I'm sorry to say this was the worst apartment complex I have ever lived in. First, the (few) good points:
1. The layout of the apartments was thoughtful. The bedrooms are the only part that touches another apartment, so you can't hear people in their living rooms.
2. The apartments are very nice looking. The ceilings were high and the windows were large. There is a beautiful field on one side of the property, so some apartments look out over it.
3. The office staff was always quite friendly. They have cookies and coffee everyday and are always polite.
The bad points:
1. Everything in the apartment is so cheap that it is constantly breaking. The maintenance tries, but are reluctant to replace broken items; they just patch them up, only to have them break again. Our air conditioner/heat unit was a problem the entire year we lived there. We had maintenance in 8 times before we just gave up and started looking for new places to live. The windows are so thin that our electric bills were consistently over 250 dollars-- for a 2 bedroom apartment with no one home during the day. I also had a towel bar fall out of the wall when I took a towel off of it. The place is just very cheaply constructed.
2. San Simeon has a general feeling of unsafety. I heard people screaming in the halls late at night and the lights in the stairs never went on until long after dark. The gate was broken for the first 3 months I lived there, then was fixed briefly, only to break again. There were also several break-ins. Management responded to this not by fixing the gate, but by posting a notice to residents to be aware of their surroundings and lock their doors-- not very helpful.
3. The grounds are nice enough looking, but there are very inconvenient to get around. There are no sidewalks, forcing you to walk on the grass (or drive) to get into the office. There are often children playing in the parking lot. I sympathize with their not having a proper place to play, but it is really frightening to have a kid on a bike shoot out in front of your car.
4. Parking was fine at first but took a dramatic turn for the worse recently. I'm not sure what happened, but I had to park next to another building more than once coming home from school around 10 pm. Considering the unsafe feeling I had the entire time I lived there, walking even a few hundred yards at night was a serious concern.

San Simeon was never great but was not as bad for the first 8 or so months I lived there. It was taken over by a new management company (Trimarchi) around March or so. Things went downhill once they took over and just continued until I gave up and moved.

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