I agree with a few points made by the most recent post, 7/20/09.

Bettye, the building manager, is fair, firm and very reasonable to work with. She's one of the best things about the complex. The location is ideal. It's within walking distance of many services, retail, etc. I also like the fact that the building is secure.

The building is old, and relatively few regular updates are made. The carpet in my unit was already paint-spotted and stained when I moved in. The carpet in the hallway was deeply marked and stained in places and looked 5 to 8 years old when I moved in. They haven't replaced it since.

More importantly, the sliding glass doors in the units haven't been touched since construction over 40 years ago. They've all lost their seals and allow powerful drafts in during the winter.

The tenants are mostly a quiet and polite bunch; a substantial number are students either at Westminster College or the University of Utah. Based on my own unit and what I've seen in other units, the appliances are all quite a bit older than the students. I suspect my fridge dates from the late 1970s or early 1980s. It was clearly the cheapest frost-free model available at the time and makes an incredible racket when the compressor turns off. The cabinets and linoleum were also last renovated in that same era and are very dated.

I have quiet neighbors, for which I'm grateful, but the apartments are not well insulated accoustically. I can hear individual words from conversations in the bedroom next to mine, and on the other side, I can hear sneezes and other slight noises from the living room opposite. The noise of the sliding glass door being opened or closed in the apartment above me is thunderous!

The ventilation system in the bathrooms is idiosyncratic--wafting in odors from bathrooms above and below. I can regularly hear conversations, disagreeable bathroom noises and occasional lovemaking emanating from the bathroom above mine. Fortunately, the complex is now smoke free, but one shares much more with neighboring bathrooms than I consider hygienic. I can't imagine there isn't at least some danger of sharing airborn pathogens like cold or flu viruses through the ventilation.

The balconies are less appealing than represented in the previous post because obnoxious sodium discharge lamps on poles in the parking lot kick in every night at dusk. The atmosphere on the balconies then becomes like a prison yard or a big box parking lot. I've never seen my neighbors enjoying the balconies after dusk for this reason.

Intelligent apartment management does not allow facilities to become as worn, shabby and outdated as is now the case at Irving Heights. The rent is not comparable to other middle-ranking apartment complexes because those complexes are not tattered and obsolete like Irving Heights.

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