THE BAD:
Padre Gardens is like a fake watch. It looks great at first but once you look more in detail you notice it is a piece of crap! The parking is ridiculous!!! Try and find a spot at night when you come home. When there is an event at quallcomm stadium you feel like your in prison cause you can't leave the area at all! It's great living next to the highway but all the smut from it makes it really hard to breath! I have had cockroaches also. The walls are about as thin as plywood too, you can hear tenents tv's as you walk down the hallway, crazy! There is a gym but half of the stuff doesn't work. The pool is never cleaned and is filled with the highway smut.
When you visit padre gardens the management seem real nice but trust me they are not. They are very rude, especialy the Manager! Don't move here please, keep looking there are better apts to live at! I am moving out of here this month and I'm very excitied.

THE GOOD:
The size of the apt is nice and so is the layout. a/c and heat work great. Maitnance is nice and do a good job. Security is always on patrol at night! Most of all the price. i pay 1100 a month for a one bedroom. If you are thinking about moving here don't please. Yes, there are nice things about this place, but the are greatly overshadowed by all the flaws. I cant wait to get out of this dump!!!!

User Responses
From: wbaxter1	Date: 05/10/2008
Had me until whoever it was started selling another complex, then the author started to sound like a troll. If the author mention more than one, or why they included it in their review I think I could overlook their indiscretion.
From: Anonymous	Date: 06/03/2008
The fact that the location is right next to the staduium is your first clue to parking being tight and let me tell you this little area is very tight for parking, cmon It's Mission Valley. The Stadium games are not so bad any way, it happens 8 times a year... I live at a neighboring complex and it's what ever you make it to be. Cheap rent is great and if you keep your apartment clean I bet you won't get roaches. I have lived there in the past and never had problems we had to move to a 2 bedroom due to an addition to our family, and we got a deal we couldn't refuse. You have the wrong Idea about that place, if you want more expensive go pay more but you get what you pay for buddy. and for the price that place is very nice. Good bye Troll guy!
From: Anonymous	Date: 06/26/2008
More management trying to downplay the major problems. If the stadium traffic is such a non-issue, why did the reviewer both to mention it. I can guarantee there are roaches and rats. When they are in the hallway, it's not a matter of one individual's poor housekeeping. It's called being a SLUMLORD!
From: Anonymous	Date: 11/03/2008
It's more than just the Charger games causing flak. Men/women's Soccer, concerts and more seriosuly clog up streets at random times. It really sucked to have to plan our activities days in advance to miss the massive wall of tailgating motorhomes that block everything down mission rd. It's much more than 8 times a year that the complex is affected. Most people that sneak our spots do get towed, but not everyone. And about the cleanliness....it doesn't matter when so many neightbors trash the place and leave junk EVERYWHERE. There was a pair of army boots that sat in the MIDDLE of the hallway for more than a week. The cleaning crew just doesn't care. People leave their garbage bags outside their doors for the night and the halls stink during the day. There are dog owners who actually care about the health and well being of their neighbors, but there is crap everywhere where a strip of grass can be. Oh, did I mention the unfair overcharges to moving in where they "predict" what your electric bill is, but when you get your legit bill from sdge, and do a simple calculation to show you've been overcharged, you get a "tough luck, we don't care." attitude. The night security is NOT security, they are only out to find cars to tow and perform the most minimal of patrol duties. I used to do security and this is a joke. No worthwhile work effort or pride in their job at all. I could go on and on.... the only good is that the size of the unit/vs price is fine and would be great if all these constant posted reviews were not real, but they ARE!
From: Anonymous	Date: 01/30/2009
Padre Gardens is a toilet that can't be cleaned. The management has nothing better to do than try to write reviews and throw in positive responses here and there on this site. If you want to know the straight up truth, then take a tour yourself. Don't go to the office, just park on the the street and take a quick walk around. You will quickly see what people are saying is true. If you are in need of some entertainment, then stop by on a weekend night. More than likely you will either: 1. run itno some type of drunken idiot or the remains of that behavior 2. see your car towed or someone else's 3. Watch someone try to break into a car 4. run into a loose dog 5. Watch bums dig through the trash 6. Some kind of strange thing that still makes me stop and say, "what the...." Come see all the glory for yourself.

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