I lived here for a couple of years about 10 years ago, so the prices were cheaper then. From the reviews it sounds like things haven't changed all that much, except maybe the apartments are 10 years older and and 10 years less desirable and maybe the neighborhood has gotten a little bit worse.
From the way these apartments look, I'd guess they were built in the early 1980s. The layout isn't bad and the apartments appear nicer than they really are when you're living there. I'm guessing they were originally built to be somewhat upscale apartments for young college-age people and young professionals at the time they were built. You know the kind of place where the residents could get home from work or school and relax while watching that funny new thing on cable called MTV (how very 1980s). The problem is that the construction is all around pretty cheap and crappy and the ok layouts and grounds don't change that fact that they skimped with the construction.
The location of the complex isn't bad since you're a reasonably close drive to both i-15 and i-215 and are also a pretty close drive to shopping (grocery and otherwise).
The management pretends to be helpful and professional, but seems to always find ways to inconvenience or nickle and dime the residents. Examples galore. They got us in on a 6-month contract and then raised our rate by $50 at the end of it (almost a 8.5% increase). Like many others, we cleaned well, but they took most of our deposit money when we moved out two years later. Rather than figuring any budget for between-tenant cleaning and normal wear-and-tear business costs, they are pretty much guaranteed to stick it to the tenants and take most or all of your deposit to cover their normal business costs. So you may as well not bother trying to kill yourself getting everything perfectly sparkling clean since your deposit is going to be taken one way or another. It's just how they work it there.
Also be careful upon move in about what unit you get. We were in a hurry to get a place to live. We filled out all kinds of forms, talked to them about our preferences for quite a while, etc, etc. They wouldn't show us the exact unit we'd be getting, but gave us verbal assurances. They went through the motions of being accommodating, but once we'd signed any contract any accommodation was done with.
They gave us an apartment that smelled like a stale ash tray (like a bad cheap smoke-filled Las Vegas hotel from the 1970s). It was pretty nasty. We talked to management upon move-in inspection and they refused to allow us to move to another unit (even though some others were open). We figured that the smell would go away eventually, but it turned out that the smoke was leaking into our apartment from the one above us because of the crappy construction between apartments. The smoke/ash-tray smell would get stronger and weaker the entire time we lived there and never went away because it was always being refreshed. I had a scratchy cigarette-smoke throat a lot there from the fumes that drifted in.
The big plate glass sliding door to the patio/balcony leaks air like a sieve so your heating and air conditioning will be affected accordingly (we were on the ground floor so ours was a patio).
You will also hear quite a bit of the neighbors who live above you. Though not the worst building for neighbor noise that I've been in, it could've been a lot better.
We didn't have any bad safety incidents there, but late on most weekend nights gangs of kids would run through the parking lots yanking on all the car door handles trying to find any cars that were unlocked so they could steal the contents from the cars. I also had weird people show up and do some drunken pounding on our apartment doors looking for someone who used to live there (or somewhere else).
I have fond memories of the time I lived there--but not because of the complex, but for other reasons. It's not the worst place to live, but knowing what I know now, I'd say you're probably better off paying a little more money living someplace in a slightly better neighborhood (even 5 or 10 blocks up the hill) and with slightly better management if you can afford the small amount in more rent.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 03/02/2009
Well that's kind of werid that you would rate this community 10 years later, it has obviously changed since then. I just moved out of there about 6 months ago and I really enjoyed living there. I met a lot of good neighbors and the girls in the office were really sweet. It was built in the 80's but I knew that before I moved in. I thought they kept up on the maintenance pretty well. I would live here again in a heartbeat!
From: Anonymous	Date: 03/02/2009
It came up when I was browsing the internet, so I thought I'd contribute a review which turned longer than I expected. The girls in the office acted sweet when I lived there too. They just weren't helpful at all (while acting sweet). Plus obviously the poor construction and other issues haven't changed much at all unless they've done a drastic remodel (like ripping things down and reconstructing), which I doubt. I'm glad your experience was better than mine for your sake.

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