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Balboa Court Apartments


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anonymous

Resident 2009 - 2010

6/23/2011

Lived here about 10 months, moved out because my roommate was moving for a job. At first I really liked the place. Big windows, relatively large living room, lots of storage. Towards the end of my stay there were a few issues but it was still a decent place to live. There are only two laundry rooms and a lot of apartments. Laundry room is really busy after 4-5 on weekdays and on weekends, fortunately i had odd hours at work so I could usually do laundry in the morning but every once in a while when i needed to do laundry later it was a problem and i had to wait for the washer then wait for the dryer. Also, one of the washers in the laundry room i used was broken and would wash everything but would not spin properly at the end so your laundry would still be sopping wet at the end of the cycle and it would take like 3 runs in the dryer to dry properly. That was broken the entire time I lived there. Occasionally there would be something on it reminding you not to use it but when there wasn't it was easy to forget. There are a lot of little kids roaming around. There was like this little "gang" of about 10 girls aged around 5-12. I never really saw them doing anything bad but they were always roaming around unsupervised and they would block stairs and hallways. We never had any bugs inside our apartment that I know of (I do have 2 cats though) but towards the end of my stay there i started seeing more and more roaches on the grounds of the apartment complex. One morning there was like a 2 inch long roach on the wall outside my door. Fortunately I found a nice maintenance guy to kill it with bug spray. The maintenance staff is friendly but they don't speak a lot of english which makes it hard to explain what needs to be fixed. The management is nice enough, though they are never there on weekends and usually leave early on fridays (even though they say they are open every day). Large packages go to the office and they say they leave a note on your door to let you know you have one, but we got several packages while we were there and they never once left us a note. We just went down to the office every day when we were expecting something which was inconvenient but not a big problem. Noise was not too bad. We lived on the 2nd floor. I could occasionally hear our neighbor's tv in our living room and we could hear our other neighbor in the bathroom (just like a faint noise when the toilet flushed or whatever... once we heard him throwing up). Sometimes people would play loud music (usually bad -------- music) and we could occasionally hear loud cars but I have definitely lived in noisier apartments. Parking is assigned. You get 1 spot for a 1 bed which was ok for us because only my roommate had a car. There are no guest spots though and street parking was terrible. It was always a problem when we had a friend staying over. There are cars parked in the red zone by the stairs a lot of the time which would only be a problem if there were an actual emergency. On the plus side, the stoves are gas which is nice and difficult to find in apartments. The layout is pretty good and storage is great. Other than the roaches outside at night, the grounds are kept up nicely. I wouldn't say the neighbors are friendly, but they don't bother you either. Mostly everyone just keeps to themselves. The central A/C works really well and doesn't raise your electric bill too much. There are a number of things you can walk to from there (rite aid, target, subway, albertsons, really good chinese restaurant, a decent bar, jamba juice) and the buses around there are good. The area is pretty safe. I walked a lot and I'm a tiny girl and i only got slightly harrassed once by this creepy guy while walking to target. He was just talking to me inappropriately and some other guys that came along scared him off.

    Review 5 out of 7

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