Everything looks good from the outside but once your in its a totally different story. I have been living at Solano for two weeks and I already can't stand it. A major issue for me is the parking. First off, there is no guest parking available for visitors. There is a visitor parking area but it is reserved for two bedroom town homes with a one car garage. So essentially there really is no visitor parking area, its more of an extra parking space for the residents with a one car garage. I had gone to the leasing center to ask for some visitor passes to throw a house warming party with family and friends and was denied. I was told that my visitors could park in the leasing center parking after leasing center hours. The leasing center doesn't close until 8 pm and good luck finding a parking spot there anyway. All the residents in the town homes that are directly next to those leasing center spots use them as there regular parking area. Also, for whatever absurd reason the driveway for the two car garages has a curb that extends out 2.5 feet at the very end so that you can only fit one car in your driveway. So essentially if you are expecting to have people over, good luck getting more then one group of guests over at a time in only one car. Another issue is there is a constant, very loud beeping 24 hours a day 7 days a week, every 5 seconds in one of the town homes directly across the street from me. It can be heard from within my home all day everyday, every 5 seconds, unless I have TV or music on, which means, I never get more than 4.99 seconds of peace and quiet. When I go outside to smoke a cigarette it is so loud it literally pierces my ear drum, with every constant, annoying, persistent, son of a ----- beep. Management insists that they can not stop the beeping. Also, the kids through out Solano run rabid, screaming at the top of there lungs. This doesn't bother me, but the walls are paper thin so you can hear every word, and every scream, absolutely terrible. I have not had a problem with the noise level of my immediate neighbors but I think I just got lucky and they are quiet people, at least so far. The insect problem is also out of control. I have fumigated, used traps, and sprayed for roaches. They are extremely persistent and they never stop coming. There is also something seriously wrong with the irrigation/plumbing system. Probably at least once a day when I turn on a faucet or shower head the water stalls, sputters, and then shoots out about a half gallon of dirty water. Absolutely disgusting. And finally, the management at Solano is lazy and don't lift a finger to do anything other than push sales. They never answer the phone, you must go to the leasing center in person, and possibly wait a good deal of time to be helped, to complain about issues or even to ask a general question. Solano at Miramar is a low class establishment with serious parking, noise, insect, and management issues. I would not recommend it to anyone. I hope this review gives you some insight to life at Solano Miramar.

Update 9/1/2009:
Last night one of the toilets upstairs began emitting an extremely foul smell (that of sewage water/dump site). The smell filled the entire house and was so thick it was hard to breathe. I had to open all the windows, close the bathroom door where the smell was coming from, and shove towels under the door. I called maintenance last night o they could come correct the situation. I was told that they would come by the house sometime tomorrow. Well when I woke up today I went and checked the bathroom and the foul smell was gone. The maintenance guy came at 10:30 am (a spanish gentleman that could hardly speak any english and impossible to communicate with). I invited him in and told him about the smell and that it was gone now. As soon as I said it was gone he immediately turned around and started heading for the door without saying anything. As he was walking away I asked him "So why did that happen' Can you tell me anything'" to which he replied, "They build pipe elbow for smell" and then continued to walk out the door.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 09/03/2009
Are we living at the same property? I'm beginning to think you must be somewhere else, not Solano. I have lived here for some time, and I wouldn't live anywhere else. Any maintenance issues are handled immediately. Now, if you are expecting for things to never break, then that's not realistic. I also live in a town home, and yes, parking is only available inside your garage (2 spaces) or in the tandem space. This is not management's fault, it is simply the way it was built and if management did not control it, this place would be a mad house. I came from a high rise building that wouldn't even give me one space. I had to pay for it. When my visitors came, they had to pay for it too. Here, I have 2 nice spaces inside a garage and an extra one for my guests outside. They tell you upfront. This is what we can offer, it is up to you to decide if it will work for your lifestyle or not. The pictures you took, well... it's rainy season and you obviously took them on the day the ground was wet and the grass was getting cut. I just looked outside and that patch of grass looks great. Staff lazy? are you serious? I always see them working all over the place. If you had to wait to be assited, did it occurred to you that maybe they were busy and working with other people? About the insects, let's see... rainy season and they all come inside (have you lived in Florida before?). Call the maintenance line, they will have pest control out by Friday which is their regular scheduled day. You know what they say... somebody's trash can be somebody else's treasure. To me, this is my treasure and I am very happy with what I have, it seems to me that your expectations may be a little too high. Go move to that super luxury high rise and pay $3K a month for it, let's see how many spaces to park you can get there.
