Austin

Last update: I moved out. I will say that they did send me the check of my original deposit which I'm grateful for. My previous apartments made up fake costs to keep the extra money. Update June 2018: Upon hearing all of our cries of how bad the parking was here at Foxchase, management sent out an email to the residents asking what they could do better. Well, somehow management has made it worse. Basically, instead of having only two or three reserved spots ($40 a month) in each lot, they have decided to turn 50% of each lot into reserved parking. I spoke with them in their office and they said this guarantees that more people will have spots now to park, but that's not it. What it actually is is they want people to pay more for parking. Most who live here pay the $10 fee to park anywhere in the parking lots and management wants to change that that so to bring in the extra cash. The new issue is that now you have to park two to three blocks away to finally find an open spot. Even today I came home and by 5pm every normal spot was full and the "reserved" spaces only had two cars in them. The office told me though that I can either continue paying the $10 in the lot even though I am no longer guaranteed a spot, park for free in the street (though that's a gamble as there are rarely street parking spots available), or pay the $40 a month and have a spot in front of my place. They even told me that most competitor apartments around here charge $50 - $150 to park your car each month so this was still cheaper. My response was that when I moved here partially because of the parking cost and they didn't care. Original: My score is based only on parking conditions at Foxchase. Parking is in tiers. Free on the street, $10 a month for the lot and $40 for a reserved spot. They have so many empty reserved spots and so little overall parking that I just spend 23 minutes looking for a spot and the closest one I could find was half a mile away at 1:30am with barely any street lamps. This is stupid. Also, I've had 7 maintenance requests for my apartment I'm in for problems from the AC unit, electrical, black mold and more. The apartments are inexpensive and large for the area and it's nice to have washing machine/dryer in my apartment but they are old. I would give the apartments a 2.5 out of 5 based ONLY on the cost and the location (which is in Alexandria).