Anulak S.

Not so great, unfortunately. This review is based on just the first month of living at the Palazzo. Like many other reviews here, the location can't be beat! The ground and the building look great from the outside but once you are actually there, it's not what it seems which is too bad! It's all start and end with customer service. There is none from the staffs working in the office. They simply sent us an email to "notify" us that our apartment that we signed the lease for is not available 2 days prior to our move in date. Two days! I would think if someone were doing their jobs at the office they would have figured out what was happening and anticipated what needed to be done. 2 days was inexcusable! After that we actually had to initiated all of the contact and follow up (Let's not forget, no one picks up the phone even during the business hours of expecting a call!) The "manager" pretty much took no responsibilities in fixing the problem or following up. She insisted that it's our responsibility to talk to her boss if we wanted things done. Huh? We eventually got the new apartment lease sign after 3 days of rushing the "boss" to give us an answer. There was no apologies! None! What's worse was we ended up moving into a unit that was flooded with raw sewage the first night we moved in! It's pretty sickening to be paying so much money in the "luxury apartment" to have this happening. Apparently this happened once before when my partner stayed at one of the corporate apartments here. And it seems other yelper had the same issue as well. Again, the follow up from the office was lacking. No one took any initiative or any proactive actions to make the situation better. The favorite saying seems to be "we didn't know.." If your resident apartment was flooded with raw sewage, you sent a cleaning crew, right? Last gripe about the community is their account system. It's very confusing and when we made a call to the office taking to a couple of people, no one had any idea what they were looking at. Eventually we were told of a mistake in the calculation in the move in/transfer fee but we were hit with the penalty for late payment even though it's their mistake. It took 4 days for them to fix the issues. However if you make the payment electronically using check and if you make a mistake typing in the account number incorrectly, you will still get an email from them that the payment was made successfully! BUT 4 days later, they will send you a notice for a fee since the payment actually didn't go through. Why would you send out that the payment process was successful to begin with? May be it's cheap way in making money off people mistakes? And the only response we get from the office was to give them a call if we were confused! I think based on the experience living here so far, it's not possible to recommend anyone to be here and have to endure the lack of professionalism with the front office staffs. It's probably ok if we don't have to deal with issues however, there have been many issues and no one has stepped up. Truly disappointing. This place can be so much better. One star is for location.