From: Anonymous	Date: 09/03/2009
Yes we are living at the same property, Solano, its impossible to get that one confused. First off, I never said anything was broken, don't know where you got that one from. You know, I wouldn't be the least but surprised if you were Marlon from the leasing center, writing this review, nearly crapping your pants after reading my review on your establishment. Why else would anyone who has "lived here for some time and wouldn't live anywhere else" be looking for apartment ratings online. Its not even like you came on here to post your own review about how happy you are with Solano, just to come and patch things up on bad reviews as an anonymous resident. Secondly, I never said it was management's fault with the way the building was constructed. All I do know, is when the home was shown to me, no one specifically said, "Hey by the way, you see that curb that comes out in your drive way? Thats so you can only park one car in your driveway. And hey, do you see those visitor parking spaces over there? Well there not really for visitors, there for residents." I did not notice the parking situation issue when the home was shown to me and its part my fault for not asking about it. Thats the whole point of these reviews, pointing out issues so the next potential resident has a better insight. That patch of grass has been like that since the day I moved in, that picture was taken three weeks after I had moved in. It has now been a month since the move and deep tire marks are still visible in the grass. Wether those marks are a result from maintenance driving around all over the grass in their golf carts because they are lazy, or if its because the grass is getting cut, for the courtyard to look like that fir a month straight in my eyes is unacceptable, especially since management makes courtyard residents pay an extra $25 fee a month. For what? To have a crappy looking courtyard that kids cant even play in because its muddy? I have lived in Florida all my life, and dealt with insects in rainy season all my life. But honestly, the day I moved in, I killed about 6 roaches. If you ask me, it should be managements responsibility to have sprayed for roaches/ants prior to me moving in, at least out of courtesy for their new residents. I took matters into my own hands rather than dealing with the incompetent/lazy management/maintenance. Through my efforts the roaches have been reduced by still keep coming, I kill at least one baby/regular roach everyday. There is obviously a nest somewhere with tons of eggs. And unlike you, I am not coming from a 3k a month high rise. Im coming from a 2 bedroom duplex in the slums of Hollywood east of Dixie Highway, living with 5 other roommates $225 a month. So excuse me if my standards are a bit higher if I am shelling out almost $1600 a month now and all I get is a headache, from the beeping every 5 seconds, the roaches that totally skeeve me and my girlfriend out, the fact that we can only have one person over at a time, the dirty water that shoots out the faucets on occasion, the foul smell that came from the sewage system once and would not be surprised if it happened again, the fact that the management is lazy and incompetent, and the fact that every time I call maintenance I have to wait at the very least 24 hrs and then I get some douche bag that comes to my door that can't even speak english.
From: A_Eisenberg	Date: 10/04/2009
wow, thanks for posting that. I was considering this place because it's close to my mom, but after reading this, FORGET IT!!!
From: truthrent	Date: 10/16/2009
It is the same place!! We must have lived next to each other because that picture of the grass was the same for me for several months (NOT JUST IN RAINY SEASON!). The Maint. non-speaking people are still there?! The only one of them that spoke english was the Maint. manager! The parking situation is only TRUTH! You can only park you gues cars in the guest parking lot during the day hours. At night they are for Resident Parking...complete nonsense! I had to pay Orkin to come out and spray my apartment because the bugs kept coming in my garage and I had huge spiders and roaches in my apartment and that nonsense they call pest control is ridiculous! Everything that the fisrt guy/girl pointed out is nothing but truth. The other person that says where they live is perfect....they must be living in a different place (and tell me where it's at!!!)

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