Apartment Ratings | Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments) Ratings and Reviews

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): This place sucks asshole! (Not Recommending)

2009-03-03T18:04:07-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Do not be fooled these apartments are now known as the Aventine at TOWN CENETR!! And just because they changed names does not mean they've changed there ways. They charge you for everything and anything here and the staff in so unproffesional and the rudest people I have EVER met. ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Nice enough to stick around for 2 years (Recommending!)

2007-10-01T19:37:26-06:00

From rentandstimpy: I lived here for two years and my overall experience was good enough that I'm considering moving back. There are pros and cons to this place, just like any other. I'll start with the negative stuff first. Yes, parking is total crap and if you get home any later than ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Deceitful Marketing (Not Recommending)

2007-08-09T10:58:54-06:00

From jaxsurfer1981: Portofino is now known as Aventine at Town Center. Management change I suppose as well. The owning company Archon Mgmt. has some shady marketing practices. For example they still promote this complex as having a spa. Yet after vandals terminally destroyed it, they chose to fill it in with concrete, ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Portofino is Great (Recommending!)

2007-01-16T15:46:16-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Portofino is great! I have loved living here! It is a great place to live and it is close to everything! Danielle my leasing agent was great, she is really knows what she is doing and was a big part of my decssion to move into Portofino! It is an ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): STUCK in hell (Not Recommending)

2006-11-06T19:07:26-06:00

From -Anonymous-: We moved into these apts in July. The location was great and office seemed so nice. We had a very rude awakening. The apt unit we got is basically falling apart and we are paying 1465 a month for it. the ac barely works, the disposal alway backs up. When ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Did you really say that? (Not Recommending)

2006-10-30T20:09:54-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I recently applied to rent a unit from these people. I got a call from my "professional" leasing agent the next day. They're turning me down because I have a misdemeanor on my record from 1984 (yes, 23 years ago) for operating a boat without a license.

Whether or not ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): NO NO NO (Not Recommending)

2006-10-13T11:26:42-06:00

From -Anonymous-: When i moved into portofino i was thinking it was going to be amazing. so close to school and good location. But i guess since there's alot of upper aged individuals there if your in college dont move there! I have been harrased from day 1. Vacuum my apartment get ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Parking PROBLEM. Rude office staff member GINA (Not Recommending)

2006-07-13T16:52:58-06:00

From drivnmecrazy: Parking is an extremely serious problem. My daughter and granddaughter were living with us and my daughter parked her car next to the curb because the closest spot to park was at the front of the apts. and we live in the very back. They started to tow my daughters ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): WARNING (Not Recommending)

2006-06-25T21:05:18-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Welcome to Parking HELL, where I would have to park 4-6 buildings away. the previous managment company did minimul repairs and it only worsened when Lincoln Property took over. I actually had to go buy parts and instruct the maintenance people for it to be repaired correctly. You know you ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): fake fake fake!!! (Not Recommending)

2005-12-05T14:58:47-06:00

From Chica-boom07: yes the portofino area is great. lots of restaurants and access to all the highways and the apartments are nice enough but one lady at the sales office is a total phony. Gina Frank. she was totally nice and helpful when i first moved in but now it seems like ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): The apartments are okay. (Recommending!)

2005-10-11T19:39:31-06:00

From -Anonymous-: We moved to Jax in March. I liked the area Portofino was located in so we moved in. The apts are very convenient to everything in Jax which is good. Parking hasn't really been an issue. However, you can not keep your car clean from the dirty, stinky sprinklers. They ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Could have been better, but it wasn't (Not Recommending)

2005-08-15T10:40:23-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Lived there for about a year and had enough. When I first found the place I was in love. Thick walls, nice layout and good location. My co-worker also got an apartment there at the same time. The beginning was OK, but the mold and ants began to move in. ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): The good and the bad (Not Recommending)

2005-06-21T13:17:29-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I have read through all the reviews and felt like I should respond as I lived at Portofino for 3 years before moving into a house.

Portofino was nearly new when we moved in in 2001. It was also under different management. Our original rent for a 2br apartment was $945/month. ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Nightmare! (Not Recommending)

2005-04-11T17:53:44-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Everything the negative reviews wrote are so 11% correct, I only wished I read all this before hand. It was so bad, I moved back home rather than risk taking the chance of going through something like this again somewhere else. ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Nightmare Experience (Not Recommending)

2005-04-11T11:54:17-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Horrible, horrible, horrible. I didn't have the plumbing and mold problems, but the staff was disrespectful, unprofessional, and rude. I had problems with a particular maintence man sexually harrassing me (actually offering me money to sleep with him) and the manager did nothing and said that he just had a ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Just DON'T do it! (Not Recommending)

2004-10-23T19:25:32-06:00

From -Anonymous-: It was disaster from the outset. I was told by one of the unhelpful staff at the inspection, the complex was building a 100 acre lake out the back. Turns out a construction zone is for a mall. The staff are incompetent, untruthful, and do not have an IQ in ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Looks definitely can be deceiving (Recommending!)

