First off: I lived there a total of 6 months..
Which afterwords I moved into a duplex owned by a family member who's investing while the property value has been low. (You know, in hopes the equity will increase in years to follow.)
My experience has been as follows: I've stayed (for short and long periods of time) in homes, duplexs, town houses, apartments in large high story East Coast buildings, and various apartment complexes here around Vegas, and this place has extreme potential to be a nice area!
However, in terms of this place, what you pay for is what you get. Around $600 a month for rent, and around $100 for electricity (Which to me is ridiculous) and a rather cheap $20-30 utilities bill. I lived in a single room apartment, next to a man with a dog which barked anytime he felt the presence of a stranger, I lived above an angry couple, and across from one empty room and a quiet Hispanic family. Often times I was never bothered by the sound of the occasional barking (during the day) and the occasional arguments of the couple. But regardless of this, the sound was quite audible through the thin walls, and furthermore outside of the windows where the garbage trucks came at 6:30 AM, grossly gaudy import vehicles drove around the parking lot at idiotic speeds attempting to rouse 'interest', and the occasional noisy fight.. They are all extremely audible through the cheap single pane windows.. Living in a duplex now where I share a wall of a house I hardly hear my neighbors ever. And the east coast high rise buildings have extremely thick walls (but you can hear people through the ventilation system). If all is quiet, which the only time you'll notice it is at night, it's a decent place. But what your money gets you is a sub-par living environment with others who make around minimum wage and have no future aspirations of living in a high class area.. This area would make a good 'starting off' place, period! If you can't afford to live luxuriously, you'll get what you pay for here! (which includes a sort of kept up landscaping area, people who typically won't bother you, a nice staff with an okay maintenance guy backing it, a pool, a workout room without a functioning TV, Tennis courts and a place to park your car.. plus you can bring a small pet, which I had a cat.)
My only other complaint besides noise, is the occasional apathetic maintenance guy who I had to remind on various occasions to check out my dishwasher because it wasn't properly cleaning my dishes and flooded the apartment the last time I used it.. He finally came after the 4th time of reminding the staff who seemed as annoyed as I did which was nice, but the only words of wisdom he had were: "Use a different detergent". Which of course the dishwasher just so happened to no longer flood after he didn't even touch it (assuming it drained on it's owned and removed the clog thus forth). But before that he fixed our Heating unit within the same day of questioning about why it wasn't working properly.. (We of course didn't have it repaired for a month and it cost us an extra $300 in energy, with inadequate heating in the mean time.. our fault of course, because I did in fact wait a month to talk to the front office. So they did handle that quickly and painlessly, and had it repaired within 24 hours..)
Last and not least, the actual apartment.
My girlfriend and I were capable of decorating nicely, but their routine of shampooing carpets, painting over the semigloss with more semigloss does eventually wear off.. You'll see spots in the carpet, and the occasional spot on the wall where the stain bleeds through.. Furthermore before I moved out 3 new light bulbs burned out, and 2 of the outlets stopped giving power to lamps.. I can only assume it was going to require an electrician after my leave.
But because of the nice staff, the pool/workout room, the decent landscaping and for the price that was paid in comparison to other areas for that same price or even more (1,000 for a studio on the East Coast) this area would be a decent and average place to live.
Here the only problem is the other tenants of the apartments who rouse issues with you and more than likely the staff! But that problems derives from you paying to live with people willing BE in a cheaper area. So had the place initially been more expensive, there wouldn't be very many socially frustrated individuals surrounding you to cause the noise in the first place. Or make the area seem occasionally unsafe..
So it has potential, and is good for what you pay for, but nothing special.

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