The location is not a barrio, by any means, however it is surrounded by a mixture of middle income single family homes and middle to low income renter housing alternating between well kept and neat and overgrown and shabby. The complex borders on an elementary school and you will hear the bells and announcements quite clearly during the day.

The complex itself is kept neat and there are two pools and a tennis court. Parking is mediocre - only one assigned space per apartment or, for some townhouses, a garage. Otherwise it's park where you will.

We've lived here for a year and for the price the apartment is quite large and comfortable. One of the things that sold us was a laundry room large enough to accommodate a full washer and dryer.

The complex itself is fairly quiet, however the apartments tend to have loud plumbing. It's difficult to hear your next door neighbors unless they like to play their TV or radios at ear-drum destroying levels (our current neighbors, unfortunately), or their using their bathrooms in some capacity.

Management is no more or less competent than it is anywhere else. Management and office staff changes are not announced to the complex and run from barely able to walk and chew gum at the same time to earnest and middling competent. The current manager seems all right but does not take reports of attempted break-ins seriously.

Yes, that's correct. Someone tested our kitchen and downstairs patio windows three times within a five week period to see if we'd left the windows unlocked (we don't) nearly pulling the screen off the kitchen window completely in one attempt in broad day light.

The maintenance staff are not competent but then good apartment maintenance staff are a rarity. I would recommend doing your own repairs unless it is something you can't handle. For the heating and AC, insist upon getting the heating/AC contractor in - the mainetance staff are clueless as to how to use the thermostats, much less diagnose problems. They will also enter your apartment even if you've signed the agreement that no one can enter unless a tenant is home.

Our rent increase (in non-rent controlled San Jose) was just over 5% this year, not too surprising with the economy only just starting to improve in the valley. I look to a larger increase next year.

Overall it is quiet, the apartments are comfortably large, but it is not striking in any way. The apartment satisfies our requirements for a living space, particularly after taking sufficient, common-sense precautions to discourage further attempted break-ins so we'll continue to live here. I would not recommend the complex to anyone, however.

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