver -- we did not and they could not produce it. They contend it is standard practice -- which after 15 years of renting I can assure it is not. As I do not want to have this review removed I shall refrain from writing what I would really like to. Suffice to say, West Park Village is well aware that we have moved out of state and will in all likelihood not be willing to undertake a lawsuit over the matter of a couple hundred dollars.

And in closing, let it be known that the many, if not most units do not have A/C, and that the entire compound is infested with squirrels that dart across the roofs at all hours. It's "sort of" cute... No microwave, dishwasher... an awful oven that couldn't fit a standard cookie sheet. And ours was not the only negative experience. If you think our UNIT was bad (we had a top floor, very bright, open floorplan) imagine having one anywhere near the pool area where every weekend a lady would let her howling son play in the water for hours on end.

Plus it's a total rip-off. I'll let you be the judge.

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