Reserve at Deerwood Apartments
7632 Southside Boulevard, Jacksonville, FL 32256
904-641-4040  WEBSITE save favorite
AVERAGE RATING
recommended by:
56%

overall rating:
2.8
3.3
3.27 Parking:
3.0
3.03 Maintenance:
3.0
2.97 Construction:
3.5
3.53 Noise:
3.2
3.23 Grounds:
3.1
3.1 Safety:
2.9
2.9 Office Staff:
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I wish I had seen this website before I decided to move in!

From: afloridaresident
Date posted: 7/20/2006
Years at this apartment: 2004 - 2005
 
I don't even know where to start...When we moved in, they said that they would be fixing up the apartments soon- many of the buildings had exterior window and door trim that was rotting-out and the a/c systems were horrible. The year that we lived there, they never really fixed-up anything...They would do the minimum at best. One of the exterior door frames had a small hole at ground level, where due to lack of up-keep, the wood had rotted all the way through (making a nice mouse hole of sorts). Their solution was to fill it with some 'foam filler', that constituted 'fixed'.
We never really had a roach problem, but we had more spiders and silverfish in our apartment than I care to think about right now. We also had bees Living in the attic, when Summer rolled around you could occasionaly hear their low hum from even inside. Yes it really was bees, we watched them come and go from several holes in the soffit.
Everytime it got rainy, keeping the tile floors looking clean was a nightmare. Our front and back porch would get covered in a thin layer of muddy water.
Parking was not great, but sufficient for the most part.
We frequently were without water during the day without Any warning. There were always people coming out to work on the plumbing lines...Probably due to problems caused by the roots of those beautiful oak trees that we had admired when first came across this apartment complex. The water outages were very annoying and inconvenient. Sometimes they would turn off the water so early it would keep us from being able to get properly ready for the day (ie. brushing teeth).
The only redeeming qualities of this complex were it's nice floorplans, especially liked the kitchen size, and the relatively low rent. I still don't feel like we got a 'good bang for our buck' and I wish that we had never lived here.
I noticed somewhat recently that it looked like they had painted the exterior of at least the buildings you can see from Southside Blvd. For the sake of the current residents, I hope things are different now.

Recommended: NO
Overall Rating
2 out of 5
Parking:
3 of 5
Maintenance:
2 of 5
Construction: 1 of 5
Noise:
2 of 5
Grounds: 3 of 5
Safety: 2 of 5
Office Staff:
3 of 5
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