jazzorion

It's a convenient location, the staff are friendly (for the most part), and the facilities are nice, absolutely zero issues there. However this place has a major affordability issue. Leasing prices will rapidly balloon if you live here for an extended period. Your monthly rent will easily increase by a couple hundred for each year you live here. In fact, this next year (2020) my monthly rent is set to increase by a whopping $500(!!!). An almost $1000 total increase in monthly rent in just 3 1/2 years! And they try to justify it by suddenly installing a bunch of high-tech features/upgrades into the units that, to be quite frank, were not at all necessary based on the already good quality of the units and buildings that already had secure entry. Also, unless you have a reserved parking space, parking has recently become a major issue, and it's an issue the complex created and exacerbated themselves by recently preventing people from using the ample amounts of street parking present around the buildings. Now the building parking lots are literally overflowing, meanwhile at any given point on any single day there is a *ton* of street parking that is going completely unused for fear of someone's car being towed. It makes absolutely zero sense. The only possible explanation is that the people in charge are being greedy and trying to make an extra buck off of an already expensive place to live by forcing people into the gated parking lots. Not to mention that there are extra spaces in the actual parking garages (which are cheaper than the outdoor carports for some reason) that go unused because those extra spots are reserved who people who "live in those actual connected buildings", regardless of if another tenant is willing and able to pay or not. Also, if you live in building six anywhere near the garbage shoot room, you will almost always get a garbage smell from the ventilation. There have been days where I literally could not turn on the air conditioning because it would make my place smell like garbage. So in a nutshell, the units are nice, the staff is pretty friendly for the most part, but this complex is literally undergoing real-time gentrification and pricing out their main demographic of students and postdocs. Unless you're rich (and even then, there are better places to spend your money) you're probably better served looking elsewhere for a long-term housing solution. Update: Remember how I talked about there is now no place to park because you aren't allowed to park on the street anymore? As a result, even if you pay for a reserved parking spot, people will still steal your spot. And on top of that, nobody actually goes around at night to check who's illegally parked in reserved spots. And if this happens after hours they tell you to call police dispatch. But as it turns out, the office that handles illegal parking closes BEFORE the leasing office even closes. So if someone steals your spots after hours you are SOL. Also people don't follow rules about wearing masks in amenity areas, despite them already having to send out one warning e-mail about people not following proper mask rules.