2004-09-12T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: A couple of people have said they choose this place because it looks nice on the outside, but it's totally different on the inside. They're pretty much right on. I moved in with my roommates (they were in a 1-BR and we moved into a 3-BR) so I didn't really ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Just moved in and not impressed (Not Recommending)

2004-07-18T00:00:00-06:00

From tlachance@bellsouth.net: My wife and I just moved in and aren't that impressed. The biggest hang up is the problem with mold. So far, we've found it in our mast-bath toilet area. Maintenance has attempted to get rid of it by painting over it 3 times, but it still grows back. We're ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Its got its bad and good points (Recommending!)

2004-06-29T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I have lived there for 2 years now.
The bad things are:
1. only 1 garbage can for the entire complex, located at the front entrance. Most people have to put their trash on top of the car and drive it to the front.
2. I live in the back and "had" ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): YOU COULDNT PAY ME TO LIVE HERE AGAIN (Not Recommending)

2004-05-18T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Anyone who is considering moving in to Portofino please do yourself a lot of grief and find somewhere else to live. I have a list of grievances a mile long but here are the worst ones . . . It blows my mind that the leasing staff, as HORRIBLE as ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Horrible Experience with Corporate Apartments (Not Recommending)

2004-05-11T00:00:00-06:00

From levinsarah@hotmail.com: I went on this site before I agreed to live at Portofino for a few months and I wish I had listened to the majority of these postings.
The apartment I was given was in POOR condition. The kitchen pipes kept breaking, the dishwasher broke the second week and leaked ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): what a joke... (Not Recommending)

2004-03-19T00:00:00-06:00

From perfectkiss63@yahoo.com: Living here at Portofino has caused me much grief. At first I was very excited to live in what seemed like a more upscale establishment. I was so very wrong. First the Office staff are a bunch of prententious snobs. The only one that made any impression on me in ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): We love Portofino! (Recommending!)

2004-03-12T00:00:00-06:00

From djchesi@comcast.net: When we moved to Jacksonville two years ago, we were a little worried about where we would choose to live. When we saw Portofino, we were impressed both by the floor plans and people living in the area. Since moving in, we have had nothing but good experiences. the staff ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Stay away!!! (Not Recommending)

2004-03-09T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: If you like washing your car only to get dirty water spots right back on, move on in here. This is the only apartments on the street that water the road, across almost 2 lanes. Inside, you cannot avoid driving right through the sprinklers, this is not once in a ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Quiet, nice (Recommending!)

2004-02-05T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I have lived here in Jacksonville for 3 years and I can say that my first two years was renting an apartment off of Hodges Blvd. and it was horrible! I moved to Portofino and the last year that I have lived here has been great. The pool parties are ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): I rather live in my car (Not Recommending)

2004-01-10T00:00:00-06:00

From bertdobrie@comcast.net: Living at Portofino was an aweful experience. I constantly had to listen to other people´s parties, parking was a pain in the ass, construction was terrible. Yeah, the exterior walls were solid concrete... but in interior walls were some low-grade sheetrock and a few studs. In the three-bedroom, there was ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): MOLD MOLD MOLDY Moldofino (Not Recommending)

2003-11-19T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: All I can say is Moldofino---my entire apartment and ALL of my personal belongings are contaminated with mold. I have had to move out of my apartment because it is unsafe to live there and all of my stuff has to be professionally cleaned or replaced. In addition, I have ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Just okay (Recommending!)

2003-09-03T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Portofino is definitely not the worst place Iﾴve lived. Itﾴs actually one of the better places Iﾴve dealt with.
If you´re looking for a great "roommate" layout, however, keep on driving. One roommate gets the posh, 2-sink bath complete with garden tub, walk in closet and seperate toilet room, while ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Do Not Rent at Portofino if: (Not Recommending)

2003-08-24T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: They´ll brag about their concrete construction....what a joke. Come to my apt. and we can listen to my neighbor´s stereo together. You don´t even need to come in, we´ll just listen to it out in the parking lot.

Speed Limit is 15 mph, but you can drive as fast as ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Portofino isn´t too great (Not Recommending)

2003-07-18T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I was soooo happy when my lease was finally up. Parking around most of the place sucks. Sometimes you have to park pretty far away from your apartment. I had a leaking ceiling in my apartment. They came to look at it, but never fixed it. One week before I ... [click to read full apartment review]

Aventine at Town Center (formerly Portofino Apartments): Ultra Quiet and Extremely Nice (Recommending!)

2001-04-04T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Living at Portofino Apartment Homes was a great experience. The construction is solid with 5 1/2 inch concrete walling and flooring this creates a sound buffer, fire barrier and can withstand hurricane force winds. I would most definetly recommend anyone looking for a nice affortable luxury apartment home ranging from ... [click to read full apartment review]