Most expensive rentals in the area, new and well-maintained property, no pool--unlike less-expensive complexes throughout the area.

Reasons for paying high rent: spacious, clean, quiet living space.
Reasons for NOT paying high rent: the new owners can make any change to assumptions on which you might decide to live here, whenever it benefits them or their stockholders. For instance, the exercise room--a big part of many people's decision to rent--can be closed at will. It has currently been locked for almost two weeks--a technical glitch ('!) that cannot be fixed because some technician is busy until three weeks from the start of the problem. The manager, now the servant of the new owners, did not post an explanation until 10 days from the start of the problem. Phone calls and in-person inquiries before that were not answered.
Exercise-room equipment has been broken for months.
UPDATE:
After this review was posted, on-site manager immediately had the tech.-glitch fixed--should add that on-site manager usually responds quickly to in-apartment repair needs. Repair people fix things well and clean up.

Communication problems interfere with even written promises, requiring legal action to enforce--not usually worth it.

A new lease includes extreme and unreasonable restrictions, and adds a line to undermine any private reservation to agreeing to having ordinary human liberty usurped--"Undersigned agrees these are reasonable and necessary restrictions." They go far beyond reasonable and necessary, and most people would hesitate before signing.

A "whatever you can get away with" rule--enabling owners to consider tenants nothing more than a source of money, pressing them to see how much they will take, or whether they will engage legal help--undermines confidence and drives tenants to consider moving.

The frustration and inherent trouble represented by these things overrule the benefit of clean, quiet, new-construction buildings.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 08/06/2009
Lions gate sucks! I completely agree with your review. Paying as much as you do for the apartments, they better damn well have the gym open 24/7. When they first built the place there was a serious plan to have a pool built between the buildings... what happened??? Not that it would make the place any more tolerable. You would probably get screamed at by management for jumping in the pool at the wrong angle.

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