Bella Terra Apartment Homes formerly Vista Hacienda Apartments
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From: -Anonymous-Date posted: 8/23/2003
Years at this apartment: 1999 - 2001
I lived there for a year and a half. I never should have moved. It's been a few years since I lived there and things may have changed, but overall I don't think enough would change to make it intolerable.
Parking -- we got one parking spot per apartment that was covered. The parking spaces had storage units attached. You walk under the carport like a usual one, say to get in your car, and where the hood of your car was, the carport had cabinets of sort that held quite a bit of stuff. Most people put old boxes and misc stuff in there that you didnt really care about. you could lock them. They had two sets of double doors so it was easy to put stuff in and take them out. They were very spacious and handy to have.
The visitor parking was uncovered. In some sections there was plenty of parking near your building, but the most of it was a short hike - near the center of the complex. Most people got home between 4 and 5. After 530 you should expect to have to park on the street. Be prepared, the street is a very steep hill that cars love to fly down. Dont get caught with you car out on the street the day the street sweeper comes. You will be ticketed. You can park on the main street and even down one of the side streets. It can be a drag to walk that distance up a hill but you get used to it.
If you live near the entrance, you tend to hear everyone come in, and out..nothing unbearable though.
The noise was pretty quiet compared to most places. The tenants were primarily young adults, as it is mostly military and college age people living there. There were a few families who had kids running around, but for the most part they were military families -- 20's and 30's--who are able to live off base. The walls are average -- you could hear the neighbor with the treadmill upstairs. You could also hear through the walls in the apartment -- i would say that was the only negative.
You will hear many car stereos though. Alot of the tenants who lived in the complex loved to fix up their cars. Sometimes you would hear some music that made you want to stick a nail in your foot but other than those rare moments, it was not so bad that it was an annoyance. It becomes a little buzzing bee in your mind..a little pestering thing zooming by your ears..but tends to dissappear before you realize what it is.
The grounds were always clean ... very green. I always saw workers maintaing the grounds and landscape.
I always felt safe there. Walking to teh laundry room, to the mailbox, to the car parked a block away. there were lights in the appropriate spots... the only thing I didnt like was when i lived in my one bedroom. the bottom of my stairwell would flood. not drastically, but enough that when you come home in your suit, you have a few inches of water to walk through -- a few too many. i believe they were working to fix that though when i moved.
i always walked around -- felt perfectly safe within the complex -- and around the neighborhood. always be safe and cautious.. there is a prison/courthouse about a mile down the street.. i figure you have plenty of cops patrolling.. it could be worse. being female i wouldnt walk down pomelo and not up too far away from the complex. but i did feel protected enough to live there for a year and a half.
the office staff was nice. i did have a few problems with the way they handled some maintenance requests though. that was the 6 months i was in the one bedroom though. the prior year sharing a 2 bedroom was fine. I* think it was just a fluke -- but i had minor surgery or was really sick when i moved into the one bedroom. my heater wasnt working properly. maintenance said htey came out and fixed it, but when we turned on the heat, it was less than luke warm. my dad went to the office to request for them to come back and fix it, but the manager told him he was not on the lease and therefor could not put in a request. I had to go into the office or call to make the request. I was so pissed off. it would have been one thing for a random stranger to make a maint. req for you but someone who shares a last name wiht you -- who cosigned on the apartment -- but wasnt officially on the lease -- i thought that was the most patehetic thing that came out of their office. I had to call in when I couldnt even speak -- I had lost my voice, and was sicker than a dog and freezing!
overall i would absolutely move back. and recommend to a friend.
The visitor parking
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