I keep reading these peoples opinions on Parkside, and see some out right slander going on. I hope that if you are reading these reviews, that you choose to see for yourself. You have to see that these negative reviews are made by people who have no idea how to read. Most of it is about they did not get their money back from their security deposit. Well maybe you were slobs, and it took a lot of work to get your apartment rentable again. Maybe you show no respect to the apartment and damage thing's. Are you saying that the management should pay for your damages' It states clearly in the lease what is expected from you with regards to what condition the apartment should be in. If it is in any less condition than you moved into it, then you will pay to return it back to the way it should be. Damage it, break it and you will and should be charged for it. Don't clean it upon move out, be charged for a cleaning. The term normal wear and tear does not include dirt, damage and trash. I haved walked by recently vacated apartments, and was shocked at what I saw. If this is the kind of condition you lived in, you really should not be shocked at what you are charged to clean it. Looking for a noise proof home' Do not move to an apartment community. If you do not expect to hear some noise living in an apartment, you should consider buying a house in the North Pole. You have to be tolerant of some noise when living in an apartment. Get real people. You should not expect miracles. Want a brand new apartment' Then move to a brand new aparmtnet community, not a 14 year old property. Do not want to live next to a Fire Station' Do not move in next to one. If you want to live in a place that you can be proud of and feel safe in. A place that your needs are taken care of (within reasonable requests)than Avalon at Parkside is the place for you. When I travel, the staff not only will put my packages in my apartment for me, they feed my cat and water my plants. When I have a service request, they are right on top of it. Sometimes when I read these reviews, I think that they must be talkin about another place. The staff and the manager have always been wonderful to me. I have not seen or experienced any of the problems that some of these people write about. I do think that when someone leaves here on a bad note, they may embelish the truth and try to punish Avalon at Parkside for their own personal satisfaction. Well I must say to all of you, I feel sorry for you. How un-happy of a person you must be. I would hate to have your empty lives. My suggetion to all of you who read this. Take it all in with a great big grain of salt. There may be a small part of truth behind some of these reviews, but how much truth should be you question.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 03/21/2007
(More of us Love Parkside, than not) Regarding the Post From: damgladtobehere Dated 9/11/2005 THIS POST clearly smacks of "management," and not a resident, or past resident.
From: Anonymous	Date: 05/27/2009
I can guarantee that I left my apartment in immaculate shape when I left (at least as much that can be done to 6 months of wear and tear). On vacating the apartment, Avalon staff expected me to wash the windows, wash the screens, clean the patio door frame, wash down the patio, clean out each window's frame (sliding area), clean the window screens, pick up around the apartment.. this is on top of filling in tack holes which, incidentally, PacBell put into the building when installing my phone line, cleaning the sink, toilet, bathroom fixtures and general clean up. Note that I have never been asked to wash outside windows, doors or door frames (?) from ANY other apartment on move out. Then, with the maintenance walk through, they weren't satisfied with the carpeting, so I rented a steam cleaner and cleaned the entire carpet myself. Even after all of that, they still deducted HALF of my deposit for their own purposes claiming the apartment needed to be repainted and re-carpeted (and other 'general repairs'). Give me a break! The carpet was immaculate and did not need re-carpeting. The only painting that would have been necessary would be touch up, not a full paint job. Both the full re-carpet and full repaint fell squarely under their cost of business as the apartment was in extremely rentable shape after I was done cleaning it. The only reason they wanted the money was because they could, not because they needed it to actually 'repair' the apartment. The only way to get my full balance from them would have been to take them to small claims court with photographic proof of move out condition. As a matter of course, other people had found this same issue in other Avalon communities. So, they filed a class action suit against Avalonbay for inappropriately taking deposit money. If nothing else, that suit should prove that there is no libel going on in the move out comments for this or any other Avalon complex. This issue was an Avalonbay systemic problem. For Avalonbay to settle the class action suit is enough to prove to me of Avalon's dubious business practices and also enough for me to never choose Avalon managed properties again. See the following (search BC 297004 in Google): "Ko v. AvalonBay Communities, Inc., L.A.S.C. Case No. BC 297004: In this case, the Plaintiff alleged that Defendant AvalonBay Communities, Inc. improperly deducted amounts for repairs from residential security deposits. Westrup Klick represented a former tenant, who brought the action on behalf of herself and as private attorneys general on behalf of the general public, against her landlord for the return of security deposits under Civil Code Section 1950.5, unfair business practices under Business and Professions Code Section 17200, and negligence. As a result of the efforts of Plaintiffs?????? counsel, the parties have entered into a proposed settlement agreement whereby each class member was entitled to receive a partial refund of their security deposit in the amount of $120.00"

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