L M.

The apartment has several notable Pros but also several significant Cons: # The Good Stuff: - I love the in-unit washer/dryer - I love the "hardwood floors" even though they are distinctly faux-hardwood. They are easy to keep clean, but require slippers at all times because the floor is so cold. - The apartments are all new, so the features/appliances are nice/clean - The gym and pool are really quite nice even though I don't use them often - conveniently located to the 280 # The Bad: - As many other people have noted, the apartments are unusually, unusually cold. Part of it is the microclimate where the apartments are located (at the top of a hill that is continually windy, unusually windy, overcast, and often foggy). We first moved in in April and I thought it was initially a fluke, but it's now mid-June and despite being in the 70-80s in most other areas of the Bay, it is almost always cold and windy here. The heater has been on in every room, every single day since we moved in. Our PG&E bill is outrageous. Without the heater being on, our indoor temperature is 58-60 degrees (we have an indoor/outdoor thermometer). Wind gusts through all the electrical outlets and through fans on the ceilings which you can't turn off (supposedly to avoid mold formation). - Parking is a riduclous. $75/month for an uncovered spot is way overpriced for the area. More worrisome than the monthly charges for reserved parking, is the guest parking situation. The same cars somehow seem to be parked in the very limited guest parking spots. Thankfully we don't entertain often, but if we ever do, I sincerely worry that our guests would not be able to find any available guest parking spots. After 5-6pm, all the guest spots are uniformly filled. There is essentially no street parking available locally either. Perhaps because the monthly parking rates are so high. - The walls are paper-thin. I'm usually not too bothered by surrounding noises, but you hear absolutely every movement in the apartments above, below and beside you. God forbid they wear shoes, their dog barks, they have intimate relations, or play music. You'll hear it all. - The closet space is really, really limited. My partner and I have shared 4 total apartments in the past several years, and have not significantly increased our personal collection of "stuff", but we had to rent a storage unit nearby because we didn't have nearly enough storage space in the apartment - The heaters are very inconveniently located along the walls and make furniture arrangement quite challenging, in already small apartments