The place looks nice from the outside, the clubhouse is nice. BUT:

-silverfish. tons of them. complex won't do anything about them.

-maitenence won't fix anything. ANYTHING. i'm a girl and have learned the awesome art of using tools. Dryer was broken when we moved in and it took 2 weeks of calling everyday to get them to fix it. Garbage disposal shoots matter into the air....including the cover..... i have called 3 times to have this fixed. I give up. Our utility bills are all about $20 more than our last apt...which was a larger apartment.... did i mention that i kill 3-5 silverfish every night' and they aren't in my bathroom...they are in my bedroom the den and the other room. We thought they were coming from the outside in. No. They are coming from the vents.

The walls are....thin. My neighbors above have tons of sex. no joke. I shouldn't be able to hear my neighbors bumping....none the less blowing their nose none the less relieving themselves in the bathroom. But it's an apartment, and i guess this is where 'love thy neighbor' came from.....

The kitchen is small and set up...odd. Don't expect to fit to people in there. There is no pantry. Just cabinets. One that i used my handy dandy little miss fix-it guide to hammer in a molly to the hole and put a new screw in because the other one ripped out and the wood is cheap....

ALLLLL the windows are broken. They either don't go up, or don't come back down. Or they go up then try to decapitate you. Or you have to hang on like a monkey to get it back down. Some don't close all the way, so there are cracks where to conserve a/c runnings constantly, i had to buy weather stripping and shove it in.

there is only one dumpster here. get used to driving your trash to the dumpster. and get used to arriving at the dumpster and seeing the trash overflowing onto the sidewalk by the dumpster. i have heard stories of rats. i think i have seen the rat named Ben. Perhaps even Willard. it could have just been cats though...i no longer visit the dumpster at night....

the place is really overpriced for rent. we got a discount and it's still overpriced.

i think as soon as my lease is up, i'm out of here. but if i see one rat in my apartment like some other people, i'll take a picture of it, then leave. when they tell me i owe them money for breaking my lease, i'll just leave the picture of the rat and a note from the department of health. for now, i'm just going to come home every day and transform into the Silverfish Destroyer of Doom.

If there is an outbreak of the plague in sterling, the first place you should check for the source would be here.

Don't let the fancy facade and clubhouse fool you.

The staff is OK. But they can use some help in handling people. I don't expect anyone to drop what they are doing, but simple eye contact and 'just a moment please' means a lot to someone. Also, we've never paid out rent late...yet....have gotten a notice. That's slightly disgruntling.

I've spoken to two neighbors thus far and both agree there is a silverfish problem. And a problem with maintenence responding to calls.

oh, and since this complex is right across from the mall, expect to hear the mall alarm going off for an hour at a time because.....it has a bad habit of doing that. at 12-2am in the morning. Even the police are tired of responding to it.

ISTA water service is a bit of a jip. If you want to pay online, there is a charge for using your card OR check online. But you only get the stupid bill one week before it's due. So unless you send the check the very next day, you risk *drumroll* late fees.

in conclusion, it's pretty on the outside, but just like any other complex on the inside. with the addition of creepy crawlies, possessed appliances, walls that allow you to be big brother to your neighbor, and in some units, rats. I don't know about you, but i'm getting a rabies vaccine.

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