Preston Hollow was once a great hidden gem, with spacious apartments for a relatively affordable price. Unfortunately, that is long gone. Rents continue to increase in the complex despite no discernable improvements. The actual clubhouse/office was improved, but the complex itself has seen very little. If anything, rents should be decreasing, as they've removed amenities--they initially had a laundry facility on site, but that was shuttered and replaced by nothing at all.
An el-cheapo slap of
...paint on the exteriors was a nice change of pace, although ultimately meaningless. They "renovated" the pool area by removing all its character, tore out the pergola, couldn't get the machinery into the area because they built up around it so everything was done using hand tools (what a total clusterf), and keeping it shut down in the middle of a pandemic during the summer. Thanks for that too.
Management doesn't care AT ALL about the tenants. The gates rarely ever work, so it's really mislabeled calling this a "gated community". The fitness center is a fitness center in name only, and more of a small cement afterthought with poorly maintained and possibly dangerous equipment.
And if that's not bad enough, the seasonal infestations of box elder and elm seed bugs is just a wonderful treat to come home and find that the poorly sealed windows and doors just let all of them find their way inside, covering the walls. My roommate and I spent weeks fighting a futile battle against these intrepid pests. The nearby runoff stream does bring a nice array of birds and ducks and geese, which is about one of the only perks.
The walls are thin too, so if your neighbor likes to listen to their music at a volume above a whisper, that means you get to listen to their music too.
All in all, avoid at all costs. It was once a 4-star property, but has since fallen into embarrassing disarray. I think AMC took it over, and that is excruciatingly evidenced by their continued degradation into slum lords.
Max of 2.