Riverside Village Apartments is a decent place to live, so long as you don't have any problems with the apartment. Trying to get anything fixed is a total nightmare. The maintenance staff is small and the managment (which is not even on-site, the complex is managed from down the street) is rather incompetent at dealing with anything that does not involve making you sign papers and hand over money.
Problems I have had:
* Noise problems. Despite being told that they keep a quiet complex, the management doesn't actually do anything, leaving you to knock on neighbors' doors asking them to keep it down. Said problems range from kids' bass music to dogs yapping for hours on end to hearing people upstairs walk... the soundproofing is inadquate.
* The first two weeks I lived there, the bathroom door would not shut. It had been cut improperly before installation.
* Carpet edging was never installed (I eventually gave up on that) leading to a few minor foot punctures from the exposed carpet tacks where the flooring goes from carpet to tile.
* One of the burners on the stove shorted and burnt itself up from shoddy internal wiring (it looked to be a repair job, not OEM). Two to three days for repair.
* Water heater's heating coil failed. Four days for replacement.
* Water pipe leak above one of the bedrooms. The resulting hole in the ceiling took in excess of a month to repair.

And I'm sure I'm forgetting other trivial problems. I've had similar problems with other apartments, but those never became the headaches that they have been at Riverside Village.
If you find yourself living there, pray you never have to deal with the bungling management staff... Your stay might be rather pleasant in that case.

User Responses
From: mouse8687	Date: 11/16/2006
I have to agree with everyone here, I previously lived here in 1998 when it first reopened and the walls are so thin you could hear your neighbors t.v., phone conversations, alarm clocks and their baby cry, it was torture, unless you were one of the lucky few that had a neighbor that worked opposite shifts from you. There was no maintenance and everything was just pieced together. It looked like a nice place but parking was a nightmare and I just couldn't deal with having to whisper in my own home.

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