1.5-yr tenant.. mixed bag, probably overpriced
From:
-Anonymous-
Date posted:
11/6/2007
Years at this apartment:
2006
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2007
This is for the Cedars apartments; I don't know if Bayview is worse or better.
I don't seem to have had a break-in problem with my car parked downstairs; maybe I was lucky.
Noise is dampened pretty well horizontally, but my annoying-as-%#^$ neighbor downstairs kept alleging that I was making noise even when I basically tiptoed around, and if you live on the fifth floor, god have mercy on you because some idiot tenant will drag a bunch of friends up there and you can hear it clearly.
It's an older apartment complex. The gym machines were sort of broken and remained that way by the time I moved out. Plumbing by far was my biggest problem; the place just doesn't drain well, and definitely do not drink water straight from the tap. Invest in a water filter or bottled water or something.
The studios are well-designed to maximize the appearance of space.
Homeless people do sleep sort of near the entrance sometimes (maybe 10 yards south), and also near the back, but it sounds worse than it is. They've never bothered me.
I didn't have roaches, but somehow, somewhere, a mouse got into my unit. Staff promised to fix the problem immediately and promptly forgot about it till I reminded them. Pest control did come and take care of the problem quickly once the staff remembered.
The new manager seems friendly enough, but I don't really know him. The old managers were a pair of women. One was kind of bitchy, the other was nicer.
Overall I think it was a decent unit except the idiot living downstairs from me and the atrocious plumbing problem that my unit had. Then they jacked up the rent by a significant amount, which was the last straw for me. It's an average-at-best apartment and you are paying a big premium for its location. Whether that premium is worth it to a renter is an individual decision. It wasn't worth it for me, though.
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