Crystal Springs Terrace Apts

Cold and Damp in Winter; Hot in Summer; Maximum Rent Increases From: -Anonymous- Date posted: 12/20/2006 Years at this apartment: 2005 - 2006   I stayed in a spacious studio for a year. Good size with a cathedral ceiling. The place was generally quiet and pleasant, although depending where you're located, be careful of getting a place hit with highway noise. A top floor studio generally sticks out from the rest of the building, so you don't get a lot of noise from neighbors, although I've heard that downstairs units and where you share walls can be a bit noisy. You get assigned one parking space, forget about finding any guest parking. I found the management staff to generally be quite pleasant and responsive, although a bit plastic. The rent appears cheap, but they don't include garbage, water, sewer or anything most other apartments include, therefore you end up spending at least $150/month more than a comparable place that covers the usual (plus your electricity which can get really high unless you don't mind freezing in the totally uninsulated apartments that get very damp and cold in the winter and very hot in the summer). It would be a good idea to get a dehumidifier for your place (another expense). The ISTA bill appears to be split up between all the units so if you are conservative of energy, it doesn't help your bill. Yearly rent increases are the maximum allowable by law. Always. If you let your lease expire, they add $100 on top of that/month They always acknowledge that the rent increases are high in the rent increase notice, so if they feel so guilty about it, why do they always raise it so much' ($55/mo raise for a studio if I renewed my lease before it expired, more if I let the lease expire first). I left the apartment in better condition than when I moved in and cleaned everything they list to clean on moving out checklist and still only got $25 of my deposit back. The reason I left was the expense and the damp, cold winters.

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