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anonymous

Resident 2004 - 2008

12/3/2008

Sycamore Square South (7 out of 10)

I lived at Sycamore Square South for almost 4 years before moving out in the Fall of '08. For the most part I would recommend living here. On a scale of 1 -10, I would give it a 7. A few updates and better customer service could bump it up to an 8 or 9. The complex is owned by a local family who seems to have trouble getting good help or being able to keep the good employees they do hire. While I had relatively few problems with my apartment, the staff isn't real good about moving quickly on things. You may have to call multiple times to have things fixed. I called a couple times to have them look at the dryer which wasn't working. I came home one day to find it was completely gone. No message was left for me at all as to what was going on. A few days later I came home to find that the dryer had been replaced with one from another unit. Communication isn't one of their strong suits. Don't waste your time emailing them either as they never return emails. Of course this can work to your advantage. I lived there for 4 years and my rent was never raised. That could be partially because my lease expired 15 months before I moved out. I just kept paying my rent and they never realized that they my lease was up. Organization isn't one of their strong suits either. They called me up once in May saying that they'd been meaning to call, but that they only received half of the rent payment.....for February!!!! It turned out that they had lost one the checks I had dropped off (my roommate & I would put 2 separate checks in an envelope for them). They were really nice about it and even suggested that I could pay this balance over the course of the next couple months. They also allowed me to deduct the cost of stopping the check that they had lost. On the other end of the spectrum, it took for ever for me to get my deposit back when I moved out. In part this was due to the fact that they claimed to have mailed it WITHOUT a stamp! The apartments are relatively old and do have the 1970's vibe to some of them. Mine had been updated with the exception of the kitchen. It still had the 1 piece microwave - oven unit and a trash compactor in it. The apartments are good sized and laid out nicely. I think all include a fireplace and most include a wet bar. The pool, hot tub, and community grill were also nice features. When I first moved in it was mostly just single young professionals that lived there. Everyone was pretty cool and it was a common occurrence to gather near the pool and have cook outs every weekend. While the rules depend on the revolving door of management, however most of the time they'd let you have a few beers (plastic bottles of course) and cook out in the pool area. Some tenants would even have a few drinks in the hot tub after coming back from Bricktown in the wee hours of the morning. Everyone was fine with this as long as they kept the noise down. Since then there seem to be more families and retirees moving in, so the dynamics has changed some. The best part is the location. You are walking distance to Bricktown, the Civic Center, the library, the Memorial, the Ford Center, various churches, and many other downtown destinations. It is also VERY quiet for a downtown location. The business district is pretty much a ghost town after 5 pm on weekdays and you're far enough from Bricktown and the Ford Center so that you don't even hear that traffic. I have to think this is a little nicer than the Tower and a little cheaper (maybe quieter) than Deep Deuce. Like I said over all I would give it a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10. And if you don't like the rent price they are giving you, see if you can negotiate with them. They will move a little on it in some cases. The new apartments next door (The Legacy) is giving them a little more competition and is definitely the nicer place.

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