I know, comparatively, this place has pretty affordable rent. I think my expectations were appropriate for the rent I pay and yet, I was disappointed. Management sucks. I actually really liked the maintenance guys. They are all very nice and trustworthy. I think, given their resources, they really do the best job they can. My apartments stinks. I complained about this the first week I moved in and the leasing agent said something along the lines of "You know, every home has a different smell, you just have to make it your own". What? I don't want to have my friends smell a mix of mold and chemicals and think of me. Roaches are pretty awful. They're EVERYWHERE outside. I keep a pretty clean house and in my year of living here have probably had to kill about 10 in my home. My air conditioner hardly worked the first 6 mos I lived here and was always leaking from the ceiling on to the carpet. The people who live above me flooded their bathroom and the water was literally coming out of every hole in my ceiling and wall. Water leaked from the vents, light switches and behind my air conditioning filter. They replaced a patch of my carpet that got wet but didn't put a pad down so there is this weird hard carpet/concrete-ish area is my hallway. If there is a heavy rain I can still hear water running down between my walls. I have expressed several concerns about mold and no one has done anything. I can see it on the ceiling. It's there. This is non disputable. However the management here keeps dismissing it. I left for a couple days and turned my air off. When I came back the smell of this place was borderline nauseating. Oh and my dog got attacked by a resident's cat twice. The second time I was in the laundry room trying to get my clothes. I told the office where the apartment was the cat lives. Nothing was done. My dog hasn't been attacked again but a new girl who moved in said her dog was not too long ago. I know Briarwest just got bought out but the new company is supposedly not any better. They are getting sued for throwing renters information (SS #s, credit card numbers, bank information, whatever they had) in a public dumpster. Seriously, it's just not worth the trouble. Look around, look on Craigslist, HAR.com, Houston Press or the Chronicle classifieds, you'll find some affordable places in equally nice areas of town. I advise not settling here.